I started off nursing something fruity and pretty. 1 or 2 in a few hours at a bar. Then was introduced to the occasional pretty shot. Then somehow, Jose and I became well acquainted. I won many, many free shots because I would proclaim "no lime, no salt, no face!" and I would do it....7 or 8 times a night. Of course I had to have something in between the shots, so a Corona with lime would always be handy. Then somehow, I got onto screwdrivers, then Captain and diet, then PRDO's (powder river drop offs) and at the end, it was whatever I was in the mood for...but 8-12 (really more as they were HEAVY pours) a night.

I feel so sick just thinking about that...I can not believe I used to drink that much....

Beer was my way of self regulating, because I could drink it for long periods and attempt to "maintain". Whiskey and wine were good, but I usually got too drunk too fast.

None of that light beer either- you need the stuff that is 5.9%.

I was a blackout drunk, living on the street. I drank what I could afford or what i could trade my body for. Honestly, I don't remember.

i can relate to you jacker..beer was for mainenance and anything else all other times..i got so bad that i would take thunderbird to work in a small pill bottle in my purse and drink in the bathroom to controll the shakes..sick i tell ya

i was finding beers i had hid around the house a year after i got sober...could've used them back when i was broke and shaking lol glad thats in the past

For me, it all started with Irish Whiskey. Somewhere along the way I switched to red wine because I rationalized that it was healthier. Ha. In the last year, I would drink anything, but only after polishing off a bottle or two of red wine.

I also purchased the mini bottles of vodka and would drink them in the bathroom at work during the day. I only twice had someone say "Have you been drinking?". Which I would laugh off like "yeah right!" cause who in their right mind would smell like vodka at 2:00pm on a Tuesday?!

I would wrap the empty bottles in lots of paper towels before throwing them in the trash.

My favorite drink was more and my favorite drug was you betcha..............

Oh God.....this brings back some truth.
Hmmm started off as a teen with beer and cheap stuff. Moved onto Bacardi in the Navy along with maannyyy cocktails. Sambucca (flamin with 3 coffee beans) was always a favourite, but later just drank the whole bottle straight. Beer at early openers, and also the obligatory tequila shots with the boys on weekends.

When it got serious, the wine became my No1 hit. Many many bottles of it. A member of numerous wine clubs, I had it delivered. Even did a few wine appreciation courses which I excelled at. If I ran out, I'd catch a cab to the bottlo to get more stock. I can recall catching 2 cabs one night. Loved the Sauv Blanc in white and Merlot in red to start with, after 2 bottles, it didn't matter what I drank, as long as it was wine, and lots of it.

I'm grateful for my sobriety.

Coogee I have gone to the same liquor store twice in one day and heard "oh you're back"? And would make up some story about having guests. Did anyone drink "Brass Monkey" as a teenager?? Back in the 80's that was the thing in my hometown. Don't even know what the hell it is! That and Maddog 20/20. BLECH and YUK!

I drank anything that would give me the desired effect.My tastes went from the finest bourbon to scrounging in the weeds for empty bottles that had that last little dribble left in them.The drink of choice was directly related to the amount of money I had.

Beer and good wine. Wait I really enjoyed vodka martinis by the dozen. CC and soda went well with Baileys and coffee. Nothing like being a wide awake puling drunk. Vodka mixed with anything sour. did I mention beer was always good during hot moderately hot warm and somewhat cool days. Wine really nice reds were good with dinner unless of course it was fish then a nice white was called for. Loved to have grasshoppers with dessertMartini prior to dinner then white wine with salad red wine with steak grasshopper with dessert then lets go party till we puke. Did I mention I really hated rum and could only drink tequila stratight so I wouldn'thave to smell it. Other than that petty much anything.
What's a Zima?

If you can't light it on fire, it aint worth drinking, of course you don't light it on fire though, because you don't want to waste it.Knowing that you could light it on fire if you really had to, is satisfaction enough. Beer is just a beverage you can't get drunk on Beer.and wine is for snobs or winos, or snobs who became winos,Your nose looks like a mutant strawberry your a true wine connisour.

Reed, I didn't like Rum or Tequila either. As a flaming alkie, Zima was a joke.

Oh the RUM. Did a tour of duty with the Kiwi Navy and they used to get a tot of British Rum at lunch time free. I hated the stuff, but drank it anyway. Spent time on the USS Blue Ridge, they ran a dry ship, so drank hard when we hit land. There was also the cocktail Orgasm (amaretto, kahlua, baileys), but that's another story.