How many alcoholic drinks do you have on average per week? Remember to average in special occasions, parties, vacations, etc into the mix. And what do you drink?

I generally go out one night per week (usually Thursday or Saturday) where I go to dinner, have a couple of drinks, then have a few drinks after. Maybe 3 glasses of wine and 3 cocktails. 6 drinks.

I usually go out one or two nights where I'll either meet someone for dinner or meet for drinks and have about 3 drinks each - nice beers, whiskey or cocktails. ~4.5.

I'll typically have 1 or 2 beers or whiskeys at home during the week on times when I really want a drink but don't feel like going out. Call it 1.5.

So that's 12 drinks per week. About once a month I'll either be on vacation, have friend(s) visiting, watch some big sports event, or have some sort of special occasion where instead of having 6 drinks over the weekend, I have two days of drinking with ~20 drinks. So 14 extra, or averaged out to about 3.5 extra per week.

So that makes about 15 drinks per week for me.

This used to be significantly higher when I was younger, but I rarely go to happy hours anymore, and rarely go out both weekend nights. Was definitely 20+ per week in my 20's and early 30's. I worked in NYC for a while and it was prob 30+ avg there, and 40+ was not a big deal (happy hour every day, often 5 drinks Mon-Thurs, often 10 drinks Fri and Sat and a few on Sunday).

In an average week I don't have any alcoholic drinks. Over the course of a year, I probably average 2-3 drinks per month, so more than zero, but fewer than 1 drink per week. In late highschool and college was probably 20-30 a week, and about 5-10 until early 30s.

This has been something I've been giving some thought to lately. Out of college I usually saved my drinking for the weekends when I would binge on the weekend from Friday night to early Sunday morning. Five years on the drinking is spread throughout the week over beers with dinner and maybe a whiskey or two after. Don't really get after it too much on weekends anymore. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I would say 15-20 drinks a week. Two or three about 4 nights a week and a couple on the weekend.

I probably drink about two bottles of wine per month. Most weeks during football season I'll put away 8-10 beers during a game per week, but that's a seasonal thing that only goes on 4-5 months out of the year. If it's the offseason I drink less, although on the occasions that I do drink I still find that I have a really high tolerance and will make a lot of drinks disappear in those outings.

A ballpark estimate has it averaging into that 6-9 range I think, heavier in some times of the year than others (certainly a number of weeks go by where I have none). Was certainly higher when I was a student.

More than you.

Diablo,

You're an excessive alcohol user, shame on you. http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/faqs.htm#excessivealcohol

I'm probably at 1.5 drinks (mostly whisky aorn) Monday to Thursday and three drinks Friday to Saturday (averaging one of those nights going out). I also have to add drinking while traveling or celebrating special occasions which is probably an extra 3-4 drinks a week so that comes out to 16-17 drinks per week.

ET,

Nice, I can easily make myself a moderate drinker!

Maybe once every two months, sometimes much, much longer.

In the last six months I've amped up to like one per month, which is basically a bender.

I average about 2-3 a week at home or going to regular dinners with friends. Figure once a month I'll be at an event/party where I'll be drinking and not have to drive (so maybe average about 6 drinks) and once a month I'll be somewhere I have to drive or just don't drink a lot - so call that 3 drinks. I guess that works out to around 4-5 drinks/week

Definitely much higher when I was in New York. I was younger so alcohol didn't bother me as much. I wasn't worried about calories. I never had to worry about driving. And I worked in an office where it was relatively common to go out for drinks after work. But even then it was probably only around 10-12 drinks a week.

a bit too much. I'm in my mid-20s and I live in Chicago. seems like my entire social circle drinks a lot. football sundays at the bar, going out once a weekend, trivia nights, dates, etc. (not to mention a few glasses of wine + movie on a weekend night which I enjoy just as much as any of the other things). I'm guessing the rate goes down over the next few years. would also surmise that if I ever live somewhere that has more of an outdoor culture, the number would plummet. Chicago + Wisconsin are the two places I've lived and the culture is quite tied to consuming alcohol

Around 5 or so sounds about right....

Early twenties was definitely over 40 though

In late high school I drank a TON. It wasn't every day or anything, really just on weekends, but when I would go out drinking I would crack open and pound two half pints of gin, and then start drinking (probably about 15-20 beers or maybe 4 40's). Then in my first couple of years of college I wouldn't drink as much per night but I'd go out more often.

In my sophomore year I ended up in the hospital with bleeding gastritis (NOT caused by my drinking, but certainly not helped by it) and the doctor told me I could not drink alcohol for 3 months. That's when I learned I was not an alcoholic because I still went out to bars and parties just as often, I just didn't drink any alcohol. Not a single drop during that period.

After that, I still drank a lot, but not quite as much, and very very gradually cut down as time went on.

Now... I only go drinking once every two or three months, but when I do go out I tend to have a lot (but nowhere near as much as when I was younger). I also have a beer or glass of wine every now and then. As for actual averages, I have absolutely no clue. I guess it probably averages out to about 2 drinks a week?

Starting to play poker (10 year ago?) is actually a big reason I don't drink much any more because a lot of my socializing (even with the friends I used to drink with) was at the poker tables rather than out at a bar, and I don't drink when I play. They do, though, so that's a good thing.

You should have an option for 0-1. I selected 0, but in reality I've had 4 drinks this year, so that's not really the correct answer. It's obviously far more accurate than 1-2.

Around 70 but we are working on it

Pretty shocked at the results given my perceived average age and gender of this forum. Expected a lot more on the high end.

I maybe drink 20 beers a year and that's it.

15-20

Football season helps skew the averages though.

21-30

Minimum 45 a week?

My wife and I seldom drank wine before we met

I became a bit concerned with my level of consumption so I actually started tracking it using AlcoDroid (free app for Android). Over the last two months, averaging 28.7 "standard" drinks per week. Would rather it be 20 or less.

I usually have 1-2 beers/whiskies after work so call it 7.5 for sunday-thursday. But then i typically get **** faced on friday and saturday which could leave me 15 drinks deep at a 5am bar.

I would have to use a range of 25-40 i guess.

This changes if i ever smoke weed early in the night because i wont drink after i smoke.

oT,

SWEET CORKBOARD SOON!!!

Interesting bimodal distribution. Since the forum in average is getting older, the modes moving to the left make sense.

TIL I drink too much

Been averaging 4-5 nights a week 6-8 drinks per evening depending on the drink of choice.

Low is 2 nights a weeks with a handful and high is 6 nights a week with a max of maybe 12-14 drinks.