So, I don't drink at home very much because I don't really like drinking alone. It's definitely a social thing for me to drink, and beer can sit in my fridge for months if no one is visiting. (If bf is in town though or my family, it'll disappear pretty quickly.)
A big thing lately in my beer drinking has become checking in as many different ones as I can on Untappd. Which I see geonuc does as well, and is in a better position than me to check in a bunch in Bend.
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So if there's a new beer on the menu in a place I go out I haven't tried, I will usually abstain from one I've had in favor of the new one. Turns out it's not that hard to do in the modern era. My tastes definitely swing towards ambers (stouts and porters I never try unless it's a sip of someone else's- really can't stand it), and it turns out I like bitters but not hoppy beers. I'm also pretty done with the Belgian beers more on the sweet side after living in Holland, funnily enough.
Finally, I'm definitely a one beer, perhaps two but won't finish the second if drinking at home. Simple reason, it turns out as I've gotten older my body cannot process beer as well, and if I haven't had it wear off before I go to bed in a drunken slumber I will then wake up for a few hours in the middle of the night before going to sleep for real. I also personally don't like the fact that in North America the usual standard for beer is a pint, because after years of the .3cL drinks in Europe I decided that was a far more sophisticated way to drink. Simple reason, I definitely gain too much weight drinking pints.
Similarly, I don't know if this is a Canada thing or it's happening in the USA too, but the stuff you buy in the shops lately are primarily tall boy aluminum cans, aka no smaller cans unless you're just drinking Molson, and hardly any bottles, because I guess it cuts down on breakage. So between all my weird preferences of trying to drink as many kinds of beers as possible without actually drinking a lot of the beer, I'm not a huge fan.
I'm also not a huge fan while I'm at it at how limited the choices are in the Ontario liquor stores for beer (aka the LCBO, which has a pretty big monopoly on beer in my part of Toronto), but that's another rant for another day.
Yes, I have a life. It's quite different from yours.