Personally, my consumption has dropped some but I don't drink out anymore. Having a beer with a steak is awesome but now the cops hang outside restaurants to beef up their DUI quotas.
Two things:
Money's tight. Really tight.
Marijuana.
This. Everyone I talk to says that beer tastes like shit, but will drop tons of cash on vape cartridges
For younger generations the rise of social media has a lot to do with it.
Getting drunk and doing stupid shit used to be a rite of passage. No matter how ridiculous you were, it would usually just stay between friends and turn into a funny story of youthful antics.
However, given a solid 10 years of me-too/cancel culture, along with the fact that anything stupid you do has the potential to be immortalized on a tik-tok, kids don't like to go out and drink and cause a youthful ruckus anymore. Way safer to stay at home and hit a vape pen.
Except shitskins, spics and niggers.
Vape pens are electric jew dicks
I quit drinking about 10 years ago. Made me realize I was an alcholic, the withdrawls plagued me for about 3 months. It was rough, but I managed to stay the course.
I used to drink a lot of beer, then the wife threatened to take the kids and leave... Probably had 5 in the past year. Never thought about how the breweries would deal with the 1868 or so extras. I should have my wife send them a nice card.
American beer is historically shit, the craft beer culture here produces nothing but over-hopped IPAs, and decent import beer (German) is getting impossible to find with any consistency.
I don't want to get beer goggles and find out that willing coed is really Co Op Ed in a dress.
We drink a bottle or two of wine each month. (One glass each with dinner) And we have enough bottles in the house to wait out the prices.
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