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Craft beers don’t make you as cool as you think
If you looked at all of my years of drinking combined, it was a lot of terrible and cheap alcohol.
Like most cases of alcoholism, I started young
When I was young, it was ‘cool’ to be the one who could bring alcohol to a party. We would get excited regardless of what it was, even if it was Smirnoff Ice. Hell, we’d even drink Steel Reserves just to get drunk really cheap.
As I got older though, it wasn’t ‘cool’ to drink the cheap stuff anymore. If you were seen walking around with bottom shelf liquor, you’d be labeled as an alcoholic. If you did get alcohol in a plastic bottle, you’d have to justify it. It’s not for the taste, it doesn’t matter for this drink I’m making. Yadda Yadda. There would be a number of reasons that you might get cheap alcohol and none of them made you seem like you had your life together.
Fast forward to when I was 24. This was before I admitted I had an actual problem with alcohol. I followed the trends and did everything I could to be a normal person who drank. I developed an expensive taste and drank fancy cocktails or whiskey.
I learned a lot about the types of liquor and what their alcohol percentage was. I knew how to make most cocktails…
