Beer is My Anti-drug
June 2nd 2009 14:36
Everyone has seen the commercials...where they show some kid playing basketball at the park, kicking around a soccer ball in the school yard, another practicing a musical instrument... When, out of nowhere, some thug teenager tries offering them pot. However, the kids are too busy with their hobbies, and are quite content without the pot. They reinforce this at the end of the commercial, when they hold out their ball or trumpet and say something along the lines of, "music...is my antidrug."
To me, that's all fine and dandy. Of course if I was playing a sport like soccer or basketball competitively, I wouldn't want to be chasing the dragon...although I do have a problem believing the musical kid. How many musicians are constantly high? Not a very good excuse, kid. I too, along with those sporty kids, never touched a drug while I was running around the court or field. But what about all the free time you aren't playing or practicing? I know of tons of professional athletes who abused things like pot, meth, cocaine...all when they didn't have practice or a game. When I had some free time in college from football, beer was my ally against drugs.
Ok, so I know people reading this, especially anti-drinkers or even those who dabble with drugs will claim alcohol is a drug too, or that pot isn't as bad for you. When I'm talking about beer, I'm not just talking about slamming Natty Lights all day just to get drunk. I'm talking about beer as a hobby. I love to taste all kinds of (non light) beers. I love trying to make my own beer. I'd rather spend twenty dollars at the bar for a champagne-sized bottle of Saison Dupont than for a case of Coors, which would get me ten times more drunk for the same price. When I'm drinking beer and tasting the flavors, I have never thought in the back of my mind, "oh man, I friggen need an eight ball right now." It's more like, "Holy f**k, I need some Guinness Ale stew with this delicious beer." I think beer has the ability to go better with food than any fine wine (and I have had many of those as well), because of the extreme variations of beer you can find.
Don't get me wrong...I know beer in itself is a drug (it gets you drunk if you have too many), and I won't claim I don't ever get drunk or don't enjoy it when I am (I just recently went to a beer tasting in Atlantic City, NJ called 'Celebration of the Suds', which had over 400 different beers....and I got hammered drunk and had the time of my life...and I do drink beer socially on the weekends with friends), but I never crave anything else. No other drug. Ever. Beer gives me what I need in both flavor and feeling, and because of this (as the lights dim around me, and I'm holding out a bottle of Chimay Grande Reserve, I say...) "Beer... is my antidrug."
To me, that's all fine and dandy. Of course if I was playing a sport like soccer or basketball competitively, I wouldn't want to be chasing the dragon...although I do have a problem believing the musical kid. How many musicians are constantly high? Not a very good excuse, kid. I too, along with those sporty kids, never touched a drug while I was running around the court or field. But what about all the free time you aren't playing or practicing? I know of tons of professional athletes who abused things like pot, meth, cocaine...all when they didn't have practice or a game. When I had some free time in college from football, beer was my ally against drugs.
Ok, so I know people reading this, especially anti-drinkers or even those who dabble with drugs will claim alcohol is a drug too, or that pot isn't as bad for you. When I'm talking about beer, I'm not just talking about slamming Natty Lights all day just to get drunk. I'm talking about beer as a hobby. I love to taste all kinds of (non light) beers. I love trying to make my own beer. I'd rather spend twenty dollars at the bar for a champagne-sized bottle of Saison Dupont than for a case of Coors, which would get me ten times more drunk for the same price. When I'm drinking beer and tasting the flavors, I have never thought in the back of my mind, "oh man, I friggen need an eight ball right now." It's more like, "Holy f**k, I need some Guinness Ale stew with this delicious beer." I think beer has the ability to go better with food than any fine wine (and I have had many of those as well), because of the extreme variations of beer you can find.
Don't get me wrong...I know beer in itself is a drug (it gets you drunk if you have too many), and I won't claim I don't ever get drunk or don't enjoy it when I am (I just recently went to a beer tasting in Atlantic City, NJ called 'Celebration of the Suds', which had over 400 different beers....and I got hammered drunk and had the time of my life...and I do drink beer socially on the weekends with friends), but I never crave anything else. No other drug. Ever. Beer gives me what I need in both flavor and feeling, and because of this (as the lights dim around me, and I'm holding out a bottle of Chimay Grande Reserve, I say...) "Beer... is my antidrug."
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