Right up until my back problems got that bad that I had to leave work about eighteen months ago, I regulary drank three or four cans of very strong lager a night. I'd come home from work and crack one open, and within seconds it was gone. It might be something to do with medication but now I hardly drink anything, sometimes going a couple of weeks without one.
I still enjoy brewing and like to supply friends and family but I have yet to enjoy a beer like I did. For various reasons I visited a different doctor last Friday and he decided that a lot of the 'medication' was doing me no good. Over the weekend I went cold turkey and it was the worst few days of my life. Now its Tuesday and I feel ten years younger without the tablets.
As far as drinking goes, it could have been so easy for me to have gone from a social drinker to a dependant one while I was a chef. No more cooking for me.