How often do you drink?

[Brazen]

One or two bottles of wine a week spread out over three or four evenings, rarely but spectacularly to drunkenness.

[Neil]

I have a glass or two of scotch every week or two.  I haven't been really drunk since the 2010 AFC Championship game.

[Duque de Bragança]

Depends. Back home be in Paris or Bragança, with the family around, that will be a couple of glasses of wine per meal and nothing much else besides the occasional beer or glass of port birthdays or special holidays such as New Year's Eve whith champagne.
If not, a couple of beers when going out or a cognac if I'm lucky to find some decent one.

[garbon]

It's just a pet peeve of mine, I have a friend here who uses them every time she gets out and it irks me a bit. She also has legitimate stomach issues, but anyway that's not their proper use. That's what you get by being a pharmacist's son. 

What an odd view. Proper use?

[Legbiter]

I last drank on NYE, not a drop since then. Since I went from lardass to lean to buff my tolerance has nosedived and I'm a very cheap date these days. Also, it take DAYS now for me to feel 100% after a few beers or a bottle of wine. So the old girl's not in her previous fighting form.

Clear spirits drunk neat or mixed into fizzy water with some lime give me the least trouble these days.

[DontSayBanana]

Generally I have a drink or two every couple of months.  The couple times I've done more, it hasn't really fazed me.

[derspiess]

Only time ever blacked out was when 22 or so. 12 beers and fifth of tequila will usually cause that to occur.

You'd have given Andre the Giant a run for his money.

I'm 2-4 times a week (varies depending on festivals & other events) and almost exclusively beer these days.  Trying to keep it down closer to 2 times per week to help me get in better shape, but every time I turn around one of the local breweries is putting out a new beer or I get something from my favorite brewery to test.

Plus I have a bad habit of buying too many growlers of fresh beer when I'm out and those usually need to be consumed within 2 weeks or the beer goes flat.

[Valmy]

I have never gotten drunk intentionally since a few times when I was younger just to see what it was like.

But I drink once or twice a week.  If we have any beer, which we usually do not, I will have one with dinner and I always get a beer when we go out to eat.

[PDH]

I didn't drink for 23 years.  Now I drink a glass of wine with dinner most nights, and when I go out I have a beer.  I am not 19 any more, so I don't just sit around and get plastered.

[Capetan Mihali]

I used to drink a glass of beer or wine with meals regularly, but I find that makes me feel more tired than anything.  These days, I like to have a vermouth and soda before dinner.   But usually no alcohol with the meal.

I'm a situational person, though.  I went to a low-key New Year's Eve party this year, and had 2 drinks in all.  And I've gone on extended dieting periods where I cut out booze entirely.  But if I'm in a social scenario where people are "drinking drinking," I have a pretty high tolerance and don't usually embarrass myself much, so I'll join in fully. 

[Capetan Mihali]

When it starts to have noticeable negative effects on the rest of your life.

What about the dependence vector?  Or is that just incorporated in negative effects?

E.g., the fellow who is good at his job, is good to his wife and kids, but pretty much always works his way through a six-pack during a workweek evening, and feels somewhat agitated internally if he can't for whatever reason?

[Admiral Yi]

That person would be much better off seeing the Capetano about some blues and some greens.

I dunno.  No serious answer at the moment.

[Capetan Mihali]

I've just noticed kind of two basic styles of over-drinking among people I've known -- the weekend-binging, Josq-facedown-in-a-kebab-on-the-night-bus style; and the more subdued but continual, couple-of-beers-at-the-bar-after-work, splitting-a-bottle-of-wine-for-dinner, a-little-whiskey-watching-TV-til-bed style.

EDIT:  And then there are the pros who combine both; I haven't known many people (in a non-work capacity) with that tendency fully expressed.

[garbon]

When it starts to have noticeable negative effects on the rest of your life.

What about the dependence vector?  Or is that just incorporated in negative effects?

E.g., the fellow who is good at his job, is good to his wife and kids, but pretty much always works his way through a six-pack during a workweek evening, and feels somewhat agitated internally if he can't for whatever reason?

I'd say that's too much. After all, it'll be a big disruption to him taken away...and it isn't even something that's good for his health.

[garbon]

Poor Jos.