How Do I Drink Alcohol Without Getting Drunk?

[Salty80]

Is there a specific way?

[jno]

slowly and sparingly?

[bobbinwales]

spit it out, boil, it before you drink it? drink 10 pints of water with every glass of wine or shot of liquor, or with every pint of beer-you'll be to bloated to drink any more beer

[Hazlinny]

Surely depends on how much of the stuff you drink?

[carrot99]

You can buy non-alcoholic lager, cider, gin and probably other spirits so there's no need to drink alcohol if you want the taste but don't want to get drunk.

[tiggerblue10]

Agree with Carrot. There's quite a big range of non or low alcohol drinks available now.

[sandyRoe]

If you can manage a glass of wine or a bottle of beer, and no more, then you're handling it. If that first drink leads to drunkenness you might want to consider your relationship with alcohol.

[Lie-in King]

Alcohol is absorbed by the stomach or the small intestine. Eating first - especially fatty foods - will slow the absorption as the stomach will deal with the food before allowing the passage of the alcohol to the small intestine, which has a much larger surface area, allowing faster absorption.

Properly described here - https://tinyurl.com/tdbj2w8y

Fairly sure I learnt that ^ from QI, but happy to be corrected.

[Peter Pedant]

you can't
unless you dont drink ( which makes sense to any Aber but no one else)

[Lie-in King]

I should have said (I think!) - "Alcohol is absorbed by ONLY the stomach or the small intestine..."

That's my lot I think, I keep typing "stomcha"...but in my defence, the bar opened a while ago... :-)

[dustypuss]

As LK suggested something fatty before going out drinking. A double portion of fish and chips like us northern have been doing for years go's down well.

[William51]

If you eat a large meal before drinking you will not get drunk so fast.

[Vagus]

I find two homemade (so think large or very large) G&Ts or glasses of wine are fine, a third is too much.
Everyone’s different though, in their tolerance of alcohol.

[piggynose]

When I used to go drinking with some heavy drinkers, I knew my limits, and wud drink a pint of water with every pint of beer! It done the trick for me.

[jno]

I was always taught that a thick milkshake (do they still exist? I haven't seen any since the local Ed's Diner closed) was as good as a plate of chips.

[Atheist]

You can't drink alcohol without getting drunk. Alcohol makes you drunk.

[Xeronema]

Salty, do you mind if I ask why? As in, why do you want to drink alcohol and not get drunk?

A few reasons that I can think, off the top of my head;

1) You like the taste of alcoholic beverages but don't want to get intoxicated.
2) Social pressure - you feel pressure to drink alcohol (be it at the pub, with friends, etc)
3) A challenge - you want to 'drink someone under the table'.

[dmmirchmasala]

Don't go along with friends and avoid drinking rounds and shots. Set your limits. Before you start drinking, decide how many drinks you'll have and then stick to that number.

[masterchef]

Very slowly