Alcohol content of your stories?

[CalBishForNow]

Beer, wine, cocktails...

My MCs often like drinks my significant other doesn't. It's an easy, harmless way to create a little distance and plausible deniability between this and both real life and pure masturbatory fantasy. Other than that I haven't thought about it too much. My characters have used alcohol as social lubricant at parties and on dates, but I haven't written a story about a wine snob or someone who got too wasted for informed consent yet.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

I think that I dated you once.

Hell, I think I might have married you once!

Is that where I got that (cheap) ring?

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Almost none?

The cases in which I've introduced alcohol in my stories are probably less than the number of fingers I have in one hand, and on the majority of those I prefer to have known cocktails rather than a simple drink. Sometimes I treat them similar to the meaning of flowers as gifts. On the latest case, if a girl drinking a black velvet talks to you it means you'll be dead by the beginning of the next chapter.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Pitchers of margaritas. Just to loosen up.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

KEGGER!

 

[SimonDoom]

Interesting question. I had to think about it, which surprised me because I enjoy wine and spirits and beer. It plays a surprisingly small role in my stories. My characters take a drink here and there but it seldom plays an important role in the story.

I may have to correct that.

 

[TheUKGent]

Depends on the circumstance and the location for me. As with @SimonDoom, it's purely situational, although I do have a scene in a story I'm writing with champagne poured to just be licked off, but it's a little too corny at the moment so may never make it to virtual print.

 

[bestkeptsecret678]

Interesting question.

My characters love to drink ( I wonder why that is??…)

Mostly wine, longnecks in one rural Texas based story, whiskey in more glamorous settings.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Is that where I got that (cheap) ring?

As opposed to all those Tiffany rings that you have received from others?

Seriously, I'm sure that had we been together once, I would not have skimped on anything where you are concerned.

 

[Raybies93]

My women are classy and they drink wine. And not Australian wine, no sir.

we are pulling them out of the sewers every half an hour

 

[BearNextDoor]

My alcohol content is quite high, and sometimes it makes it into the stories as well

 

[yowser]

Greylock Ale, Dixie, Pabst Blue Ribbon, St. Elmo's, Hennessy VSOP.

 

[Raybies93]

Interesting question.

My characters love to drink ( I wonder why that is??…)

Mostly wine, longnecks in one rural Texas based story, whiskey in more glamorous settings.

mine drink because I cant anymore and the same with cigarettes

 

[BeechLeaf]

*looks at my sole published story so far*

'Well, the sun's over the yardarm. Whatever that means. I've got wine and beer. Now I saw you in a pub so I know you like something.'

'Ooh, I like lots of things,' Emily enthused. 'Wine, beer, gin, port, rum, you can't keep me down. Champagne, but I'm not expecting—'

*looks at the two lengthy pub scenes in what I am almost ready to post*

Look, I do realism, okay?

*looks at the Emma Peel and champagne references in the next but one*

Mostly realism.

 

[YmaOHyd]

The whiskey-sipping cynic, Gibson girl, Office staff hitting Jeagermeister shots on a night out, clink of champagne flutes on an illicit dinner date , we've all read and written (or avoided) these stereotypes.

How do you like your drink in your stories?

Dafydd and Emily drink a little rum but mostly red wine. Daniel and Katherine are scotch people, but Daniel will stretch to bourbon while Katherine prefers Japanese and Taiwanese whiskeys if scotch isn't available. They're also mid-career professionals rather than kids. April and Evan are in college so their drinking tastes are: yes.

Drinking shows up pretty regularly in my work as an excuse for people to sit in intimate spaces and converse.

 

[IWroteThis]

Alcohol doesn't tend to have a big presence in my stories. When it does appear, I don't tend to get specific. I talk about drinks at the club or having a beer, but it's usually a background thing.

The only time I recall specifying a specific drink was a misdirection, as the "beer" was actually creme soda, but why the character stopped drinking was a major plot point. I have a work in progress where the MC not drinking (and being the only one not drinking) is a major plot point. There is one tension setting scene where the friends complain that he keeps wine for the girls and beer for the guys, but there's never any real alcohol in his house.

Of course, the WiP that will probably get me flayed doesn't even involve alcohol. However, I have the MC go to a coffee shop and order hot chocolate…

 

[ColtonWrites]

The whiskey-sipping cynic, Gibson girl, Office staff hitting Jeagermeister shots on a night out, clink of champagne flutes on an illicit dinner date , we've all read and written (or avoided) these stereotypes.

How do you like your drink in your stories?

I have written everything across the spectrum - an R/NC featuring a drunk MC, an alcoholic, people drinking socially, and a non-drinker.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Adrian is a whisky aficionado and cynic, who used to be an alcoholic and drug user but now has better coping mechanisms - mostly. Sex is one of them. He has about 80 whiskies on his dresser, with weekday ones on the bottom level, more celebratory ones on the middle shelf and the expensive bottles on the top row.

Laura mostly drinks red wine, but anything except beer.

Richie brings bottles of rum to events, and makes his career by knowing where to buy late-night booze in Cambridge for colleagues to party with.

Others tend to drink wine or beer but it's not very remarkable. Dan 'will dance to anything with a bit of E inside him, or four beers, more likely. Easier to get hold of, nowadays.'

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

There is a variety of Orange liqueurs. Are there are derived from Kumquats?

 

[Erozetta]

I have one story where the entire premise is the risk of temptation to a sober married woman going to a bar in a foreign country, ordering a glass of Calvados, and watching someone she met online, who doesn't know she's there, sing.

The entire first half of the story is her staring at the glass while trying to decide if it was worse to break her sobriety or her vows. She ends up breaking her sobriety and sleeps with the guy. Doesn't have sex with him, just literally sleeps beside him in a mossy field.


Alcohol usually plays a role in my stories as a symbol of desire or temptation for sober characters. (Gee, I wonder why.) Sometimes a symbol of excess or loss of/lack of control.

It's rarely ever just a drink for me in a story.

 

[HelenL]

The whole range, really. Craft beer, wine (good & cheap crap), tequila, gin. No Bud or Coors, though there are possibly some undescribed beers that could be, and I have spent way too many hours of my life googling cocktail recipes. (Alcoholic & no.) As @StillStunned said, I don't think it's fun to write about them getting drunk, but I did have the protag of Mentor drink the to the point of "bad decisions" on two occasions.

(I do like bad decisions for story consequences. I've used E and gummies for the same purpose.)

 

[ronde]

I use alcohol in my stories in the same way one would see alcohol in real life. I use it to generate humor and sometimes sympathy. Sometimes it's just the lubricant that eases the transition from friends to lovers.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Drunk, or close to it is too close to non consent for me.

 

[StillStunned]

(I do like bad decisions for story consequences.

I'm just finishing off a sword & sorcery story that starts with the warrior waking up with a hangover and a reminder that she swore an oath to rid the city of its monster.

 

[Britva415]

How do you like your drink in your stories?

It's not an excuse to fuck.

tbh I think I've only ever mentioned alcohol in one story. It was just beer, it was at a dinner party, and intoxication never was part of the story. It definitely wasn't part of the Erotic Coupling element of the story.

I guess one could project that it was, since the MC's met while peeing. Neither of them was stated to have had any, but I suppose one could imagine that they were peeing because they had beer.