Alcohol-free beer at work

antix80

Is it acceptable to drink alcohol-free beer at work? Or would it look bad?

godtabh

antix80 wrote: »

Is it acceptable to drink alcohol-free beer at work? Or would it look bad?

why bother? what's the point. you want a pint go have a pint

Force Carrier

Be good crack if you were a heart surgeon.
Just tell the patients not to worry because you work better when relaxed.

s4uv3

antix80 wrote: »

Is it acceptable to drink alcohol-free beer at work? Or would it look bad?

Depends where you work. If you were sitting on the tills in Aldi swigging out of a beer bottle it wouldn't look great. If you're in a private office where you won't meet clients, them it's probably just about grand.

dxhound2005

This has made me think that all those people with water bottles are probably drinking vodka or gin.

Rows Grower

Just buy a jar of Bovril and sort your life out.

L1011

Most of them are not actually fully alcohol free so if there's a complete ban on alcohol, they won't get around it.

antix80

L1011 wrote: »

Most of them are not actually fully alcohol free so if there's a complete ban on alcohol, they won't get around it.

^ this answered it

NickNickleby

dxhound2005 wrote: »

This has made me think that all those people with water bottles are probably drinking vodka or gin.

Aha!
I remember being shocked to discover that a female colleague wasn't on a fitness jag, but rather was quaffing gin from a River Rock bottle. It certainly explained the mood swings.
How I discovered was one day in summer, three of us were eating our lunch al fresco in a small confined yard which was a great suntrap at exactly lunchtime. I had sandwiches and a cuppa, and when I was having a sup, she offered to pour some gin into my coffee. Of course I thought she was joking till she told me to sniff the bottle. The look of horror on my face was instantly noted and I became the puritan of the office(in her eyes). BTW, we were both in our very late fifties at the time.

I have no time for drinking during working hours, to the extent that I would not even drink the non alcoholic versions. But that's just me being an oul' fogey.

bodhrandude

Would it not be better if it was free beer though. :D:D

Gwynplaine

Why bother?

bodhrandude

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Why bother?

Eh! Because it tastes nice and is refreshing.

kowloon

Rows Grower wrote: »

Just buy a jar of Bovril and sort your life out.

You can't drink a pint of Bovril!

Balanadan

antix80 wrote: »

Is it acceptable to drink alcohol-free beer at work? Or would it look bad?

Why not drink normal beer at work? Makes an afternoon go a lot faster if you're smashed after lunch.

Capt'n Midnight

https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/323:_Ballmer_Peak


The science bit is the peak is actually closer to 0.075% so maybe there is some alcohol in the beers after all.

Giblet

dxhound2005 wrote: »

This has made me think that all those people with water bottles are probably drinking vodka or gin.

Just injecting oranges...

Strumms

I tried a few non alcoholic beers over the years and never found one that was in anyway pleasant to drink... i just stick with a Diet Coke these days.

Bogwoppit

Alcohol free beer, it’s like kissing your sister.

Edgware

Why not?
It can get very hot in the cockpit during long haul flights

Edgware

Bogwoppit wrote: »

Alcohol free beer, it’s like kissing your sister.

When she gives some tongue it's quite nice

DopeTech

Heineken zero isn't too bad.

Rows Grower

kowloon wrote: »

You can't drink a pint of Bovril!

Oh, ye of little faith!

My Bovril mug holds exactly a pint.

Teepinaw

NickNickleby wrote: »

Aha!
I remember being shocked to discover that a female colleague wasn't on a fitness jag, but rather was quaffing gin from a River Rock bottle. It certainly explained the mood swings.
How I discovered was one day in summer, three of us were eating our lunch al fresco in a small confined yard which was a great suntrap at exactly lunchtime. I had sandwiches and a cuppa, and when I was having a sup, she offered to pour some gin into my coffee. Of course I thought she was joking till she told me to sniff the bottle. The look of horror on my face was instantly noted and I became the puritan of the office(in her eyes). BTW, we were both in our very late fifties at the time.

I have no time for drinking during working hours, to the extent that I would not even drink the non alcoholic versions. But that's just me being an oul' fogey.

Was she drunk half the time?

joeguevara

Edgware wrote: »

Why not?
It can get very in the cockpit during long haul flights

Maybe lay off the beer if you forget to put in the most important word that makes your point in a post.

B-D-P--

Regardless if it was acceptable,, if I seen a coworker drinking non Alco beer in the office saying it's refreshing, it'd completely loose respect for the attention seeker.

There are hundreds of other options that isn't associated with alcohol. Have a coke/fanta/sparkling water/cidona/lucozade ect. Never mind beer breath in work.

Edgware

joeguevara wrote: »

Maybe lay off the beer if you forget to put in the most important word that makes your point in a post.

Corrected now. My mistake I just had a few alcohol free ones before I said first Mass. The congregation can be very annoying at that hour. You'd need something to get you started and the wine is a poor vintage

beauf

When I worked in Germany having a beer at lunch was accepted. There was beer in the machines that had soft drinks in them.

That said this is Ireland and the people's perceptions are very different. Also there very few nice non alcoholic beers.

Rows Grower

beauf wrote: »

When I worked in Germany having a beer at lunch was accepted. There was beer in the machines that had soft drinks in them.

That said this is Ireland and the people's perceptions are very different. Also there very few nice non alcoholic beers.

Had the same experience myself in Germany, the Germans were amazed at my reaction when I first saw them.

They have so many different breweries and micro breweries and such a tradition in brewing that it's just accepted that a beer or two during work is fine and no one will go overboard.

I was working with a German recently cutting down large trees around his house and at about 11am out comes the wife with two cold bottles of beer. I politely declined even though the sweat was rolling off me. She tried to insist and I explained it was because when I was trained to use a chainsaw, rule number 1 is never consume alcohol or drugs while working with a chainsaw.

"Ohh," she said "I understand" and then swiped the bottle out of her husbands hand just as he was about to take a sup. He was one cranky man for the next half hour, just as well he hasn't a word of english.

From my own experience the Erdinger with the blue label is the best of the air beers.

wakka12

NickNickleby wrote: »

Aha!
I remember being shocked to discover that a female colleague wasn't on a fitness jag, but rather was quaffing gin from a River Rock bottle. It certainly explained the mood swings.
How I discovered was one day in summer, three of us were eating our lunch al fresco in a small confined yard which was a great suntrap at exactly lunchtime. I had sandwiches and a cuppa, and when I was having a sup, she offered to pour some gin into my coffee. Of course I thought she was joking till she told me to sniff the bottle. The look of horror on my face was instantly noted and I became the puritan of the office(in her eyes). BTW, we were both in our very late fifties at the time.

I have no time for drinking during working hours, to the extent that I would not even drink the non alcoholic versions. But that's just me being an oul' fogey.

Youre not a puritan..she just has a drinking problem

beauf

Rows Grower wrote: »

...
From my own experience the Erdinger with the blue label is the best of the air beers.

That would be my choice too.

Del2005

bodhrandude wrote: »

Eh! Because it tastes nice and is refreshing.

Water tastes nice and is even more refreshing. We only got feckin vapers out of the workplace now we have to deal with feckin virgin beers knobs.

biko

Strumms

beauf wrote: »

When I worked in Germany having a beer at lunch was accepted. There was beer in the machines that had soft drinks in them.

That said this is Ireland and the people's perceptions are very different. Also there very few nice non alcoholic beers.

Same, when I lived in France in the work canteen you could buy small bottles of wine to have with your lunch. I don’t remember seeing beer but this was in a huge international intergovernmental organization.

StinkyMunkey

i remember quiet a funny joke relating to non alcoholic beer, but I fear I could be carded if I post it

Gwynplaine

StinkyMunkey wrote: »

i remember quiet a funny joke relating to non alcoholic beer, but I fear I could be carded if I post it

Haha. Is there a nun mentioned in it?

Force Carrier

Sister.

PopePalpatine

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

[IMG.]https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ballmer_peak.png[/IMG]
https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/323:_Ballmer_Peak


The science bit is the peak is actually closer to 0.075% so maybe there is some alcohol in the beers after all.

Mitchell & Webb were onto something!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTSCppeFzX4

I don’t see the point in having alcohol free beer at work, only reason I might want one or two beers in the middle of the working day (when not staying on the beer for the day) is to get a bit of a cure for the night before to get you through the afternoon and sure what good is alcohol free beer for that.

Edgware

Strumms wrote: »

Same, when I lived in France in the work canteen you could buy small bottles of wine to have with your lunch. I don’t remember seeing beer but this was in a huge international intergovernmental organization.

It wouldn't work in Ireland with our addictive personalities. As the saying goes " it's a very short Road from just the one to never again"

In Ireland when your lying in your own vomit after pissing in your pants you know it's time to go on the shorts"

Tacklebox

antix80 wrote: »

Is it acceptable to drink alcohol-free beer at work? Or would it look bad?

It would look silly to be honest, in my head I can see some slobbering dude with a big gut slurping away on a brown bottle of piss water.

More than likely a slob or functioning alcoholic, shirt bursting over his big belly, or the opposite an oversized shirt and a skinny pale guy who's body is eating itself because all he does is drink.

Not to mention the red face and smell of body odour.

There's a time and place for non alcoholic beverages, but in work it just looks very knuckle dragging...

StinkyMunkey

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Haha. Is there a nun mentioned in it?

It's the alcohol free beer sister joke

Strumms

Edgware wrote: »

In Ireland when your lying in your own vomit after pissing in your pants you know it's time to go on the shorts"

If you pissed your pants I think you need to stop. Going on your shorts will leave you with nothing to wear.

orourkeda1977

Have a **** in the work jacks

joeguevara

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StinkyMunkey wrote: »

i remember quiet a funny joke relating to non alcoholic beer, but I fear I could be carded if I post it

Just googled it. Cracker.

smurfjed

It can get very hot in the cockpit during long haul flights

It really does get hot in the summer, that's why having a cold beer with ice is wonderful.

joeguevara

Why do we co tinge to believe that continental Europe has such a mature attitude to alcohol in stark contrast to us. Mention of Germany depict a land where people can have a beer from a vending machine at work. It is so far from the truth with Germany being one of the heaviest drinking nation in the world (admittedly with Ireland and 3 other nations). https://www.dw.com/cda/en/the-highs-and-lows-of-germanys-drinking-culture/a-2226609

Stephen15

L1011 wrote: »

Most of them are not actually fully alcohol free so if there's a complete ban on alcohol, they won't get around it.

So do some soft drinks

Stephen15

antix80 wrote: »

Is it acceptable to drink alcohol-free beer at work? Or would it look bad?

Or crack one open at the lights

Airyfairy12

Why would you want to? Does anyone actually like the taste of beer - to the point where youd drink it casually at work just for the taste?

Seems odd to me, either go for a pint or buy a bottle of cidona if you love the taste of drink that much. Seeing someone I work with drinking non alcoholic beer would make me think they where an alcoholic trying to manage their cravings for drink while at work and id find it worrying tbh.

Edgware

Strumms wrote: »

If you pissed your pants I think you need to stop. Going on your shorts will leave you with nothing to wear.

You mustn't get out much. Going on the shorts means stop the pints and start on the shorts of whiskey etc

joeguevara

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Why would you want to? Does anyone actually like the taste of beer - to the point where youd drink it casually at work just for the taste?

Seems odd to me, either go for a pint or buy a bottle of cidona if you love the taste of drink that much. Seeing someone I work with drinking non alcoholic beer would make me think they where an alcoholic trying to manage their cravings for drink while at work and id find it worrying tbh.

People must like the taste of beer. You would never even attempt to drink ten pints of Fanta in an evening but beer just slips down. But no way would I even think of having a beer at lunch. For all Ireland's negative connotations with alcohol, we don't have a lunchtime drinking culture in comparison tonEngland. When I worked in a bar in London, everyday you would have the same groups of people (blue collar and white collar) come in at lunchtime and have 3-4 drinks and then go back to work.

I had a glass of wine at lunch last week but it was to toast a deal and only had it because my client was ordering the same.