Alcohol-free beer at work

antix80 · 13-04-2019 07:21PM #1

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

godtabh · 13-04-2019 07:22PM

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 · 13-04-2019 07:24PM

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

s4uv3 · 13-04-2019 07:24PM

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 · 13-04-2019 07:26PM

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

Rows Grower · 13-04-2019 07:28PM

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

L1011 · 13-04-2019 07:31PM

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 · 13-04-2019 07:35PM

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 · 13-04-2019 07:50PM

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 · 13-04-2019 08:09PM

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

:D:D

Gwynplaine · 13-04-2019 08:11PM

Why bother?

bodhrandude · 13-04-2019 08:13PM

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Why bother?

Eh! Because it tastes nice and is refreshing.

kowloon · 13-04-2019 08:15PM

Rows Grower wrote: »

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

You can't drink a pint of Bovril!

Balanadan · 13-04-2019 08:29PM

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 · 13-04-2019 08:48PM

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 · 13-04-2019 11:16PM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

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

Just injecting oranges...

Strumms · 13-04-2019 11:22PM

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 · 13-04-2019 11:29PM

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

Edgware · 14-04-2019 07:38AM

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

Edgware · 14-04-2019 07:40AM

Bogwoppit wrote: »

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

When she gives some tongue it's quite nice

DopeTech · 14-04-2019 07:40AM

Heineken zero isn't too bad.

Rows Grower · 14-04-2019 07:49AM

kowloon wrote: »

You can't drink a pint of Bovril!

Oh, ye of little faith!

My Bovril mug holds exactly a pint.

Teepinaw · 14-04-2019 08:18AM

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 · 14-04-2019 08:23AM

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-- · 14-04-2019 08:41AM

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 · 14-04-2019 08:51AM

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 · 14-04-2019 09:49AM

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 · 14-04-2019 10:05AM

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 · 14-04-2019 10:17AM

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 · 14-04-2019 10:29AM

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 · 14-04-2019 10:42AM

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.

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