What time on Christmas Day do you start to drink?

masti123 · 21-12-2013 10:29pm #1

alcohol, I have been speaking to people and some start as soon as the presents are being unwrapped, some at lunch time.
for me it would be breakfast, instead of orange juice i have a bottle of bud

JONJO THE MISER · 22-12-2013 1:57am

I usually cook a fry then start sipping away at a beer afterwards, around about 9.30am.
Will have to have a beer earlier this year as Its a wonderful life is on RTE1 at 07:45:eek:, has always been my tradition to watch this while have 2-3 beers.

fussyonion · 22-12-2013 3:38am

Have never actually had a boozy drink on Christmas morning, but this year we're going to have a few glasses of champagne.

Picked up two bottles of Monsigny Brut Champagne from Aldi on Thursday after watching an interesting documentary where a champagne expert was blindfolded and tasted four different champers and had to rate them.
Moet scored 4/5 and Aldi's scored 5/5...Had to buy some to see what all the fuss is about!

So, yeah, will have a glass or two, but that'll be it then til dinnertime when we'll open some wine.

Sir Arthur Daley · 22-12-2013 4:02am

Usually after coming home from mass around 12 boil the kettle and have a few hot whiskeys with the old man, have a bottle of jameson whiskey hiding away with the last 7 years that will do just nicely.

ifeelill · 22-12-2013 4:22am

Lunch time for me with food

Dotsie~tmp · 22-12-2013 4:39pm

I'll set the alarm on Christmas eve to go off every hour or so and have a quick pint and a chaser each time. Just so I don't wake up starting with a cold engine. 6am start the fry-up with loads of bread and drippin' and I'll have a couple Guinness to wash it down. Me and a few friends (giggsy, shearer, keano) have a tradition of getting together for a small kick-about at 9, nothing too serious. I've had a bit to drink now so I can probably only manage 3 or 4 goals now Im getting older.

After the game we'll have 5 or 6 pints and I'll give the lads a few tips on ball skills then we say goodbye. I turn up at midday to do a bit of help with the food but sneak a naggen while I'm at it. I usually grab a nap now as there might be some serious drinking later on! Bonno usually drops by after dinner and we jam for a few hours with 5 or 6 bottles of Domaine Leroy Latricieres-Chambertin Grand Cru. Then the party starts and out come de potín! ahahaha. If I don't get too drunk I'll call Vladamir and Barak and wish em a happy one later that night.

I find if I drink a pint of milk before bed I rarely get a hangover.

pa4 · 22-12-2013 4:44pm

I don't drink on Christmas Day, for some reason I just hate drinking that day, same with Christmas Eve. I guess I just don't like being drunk/hungover on those special days.. and I'm a light weight so 1 or 2 is out of the question :pac: Always go out the 23rd and Stephens night which has become tradition for me in recent years

Pang · 22-12-2013 5:32pm

Don't bother at all. I'm not into drinking in the house.

cailinardthair · 22-12-2013 5:44pm

As soon as the pressie is opened we have bucks fizz....its our tradition....then it be lunch time onwards....but very much spaced out....don't want to be plastered christmas day

bumper234 · 22-12-2013 5:46pm

I never drink before 8 pm so that's the time I'll start.

Super hoop · 22-12-2013 6:44pm

Normally start supping a beer when I'm getting the dinner ready. That's around 12.30 ish. Once the kids are tucked up in bed, then I relax and fill my hollow legs!! Merry Christmas everyone!!

Victoria Fortescue · 22-12-2013 6:58pm

I'll have some wine with dinner, but I prefer to have any visiting out of the way first, which is normally Christmas night watching the TV. Don't know how some of you manage it when you get up :eek:

PTH2009 · 22-12-2013 6:59pm

normally around tea time, not a big drinker on xmas day

CL7 · 22-12-2013 7:09pm

Lunchtime usually. Won't be this year though, I'm working.

smurfjed · 22-12-2013 7:14pm

Ugh, I'm the families designated driver, so nothing until well after sunset

Moonbeam · 22-12-2013 9:20pm

I have young kids so I might have one when they are gone to bed but that would be it.

Casey78 · 22-12-2013 9:50pm

I have to go to the Mother in laws for dinner so I start drinking at 7am!!
One has to be very drunk to be able eat her sorry excuse for a Christmas dinner

anncoates · 22-12-2013 9:56pm

In recent years, I collect my parents to bring them to our house and drop them home after dinner so can't drink much until the evening.

Back in the day, it would have been from about 11am onwards.

Moonbeam · 22-12-2013 9:57pm

Possibly 1 glass/bottle of Prosecco or well Schloer for me this year and last year due to being pregnant.

athtrasna · 22-12-2013 10:08pm

Bucks Fizz when opening the presents around 11 and then not really again til dinner which is 5ish

Greenmachine · 22-12-2013 10:26pm

The way to do it is to start on St Stephen's day and drink through to Christmas day.

Kettleson · 22-12-2013 10:28pm

Moonbeam wrote: »

Possibly 1 glass/bottle of Prosecco or well Schloer for me this year and last year due to being pregnant.

Many congratulations by the way. The bestest time of the year when you have kids of your own.

Howjoe1 · 22-12-2013 10:58pm

I've started today, just to warm up properly:pac:

twowheelsonly · 22-12-2013 11:39pm

Usually around lunchtime but I'd only have a couple during the day before really starting in the evening.

It'll be none o'clock this year though as I'm working nights

Damn this cushy, underworked and overpaid Civil Service job !! :mad:

Westernyelp · 22-12-2013 11:58pm

Don't bother with it myself. can't be arsed getting boozed up on Christmas day

Pinch Flat · 23-12-2013 12:00am

Whiskey in the porridge with a bit of cream

buyer95 · 23-12-2013 12:38am

Few shots of Brandy after returning from mass is pretty much par for the course in this house.

efb · 23-12-2013 12:39am

0.00 to 02.00 and 1600 onward

jersman · 23-12-2013 4:11pm

Bucks Fizz with breakfast. Shot of Hennessey XO before dinner. Wine with dinner then mulled wine, gin & tonic and more brandy

Kettleson · 23-12-2013 4:38pm

jersman wrote: »

Bucks Fizz with breakfast. Shot of Hennessey XO before dinner. Wine with dinner then mulled wine, gin & tonic and more brandy

I feel quite ill reading that. Oh, and a merry Christmas!

jersman · 23-12-2013 4:57pm

That's what it's all about!! Merry Christmas

Kettleson wrote: »

I feel quite ill reading that. Oh, and a merry Christmas!

LordSutch · 24-12-2013 10:49am

masti123 wrote: »

What time on Christmas Day do you start to drink?

You make Christmas Day sound like a piss up.

jersman · 24-12-2013 1:17pm

It's whatever you want it to be. There are no rules the last time I checked.

LordSutch wrote: »

You make Christmas Day sound like a piss up.

Mars Bar · 24-12-2013 1:40pm

I have wine with my dinner which will be 5 pm tomorrow and I have four bottles of Erdinger to go through for the evening. Probably won't get around to drinking them all. Find it hard to drink while eating so much food!

Miss Lockhart · 24-12-2013 1:55pm

I don't drink anymore but never drank on Christmas Day. Nobody ever had more than a couple of glasses of wine with their dinner in my house - drinking at Christmas was never a thing here.

Aoifey! · 25-12-2013 12:06am

Neither of my parents drink so we always have an alcohol free Christmas. It's different than most houses but it's always been like that and even though I do drink I wouldn't have it any other way.