So then, what do you drink?

For me at home nothing beats a cider from Somerset, or a Rattler. If I fancy it then a perry might go down nicely.

If I'm away from home and out of the cider-producing region, then I'll drink Carling, Carlsberg Export, Stella Artois (only the imported stuff) or Fosters, and in that order. At a stretch I might drink a Brains SA.

How about you?

Anything nice, usually ale, or real ale as you have to call it, or else.

Just had a Cooper's sparkling ale, was sampling some of Windermere's finest last week, the week before then an ale from a brewery near where I live.

lot's

On a night out, shots and alco-pops. Anything cheap will do.

Down the pub, cider or a nice Morgan's spiced and coke. Occasionally ale.

Cider usually, normally in a decent pub I might have a pint of proper cider but I find Old Rosie a little too perfumed for my liking

Avoid lager as I just don't like it, annoyingly it can make a night out quite expensive.

Cider when chilling out.

Vodbulls/JD Coke when out on the razz (doesn't happen often at all).

Though only Vodbulls when they're using smirnoff - JD and smirnoff don't give me hangovers, but others do like Grouse and Absolut. Strange.

I do VK when at the student union on a friday night - they're either £1 or £1.50 a bottle depending on which club you're in and the bottle bars making getting served much more convenient. Can get 4 at a time and the tops just unscrew and pop off!

Blimey; never took you lot for a bunch of cider drinkers

I like real ale, but I don't drink it often.

I was "out on the town" last night, mostly drinking Becks early on and then went on to whisky and soda water in separate glasses.

Tonight was more typical; red wine before and with dinner followed by whisky.

I'll drink pretty much anything in drought though.

What can I say? I'm from Somerset*, it's like a rite of passage.

*I wouldn't drink Magners (Irish crap), or any cider from Herefordshire for that matter.

Lager - Imported Stella ( rarely )
Ales most that are well kept - but not very often.
Red Wine - rarely really bad head ache's
White wine - dry and full bodied and lots of it please.
Hard stuff - Gin and Tonic occasionally.

Does he mind?

I haven't tippled seriously since Christmas. I took a decision to leave it out, and generally feel better for it.

Currently it's Ocean Spray cranberry juice, chilled, with my evening meal. I am partial to a good full-bodied red wine (when I do partake). I don't say no to a really good scrumpy cider. We had some down Debon way a few years ago - on draft, chilled and a full brimming pint. Made for an interesting walk back to the B&B.

Otherwise I run on unleaded tea, with the occasional nuclear-grade coffee.

I don't tend to drink alcohol in the house so it's water or diluting juice most of the time and fruit juice in the morning.
For simplicity I drink lager (not all that fussy) in the pub unless there is a decent selection of real ales in which case I'll try anything once although I'm not a huge fan of most porters and stouts. Will also drink Guinness in a pinch.
Tend to avoid spirits unless I'm very, very drunk and someone else is buying as I can't stand them normally.

Still it's only a few weeks until the Peterborough Beer Festival starts (25 - 29th August) so I suspect my real ale consumption will be going up fairly dramatically this month

If I do drink in the house, it's usually red wine (something heavy) because both me and the purple one enjoy it (and I at least tend not to feel any after effects), or occasionally some port. If it's Christmas/new years, I may get a bottle of sherry in.
If it's revision time, or time to get coursework in, I'll usually swig from a bottle of rum.

Out and about I'll drink ale, preferably nothing too hoppy, or Guinness. If I'm out drinking with people (as apposed to in a pub for a meal) I'll usually have a rum chaser with the pint, then switch to double rum and lime cordial later in the night.
If I'm on one particular pub in Aber, I'll mutilate a Harvey Wallbanger, swap the vodka for rum and the orange for pineapple and add some grenadine, it's very nice, and seemingly quite strong, but I tend not to have many because of their £5 label!

I'll not touch any clear spirits, after trying vodka, bacardi and tequila, I stay away as even if they are a mixer, they make me feel instantly sick. Again, I'll not touch larger as a rule because of it's lack of taste (compared to a nice warm ale) and because it's so fizzy.

Other than that, copious amounts of tea!

When I did drink it was vodka and Coke, now it's just Coke

I've got a lot more money behind me as a result

You grow out of drinking in the rubbish/dodgy local pubs in Belfast pretty quickly, and none of my mates now live close enough to make carry-outs a realistic proposition. I can't say I miss any of it...

Think meh to alcohol. Not really bothered about poisoning myself drunk, so I just stick to my grool (coffee with 2 spoons of coffee and 2 sugars ) and drink a lot of water for some reason.

so by the sounds of it, none of you fear gaining rosy cheeks??

I used to drink vodka and coke at nights out, in pubs nowadays I just drink spring water, I get laughed at but I will get the last laugh when I see them drop dead due to alcohol poisoning

cant drink cider as If I drink almost 1 can of it I fall asleep and my eyesight sees double