The broadcaster is trying to moderate his drinking, so who better to sample the growing range of low- and no-alcohol brews?
Moderating your drinking is a tricky business. I wondered many times this summer if it might be simpler just to give up alcohol completely. This isn’t because I’m getting into trouble when I do drink, or craving it when I don’t. It’s just that it takes so much more mental effort to organise yourself to drink less when your social life has, it turns out, been entirely constructed around social drinking.
I’ve heard many a problem drinker say they were forever working out when they could next get a drink. I’ve been there too. But now I find myself constantly working out when I can next not drink. There is always somewhere I’ve got to be or something I’ve got to do with somebody or other, which, in the normal run of things, would involve drinking.
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