I resolved, starting in mid-January (so as not to taint it with the failure of New Year’s resolutions), to embark on a plan to have two beer-less days each week for the rest of 2016.
At first, I thought I would rotate depending upon how the week was scheduled taking a Wednesday and Friday off one week and Tuesday-Wednesday the next. But I quickly settled on taking Monday and Tuesday off the last four weeks. Those being the days with the least amount of beer events on the calendar and it being easier to just have set days each week to set my internal body clock to.
There was no problem that caused the change and there were no goals for this plan of action. This was done to see if I would feel better, taste beer better and spend less money on beer. In short, a sociological and financial experiment on myself, by myself.
So far (granted small sample size) the changes have been negligible at best. I have felt better most days but that might be attributed to early morning walks with my wife or to getting a better night’s sleep. I don’t feel like my taste buds are sharper after a couple days off though I do notice that the first couple sips of beer on Wednesday night seem brighter and more alive.
The beer buying continues but I expect that I will soon have too much beer in the ol’ fridge and I will be forced to by space constraints to slow that as the year progresses. That said I was pretty discriminating to begin with. I hardly ever bought six-packs if I could buy one or two instead. I am big on buying orphan bottles. So the gain potential is smaller.
As the year progresses, I will periodically update the blog on how the experiment is going. Will I make it through to December? Will I become a super taster? Time will tell.