Five of the Best Pastimes to Pair with Drinking Beer

Many of us love to kick back with a brewski after a long week of work, and then with each meal during the weekend. As beer has become an everyday part of some people's lives, what has become of beer-drinking activities of yore?

Darts is a prime example. Darts was the only sport where players could get steadily more inebriated as they played. Imagine if pro skiers did a few shots before hitting the slalom for courage!

While darts is still a popular activity to pair with drinking beer, this list will help you find a few more things to do while you drink your favorite brew.

Tasting Event

While supping multiple pints of beer might sound like the purview of a glassy-eyed barfly, tasting sessions for high-quality craft brews actually makes for an enjoyable occasion. The sheer quality you can find at your local bottle shop pales in comparison to the nearly clear swill of years past.

Grab some pals and imbibe some high-quality (as well as some zany) flavor combinations. For example, Bizarre flavors such as whale testicle (or, potentially worse yet, strawberry with green olive) have been made by breweries, so drink carefully please.

A fun approach to a tasting event is for people to take notes and then place those notes in piles. Once the beer is tasted by all, the notes are read out loud. This is a good approach because A: you’ll all pleasantly tipsy by the time the notes are read out and will thusly appreciate any critical witticisms, and B: no sycophants will be swayed by the reaction of others and so the beers’ appraisals will be more honest.

Gambling

Gambling is an old and brilliant beer drinking pastime that has to some extent been stifled by the runaway success of online gambling. Online casinos are so entertaining and satisfying that folks aren’t going “out-out” anymore to enjoy placing a few wagers. With that being the case, have a night in instead! Here are the best live casinos online to get you going tonight. There’s nothing like a crisp and refreshing sip of beer to seal a win or console a loss. This is a match made in heaven that can be enjoyed alone or in groups alike.

Just as with beer, exercise your self-control - enjoy yourself, but know your limits.

Board Games

Playing a board game while drinking a beer or three is super-cathartic for getting those competitive juices flowing or relieving tension in your household. If getting drunk is your goal over relaxation, then you can combine your favorite board game with drinking elements – such as every time someone lands on your property it’s their liver that pays, not them!

Watch Sports

Keep the modern tradition alive of drinking beer while watching sports whenever there’s a game on by grabbing your friends and cracking open some cold ones. And if there isn’t a game, diversify your taste in sporting events (just like your taste in IPAs) so that there’ll always be something to watch while you drink. Don’t spill anything on that fresh jersey though!

See the Sunset

Love beer and company but not hurling abuse at the little referee on TV? Take your brewski to the porch and enjoy an entirely different spectacle. Oh man, watching the sunset with a beer is the perfect way to pass the time, solve an existential crisis or even go blind if you’re not careful. Plus, you know you won’t spend too long doing this activity either, because it’ll get dark soon. And drinking on your porch in the dark is just weird. You know what else is weird? Hurling abuse at the sun, which can also happen if you’re not careful with just how much beer you drink.