What a load of crap.
That statement is full of crap and anyone who tells you that is full of crap.
If you tell yourself that then, yes, you are full of crap.
Alcoholism is an addiction to the consumption of alcoholic drinks. An alcohol dependency.
The dictionary definition
Alcoholism is not “an addiction to the consumption of some alcoholic drinks except for beer”. That would just be ludicrous.
I know many people with drinking problems. A lot of them have beer as their main drink of choice. I, myself, would drink beer the majority of the time and can say definitively that I had a drinking problem.
To say that these people do not have a problem because beer is their drink of choice is frankly as dangerous as telling them that they should just have one or two.
Beer, wine, spirits. It doesn’t matter which you choose they are all alcohol and drinking too much of any of them can be a problem.
Sure some recovery courses will recommend switching from hard ales to beer. But this will normally be part of a tapering program where the desired outcome will eventually be no alcohol.
If you are able to drink beer without going overboard or suffering any problems, then great. You may not have a drinking problem. But don’t tell others that beer drinkers can’t be alcoholics. It’s just not true.
IWNDWYT – I will not drink with you today
