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Knock A Shining Dog

September is National Drinking Month in Luxembourg

September 20, 2018

National Drinking MonthA coalition of the Grand Duchy’s top drinkers have chosen September as the country’s new National Drinking Month.

Home to several national beer brands, delicious, locally produced wine, cider, and crémant, and the lowest taxes on alcoholic beverages in Europe, Luxembourg is the perfect place to drink — and this month is the perfect time to do it, say the founders of National Drinking Month, which includes prominent sippers, connaisseurs, guzzlers, party people, and boozehounds.

Why was September chosen as Luxembourg’s National Drinking Month? Coalition leader and veteran drinker Laurent Thill says it’s because of the month’s ever-growing list of occasions to pop open a bottle.

These include:

Chilling out after a return from several weeks of non-stop travelling and sightseeing

Catching up with friends after the summer holidays

Relaxing before you catch up with friends, because you’ve got some kind of social anxiety disorder and you don’t want to act all weird when you see them for the first time after two months

Diluting your shame because even though it was only 1pm, you showed up to their place drunk

Enjoying the Schueberfouer

Coping with the loss of all that money spent at the Schueberfouer

Dealing with stress before the kids go back to school

Alleviating worry on the first day of school

Celebrating when you realize that the kids are fine and will be in school for the next 10 months

Dealing with guilt that you were celebrating because your kids aren’t around during the day now

Celebrating again when you realize that it’s okay; it’s normal for parents to get stressed out and look forward to a time when their kids are away most of the day

No, no. Dealing with guilt again

Mourning the end of summer

Celebrating the arrival of autumn

Welcoming mushroom-hunting season

Treating your pain after you’ve consumed bad mushrooms and have got awful stomach cramps

Passing the time while you wait in the emergency room

Feeding your anger because you knew those mushrooms looked bad, but your friends still threw them in the mix, and now they’re at home just fine and you’re in the hospital, hooked up to all these machines

Celebrating your release from the hospital a week later

Forgiving your friends when, to apologize, they show up one night with a bunch of beer and a bottle of strong alcohol

Matching your friends shot for shot, just to prove to them that a little “toxic mushroom ingestion” and a loss of 10 kilograms won’t keep you down

Reaching for a bottle of water in the morning as you lie in bed and curse the day you had your first drink, but accidentally taking a swig off the same bottle of alcohol that put you in this mess

Experimenting three hours later with the advice that “the hair of the dog that bit you” is the best cure for a hangover

Marking your newfound understanding that “no, it isn’t” with a toast and a drink

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Filed Under: Dining and Nightlife, Featured Article, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Leisure and Lifestyle, Luxembourgish Customs

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