You know there's a reason you don't offer even a single drink to a recovering alcoholic, right? A single drink is unlikely to hurt anyone, as long as it stays

You know there's a reason you don't offer even a single drink to a recovering alcoholic, right? A single drink is unlikely to hurt anyone, as long as it stays a single drink. There are a lot of people who can do a good job of not having that first drink, but have a really hard time stopping once they've had it. And beer is the beverage of choice of a surprising number of alcoholics. So yeah, for a lot of people, drinking a beer makes them want more.