Like several have already said I didn't go to bars when I was drinking why would I go to them now? My wife keeps a bottle of scotch for her in the house, doesn't have anything to do with me. She drinks her two in the evenings in front of me, no issue. My actual real friends aren't alcoholics and certainly don't hang out in bars, and most don't drink, but a few will have a single drink they will nurse all night. With them I'd have a few and finish getting my buzz on at home. Not because I was hiding anything, but because I didn't want to drive drunk or when my wife was with me she wouldn't want to stay late. There were a few from work that were binge drinkers on the construction crews and when the company held a night out we made an appearance and split as soon as we said hello to everybody, and before they started getting loud and obnoxious. And that was when I was drinking!
Besides I can buy a case for what a few drinks cost in a bar.