I just gotta second JenT1968 here....plus
I always find it interesting that folks think alcoholics need to avoid alcohol, wherever it may be found; avoid the temptation, so to speak. Yes, this may be true for some in early recovery, but if a person is truly recovered, I love what AA's BB has to say--even if you don't agree with AA as a way to recovery (truly a good definition of a recovered alcoholic for me, anyway)......:
"People must not have it in our homes; we must shun friends who drink; we must avoid moving pictures which show drinking scenes; we must not go into bars; our friends must hide their bottles if we go to their houses; we mustn't think or be reminded about alcohol at all. Our experience shows that this is not necessarily so. We meet these conditions every day. An alcoholic who cannot meet them, still has an alcoholic mind."
"We have ceased fighting anything or anyone--even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our new
attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality--safe and protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is our experience."