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.

> Drinking a beer doesn't do that.

There are a lot of binge drinkers that beg to differ.

Ever met a binge drinker? I have, starting at university. Find one of those people and ask them if drinking one beer makes them want to drink more. I think you might be surprised by the answer.