I feel beer, and especially real ale, is drunk much less these days, both in my generation (based on the handful of people I drink with) and in the younger generations.
In fact my local experience at the moment is that pubs here are generally much less busy in the evenings as a social drinking place but much more so in the daytimes as a place for older generations to have coffee and/or lunch.
Again only in my minutely small group I've also noticed a few drinking alcohol-free beer (lager usually) out of choice (i.e. even without medical conditions or driver role) - in particular a couple of 30-somethings.
We almost routinely ask for our pints to be topped up in the local. They always do it without complaint, but never learn...
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