“If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker.  If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic”.  ~Author Unknown
”It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety”.  ~Thomas de Quincy, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1856
“Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third”.  ~Knute Rockne
There is always a time and place for the booze...sometimes it includes the place where deals are struck and issues resolved.
I have found it not uncommon for deals to be discussed over a shot of whiskey or a cold beer and sealed with a handshake and sometimes one more drink between gentlemen before papers are drawn. In some cases the 'Good Ol' Boy' club is where sh** gets done.