Our homebrew club meetings are a bit like parties, but they're not drinking parties.  It's about beer, not about drinking. Does that make sense? .If you drive to a THC meeting you must make plans to have a DD, or take extreme care to consume carefully, eat well, and stop consuming an hour or two before they drive, depending on what you've had to drink. Our club would be crazy to hang around with anybody who's not going to follow these simple rules.

We don't pour ourselves big glasses or mugs or steins.  We pour into a pitcher, label the pitcher ("Jim's Kolsch," or "Vickie's 2003 cyser"), and then people take modest (1 - 2 oz) servings in 4.7 oz tasting glasses.  We switched from 8 oz tasting glasses to the smaller ones a couple years ago, and they make a great difference helping people keep servings small.

Most people bring food and/or homebrew most of the time, but nobody need feel guilty for coming empty-handed once. 

Homebrewers are some of the happiest, friendliest, and easy-going people in the universe.  We love the company of other homebrewers as well as the interest of people who are not brewers but are interested in good beers.  
(PS. YOU MUST BE 21 to attend.  Any underage attendee must be with a parent and is nto to not to drink alcoholic beverages.