Is drinking a sin? In this episode of Noll’s Nephew, we examine alcohol through the lens of virtue theology, St. Thomas Aquinas, and the Catechism. The Church does not condemn alcohol itself. Creation is good, but she does warn against excess. Drunkenness becomes sinful when it impairs reason and undermines temperance, the virtue that orders pleasure toward the good. We explore the difference between moderate enjoyment and the deliberate loss of self-control, along with the spiritual and social consequences of excess.