At the wedding feast at Cana, did Jesus tell His mother that He was not going to contribute to the drunkeness & revelry of the evening?
Instead, He turned water into wine and the chief steward (head caterer in modern terms) called the bridegroom over and essentially chewed him out for wasting this fine wine (unknown to him miraculous) on guests who were already mostly drunk & unable to appreciate the best wine normally served first.
My teetotalling fundamentalist coworkers insist that Christ would never, ever, turn water into something that might cause scandal and that it must have been grape juice which is their definition of the Bibilical term “new wine”. Since I’m Catholic they naturally assume I’m a drunk & looking for divine excuses for the taking of strong drink.
Oh, well.
He not only turned the water into the finest wine, He made a LOT of it. Six stone jars holding up to thirty gallons each is 180 gallons of excellent wine. That 908 bottles of wine in today’s world.
In John’s gospel it says “He thus revealed His glory.”
I don’t think it’s wise to try to apply the circumstances of a wedding feast as a general rule of living. People also gorged themselves on food that night, surely, and yet the lack of denouncement from Christ does not equate to an endorsement of gluttony, or of tempting others to gluttony. There are plenty of verses that demonstrate drunkenness is not approved by God, and verses enjoining us to lead by example and not to lead others into temptation even though we have some leeway in our behavior due to Christian liberty.
Personally, I think the teetotaling churches are foolish, but I was just saying that there is some scripture which they can try to appeal to in order to support their position. I don’t think they are correct, but at least they can make a Biblical argument.