AFAIK (and I have read the Bible straight through, as well as Gospels many times), there is no general condemnation of “drinking”.
Personally, I don’t like it. I think it tastes God-awful. And I’m less than enamored of the idea of getting drunk, as so many these days seem to be. Not only pathetic but boring. “Parties” have become nothing more than drunken orgies, period, with nothing else to do.
The “prohibition” is against unseemlyness; its so easy to argue out of James that one’s faith is dead w/out works.
Obviously if one is a drunken bastard: there’ll be a hard time witnessing the gospel.
For such reason most evangelists will be tee-totalers.
You must live in a rather interesting neighbourhood.