Methodists tee-total proudly for the most part. To see a notable exception—Hillary. Many Baptists take a dim view of alcohol. Some fundamentalist groups absolutely eschew it.
Lutherans and Episcopalians are fine with alcohol. There may be a little friendly competition as to which group serves the better wine at communion.
Evangelicals tend to be more accepting than not of social alcoholic consumption. I have yet to see the evangelical church that served wine with communion, though. They may exist, but in my experience it’s been grape juice.
I go to a non-denominational church that draws a lot of life’s ‘misfits’, so to speak. A lot of former addicts...I believe they stick to grape juice for this reason. They don’t condemn those who do drink, but they respect those that have had problems with drink and drugs.
And I mean no disregard to anyone struggling with anything by referring to them as misfits — I have my own issues and fit in quite well. Our church bills itself as a’safe place to explore the claims of Jesus Christ’and we have many attendees that would never have felt comfortable in a traditional church setting.
If one looks at the extensive records of the people involved in transcribing and putting together the KJV 1611 one will see the meal plans for Breakfast lunch and dinner. Also three groups had different food based on their wealth and status. If I recall the lowest level had two mugs of mead at breakfast along with their meals. That would mess the average person up today and they would be considered a drunkard. Different for cultures and what people are used to.
When we attended a Lutheran church in Las Vegas for over ten years, once a quarter, all hymns were sung according to polka music—yes, even the Beer Barrel polka! Never so many smiles, laughing, and hugging in church!
That happened in a church I went to once.
Apparently the grape juice had been in the fridge a little too long.
All the deaconesses set up communion, no one the wiser, until it was time to drink.
On first sip, there was a kind of collective pause, everyone looked at their cup, looked at their neighbor, and started giggling.
Never happened again but I'll bet they were really careful about using fresh grape juice after that.
I'll bet all those little old ladies were just mortified.