Van Vliet asked “Stone Cold” if he was still drinking beer in addition to being in the business of it all, as over the last few years, online rumors started swirling that “The Texas Rattlesnake” had moved on to different beverages. The rumors were likely brought on by an old Buzzfeed video of Austin trying different fancy drinks, such as a birthday cake martini, and other photos circulating of Austin drinking red wine. Austin said the wine glass in the photos was his wife’s, and he’s aware of the meme.

“Yes, I still drink beer,” he confirmed. “But, it’s kind of like the old timers used to come up to you in the dressing room when you first start breaking in the business. ‘Kid, you gotta pick your spots. You don’t gotta take all those bumps.’ So, yeah, these days, you don’t need all those hangovers. You pick your spots.”

He said since he’s still watching what he eats and drinks, Friday nights are his “beer nights.” He said he’ll kick back and have some IPAs. When asked about the most amount of beer he ever had after a match, Austin brought up a story from a WWE tour in Japan where plenty of others were around to help him knock some back.

“I talked about this before, because the Dudleys were there, Stacy Keibler was there, and there was a whole bunch of people that were in the ring, so I just started tossing out beers,” he explained. “I think we went over 100… Did they all get drank to completion? No.”

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