For example, have a wee bottle of beer at night with your dinner. At the weekends (or any other evening when you don't need to get up in the morning for something important) maybe try having more than one beer. Say, three or four. Keep ignoring the fact that some beer tastes crap. Always have beer in your fridge; you never know when you might need one. When you feel thirsty during the day, reach for a beer instead of water (or whatever it is that you'd normally drink). Start celebrating small events in your life with beers. Start drinking beers & talking about how many beers you've already drunk. Start making friends with people who drink far more than you (perhaps dangerously so) & try & keep up with their rate of consumption over an evening. Learn to drink quickly. Start calling your drinking time sessions. Start briskly; maybe a pint every half hour would be good. Frequent places that sell beer, that's also important. Drink beer until you're literally full of liquid. Recognise, as sessions progress, that a piss-a-pint is a perfectly normal ratio. Drink until you've forgotten how many you've drunk. Try downing a whole pint, to get through beers quicker. Find some Scottish folk.