A MAN has a ‘nightcap’ of four cans of Stella every night to help him relax before bed.
While some people enjoy having a bath, meditating or reading as ways to help them switch off, Stephen Malley’s go-to method of unwinding after a hard day is cracking open a multipack of premium-strength lager.
Malley said: “There’s something very civilised about having a nightcap. People in films are always doing it, although they tend to choose the hard stuff, like whisky. I wouldn’t go that far. It’s not like I’m a massive pisshead or anything.
“I just find it helps me get to sleep better. It does mean I wake up at about 2am with a bladder that feels like it’s full of lava and about to explode, but those first two hours of shut-eye are bliss.
“Then I tend to lie awake for the rest of the night feeling uneasily hungover and worried about how I’ll get through another miserable eight hours at work feeling like shit.
“After that, I spend all day looking forward to chilling out with my nightcap. It’s basically what my wife would call ‘self-care’, if she didn’t already call it ‘a slippery slope into being a total f**king alcoholic’.”
