Our "dorm" if you can call that has a house party every month or so with beer, and our house president is both the DJ and the barman. It gets an excellent turnout, and I typically go for at least a little while and have a few beers or vodka oranges. I wouldn't be able to make it a lifestyle out of concern for my hearing, and I'm far too socially inexperienced to even try and have fun with a girl (the innocent kind of fun, of course) but it is fun for an hour or two. Not the classiest place to either meet a girl or bring one, goes without saying.
But there is a brewery in town run by monks, with big halls for socializing and a food court. Excellent beer served in stone mugs straight out of the barrel, and good, reasonably priced food in the food courts. I can and do see entire families there (the kids don't have beer, of course). I'll go there when friends go, which is maybe once a month.