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Here's a 2000 study that is, in part, a response to your 1985 review:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11053757/

Their conclusion:

It is as yet impossible to determine to what extent moderate alcohol consumption causes positive psychological outcomes and to what extent it is part of a complex pattern of mutually reinforcing variables.

In other words: you have committed the cardinal science sin of looking for sources that support your conclusion, instead of vice-versa. You shall now be punished with 100 hours of defending your position in this minor argument that you don't feel strongly about from random strangers online, including several hours that won't be used for several years until some weirdo with no social graces decides to respond to a thread that hasn't been active in about a decade.