“We drank beer. I liked beer. Still like beer. We drank beer and still do. Do you like beer, Senator?” Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s drinking habits as a young man are drawing attention after accusations of sexual assault. Kavanaugh has said he drank in high school. “I drank beer with my friends. Almost everyone did. Sometimes I had too many beers. Sometimes others did.” But says he never had so much he couldn’t remember what happened. “I did not drink beer to the point of blacking out.” He says he studied hard and did extracurricular activities. “Senator, I was at the top of my class academically. Busted my butt in school. When I got into Yale College, got into Yale Law School. I’ve worked my tail off.” Still some of Kavanaugh’s classmates paint a different picture. “There is no problem with drinking beer in college. The problem is lying about it. He drank heavily. He was a partier. He was a sloppy drunk.” In 1997, Kavanaugh’s friend Mark Judge published a book that detailed drinking in high school. When asked if the character “Bart O’Kavanaugh” was based on him, Kavanaugh said this: “Mark Judge was a friend of ours in high school who developed a very serious drinking problem. As part of his therapy or part of his coming to grips with sobriety, he wrote a book that is a fictionalized book and an account. I think he picked out names of friends of ours to throw them in as kind of close to what — for characters in the book.” There are yearbook references to Kavanaugh vomiting, but he says it isn’t necessarily because of drinking. “I’m known to have a weak stomach and always have. In fact, the last time I was here you asked me about having ketchup on spaghetti. I always have had a weak stomach.” In 2014, Kavanaugh gave a speech about his time at Yale Law School. In it he described a night out in Boston that included “bar-hopping” and “falling out of the bus onto the front steps of Yale Law School at about 4:45 a.m.” And then in 2015, another allusion to his youth. “What happens at Georgetown Prep stays at Georgetown Prep.” As the F.B.I. investigation into sexual assault allegations against him unfolds, it’s unclear whether Kavanaugh’s drinking record will come under greater scrutiny.