The consumption of alcohol and solitary drinking within home spaces have come under recent scrutiny, raising the profile of home and solitary drinking as neglected fields for research and policy focus. Within scholarly discussion, renewed interest in drinking at home has contributed to understanding around current trends in domestic and public drinking practices, the role of physical spaces and time periods associated with drinking styles and how home as a reflective, intimate and personal space may shape or moderate alcohol consumption when drinking alone or with others. In this chapter we review the extant literature on home-based drinking. We then draw on interview data from our Drinking in Lockdown project conducted in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns. We draw on data from our ‘younger adult’ (i.e., < 40 years) participants to contribute to the renewed interest in home-based drinking discussed above with a particular focus on drinking practices among this cohort. Participant talk around solitary home-based drinking highlighted factors that raise or diminish the likelihood of solitary drinking, reflecting attitudes towards and concerns about solitary home-based drinking during lockdowns and focusing on moderation/excess and framings of solitary drinking within home spaces and domestic relationships. This chapter contributes to a renewed, post-pandemic focus on solitary drinking’s social acceptability and the sometimes dilemmatic connections between solitary drinking, domestic drinking and historic and current personal drinking.