Subjects wrote thematic apperception tests (TAT) stories at 3 points during social drinking in an experimental condition (with alcoholic beverages = wet, N = 18), or in a control condition (dry, N = 17). On the next day subjects were asked to describe the TAT pictures and to reproduce the stories they had written before. Several measures of recall were developed. Results showed A linear decrease in memory as a function of alcohol consumption. No decrease in memory for stories written immediately before drinking. An improvement for the dry group in the recall of stories written late as compared with early. An attenuation of stable individual differences in memory in the wet condition. Selective forgetting due to the presence of "physical sex" in the original stories, when these were written after drinking; also, selective forgetting of pictures which elicited such stories. Selective remembering of stories with "physical sex" from some dry administrations.