For a minute there I thought we'd sailed together.:)
I was on one gas tanker and we ran out of beer after being on beer rations. I think we had 4 beers and 4 cans of softies per day. The old man had as much as he wanted.:( I remember he came down to the officers bar one time, did not like the beer that we had to drink, as we opened one case at a time when on rations, so went up got his own supply (more than 2) and came down and drank them in the bar in front of us.
Eventually the officer in charge of the bar persuaded him that it was cheaper to take on beer in the Gulf than Europe and we were back to normal.