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No, don't drink at all.
To be honest with you... I'm not surprised by this at all. And I mean no offense by the following, it's just something I've noticed that you might want to take into account before dealing with someone that's done something fairly harmless that you have a strong personal bias towards.
I've found that most people that have had their lives destroyed by Alcohol (Either because they were an Alcoholic or someone they love was) are left with a really, really bad taste in their mouth about it... And end up allowing themselves to take situations that have nothing to do with them very personally or trying to take it out on others in some kind of attempt to right that wrong, be it that they rail against other people they know drinking or if in a position of power, over-react or take it out on their subordinates in a situation like you described. Your post reeked of anger and personal resentment.
Scolding a great worker like that and threatening termination seems way overblown for a situation that happens in the workplace if they haven't done it before. Just my .02.