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[jellsprout]

Dwarves' best attributes are their focus and spatial sense. Alcohol obviously doesn't affect them the same way it affects us.

[Skorpion]

Dwarves are born in a state of knurd. That is; they see the world for how truly depressing and hopeless it is. This realisation of the world makes them fall into a melancholy and work in an apathetic state. Thus dwarves take to alcohol to bring themselves up to less sober levels so they can work in peace. Your drunkard dwarves are probably just normal humans in regards to sobriety. The sober ones were the emokids at school who wrote dark poetry about how the world is pointless.

The fact that their livers are bigger than humans (despite Dwarves being smaller than humans) is simply compensation for the fact that dwarves require alcohol to remain sane.

Discworld fan, huh?

[Stormcloudy]

I feel like, since the Dwarven liver is so much larger than our human livers, they lack the enzyme alcohol decarboxylase (I hope I spelled that right ^^), and have a different enzyme which instead directly fuels its mitochondria on the alcohol, through an as-yet, and especially as-then not understood reaction, probably involving little magma internal combustion engines.

Either way, I think alcohol dependent creatures literally need it to be a healthy, complete being, thus they burn it directly as fuel, like a plant, or they have a different enzyme which metabolizes it differently to produce a necessary vitamin, similarly to how humans produce vitamin D in the sun. If this is the case "sobriety" would be more like rickets or scurvy, than the absence of intoxicant.