diff --git a/docs/userguide/consumers.rst b/docs/userguide/consumers.rst
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--- a/docs/userguide/consumers.rst
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@@ -10,6 +10,80 @@
 Basics
 ======
 
+The :class:`Consumer` takes a connection (or channel) and a list of queues to
+consume from.  Several consumers can be mixed to consume from different
+channels, as they all bind to the same connection, and ``drain_events`` will
+drain events from all channels on that connection.
+
+
+Draining events from a single consumer:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    with Consumer(connection, queues):
+        connection.drain_events(timeout=1)
+
+
+Draining events from several consumers:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    from kombu.utils import nested
+
+    with connection.channel(), connection.channel() as (channel1, channel2):
+        consumers = [Consumer(channel1, queues1),
+                     Consumer(channel2, queues2)]
+        with nested(\*consumers):
+            connection.drain_events(timeout=1)
+
+
+Or using :class:`~kombu.mixins.ConsumerMixin`:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    from kombu.mixins import ConsumerMixin
+
+    class C(ConsumerMixin):
+
+        def __init__(self, connection):
+            self.connection = connection
+
+        def get_consumers(self, Consumer, channel):
+            return [Consumer(queues, callbacks=[self.on_message])]
+
+        def on_message(self, body, message):
+            print("RECEIVED MESSAGE: %r" % (body, ))
+            message.ack()
+
+    C(connection).run()
+
+
+and with multiple channels again:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    from kombu.messaging import Consumer
+    from kombu.mixins import ConsumerMixin
+
+    class C(ConsumerMixin):
+        channel2 = None
+
+        def __init__(self, connection):
+            self.connection = connection
+
+        def get_consumers(self, _, default_channel):
+            self.channel2 = default_channel.connection.channel()
+            return [Consumer(default_channel, queues1,
+                             callbacks=[self.on_message]),
+                    Consumer(self.channel2, queues2,
+                             callbacks=[self.on_special_message])]
+
+        def on_consumer_end(self, connection, default_channel):
+            if self.channel2:
+                self.channel2.close()
+
+    C(connection).run()
+
 
 Reference
 =========