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[December Flower]

Dude, America has amazing beer! It's just that our exports are all of our worst bullshit. Domestically, we have a craft beer scene like you wouldn't believe. So much good beer.

Sorry, man ^^ can't agree.
I've been to the States on multiple occasions, since half my family is Murican, and I've tried a bunch of highly rated Red White & Blue beer.
Sucked balls.
Sorry

Your Whiskey is fucking amazing though

edit: I want to be clear on my wording here. It didn't suck balls per se, but when you try 10(I think) super high rated beers, you're going to think "this is going to be sweet", and it was mediocre.
But again, I'm Bavarian, I'm an absolute beer snob. I don't even drink beer from Munich, sucks. Not real Bavarian beer.

 

[RDP89]

Some hand sanitizer contains isopropyl myristate which burns your tongue and mouth up and can't be too good for your stomach. When you mix with salt it seperates the gel form the liquid and alcohol to drink but the burning mouth thing with the small amount of isopropyl myristate always troubled me enough to not drink very much of it. The listerine gold is much better to drink than the green one as it has sorbitol which in the amounts to catch a buzz will give you bad diarrhea. Cheap vodka would always be the best solution as it's actually meant to be ingested.

 

[Xorkoth]

Sorry, man ^^ can't agree.
I've been to the States on multiple occasions, since half my family is Murican, and I've tried a bunch of highly rated Red White & Blue beer.
Sucked balls.
Sorry

Your Whiskey is fucking amazing though

edit: I want to be clear on my wording here. It didn't suck balls per se, but when you try 10(I think) super high rated beers, you're going to think "this is going to be sweet", and it was mediocre.
But again, I'm Bavarian, I'm an absolute beer snob. I don't even drink beer from Munich, sucks. Not real Bavarian beer.

Well, it is a matter of taste, no doubt. And I can't say I've been to your neck of the woods. I've had exports, but those are never the best of what a place has to offer.

I also love IPAs, and America's got a lot of really good IPAs.

 

[tommygirl]

Rather if you phrased it, binge drink liquor once a month, or MDMA once a month, because let's be frank, no one stops at 6 drinks. I don't, if I make it past 2 it's going to be the whole twelve pack/bottle at that point.

So once a month binge drinking=more toxic than once a month mild MDMA use.

Funny you should say that, I actually stopped at 6 drinks last time. But I had made up my mind very determinedly before I even started that 6 was the limit. Wasn't easy though, I really wanted to keep drinking, who knows how many I'd have had if I'd given in instead of stopping.

 

[Xorkoth]

When I drink, I will drink all the alcohol I have unless I pass out before I run out. I won't keep going the next day though, it's just until I sleep. When I don't have alcohol, I don't really miss it. So for a while now I have just totally stayed away, because I was regularly binge drinking for the past 20 years, and I was really starting to feel the impact, especially on my brain. My memory is a lot worse than it was, my self-control has gotten worse, and my clarity of thought, too. it is a little better since I stopped drinking... I have gotten drunk a few times since mid-September, but that's it, and not even at all for about a month now.

Alcohol makes me such a fiend, it's crazy. I'm much better off without it.

 

[tommygirl]

So, I drank for the first time in months the other day, all it took was two glasses of wine and I was singing along with Phil Collins lol, my wife was like, "You can't be drunk already," but I was!

So short lived though. By an hour later I was fairly sober. Society really needs to find a healthier social enhancement drug, the fact that you have to binge drink in order to keep the buzz going is just awful. When my liver was fresh and youthful I loved drinking I didn't get hangovers, but now....even just a few drinks and I wake up with a splitting headache.

Best to keep drinking to a low frequency. I also prefer cocktails now over beer, less substance to ingest, less dehydration and less processing and less calories. Plus a good cocktail can be like 50% alcohol and taste nothing like booze (y)

Oh yeah that's the other thing, I said before that everything's funny and I laugh at all stupid shit when I'm drunk but I forgot also I like singing when I'm drunk even though I'm a little self conscious/ performance anxietyish about it when I'm sober.

 

[tommygirl]

Never found alcohol euphoric ever. I do have different reactions to different alcohols, vodka turns me into a psycho who will rip your face off and im a pretty passive person when I’m sober. Wine is just nice with food, doesn’t really do much for me even in large quantities. Gin will make me sin! I become the biggest slut when gin is involved, it’s strictly been off limits since I was like 23 along with vodka. I’ve learnt those lessons! Whiskey is just normal but makes me feel comforted, I’m Irish so it’s a good tipple for most ailments. Hot whiskey is great for the cold, feeling run down and also a nice winter warmer. My granny also used to say it was the cure for everything and she lived well into her 90s. I know with all this virus shite going on she’d be knocking it back like water if she was still alive.
Other than that, for me it’s good for social occasions but I wouldn’t bother drinking alone and I don’t get past the tipsy stage now or I suffer 3 day hangovers. Never worth it.
My father also died due to being an alcoholic and that death was not pretty which has definitely made me see alcohol in different light.

Yes everyone is making good points here, the warming effect of alcohol is very nice, even though opioids are better (I'll never forget getting iv Dilaudid in the hospital that 1 time...). But anyway yeah, alcohol is much more appealing in cold weather, I'm not as into it in summer. I'm a wimp about cold though, I feel like it's really cold today here where I am. I live in Florida. Yeah.

 

[tommygirl]

Alcohol in moderation is OK, but my grandfather was an alcoholic and it totally wrecked him to the point where he died before I could really get to know him.
Also, once you've seen how chronic alcoholics live, you really think twice before drinking too much....

It does suprise my friends though. I am very upfront that I am a lightweight, and sure enough after 2 or 3 strong beers I'm zig-zagging and rosy-cheeked. Over the years I've learned that more is not better with ethanol, and now that I know what level of intoxication I can function at I rarely have a hangover.

I never understood people who claim that "you can't taste the alcohol in [XYZ drink]!". I always can. Maybe it's the infrequency with which I drink or maybe I'm sensitive to it.

I can't taste alcohol when it's mixed in orange juice, not sure if it's because of the sour or the like texture? Thickness? Something like that of orange juice, the not wateryness.

 

[Iceman1216]

As { A REAL ALCOHOLIC} per the Big book , It is my DOC and I have no doubt or problem with that now that I am sober again. Alcohol triggers a section in my brain that fires More, More, More!! It is good now just think how great tit will be till you fall down and black out { that wont happen this time ....Right} I am presently dealing with chronic pain issues and opiates, today shoveling wet snow not my best plan,but I have only increased my Norco dose by 5mgs to 15 from 10. I am happy with that.
If I was to have one beer ( who has one beers really why bother??) I would either get totally fucked up,or just think about it till I did!! So I am content with , Wife ,children ,Job, house, family, dogs , all of which I will lose if I go back down my active alcoholic path!!
Alcohol is the most Euphoric High I know, easiest to obtain (they deliver in my town till 10:00pm) , I guess we all feel this way about our DOC my first and Most destructive Mistress

 

[tommygirl]

Alcohol is kind of like a psychedelic in small doses being different from high doses. At low doses it's basically a hearty social lubricant. High doses are largely dissociative.

High doses are dissociative? I never experienced that I need to drink more

 

[Jabberwocky]

Before I was a daily drinker I would get very euphoric off just a 6 pack. Man I used to love it. Something changed over the years. Now I get next to none from alcohol.

I thought it was tolerance for the longest time, but nah, something else changed. Maybe I just became hyper sensitive to the side effects.

Something changed for me after I started drinking every day. Fuck alcohol. The only thing it gives me now is an empty feeling, headache and a blackout.

 

[tommygirl]

As { A REAL ALCOHOLIC} per the Big book , It is my DOC and I have no doubt or problem with that now that I am sober again. Alcohol triggers a section in my brain that fires More, More, More!! It is good now just think how great tit will be till you fall down and black out { that wont happen this time ....Right} I am presently dealing with chronic pain issues and opiates, today shoveling wet snow not my best plan,but I have only increased my Norco dose by 5mgs to 15 from 10. I am happy with that.
If I was to have one beer ( who has one beers really why bother??) I would either get totally fucked up,or just think about it till I did!! So I am content with , Wife ,children ,Job, house, family, dogs , all of which I will lose if I go back down my active alcoholic path!!
Alcohol is the most Euphoric High I know, easiest to obtain (they deliver in my town till 10:00pm) , I guess we all feel this way about our DOC my first and Most destructive Mistress

You said TIT! Yes I am very mature, ty for noticing. Also how is it that you know that you're a REAL ALCOHOLIC?

 

[negrogesic]

Well, it is a matter of taste, no doubt. And I can't say I've been to your neck of the woods. I've had exports, but those are never the best of what a place has to offer.

I also love IPAs, and America's got a lot of really good IPAs.

Yeah i also prefer strong American IPA's over European beers.

A Firestone double jack is hard to beat, but these are an acquired taste:

Double Jack | Firestone Walker Brewing Co.

Double Jack is a Imperial IPA style beer brewed by Firestone Walker Brewing Co. in Paso Robles, CA. Score: 96 with 7,654 ratings and reviews. Last update: 10-12-2023.

www.beeradvocate.com

This is also excellent, though i prefer the double jack:

90 Minute IPA | Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

90 Minute IPA is a Imperial IPA style beer brewed by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, DE. Score: 95 with 16,534 ratings and reviews. Last update: 05-08-2024.

www.beeradvocate.com

Note these two are double IPAs and taste nothing like a Bavarian beer. At 9% alcohol they can get you into trouble.

A good more common beer is the Sierra Nevada torpedo, which you can find almost anywhere and are strong and inexpensive. In fact I'd say it is a very good beer.

 

[Xorkoth]

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is better, I find Torpedo kinda meh. New Belgium makes some really good IPAs, so does Stone, so do all sorts of local microbreweries that are peppered all over the country. And plenty I'm just not thinking of right now.

 

[tommygirl]

I've actually never had beer. I've had white wine, white rum, Scotch, tequila and probably a couple other kinds of liquor but I've never had beer or red wine or vodka so I have some significant gaps in my alcoholic education. I should have a chance to correct this situation when I go to college next year (plague permitting of course).

Anywho, I'm curious but slightly apprehensive about getting to know bear. I don't like the IDEA of beer much, when I try to imagine how it tastes I'm like "Bready water but with alcohol???" So does anybody have any advice about starting to drink beer like what kind to try first etc?

 

[tommygirl]

Yes to the ppl who said alcohol is mostly just falling down all the time! It's just falling over and puking. For me for sure and other drunks too. The difference is when it happens to me I don't like it but when others do it I think it's funny. It's most funny when I'm drunk but not throwing up and watching other people who are also drunk but they are puking and falling over. That's the most funniest thing ever in the whole history of funny things! The peeing all the time thing is true too, it's funny too but also I even like when that happens to me cause I kind of have a thing about that. Like a sex thing. Yeah. ☺

 

[Xorkoth]

I only threw up and stumbled around when I was young. It's been like 15 years since I puked from alcohol, people say I seem pretty sober even when I don't remember us conversing later. I do stupid shit, but apparently I do it quite well.

 

[Xorkoth]

I thought beer was gross when I first had it, but then again I was drinking bullshit miller lite and stuff, which is pretty gross. I have grown to really love beer, I wish I could have a beer at dinner or whatever just to enjoy it, without it having any effect on me and thus making me want to drink all the beer.

Probably some sort of pale ale, I would think. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is a good go-to, mild beer. IPAs are my shit, but they're really bitter. And sweet too, weirdly, a lot of them anyway It's unlikely you would like them without first growing a taste for beer.

 

[Jabberwocky]

I only threw up and stumbled around when I was young. It's been like 15 years since I puked from alcohol, people say I seem pretty sober even when I don't remember us conversing later. I do stupid shit, but apparently I do it quite well.

Same.

Except I'm that guy at the party that yells "bro I'm not even buzzed yet" and people have to remind me I had 20 drinks.

I haven't slurred my words, fell over drunk or anything like that from alcohol in many years

 

[Iceman1216]

You said TIT! Yes I am very mature, ty for noticing. Also how is it that you know that you're a REAL ALCOHOLIC?

I really Love Tits, must have been a freudian slip
Very easy for me, " When I stopped drinking my life got much better!!" I was a daily drinker as all the males on both sides of my family " Work hard play hard"
Everything I did revolved around alcohol, no Booze No Go!! I was very very good at it. When I stopped I was about a Qt and 8ball aday, weed and beer did not count. BTWI was making more than 500,000 per year with unlimited expense account. I wouls wake up every morning saying I will not drink today, and by 4;30 pm someone would call hey leta get a beer?? One beer Realy!??????
I have done the 12 steps in AA & NA a few times , so when the definition of "Real Alcoholic" was laid out I knew I was home , and have beeb for 39 years