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Alcohol Am I allergic to beer all of a sudden?

^it happens to everyone man. beer gives me a gnarly hangover. whiskey gives me 0 hangover. vodka gives me a little hangover, wine gives me a hangover that i can tolerate. gin and rum give me a hangover but none of them are as bad as beer hangovers. EDIT: except for tequila.

also, my roommates and i have had this discussion before, and all of us noticed that the beer hangover was a gradual thing, and that before, beer didn't give any hangovers, and now, a single beer before bed can induce a (light) hangover.

i've also asked my cousin, my mother, and my grandfather, and they all gave me the same answer; "happens to everyone once they've drinking beer for a while."
 
Sometimes I guess I get hangover slightly if I get wasted, but it's only a fuzzy/tired feeling and never any headaches or sickness afterwards.



There's days on which I can only drink about half a pint of strong beer before feeling nauseous, and on other days I can chug two half litre cans no problem.
Also, I find it more difficult to drink beer right after having food, seems like a lot of work for my digestive system.
 
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Natty ice is your problem. I have a slight gluten intolerance and beer in general gives me nasty hangovers but shit beer makes those hangovers exponentially worse.
 
very interesting topic - thanks to everyone for the thoughtful replies.

I used to drink beer as my alcoholic beverage of choice, preferring whatever tasted the most like water (Wildcat always won on that front) and a few others like Stella and some Asian brands. Never was able to distinguish one kind of hangover from another, except by intensity, and that always had to do with how much alcohol I consumed and how much water I drank before passing out. Over time, I slowly switched to exclusively rum and cokes in non-bar settings, but kept always getting pitchers when they were the best deal at the pub or whatever. This led to my noticing that my ability to tolerate beer was declining - I'd drink two pitchers over two hours, get wasted drunk with extreme spins and physical malady when the same amount of 5% highballs would have me at a comfortable level, and wake up the next morning feeling like my brain had been scooped out of my skull icecream-style. So now I avoid beer altogether, although after reading this topic, I wonder if my intolerance has more to do with shitty swill beer (the only kind I've had in years) and less with beer in general.
 
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