SO alcohol affects all of us in different ways and some worse than others. Im not talking about the happy/sad whatever reaction whilst were drinking, Im talking about the next day or later in the night after youve stopped and how you recover. There are people who claim to never have hangovers whilst others have stopped drinking because of the adverse reaction. I guess I fall somewhere in the middle and one of the main benefits for me of homebrewing is that I dont suffer anywhere near (if at all) the after effects of a heavy night like I would if I was out drinking most commercial beers.
A night of drinking commercial beer usually ends up with me chundering my guts up the next morning somewhere around about 12 hours after Ive stopped drinking, usually. Most often this is accompanied by a fairly consistent pounding in my head whilst nursing an unsettled stomach they feed off each other until, most often, it ends up with the inevitable driving the white porcelain bus, after which I feel considerably better unless I still have a pounding headache in which case, if I can stomach it, I take panadol. The strange thing is most of the time when I go to bed I feel fine the fact it takes about 12 hours for me to feel sick is what I find weird.
The other reaction I get sometimes is having an unexplainable headspin after drinking far less than what I have consumed on other occasions with no ill effects. The only way to manage this is to find a quiet spot somewhere and focus on a particular object until the spinning subsides some time later. Probably the worst example of this I can remember is from about three or four years ago when I went to a local pub for grand final day celebrations. I had 3, maybe 4, of the popular Mexican beer (yes yes, I know) in about one and a half hours and, without feeling even mildly inebriated, my head started spinning quite badly and I had to leave the pub. I walked/stumbled toward my car, lay on a park bench staring at the clouds until this subsided some time later, continued walking to my car and drove home. I had dinner that evening, went to bed feeling fine then, if I recall correctly, got up several hours later and chundered my guts up.
I had a similar experience last week (though with probably closer to 6 or 7 pints) with the head spinning routine followed by the usual stomach-emptying exercise the next morning. However what did strike me was that it was just liquid there was no food at all. Its like my bladder/stomach/liver/whatever just cant process the alcohol or something else in the beer and the only way its coming out is the way it came in.
Anyway, how do you react to alcohol?
A night of drinking commercial beer usually ends up with me chundering my guts up the next morning somewhere around about 12 hours after Ive stopped drinking, usually. Most often this is accompanied by a fairly consistent pounding in my head whilst nursing an unsettled stomach they feed off each other until, most often, it ends up with the inevitable driving the white porcelain bus, after which I feel considerably better unless I still have a pounding headache in which case, if I can stomach it, I take panadol. The strange thing is most of the time when I go to bed I feel fine the fact it takes about 12 hours for me to feel sick is what I find weird.
The other reaction I get sometimes is having an unexplainable headspin after drinking far less than what I have consumed on other occasions with no ill effects. The only way to manage this is to find a quiet spot somewhere and focus on a particular object until the spinning subsides some time later. Probably the worst example of this I can remember is from about three or four years ago when I went to a local pub for grand final day celebrations. I had 3, maybe 4, of the popular Mexican beer (yes yes, I know) in about one and a half hours and, without feeling even mildly inebriated, my head started spinning quite badly and I had to leave the pub. I walked/stumbled toward my car, lay on a park bench staring at the clouds until this subsided some time later, continued walking to my car and drove home. I had dinner that evening, went to bed feeling fine then, if I recall correctly, got up several hours later and chundered my guts up.
I had a similar experience last week (though with probably closer to 6 or 7 pints) with the head spinning routine followed by the usual stomach-emptying exercise the next morning. However what did strike me was that it was just liquid there was no food at all. Its like my bladder/stomach/liver/whatever just cant process the alcohol or something else in the beer and the only way its coming out is the way it came in.
Anyway, how do you react to alcohol?
