weird health stuff

[kass_rants]

You know what is odd?  At Mudthaw last Saturday, I had about half a glass of beer and I felt drunk

Comments

[ravena_kade]

maybe you are reacting to the hops?

[kass_rants]

It's possible, of course. But I think it might have something to do with me eating no grains. I have a "too much sugar" reaction when I eat grains now. I wonder if this isn't the "too much sugar" reaction in alcoholic form.

In any case, time to avoid beer I think.

[brickhousewench]

I was going to suggest that, but isn't whiskey made from grain too? I seem to recall something about mash?

[kass_rants]

Yeah. But by the time you get whiskey out of it, anything that resembled grain has been destroyed and only the alcohol (which is the by product of the yeast's metabolic process) remains. Beer produces mash too, but the alcohol is made by fermentation. In Whiskey, the alcohol is made by distillation.

In beer -- especially in a low alcohol beer like Best Bitter -- there are a lot of what brewers call "undissolved solids" in the beer -- what the yeast doesn't change to alcohol is still in there. That's why beer brewing smells like oatmeal cooking. Whiskey distilling smells like a lab experiment. The undissolved solids the yeast leaves behind are destroyed by distillation.

[textileowl]

My husband has been on a gluten free diet since we realized how it was effecting his mood and memory. Yay auto immune issues, but he also does not tolerate beer because of the gluten in it. But he doesn't have any issues with hard liquors. So I'm not surprised that you had a similar issues while staying away from grains. Mead is always a tasty alternative.

[kass_rants]

Thanks for the affirmation. But mead isn't my gig. I'll stay with hard liquors or none at all.

[rlg]

I'd been wondering (on the first read), that you might not have had enough other liquids, which was causing the beer to hit harder than normal. Oh well, live and learn.

[kass_rants]

I was drinking water pretty constantly all day. I had also just had a filling meal before I had the beer. I really think it was the grains. This isn't the first time I've noticed such a reaction. It's just the first time I noticed it after merely half a glass.

[helwen]

Probably was the grains (read above comments). I can still have something like BBC's Steel Rail Pale Ale, but they do a good job with it. I don't have a whole bottle ever because it's huge, but L and I can split one once or twice a year.

Had some of a homemade IPA once and boy was that mistake. In my case though, I stopped because I was having trouble breathing. A new experience and one I don't care to repeat. Seriously green stuff :P

Wine has a stronger effect on me than hard liquor anytime, but I've wondered if that's because of the sulfites...

Bummer about the Best Bitters :(

[herveus]

Perhaps it's grain turning into simple sugars which shoot into your bloodstream with great ease, and the alcohol that says "I'm with simple".