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Chasing the Bottle
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this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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Alcohol has different effects on people based on their genetics. It makes some people feel amazing, and if they keep drinking they continue to feel amazing for hours. It makes some people immediately feel awful. It makes some people feel good but also very sleepy. The first group is much more likely to experience alcoholism.
The taste is a separate thing. I am part of the third group but I’ll have a single drink on occasion, and I enjoy the way that beer, wine, spirits, and cocktails taste. I think that the alcohol does make them taste a little better, but they also tend to taste good without it.
I often drink non-alcoholic beers or mocktails for the taste, because alcohol is after all a poison and it is a good idea to limit consumption.
As someone in the third group, the trick is to fight the sleepiness long enough that you end up in the first group, usually with a heavy dose of caffeine. I think that may be why "and Coke" drinks are so popular. And then you can karaoke endlessly and go find pizza and gyros at 4AM.
And then feel like shit the next three days because now that you're over 30 your body takes umbridge to such abuse.
Alcohol has been a fellow traveller for millennia, so it only makes sense that evolution would give us the tools to survive it
I used to be in the first group, but now I’m in the last group. Actually, it mostly just makes me tired now, not really that enjoyable anymore. I tend to avoid it in social situations now because of this.
I’ve never tried non alcoholic beer. I’m assuming it doesn’t make you sleepy?
I was surprised to find that non-alcoholic beers specifically do still make me sleepy. I looked into it and there is some research that says that other compounds in beer could be responsible, or it could just be the placebo effect since I’m used to feeling sleepy after drinking beer.
I don't know if I agree with your alcoholism theory, I would put myself in the first group but you can count on one hand the number of times I drink in a year.
I think that’s normal as well. What I meant to convey is: if someone is an alcoholic, then they are likely to be in the first group. I didn’t mean to imply the opposite: if someone is in the first group, then they are likely to be an alcoholic.