I turn expensive apple juice into cheap cider at home using powdered champagne yeast to consume during movie nights with friends and whatnot, and enjoy mild quantities of dark beer when eating out at restaurants.
I find cider and other fruit-derived alcohols more enjoyable than light-colored beers, but like dark beer over all else. I prefer the fruit-derived forms without sugar, hence me using a very alcohol tolerant yeast in my own brewing to completely break down all the sugar into alcohol and acetic acid. Many people tell me that the bitter beers I find most superior are disgusting. The same people usually say the same about dark chocolate, which I love, making me suspect there’s a difference in how we taste bitter substances. I’ve also been known to eat bunches of parsley like a carrot, bolstering this idea. I like it for its taste even without the effects of alcohol, which I am a bit of a lightweight for—I start to feel a little dissociated (like I’m watching myself act rather than acting) for a short time after only one strong high-alcohol beer or a large-coffee-mug of my homemade cider, with the sensation getting stronger with more.
Course this means that on the rare occasions I have 3+ beers I have a tendency to say to someone “This is funny I feel like I’m watching myself rather than causing myself to act right now which is of course impossible since I’m telling you about that sensation, but it also feels like I’m just watching that happen, which leads to this infinite regress which can’t actually happen and tells me its just my perception that is being altered—” etc etc followed either by more geekouts with certain friends, laughter with certain other friends, and odd looks from many others.
Only ever had enough to be hung over twice in my life, once explicitly as an experiment. When you titrate yourself carefully on the other hand it can be used to interesting effect for internal icebreaking.
I seem to have slept through nearly every hangover I expected to have. That and also drinking enough water seems to do it for me. I also seem to wake up after alcohol; lively and dynamic; whereas others seem to drag themselves around.
I turn expensive apple juice into cheap cider at home using powdered champagne yeast to consume during movie nights with friends and whatnot, and enjoy mild quantities of dark beer when eating out at restaurants.
I find cider and other fruit-derived alcohols more enjoyable than light-colored beers, but like dark beer over all else. I prefer the fruit-derived forms without sugar, hence me using a very alcohol tolerant yeast in my own brewing to completely break down all the sugar into alcohol and acetic acid. Many people tell me that the bitter beers I find most superior are disgusting. The same people usually say the same about dark chocolate, which I love, making me suspect there’s a difference in how we taste bitter substances. I’ve also been known to eat bunches of parsley like a carrot, bolstering this idea. I like it for its taste even without the effects of alcohol, which I am a bit of a lightweight for—I start to feel a little dissociated (like I’m watching myself act rather than acting) for a short time after only one strong high-alcohol beer or a large-coffee-mug of my homemade cider, with the sensation getting stronger with more.
Course this means that on the rare occasions I have 3+ beers I have a tendency to say to someone “This is funny I feel like I’m watching myself rather than causing myself to act right now which is of course impossible since I’m telling you about that sensation, but it also feels like I’m just watching that happen, which leads to this infinite regress which can’t actually happen and tells me its just my perception that is being altered—” etc etc followed either by more geekouts with certain friends, laughter with certain other friends, and odd looks from many others.
Only ever had enough to be hung over twice in my life, once explicitly as an experiment. When you titrate yourself carefully on the other hand it can be used to interesting effect for internal icebreaking.
I seem to have slept through nearly every hangover I expected to have. That and also drinking enough water seems to do it for me. I also seem to wake up after alcohol; lively and dynamic; whereas others seem to drag themselves around.