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I'm 31 and I can't drink that many beers anymore either, which I attribute to changes in diet and being more in tune with what my body wants/needs. Drinking a 12-pack of beer is like eating a whole loaf bread. In a given day I'll usually only have 2 or 3 servings of grains and that's all I want/need, so consuming 10-12+ servings of grains in the form of beer is too much.
Same thing for really sweet drinks like Angry Orchard or sweet wines, I can only drink 2 or 3 and then the sweetness is just completely overwhelming and makes me feel gross. If I want to get drunk nowadays I pretty much have to drink something more potent like whiskey or vodka. I can still drink the same amount of alcohol but my body rejects all the excess grains/sugar.
I found that once I hit 45 years old, or so, I have a problem sleeping well after a drinking few beers. I fall asleep fine, but always wake up early. . . .like at 3 or 4 am. It's not that I have to get up and pee, it's that my heart rate seems to ramp up in the early morning and it wakes me up. I wonder if something has changed in my metabolism that causes this as the alcohol is processed out of my body.
I found that once I hit 45 years old, or so, I have a problem sleeping well after a drinking few beers. I fall asleep fine, but always wake up early. . . .like at 3 or 4 am. It's not that I have to get up and pee, it's that my heart rate seems to ramp up in the early morning and it wakes me up. I wonder if something has changed in my metabolism that causes this as the alcohol is processed out of my body.
About the same age as you, welcome to the club. Making it to 6 AM is now sleeping in for me. I have found that milk thistle is the older beer drinker's friend. Helps with recovery if I've had one too many or drinking really high ABV IPA's the night before.
microbrews contain way more alcohol than that stuff you sucked down as a young man. i could drink an 18 pack of coors light all day, itd be equivalent to drinking 5 or 6 microbrews. microbrews range from 25% to 150% stronger than light mass produced corn water (aka budlight, coors, miller).
An 18 pack of coors light would be equivalent to drinking 18 cans of tap water. To me at least. It has no taste..............
I used to put them down just the same. I started early though, which I wouldn't recommend. I'm 26 now and 2 beers is my sweet spot. Sure, I could drink more, but I don't like to cloud the mind and I enjoy keeping my wits intact.
Perhaps the issue you speak of has less to do with age and more to do with learned response and maturity? You start to figure out that drinking more isn't always worth the trouble that can follow. Of course, alcohol can be taxing on the body, so it would be reasonable to suspect some age related response.
An 18 pack of coors light would be equivalent to drinking 18 cans of tap water. To me at least. It has no taste..............
Your individual preference for types of beer is irrelevant to the thread topic. An 18 pack of Coors Light still contains a staggering amount of alcohol to be consumed in one day. Just translate that amount into whatever quantity of beer does suit your taste and participate in the thread discussion.
That 18 pack of light American traditional beer still represents the alcohol content of about 18 5-ounce glasses of wine, or 18 one-ounce drinks of 80-proof spirits. Which ever way we slice it, it's a lot of alcohol. With increasing age, fewer and fewer people can handle that much in a single day. (Why would any sane person want to handle that much anyway?) Talk about a sure way to fry one's liver!
I'm now 69, when I was younger I use to be able to put a lot of beer down, now 2 is about all I want.
Anybody else have that haven to them?
Well it was certainly a lot easier to put down several cans/bottles/whatever of Natural Light or Milwaukee's Best or whatever other girlpiss i was drinking in my late teens/early 20s. Nowadays I'd probably just get gas before it actually had any effect on me. Craft beer tastes better, is more filling, and usually has higher alcohol content, so I drink less of it.
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It has no taste..............
