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Had a JB yesterday, the first in a long time and this morning, I have a shivery-gurgly feeling in my core. Haven't felt that in a long time. When I use to feel it, I thought it was just alcohol in general, but I've been drinking gin and haven't felt it and the supply of scotch and whiskey has been rather nil, so haven't felt it for a while.
I say well water because I tend to quaff the stuff, chilled, like .75 to a gallon a day.
So is there something in that particular combination?
The chemical that was actually in this drink was just a sweetening ingredient, propylene glycol, which is found in many other food products. It is used to absorb the water and make a stronger cinnamon flavor. This chemical is legal in the North American batches of Fireball but illegal in Europe due to their different Food and Drug Administration laws.
Well, I hate to suggest this, but you may be experiencing the dreaded age-related loss of the ability to metabolize alcohol.
It happens to most of us. I used to be able to pour oceans of the stuff down the hatch and up early the next morning for work, feeling at worst "slightly under the weather"; now three beers over the course of the evening and I wake up at 2 am with my heart pounding, and feel like crud all the next day. I'm not all that old, only 58.
It also seems to vary with the type of liquor, so your experience of gin OK (for now), whiskey not, is similar to experiences I've had.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any solution other than climbing on the wagon.
Well, I hate to suggest this, but you may be experiencing the dreaded age-related loss of the ability to metabolize alcohol.
It happens to most of us. I used to be able to pour oceans of the stuff down the hatch and up early the next morning for work, feeling at worst "slightly under the weather"; now three beers over the course of the evening and I wake up at 2 am with my heart pounding, and feel like crud all the next day. I'm not all that old, only 58.
It also seems to vary with the type of liquor, so your experience of gin OK (for now), whiskey not, is similar to experiences I've had.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any solution other than climbing on the wagon.
Well, dam*!
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