Ever since I started homebrewing I can't catch a buzz from "commercial" alcohol.
I am not brewing or drinking "BIG BEERS" Right now I am drinking a Deception Cream Stout that is 5.1% ABV & Ed Worts Pale Ale that is 5.3 ABV. The Apfelwien is pretty stiff 9.1 ABV but we drink that few and far between. I am a very light drinker - 3 12oz beers a week and my wife is might drink 1 12oz drink on Friday night if she had a rough week. Usually 1 homebrew will give me a mellowed out feeling and 2 will get me in a good buzz. During Thanksgiving I left my beer at home in the frenzy to pack the car up. We were drinking Miller Lite while watching the games and I didn't even catch a hint of a buzz all day despite I the fact that I had more beers in one day that I usually drink in over a month.
I thought it was odd - but I kind of wrote it off because although I drank a lot on Thanksgiving, it was lite beer over a long duration.
Then this weekend we had a wedding to go to. We had a babysitter (only the second time since he was born) so the wife wanted to get a little wild. She drinks so little that usually she gets pretty sauced off of a a few drinks normally. She had a couple of Captain and cokes, a few Crown and gingers, and I don't know how much wine. She said to me unsolicited "I don't know what is wrong with me, but I kind of wanted to let loose but I am not buzzed at all." I told her I was in the same boat.
Tonight I drank 1 Deception Cream Stout and I have a nice mellow feeling. We gave some of my wife's friends (who are pretty heavy drinkers) a 6er of the stout a few weeks ago and they called me to say how bombed they were after only a few.
Is there something else other than alcohol that is contributing to the "potency" that we aren't getting from commercial alcohol?
I am not brewing or drinking "BIG BEERS" Right now I am drinking a Deception Cream Stout that is 5.1% ABV & Ed Worts Pale Ale that is 5.3 ABV. The Apfelwien is pretty stiff 9.1 ABV but we drink that few and far between. I am a very light drinker - 3 12oz beers a week and my wife is might drink 1 12oz drink on Friday night if she had a rough week. Usually 1 homebrew will give me a mellowed out feeling and 2 will get me in a good buzz. During Thanksgiving I left my beer at home in the frenzy to pack the car up. We were drinking Miller Lite while watching the games and I didn't even catch a hint of a buzz all day despite I the fact that I had more beers in one day that I usually drink in over a month.
I thought it was odd - but I kind of wrote it off because although I drank a lot on Thanksgiving, it was lite beer over a long duration.
Then this weekend we had a wedding to go to. We had a babysitter (only the second time since he was born) so the wife wanted to get a little wild. She drinks so little that usually she gets pretty sauced off of a a few drinks normally. She had a couple of Captain and cokes, a few Crown and gingers, and I don't know how much wine. She said to me unsolicited "I don't know what is wrong with me, but I kind of wanted to let loose but I am not buzzed at all." I told her I was in the same boat.
Tonight I drank 1 Deception Cream Stout and I have a nice mellow feeling. We gave some of my wife's friends (who are pretty heavy drinkers) a 6er of the stout a few weeks ago and they called me to say how bombed they were after only a few.
Is there something else other than alcohol that is contributing to the "potency" that we aren't getting from commercial alcohol?