Quote Originally Posted by Joshua View Post
Although once a very devoted beer drinker, I'm now limited to the "very occasional" sorghum based beers or ciders. Being grain-free for a couple years now, even the non-gluten grain beers give me gut distress so I recently put the kibosh on those items as well. Because of this, my alcohol tolerance has went from the notorious "man who can drink everyone under the table" to the "man who gets drunk eating butterscotch candy".

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I'm now where two fingers of scotch in my glencairn glass will keep me going pretty much all evening. Just enough to accompany a nice cigar. And this is a once, maybe twice weekly occurrence.
For me, it was a medical issue that was unrelated to alcohol that left me not liking the feeling of buzz or intoxication (kind of NDE), I don't even like taking cold medicine unless the pain is too much. Also having a few alcoholics in my life, and seeing the damage it causes over time (not just to the alcoholic). Have no desire to go down that path.