Booze. Sometimes it takes a half-gallon, sometimes it takes a half-glass

[kedrys]

to get stoked. What is *that* about??

[graywarrior]

1. One is too many, a million is not enough.

[suninvited]

2. A lot of different factors

How much you have eaten, what you mix it with, even the mood you are in when you begin. And a lot of other things.

[Pierre.Suave]

3. Papers could be written about that...

There are so many factors...

Food...

Hydration level...

Salt levels...

Activity level...

Weather...

Liver function...

etc...

[NMDemDist2]

4. that started happening to me

right before I got sober

it's what scared me into recovery

[JBoy]

5. You've been drinking too many Unibroues.

[Lethe]

6. End of the World beer?

sounds good

:D

[JBoy]

7. Yes, it's good. Unibroue has a great line-up of "hearty" beers.

Fin du Monde is a Belgian-style, triple fermented ale. Clocks in at 9% ABV, and (I think) only comes in a 750mL bottle. One of those will get you juiced. Two will get you in trouble.

The beer got its name from some of the first French explorers, who on reaching North America thought they had arrived at the end of the world.

http://www.unibroue.com/index_eng.html

[Doug.Goodall]

8. It's called "Break in Tolerance"

It is one of the ways a person's body is indicating the limit of endurance for prolonged alcohol consumption.

Think of it as a little voice saying "The days of drinking are over, find another form of entertainment."

It could also be a little voice saying "Continued drinking will result in death."

[mreilly]

9. Depends on what you're drinking

I used to be a heavy drinker - 7 or 8 shots of liquor a night (only on weekends). Obviously unhealthy behavior, but it seemed like one shot always led to the next one, and then right around eight drinks my body would say "All set now."

I knew it was a problem when I would get up the next morning and crave liquor. I never drank before 5 pm, but it made life misery thinking "only 9 more hours to go until the next shot..."

I contemplated going 100% sober, then decided to see if I could shift entirely to beer (again weekends-only). Gave up liquor for good as it was too compelling. Beer is more filling obviously and you can drink it slower because 12 oz. lasts longer than 1.5 oz.

You always hear that heavy drinkers can't scale back to become light drinkers; quitting is supposed to be the only solution, but scaling back has worked perfectly well for me. Now I find a couple or three beers gives me the same effect as before, without the drunkenness or hangovers (ironically, I value hangovers as a very clear motivating sign from your body that "enough's enough.")

I know what you mean about a half-glass being all you need; I found that if I basically made my body understand that 2-3 beers was all I would drink over an evening it would be happy with what it had (that old "the glass is half full argument" - no pun intended).