Subj : beer.. or the harder stuf
To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Wed Dec 10 2025 08:15:16

Hey August!

RM> There is some variation but usually US Beer runs about 5% alcohol
RM> and Canadian beer is more like 7%..

AA>It's not just the alcohol content.  Generally, USA beer seems
  >watery.  Although, I recently revisited some Molson Canadian,
  >and that seemed watery to me too.

I'm not a good source for info on that. The first 2 times I drank
probably before I turned 17, the first time I drank 8 beer but
didn't like the hangover much.. and the second time I had 14 draft
beer, which tasted weaker and were smaller glasses than a bottle
holds.. and again I wasn't too impressed later..
That time I went home at 1 AM and had to work early the next
morning. I was still drunk when I got there and spent the day
transitioning from drunk to hangover without sleeping between..

After that I drank rye or vodka. I learned early on that the
mixer (coke) bothered me more than the alcohol, so I started
drinking it straight.

RM> I quickly decided I either had to give up drinking or give
RM> up fast cars and motorcycles or I was going to die young...

AA>Was that *after* the motorcycle accident?  :D

I remember one time I went to a party and drank about 22 oz of
vodka over a 2 hour period and then drove my motorcycle 16 miles
home. On the way there was a cut off from one highway to another
that was maybe safe to take at 60 mph (speed limit 50) and I
took it at 85 mph. I wasn't totally out of it, knew I was going
too fast, so I took it near the shoulder of the oncoming lane
so I'd have lots of room to 'recover'. I slid all the way across
the two lanes of pavement, getting back under control just inches
before I would have hit the gravel shoulder on my side of the road
(and a deep ditch)..

And the really scary part was, remembering it the next day, it
was just FUN!.. It didn't scare me at all while I was doing it..

That was actually after my worst motorcycle accident, although
I was sober when that one happened. Someone cut off a car in
front of me and I was following a bit too close and wound up
wedged under their back bumper with most of the palm of my right
hand missing and a shattered kneecap....

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