Which beer causes most ER visits?

Sounds like a case of one bad choice (buying Colt45) leading to another bad choice (doing something stupid while wasted on Colt45)... just saying!

 

I have so much to say about this, but anyways this is amazing/not surprising/i'm in a glass box of emotions about this.

And where the article says malt liquor is pointed at the african american society I disagree, it is pushed towards the impoverished community.

These results don't just mean injurys or accidents. They also mean people that have to get stomach pumps, get really sick off drinking low grade alcohol for a night

 

Barleywine Night last winter very easily could've ended up with an ER trip that would've completely altered that Johns Hopkins list (had I been in Baltimore). I could picture the scene after some calamity occurred during my half-mile walk home in the snow:

ER attendant: "So what were you drinking tonight?"
Me [slurring]: "King Henry."

ER Attendant: "What is that?"
Me: "Barleywine. From Goose Island. Barrel-aged."

ER Attendant (writing on her form): "Oh, so you were drinking wine."
Me: "No. It's a beer. A barleywine. Made from barley. It's a strong beer."

ER Attendant: "Oh, so like a dark beer."
Me: "Well yeah; kinda. But not all dark beers are strong. Guinness is only like 4% y'know."

ER Attendant: "So were you drinking Guinness too?"
Me: "No; it was barleywine night. No stouts. But I did have some 2007 Old Guardian."

ER Attendant: "What's that?"
Me: "Another barleywine."

ER Attendant: "OK, is that it?"
Me: "Hell no. We also had some Dogfish Head Olde School - I think it was from 2003. Also a 4 or 5-year vertical of Bigfoot, including a half-growler of the 2009."

ER Attendant: "What's a growler?"
Me: "A glass container you fill with beer from a keg. 64 ounces is a full growler; we only had a half of the Bigfoot; it's like 10% ABV y'know. I think we did a 2007-2010 vertical of the Bigfoot – the other years were bottles."

ER Attendant: “What’s a vertical?”
Me: “When you drink different years of the same beer side-by-side.”

ER Attendant: “So is that like a drinking game? Like chase quarters?”
Me: “No, no, no. You’re trying to see how the beer has aged, not get drunk.”

ER Attendant: “But you did get drunk.”
Me: “Right; these were barleywines, which are really strong. And we had more – 2010 Old Horizontal, 2011 Old Numbskull, an Old Ale from Iron Hill, which technically wasn’t a barleywine but was really good. . . . We also had a 2008 Green Flash Barleywine and a Nogne 100 – plus some Danish beer I can’t remember.”

ER Attendant: “Do you think the consumption of all these barleywines had anything to do with the reason you’re here?”
Me: “Well duh.”

 

Sounds like a lot of satisfied customers.

 

I found this article really dumb.

 

Maybe it's cos I just finished an Oktoberfest on very little food today, but this made me lol. The sleeping wife was not amused.

 

Ah, hubris. If not an ER visit, surely some of us have experienced beer-related "difficulties" at some point in our consumption history. As Papa H. once wrote, “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”