It Was Hot So I Drunk A Lot Today
It’s still 35 degrees as I write this and judging by the empties I’ve been drinking heavily all day.
I’ve actually had six bottles of Adnams 0.5% Alcohol Ghost Ship, as I started at 09:00 this morning and I’ve also drunk two cans of Diet Coke and three mugs of tea. So I must have drunk close to four litres today, none of which was alcoholic.
But when I was eighteen and serving in The Merryhills pub in Oakwood, I can remember drinking thirteen bottles of Guinness and walking home.
At the time, I didn’t know I was coeliac, so why did the beer not effect my gut?
As my father, who was undoubtedly an undiagnosed coeliac, also drank bottles of Guinness, were the bottles gluten-free, as I believe Guinness 0.0 is today.
It certainly looks like my grandfather, who was a professional alcoholic could have got started on beer to just keep himself hydrated. He then moved on to spirits and that contributed to his early death around forty.
The Anonymous Widower 