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Originally Posted by LordEden
It could be how you are drinking it. In college when I started drinking beer I was drinking it wrong you could say. I was swallowing to much air when I was drinking and it was causing me to get really sick to my stomach. Only happened with beer; wine, liquor, mixed drinks all went down fine. I changed the way I drank and I could drink it without getting sick. Also, stomach problems like acid-reflux and IBS will cause drinks like beer to be undrinkingable because of the carbonation.
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Acid reflux and IBS are not caused by carbonation, and when it comes to both GERD and IBS, everyone has different triggers. Carbonation may cause the sphincter at the top of the stomach to distend, allowing acid to pass back up in to the esophagus, but this is different in every person. Even when I was very sick with GERD and IBS, I could still enjoy a beer now and again, and now that I'm healed, I can enjoy more than one now and again. Hard liquor I can only drink if it's mixed, and I can't drink hard liquor in a cocktail where the primary ingredient is other liquors or liqueurs. Straight hard A rips my stomach up. The notable exception to this seems to be Scotch.
Some people just don't like beer. Personally, I live in a part of the country where drinking beer--good beer--is just part of the culture. I can't imagine not drinking beer. I was introduced to microbrews via a couple more mild beers, namely Pyramid's Apricot Ale (now Apricot Weizen) and Widmer's Blonde Betty (now defunct). Widmer's Hefeweizen is generally a good beginner's beer, as it's a mild wheat beer with no extremes. Blonde ales are also good beginner's choices.
And don't chug the damn thing. Good beers are meant to be enjoyed. If you chug it, of course you'll end up with a full stomach. It should take a while to enjoy a single beer. If it doesn't, you probably aren't drinking a very good beer.