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My tongue is allergic to alcohol

As the year ends I take another learning lesson from it. This time, not one that I haven't learned previously but one I needed to re-learn. My struggle with alcohol continues. I tried drinking red wine at a friend's wedding earlier this year and failed miserably only to gulp down more than four glasses of sweet juice to get rid of the sour feeling in my mouth. And all the romance and jazz associated with red wine is now history. I realize now perhaps why Neil Diamond preferred red wine to his lost love so he could get rid of massive depression. Question is, can there be bitter pain more than red wine itself?

Anyway, so it is not about red wine anymore now. It is about beer, a pretty expensive class of beer that you won't find everywhere in India - only selective places. After one sip I longed for fruit juice but this time only to my embarrassment because I was accompanied by a friend who was quite surprised coming from an engineering college (he's my classmate from college, so). I felt even more embarrassed to spot a couple of girls who seemed quite young, drink alcohol with such ardor that it left me wondering why I have a sweet tooth.

Somehow the food came to my rescue and I sort of managed to finish that bottle of beer with a great deal of discomfort. Back in 2010, during a new year's party at a pub in Gurgaon I had promised never to drink again socially because it would make me look odd and feel ridiculed if I failed to appreciate alcohol but somehow the curiosity to try out different varieties of alcohol hasn't died. Drinks like screwdriver or mojito suit me fine because they contain a fair amount of fruit juice to compensate for the alcohol but alcohol sans the drink mixers is a strict no-no.

But then, drinking red wine when there's sweetness in the air is not a bad idea says the next-gen Bob Marley in me that wants to drink alongside a lovely woman to get rid of the sour taste, that giddy and nauseating feeling inside the stomach which keeps the red wine from trickling down my tongue.
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