Showing posts with label alcohol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alcohol. Show all posts

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Alcohol maturity?

The priest during the sermon this morning was talking about maturity. Granted he was talking about spiritual maturity, but he used a few hooks before getting there. One of those was related to alcohol, how we start to enjoy the sip of a good beer, or good wine.

I've always thought it was funny how I transitioned in my alcoholic preferences. I'll share with all of you that I was a late-bloomer on the alcohol scene. I actually didn't drink at all in high school, and didn't have my first [mis]adventure with alcohol until the Summer before I went to college (I still owe Daniel for taking care of me that night as I spent some quality time with the toilet). I stuck to hard alcohol my first years of college, and despised beer. I mean, every time I even attempted to take a sip from a keg at a party, I think I gaged a little--that could've been just because it was PBR...

My last year at UCSB, however, I started to enjoy beer. I'm not sure if it was the Imperial while I was in Costa Rica, but I remember that from that point forward, it wasn't as repulsing to me as it used to be, and I could actually enjoy my red cup of beer at the NAK parties.

Wine was my next step into alcohol maturity. It wasn't until law school that I started trying different kinds of wine, and actually finding something I liked and enjoyed.

Nowadays, hard alcohol is out of the question for me (that includes irish car-bombs). I still love beer (especially since Brooke and Jeff have introduced me to the finer flavors), but it's sooooo filling! So these days, I rather enjoy a good glass of Malbec. It's been a long-and sometimes tiring and exhausting -road of discovery!