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Never again: Booze that made me barf
 
By Molly Snyder Edler RSS Feed
OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writer

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What is a blog?  For us it is a short blurb that we write when the mood strikes us.  It can be first person, funny or informative. In short, a blog is whatever we want it to be. Published Feb. 4, 2008 at 4:50 p.m.
Tags: riverwest stein, drunk, barf, barrel party, boone's farm, jagermeister, peach schnapps


"Bar Month" at OnMilwaukee.com is back for another round! The whole month of February, we're serving up intoxicatingly fun bars and club articles -- including guides, bartender profiles, drink recipes and even a little Brew City bar history. Cheers!

I admit, I've had a bunch of bad booze experiences. The first one was when I was 15, and a friend and I mixed ginger ale with just about everything in my parents' liquor cabinet, but my worst episode of overindulging came from drinking at least 10 plastic cups from a barrel of Riverwest Stein.

This was about 10 years ago, and I was at a party that, coincidentally, took place at a house that's on the corner of my current block. It was a beautiful fall night and about a dozen people -- all of whom I knew -- were hanging out on the porch and drinking Stein.

I made the mistake of standing next to the barrel for the majority of the party, chatting it up with everyone as they tapped their beer -- and refilling my own cup in the process. Finally, at about 1 a.m., I made my sixth trip to the bathroom for the night and realized, mid-pee, that I was totally tanked. Suddenly, the linoleum floor looked so cool and inviting that I almost let myself lay down for just a "few minutes."

Instead, I finished up in the bathroom, stumbled over to my husband, hissed in his ear that we HAD to leave, and slipped away without saying goodbye to any of my friends. I barely made it through the door of my house before yakking the Stein and, sadly, the $25 in sushi I had devoured prior to the party.

Somehow, I can still eat sushi, but Stein, forget it. Just the smell of it reminds me of being bad naked in front of my trying-not-to-smirk husband as I was hurling into the toilet and saying in between rounds, "I'm dying! Seriously, I'm dying!"

OK, so what beverage did you drink to the point you can't even consider taking a sip? Jägermeister? Peach schnapps? Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill wine?

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