Beer in a Cup

So I have come to the conclusion I CANNOT drink beer in a cup…or shouldn't anyway, it's an automatic death sentence for the following day of my life. What's beer in a cup? Beer in a cup is more commonly known as keg beer.

 My husband and I decided to go out and celebrate his membership to the Dirty 30 club a little early. It was supposed to just be a couple games of pool and a pitcher of beer to split between us. The night quickly escalated to 3 pitchers plus a few glasses of beer in a cup that I scored from my first ever round of beer pong, which I am completely awesome at.  Our simple night out ended up being 4 hours of way too much beer in a cup.

After finally making it home and sleeping it off for a few hours, my husband asks how I am. I grab my head and reply, "It was the beer in a cup." Then I roll over wanting to just end it all. Approximately 12 hours later, I am finally human again, almost.

I have known for a while that I cannot handle keg beer. I have only acquired the taste for beer in the last 2 years, so I am still as new and experienced as most people were in high school. Until a wonderful trip to Mexico I thought it tasted like camel urine (and no, I don't ACTUALLY know what camel urine taste like, but I thought for sure it had to be close…why camel, I have no idea) and smelled worse. I choked down my first Corona in Cozumel and have slowly come to really like the stuff. However it wasn't till this last summer I had my first experience with beer in a cup. We went to ZacFest, a party thrown in my late brother-in-laws honor every May. The beer in a cup was plentiful and everyone was having a great time. It was our first weekend back in Iowa so not only was it a great time to remember a great guy (who LOVED beer in a cup), it was also a reunion for my husband and I and a bunch of great friends. The next day was the worst day of my life. Have you ever had food poisoning? That's what this was like…only worse. I still think there might be a slight chance it was food poisoning (I vaguely remember making a pulled pork sandwich before we left and who knows how long it sat out), but after my last experience with beer in a cup, I'm not so sure.

If you are thinking, why the hell would you drink beer in a cup again at the bar, good question.  I thought, "I can do a pitcher of beer…it's on tap, a lot of people prefer that right?  It MUST be better than in the bottle."  Wrong.  It's keg beer, AKA beer in a cup.  I didn't find this out until about halfway through the night.  I went up to order our 3^rd and last pitcher, the keg ran out and they had to switch it.  When I saw them wheeling that large silver barrel to the back room, the realization slowly set in and I knew I was doomed.

So I now have a golden rule about the golden brew:

Unless I am the one pouring the beer from the bottle or can into a wonderfully frosted mug, I will, under no circumstances, ever drink beer in a cup again...even if it's free.