It was my 17th birthday. My friend and I had started home brewing as an experiment after his uncle had showed him how to make mead. We had a few mediocre/failed batches that sort of gave us a buzz, so we figured we’d change up the recipe and timing of everything. We found something called Brewers Yeast, and thought it would react better to our recipe. So we put together our typical honey, water, sugar and fancy brewers yeast and get to fermenting. You’re supposed to wait 2 weeks before trying a completed fermentation, but we decided to drink it on my birthday... I mean, it was made with BREWERS yeast, right? Fast forward drinking a couple hours. My buddy who hadn’t eaten that day said it was hitting him hard. I kept drinking since I wasn’t feeling much other than a light buzz. I wake up around 4AM seeing a hospital bracelet on my wrist, but my reaction is somewhat numb (still). My mind is telling me I’m dreaming as I’m trying to recollect parts of the night. I remember my parents asking me “WHAT ARE YOU ON?!” as if it was a faint memory. I start to remember crying, trying to communicate to my parents that I wasn’t overdosing on drugs. I wake up at 7AM, seeing the bracelet again and realizing that I had really messed up. Long story short, I guess drinking everything early made the alcohol/ethanol act as a hallucinogen and wasn’t detectable by smell. The paramedics who ended up showing up at my house were pretty confused by it until they went to my friends’ house. He was passed out in his own puke until they woke him up. He kept telling them “home brew, home brew!” Until they figured out what was going on. Not a fun time.