What causes the rotting beer smell on some alcoholics and not others?

Question

I dated someone who was an alcoholic. They never had a “smell” before, but in the last year of are relationship they started to reek of decomposing beer. (I only know that it was decomposing beer because my ex left a half-empty can at my house and I dumped it on my compost pile and two days later my compost pile smelled like them.) The smell would sometimes be so bad that I would have to turn on a fan after my ex had left to get the smell out of my room. I am just curious, did my ex start metabolizing it differently (switched to a vegetarian diet around last January) or is their body starting to have problems breaking down the alcohol, like the beginning stages of liver failure? I am very curious because I although I have known alcoholics, I have never known one who smelled like rotten beer. My ex had good hygiene, wore deodorant . . .etc, but this smell permeated everything, it was almost as if it were inside them, their breath, their skin, everything.

Answer 1

It's the alcohol coming out her pours. I'm going to send you some links so you know more about what is happening to her.

www.alcoholism.about.com/
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/alcoholism.html
www.mayoclinic.com/health/alcoholism
www.emedicinehealth.com
www.niaaa.nih.gov/


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Answer 2

It doesn't make my mouth stink.. yet when I actually have had a tremendous type of it to drink i visit type of smell like it in case you're status close by, a twin of if I were ingesting any type of liquor, or wine.