John hesitates for a long moment, weighing that up, and feeds himself a piece of chicken as he thinks.

"Maybe I should skip the beer for now," he says finally, because even if he does feel fine he still doesn't have a reason his brain lost track of where he was and lost a few months. Beer probably won't help with that, better to play it safe. Even if a beer would be really nice about now, to calm the niggling concerns he's carefully trying to black out.