So I Drunk A Bud

[Socrates99]

I dunno mang I actually don't get hangovers from the nice liquor I drink at home, it's when I go out to bars and perforce drink the swill they serve that I start feeling sick

Problem is the swill only tastes good close to freezing temps where your tastebuds do not work well. Once it starts to warm up it's pretty "bleh." I get more drunk on 4.5%abv light lagers than I do on good beer 6-8% that still tastes good at "cellar temps." Its all because you basically need to choke it down quick or dump it and get a new one.

 

[Lexicus]

I'm talking liquor not beer. Don't really drink beer anymore.

 

[Socrates99]

I'm talking liquor not beer. Don't really drink beer anymore.

lol, I went the opposite direction, ditched the hard stuff. Occasionally I'll buy some bourbon, rum or scotch, maybe once a year. I drank pretty hard in my 20s.

New Holland Brewing is known for their barrel aged RIS Dragon's Milk and they started making their own bourbon that they age in "beer barrels." I'm assuming they're barrels they've used to make Dragon's Milk. That was the last bourbon I bought to actually drink rather than dump into my homebrew.

 

[Hygro]

I dunno mang I actually don't get hangovers from the nice liquor I drink at home, it's when I go out to bars and perforce drink the swill they serve that I start feeling sick

Liquor generally better for hangovers in general, but also, how much more or less are you drinking at home?

 

[Lexicus]

Liquor generally better for hangovers in general, but also, how much more or less are you drinking at home?

I usually drink a lot less at home than when I go out, but the amounts don't really matter. Cheap booze tends to have more sugar which results in worse hangovers.

 

[Zardnaar]

Hangovers are related to dehydration iirc. Less liquid you drink the more mild the hangover so 6 shots of spirits will hurt less the next day. Drink a whole bottle though you gonna have a bad time and if your mixing spirits with Soda the effects will be similar to beer.

Didn't like beer much as a teenager around 14 or so transitioned to spirits at 17 which were Sambuca and cheap vodka. Went a bit hard on cheap rum/whiskey. Can't drink rum to this day.

Early/mid 20s I found beers I could tolerate, didn't really start enjoying them until late 20s.
Gone off sweet stuff so spirits are mostly out now. I enjoy Canadian Club with ice, ginger ale and a splash of lime juice, apart from that gone off spirits.

Drinking more than 6 beers in one sitting is very rare now maybe a dozen at the most once or twice a year.

 

[PhroX]

I've never been a beer drinker - can't stand the stuff - but when I was younger, I'd drink a lot of spirit+mixer. These days, if I want a drink with a pub lunch, I'll still have a vodka and orange juice, but if I've not got food, I much prefer just slowly sipping a liquor on the rocks. Disaronno is a particular favourite of mine.

 

[Zardnaar]

Spirit plus mixer is the gobto when you're young. We mixed vodka with all sorts of soda.

 

[Snerk]

Hangovers are related to dehydration iirc.

That was the general consensus for a long time but research has found that dehydration play much less of a role in hangovers than first assumed. Despite the fact that you feel absolutely perched after a night of drinking, your body's fluid levels won't be that much affected by the alcohol.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

most alcoholic drinks are, who woulda thunk, actually 50% or more water. many things are going on when you're having a hangover - electrolytes, getting rid of toxins, sweating stuff out, coping with the sugar, the coping of your bowels and stomach..

still, the old wives wisdom of "drink a ****load of water before you go to bed" ALWAYS saves me, it's insane how well it works. real pros drink water and a shot of pickle juice for maximum overdrive.

 

[Zardnaar]

The water might dilute the alcohol bso you pee itviutvand absorb less

 

[Farm Boy]

Well, if you metabolize about a drink an hour, drink all night, wind up accumulating enough excess drinks in your blood and tissue to wind smashed, then pass out, odds aren't entirely bad that part of one's hangover is simply still being kinda actually drunk(a fifth is ~16 drinks) and super exhausted from terrible quality sleep from having been drunk while it was happening. If you're still sweating it out it's still there to sweat out. Water will help flush, and dilute the retention of alcohol built up in the body. Drink a lot of it and hydrate your system as full as it can get? Less concentration, less drunk effect on tissue. Since alcohol is not fat soluble it's the same mechanic that means same-weight women get trashed faster and harder than same-weight men.

 

[Lexicus]

still, the old wives wisdom of "drink a ****load of water before you go to bed" ALWAYS saves me, it's insane how well it works

Yeah, except I try to intersperse water drinking with alcohol drinking, just pounding a bunch of water right before I pass out is a recipe for having to wake up and pee two or three times

 

[Zardnaar]

Waking up still drunk isn't much fun.

Last time I got drunk was October or November, mate won some money and dropped $500 on booze. It was something like.

5 bottles of premium spirits
36 Soda and bourbon rtds
24 craft beers
48 cheap beers

Something like that. Not much survived the next day. Almost a 3 day hangover. Drunk on Friday, still crook Saturday night, normal hangover Sunday and about 90% ok on the Monday.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Waking up still drunk isn't much fun.

Last time I got drunk was October or November, mate won some money and dropped $500 on booze. It was something like.

5 bottles of premium spirits
36 Soda and bourbon rtds
24 craft beers
48 cheap beers

Something like that. Not much survived the next day. Almost a 3 day hangover. Drunk on Friday, still crook Saturday night, normal hangover Sunday and about 90% ok on the Monday.

You forgot to mention the part about how your liver still hasn't forgiven you to this day.

 

[Zardnaar]

You forgot to mention the part about how your liver still hasn't forgiven you to this day.

Hence why I have been sober since. I tend to stop when I get a buzz.

 

[Quintillus]

I've tried kvass from a market that sells Russian and Ukrainian products (including kvass from both countries). It can be all right. Probably falls in the "acquired taste" category, and some brands are better than others, but when you're hanging out with friends and playing Russian card games, it's appropriate.

Haven't tried or seen the beet variety, and don't plan to, as beets are among my least favorite foods. But it's rather interesting to learn that such a thing exists.

I have drank a Bud, but only when provided for free and after I'd already had a few other beers first to numb the taste buds. In such a situation, it can be tolerable, but I'd also rather have kvass in such a situation.

Now I might have to run up to that store and buy some kvass this weekend. Haven't had it in a few years now.

 

[Hygro]

Definitely helps to drink a lot of water before bed. I’ll do that even if drinking water throughout. Hangovers are a mix of things but dehydration is a big component if not the biggest.

Sometimes I take a multivitamin after drinking and that helps the hangover as well.

 

[Traitorfish]

Budweiser, and bad American beer generally, isn't that bad. It's just flavourless. Bad British beer is actively rank. Budweiser is always preferable to Carling.

Difference between cutting the mash with rice and cutting it with livestock-grade barley, I suppose.

 

[NovaKart]

The worst beer I’ve had was Albanian. I can’t remember the name. I had it just once in Iraq, a hookup brought it over one night after he’d got some beer from a kiosk in the mountains when the liquor stores had already closed. I think he got it cause it was really cheap.

I get Budweiser in America just because it’s cheap and I think it’s okay.