Best beer for no hangover

Redpunto · 26-02-2009 8:46pm #1

So whats the best beer for not getting a hangover?? And nobody suggest a non-alcoholic one!

Creamy Goodness · 26-02-2009 8:51pm

i always get hangovers with beers, some worst than others

bud/carlsberg/miller = agony
paulander/hoegarden/erdinger = bearable hangovers.

whiskey = no hangovers.

that being that's that only goes for me and everyone else is probably different.

Sarky · 26-02-2009 9:10pm

The best way to avoid hangovers with anything is to drink clever. Take your time (what's the point if you can't enjoy the flavour of your tipple?), drink water between pints (you may pee more but you won't dessicate your brain), don't mix drinks unless you know they compliment eachother (whiskey and stout work very well for me, but everyone'll have their own thing).

cooperla · 26-02-2009 9:13pm

not sure, but I find cider the worst!

I find guinness ok on the head the next day.

jpjc05 · 26-02-2009 9:15pm

cooperla wrote: »

not sure, but I find cider the worst!

I find guinness ok on the head the next day.

Guinness can be ok on the head but 'sore' elsewhere

Jemmy · 26-02-2009 9:21pm

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

whiskey = no hangovers.

that being that's that only goes for me and everyone else is probably different.

+1 on this, I drink Jameson and rarely get a hangover!

greatgoal · 26-02-2009 9:29pm

guinness is fine with me but heineken blows my head off the next morning.

seanybiker · 26-02-2009 9:32pm

heineken is the only one that gives me a hangover. Fosters gives me wicked heartburn though. Guiness no bother apart from plastering the toilet.

Redpunto · 26-02-2009 9:34pm

Sarky wrote: »

The best way to avoid hangovers with anything is to drink clever. Take your time (what's the point if you can't enjoy the flavour of your tipple?), drink water between pints (you may pee more but you won't dessicate your brain), don't mix drinks unless you know they compliment eachother (whiskey and stout work very well for me, but everyone'll have their own thing).

You're being sensible

Sensible not allowed:D

Sarky · 26-02-2009 9:36pm

According to the charter it's required.

Oh well, I tried. Enjoy your hangovers.

_blank_ · 27-02-2009 1:40pm

Redpunto wrote: »

Sensible not allowed:D

[mod hat on]

Sensible is encouraged on this forum.

Non-sensible advice will be frowned upon.

[mod hat off]

Hmmm, I find Ales to be the best for me, so if I'm a normal "local" I'll stick to Smithwicks, or Macardles if they have it.

I cannot mix Guinness and Cider. Eugh.

Crappy lagers too, can't drink them.

bambam · 27-02-2009 2:09pm

from an offie: Warsteiner - lovely beer and very easy on the head the next morning

jkmanc1974 · 27-02-2009 3:50pm

Coors Light is a killer, needless to say have stayed away from it for a long long time now!

Brgds
Johnny

Hammiepeters · 27-02-2009 6:25pm

Logically, it should be beers with less preservatives. In Australia, Coopers would be a good candidate for no or little hangover. I find Heineken bottles to be particularly bad. Peroni on the other hand is no real prob. Realistically the damage is done through dehydration. If you're pissing more than you're drinking, you're gonna have a problem. If you have a couple of pints of water before bed and a neurofen if your head is starting to hurt, you will be fine. Same applies for wine. The cheaper the wine, the worse the head, broadly speaking.

byte · 28-02-2009 2:29am

The worst hangovers I've experienced were from Heineken sessions, sore heads with that muck.

Coors Light isn't too bad for me, easier on the stomach than Bulmers.

I love Warsteiner, but have yet to find a local bar which sells it over the counter.

oblivious · 28-02-2009 2:25pm

If you want to try an reduce the hangover try drink a naturally conditioned beer as the yeast present will replace B vitamin complex that are lost, not a fool prove methos but somethims can help.

But you best be is drink water regular with your tipple of choice and some B vitamins before bed

GalwayKiefer · 28-02-2009 2:32pm

Having done extensive research in the last few years I've found Bud Lite the easiest to deal with the next morning. Still get the occasional smart-ass barman ask me do I want a glass and ice with it though.

Cider, the morning after, makes me feel like I licked the road home.

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 28-02-2009 3:56pm

The beers they serve at Oktoberfest.

To do 12 hours solid drinking and then wake up early the next morning feeling refreshed and ready to go (for another 12 hours) is a nice feeling.

rubadub · 28-02-2009 3:56pm

Hammiepeters wrote: »

Logically, it should be beers with less preservatives.

I hear this a lot, and people saying german beers are great for no hangovers and conclude it is since there are no preservatives. There are only trace amounts of preservatives beers. So going by your logic if you got the same substance in tablet form and ate 100pints worth do you really reckon you will get a hangover?

Hammiepeters wrote: »

Realistically the damage is done through dehydration.

Dehydration is number 1. I have had very pure vodkas before, the only hangover is due to dehydration. On homedistilling websites this is a fact often commented on, how the lack of hangover is a sign that your still and processes are working correctly!

So once you exclude dehydration the next biggest thing to cause hangovers is cogeners, nasty chemicals produced in the brewing process. ethy esters, methanol, ethy acetate and other stuff is produced causing nice & nasty smells & tastes. When you distil a brew properly you can separate all this crap out, charcoal filtering is not necessary at all. The big companies squeeze every last drop out of their brew and then have the barefaced cheek to brag and market the fact that they HAVE to charcoal filter it 3 times, just to make the vile toxic crap palatable! They can undergo many different treatments to mask the off tastes & smells.

GalKiefer wrote: »

years I've found Bud Lite the easiest to deal with the next morning.

Normal bud is brewed with rice and potato waste, these are both a very good recipe for congeners! also bud fermentation time is measured in hours, higher temps will lead to a quicker brew, which usually has way more congeners. Homedistillers will use pure sugar and yeast with nutrient blends developed to cause no smells or tastes, to result in a very neutral spirit.

Most stories I hear of hangovers caused by some brands are not rational, "I am never touching warsteiner again, gives me a wicked hangover", translates as "I ate nothing all day and lashed down 10 pints, first time I ever tried it" the person could well have got a far worse hangover from their regular tipple. I have seen lads cringe seeing me drink beers, just because they had a bad night on it once. Stella is often quoted as one, but it is far more likely that people are not drinking enough water with it. Stella is 5.2% and most of the other €1 beers are 4.3% so it is 20% stronger, yet people do not factor this in. So it is "bad" on 2 counts, people drink the same volume, which is 20% more alcohol, and they are far more dehydrated.

cooperla wrote: »

not sure, but I find cider the worst!

GalKiefer wrote: »

Cider, the morning after, makes me feel like I licked the road home.

Cider is one of the worst. Normal apple juice even contains methanol! but it is full of pectin which leads to even more methanol production, red wine is quite high in cogeners too. 6% ciders will also dehydrate you more. Sugar based brews contain only bare trace amounts of methanol. Properly distilled rum is a good choice for getting no hangover. I find Skyy vodka is very pure, also with normal absolut they add back in cogener laiden distillate for taste, same for whiskeys. While the absolut flavoured series is a more pure distillate

oblivious wrote: »

If you want to try an reduce the hangover try drink a naturally conditioned beer as the yeast present will replace B vitamin complex that are lost, not a fool prove methos but somethims can help.

But you best be is drink water regular with your tipple of choice and some B vitamins before bed

Spot on with the yeast. Also wash down those tablets with 10 pints of water and you should be ok!

brianthebard · 28-02-2009 5:03pm

I had heineken for the first time in ages tuesday and didn't feel right for two days afterwards. I've drank way more than I did that night, and I had eaten and everything, so I think it was the heineken that did the damage. Never touching it again!

Hammiepeters · 28-02-2009 5:11pm

rubadub wrote: »

the next biggest thing to cause hangovers is cogeners, nasty chemicals produced in the brewing process. ethy esters, methanol, ethy acetate and other stuff is produced causing nice & nasty smells & tastes. When you distil a brew properly you can separate all this crap out, charcoal filtering is not necessary at all. The big companies squeeze every last drop out of their brew and then have the barefaced cheek to brag and market the fact that they HAVE to charcoal filter it 3 times, just to make the vile toxic crap palatable! They can undergo many different treatments to mask the off tastes & smells .red wine is quite high in cogeners too.

Yes. This all makes sense. I suppose to the lay person, additives mean pretty much the same thing as preservatives. Volume production red wine often produces smelly wine. Sulphuric, farty type smells. In Australian production Silver oxide or copper oxide is added to dumb down smells. Cant remember which. One is legal one is not. The overuse of same indicates high cogeners in the first place. Hence the hangover. So not the preservative/additive causing the problem. It's the cogeners. I get you. Excellent info.

rubadub · 01-03-2009 11:31pm

Hammiepeters wrote: »

The overuse of same indicates high cogeners in the first place.

Thats a good point on the additives. It is a shame that alcohol producers do not have to disclose their ingredients, I never understood why they are let away with that, when other food & drink manufacturers have to. Tesco brand alcohols have ingredients listed out. Their vodkas have glycerin added to smoothen them out, another sign of a poorly separated/distilled spirit. Some whiskies have sugar added to smoothen too.

Gavin "shels" · 02-03-2009 12:51am

Moosehead gives me awful hangovers, no matter if I drink water or take vitamins before bed.

Lech never seems to give me a hangover though.

PWEI · 03-03-2009 8:03pm

Never had a hangover on a night out drinking Becks,no matter how many bottles I've had.I'd prefer to be drinking a weissber but the weissbeers especially Erdinger and Paulaner give terrible hangovers.
Tiger Beer is another good one for no hangovers,drank a lot of it
when I was in the Far East and never got a hangover.

AARRRGH · 04-03-2009 2:22pm

Fosters Ice.

Very hard to find but you won't get a hangover.

Alternativily drink frozen vodka.

Red Sleeping Beauty · 05-03-2009 6:46pm

SmithWicks

Westwood · 05-03-2009 7:34pm

dutch gold. why you think all the scumbags drink it, because its cheap?

oblivious · 05-03-2009 8:11pm

Westwood wrote: »

dutch gold. why you think all the scumbags drink it, because its cheap?

I though it was because they respected their rich brewing traditions that stretched back century's:p

cojomo2 · 05-03-2009 8:24pm

had about 15 bottles of cobra(5%,330ml) last wekend..no hangover at all

Redpunto · 05-03-2009 9:05pm

cojomo2 wrote: »

had about 15 bottles of cobra(5%,330ml) last wekend..no hangover at all

got a big 660ml bottle of that in the fridge - tis sounding nice right about now!

Westwood · 06-03-2009 8:31pm

Really all depends on how many you drink? lol I mean 10 pints of stella one night not exactly Mr happy family’s the next day. or 5 cans sitting in, fine and dandy the next. Some people are way more tolerant then others. Especially while drinking as in friends of mine consuming up to 20 pints and not even having slurred speech or being even remotely drunk or unsteady. then other who have 2 beers are pallatic drunk and fight and get sick and are dying the next day you know the type, ****ing lightweights!!

upmeath · 08-03-2009 10:54pm

Hoegaarden, Guinness = No hangovers

Heineken, Leffe = tolerable next morning

Jupiler, Stella, Grolsch = Dry salty tongue and pounding headache

Budweiser, Coors, Miller = A life less ordinary for days afterwards

flyton5 · 09-03-2009 4:49am

The best beers for lack of hangover imo are Coopers Pale Ale and Windhoek Lager. I could drink them all night and be ok the next day.

The big name draught beers here are killers though. Heineken etc. are pure murder on the head!

Red Sleeping Beauty · 09-03-2009 8:48am

Guinness Extra Stout, Guinness Draught (from a pub), Budvar & erdinger = Bad

PWEI · 09-03-2009 7:58pm

upmeath wrote: »

Hoegaarden, Guinness = No hangovers

Jupiler, Stella, Grolsch = Dry salty tongue and pounding headache

I never forget that Jupiler beer when I lived in Belgium.Four or five glasses of the stuff and you'd wake up with a head like a mad man's ar*e.And its not even that strong like other Belgium beers,its only 5.2%.There was another Pils which is even worse than Juplier for hangovers called Maes Pils and that's only 4.9%.In general if you want to avoid hangover's stay clear of the Belgium beers.:rolleyes:

oblivious · 09-03-2009 8:08pm

PWEI wrote: »

n general if you want to avoid hangover's stay clear of the Belgium beers.:rolleyes:

you mean standard mass produce lager, don't judge all there beer by a generic euro lager

Capt'n Midnight · 09-03-2009 8:57pm

As we all know low-alcohol and alcohol-free beers are just as bad for hangovers.

The brothers may want to cover their eyes but knowing about this might just stop you or a loved one being tempted to stray from the true path.

Low alcohol beer can be made by taking sweet, sweet beer and ruining it. Mainly by vacuum distillation and vaporisation or reverse osmosis through semi-permeable membranes or dialysis (yes they do take the piss). All of these techniques remove God's gift of alcohol more efficiently than they remove the higher alcohols and fusil oils and aldehydes and other things that are pure hangover juice. Bad and all as it is at least they save the alcohol, others use enzymes to break down the ethanol

Some of these near beers are produced using yeasts which create little alcohol :eek:, messing with nature there - is nothing sacred ! , or the fermentation is cut short, like those brewers should be.

PWEI · 09-03-2009 9:25pm

oblivious wrote: »

you mean standard mass produce lager, don't judge all there beer by a generic euro lager

No I don't mean euro lager,I meant Belgium beers,thats what I said.
I sampled enough of their beer and the hangovers they cause when I lived there and its not just some of the Pils which can hardly be described as euro larger.Sure stella maybe but I don't see too many six packs of Jupiler pils down the offie.

Wilko121 · 10-03-2009 1:57am

Good thread!

How about

Brama?
Carlsberg I imagine is poor?
Staropramen?
Tyskie?

oblivious · 10-03-2009 8:13am

PWEI wrote: »

No I don't mean euro lager,I meant Belgium beers,thats what I said.

Belgium lager, nothing like their ale's an there is a big differ in alcohol strength between a 4-5% lager and a quadruple 12% ale

PWEI wrote: »

Sure stella maybe but I don't see too many six packs of Jupiler pils down the offie.

That because Inbev is pushing one type of lager here and in the uk,

JC 2K3 · 10-03-2009 12:36pm

Lol at all this crap about preservatives etc.

There're preservatives and additives in just about every food or drink we consume, so why is it that you don't get hangovers from more things?

RDM_83 · 10-03-2009 3:13pm

I know what is the worst, the Franciscian Well Red ale thats sold in the Gingerman (Rebel Red), over 4/3 years drinking it occassionally from there can safely say it isn't cos i drink to much of it
ps can only say for the gingerman only had it in one other place apart from that

the beer revolu · 10-03-2009 6:48pm

PWEI wrote: »

I never forget that Jupiler beer when I lived in Belgium.Four or five glasses of the stuff and you'd wake up with a head like a mad man's ar*e.And its not even that strong like other Belgium beers,its only 5.2%.There was another Pils which is even worse than Juplier for hangovers called Maes Pils and that's only 4.9%.In general if you want to avoid hangover's stay clear of the Belgium beers.:rolleyes:

That's one of the most ridiculous statements I've read in a long time.
It's a bit like going to France, eating only easi singles and then declaring that French cheese is rubbish!

jdivision · 10-03-2009 6:51pm

In my experience, if you drink a beer you're used to you're less likely to get a hangover. If you change much you will. So experiment often when you're young to find which one you like most and drink a lot of it thereafter. Of course, I don't follow that advice myself

PWEI · 10-03-2009 6:56pm

the beer revolu wrote: »

That's one of the most ridiculous statements I've read in a long time.
It's a bit like going to France, eating only easi singles and then declaring that French cheese is rubbish!

Just my opinion, you have yours and I have mine.:rolleyes:

AARRRGH · 10-03-2009 6:58pm

jdivision wrote: »

In my experience, if you drink a beer you're used to you're less likely to get a hangover.

I've noticed that too. I sort of grew up drinking Fosters

so generally don't get a hangover from that.

I've also noticed if I drink regularly (e.g. every day or second day) I don't really get hangovers.

fortuneteller · 10-03-2009 6:59pm

I used to drink all those lagers but after 20 years i discovered the pint bottle of guinness, the aul lads drink.i can drink 8 and wake up brand new.no hangover.just dont mix it.

mayordenis · 10-03-2009 7:01pm

PWEI wrote: »

Just my opinion, you have yours and I have mine.:rolleyes:

will you give up with the roll eyes.
it's just smarmy and smug.

Mimikyu · 10-03-2009 7:21pm

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the beer revolu · 10-03-2009 7:24pm

PWEI wrote: »

Just my opinion, you have yours and I have mine.:rolleyes:

My point is that it is an ill-informed opinion.

You've spoken only of drinking mass produced Belgian lager but then go and tar all Belgian beer with the same brush.

Red Sleeping Beauty · 10-03-2009 8:59pm

jdivision wrote: »

In my experience, if you drink a beer you're used to you're less likely to get a hangover. If you change much you will. So experiment often when you're young to find which one you like most and drink a lot of it thereafter. Of course, I don't follow that advice myself

I whole heartedly 100% endorse this method. Absolutely. There at the weekend I had Guinness but also had a budvar and an Erdinger (which I never drank before) and I had a rotten hang over.

If I had of stuck to the guinness I could've put a good few of em away fairly comfortably.

mayordenis wrote: »

will you give up with the roll eyes.
it's just smarmy and smug.

I've noticed that on a lot of forums. It's a smirk rather than a roll eyes.

Best beer for no hangover

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