Drinking cans healthier than drinking pints?

DOLEMAN

Word to your mother.

I find my beer in a can tastes very different than in a pint (more crisp, fresh, watery.) I also don't get a hangover when I drink via cans. For example, if I have 6 cans followed by two pints, I'll be OK the next day. If I have 8 pints I'll feel quite groggy...

Anyone else experience this?

Caprisun

DOLEMAN wrote:

Word to your mother.

I find my beer in a can tastes very different than in a pint (more crisp, fresh, watery.) I also don't get a hangover when I drink via cans. For example, if I have 6 cans followed by two pints, I'll be OK the next day. If I have 8 pints I'll feel quite groggy...

Anyone else experience this?

nope,

i think its in your head

zombie

Demetrius

Aluminium cans have, surprise, surprise, aluminium in them. A guy I know (a lecturer in an Irish college) once did research on Alziheimers, and said that there was a possible link between Aluminium and that disease. So, I usually stick to bottles.

DOLEMAN

Caprisun wrote:

i think its in your head

I would like to believe that (power of the mind over body) but I don't think it's the case.

The no hangover thing, I can't control that...

Caprisun

Demetrius wrote:

Aluminium cans have, surprise, surprise, aluminium in them. A guy I know (a lecturer in an Irish college) once did research on Alziheimers, and said that there was a possible link between Aluminium and that disease. So, I usually stick to bottles.

doleman - maybe your forgeting the hangover bit


*shakes head at own bad alziheimers joke*

DOLEMAN

Caprisun wrote:

doleman - maybe your forgeting the hangover bit


*shakes head at own bad alziheimers joke*

heheh

Nah seriously, they don't give me hangovers. So it's either something in the cans or in the pints. My feeling is it's something in the pints. Chemicals or something...

Narcissus

Wouldn't 8 pints be a good bit more than 6 cans and 2 pints? Would that make much of a difference?

DOLEMAN

Well, it should roughly be the same. But that was just an example. After 4 pints the next day I'm not 100%. After 4 cans I am 100%.

It's not my imagination!!

grimloch

Apapaia wrote:

Wouldn't 8 pints be a good bit more than 6 cans and 2 pints? Would that make much of a difference?

Not really, wouldn't be much more than would be in a bottle.

I've also experienced the above. Say I had six pints, I might feel a little groggy the next day. If I had eight cans in a friends house, I'd imagine I'd be hangover free the next day.

chump

What beer?

Different proofs?

COuld be you're body is so used to whatever cans you drink as you drink them so often... ?

grimloch

chump wrote:

What beer?

Different proofs?

COuld be you're body is so used to whatever cans you drink as you drink them so often... ?

I should have said, Guiness is what I was referring to. And I'd drink pints much much more than I drink cans.

DOLEMAN

chump wrote:

What beer?

Different proofs?

COuld be you're body is so used to whatever cans you drink as you drink them so often... ?

My cans are normally higher alcohol than my pints. But I often drink cans of bud and pints of bud. The cans of bud don't give me a hangover whatsoever. The pints sure do though...

I don't think my body is used to drinking cans. Although I did start drinking cans at 11, so maybe my body has some special cans anti-body or something...

the_syco

You can't get 8 bad cans, but if you get one bad pint, you're fuxored!:D

Terry

don't know about you, but i drink cans much slower than i drink pints.
that may have something to do with it.

scojones

julep wrote:

don't know about you, but i drink cans much slower than i drink pints.
that may have something to do with it.

As do I. I horse through pints but tip away on the cans slowly enough.

Should this thread be moved here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=598 ?

dubtom

Well if your talking healthwise here, I can't understand how people drink from can or bottles. I worked in a pub years ago, the cans and bottles were stored in a little yard at the back which was a home to rats and mice that would crawl/piss and god nows whatelse on them.Think about that the next time you put one to your lips, you don't know where they have been;)

eiretamicha

DOLEMAN wrote:

My cans are normally higher alcohol than my pints. But I often drink cans of bud and pints of bud. The cans of bud don't give me a hangover whatsoever. The pints sure do though...

I don't think my body is used to drinking cans. Although I did start drinking cans at 11, so maybe my body has some special cans anti-body or something...

Bud is a disgusting beer and is known to give people wicked hangovers in pint form.

My husband is a Bud drinker, and I'd honestly have to argue with myself over whether it'd be worth it to go out drinking just to have him stone-cold dead the next day.

If he drinks cans or bottles, he's not as bad.

Last night, he drank guinness and he's alive today. Go figure. I've always said Bud was made with piss.

AOR

6 cans = 6x500ml = 3 Litres
2 Pints = 2x568ml= 1.136 Litres
Total= 4.136 Litres

8 Pints = 8x568ml= 4.544 Litres


Difference = 408ml

So by my calulations if you have one extra can (roughly) you should feel nice and groggy.

might also have to do with the fact that the Alcoholic Volume in pints are slightly more variable than cans.

Naos

Dubtom you cant live your life like that, think about the next time you kiss a woman, you dont know where there mouths have been or whats been in them... Enjoy.

Terry

dubtom wrote:

Well if your talking healthwise here, I can't understand how people drink from can or bottles. I worked in a pub years ago, the cans and bottles were stored in a little yard at the back which was a home to rats and mice that would crawl/piss and god nows whatelse on them.Think about that the next time you put one to your lips, you don't know where they have been;)

the cans i buy are taken from crates that are covered in plastic. it's not really a risk.

dubtom

dubtom wrote:

rats and mice that would crawl/piss and god nows whatelse on them.

Hump?

Font22

i have a funny feeling its all in your head! its all the same! well thats my opinion any how and i'm prob not the best judge.

Pigman II

I agree with the OP. I can drink 10-12 cans and not a bother the next day. However, have about 8 pints in a pub and I'm usually like the walking dead next day.

However personally I think it's because I'm more relaxed/happier hanging out in my gaf (or someone elses gaf) than I would be sitting in a pub and plus I'm probably drinking the cans slower.

Basically I doubt the difference in effect has anything to do with the drink itself.

fifth

I'll be putting it to the test tonight, staying in with a few cans, last sat I was out drinking pints and had a bit of a hangover next day.

We see how I fare tomorrow, I've never really thought about it much. And yeah, I horse through pints when I'm out but the cans tend to take me a lifetime to drink.

nesf

Moved.

tallus

I drink the cans and feel way better than when I have pints.

Civilian_Target

Demetrius wrote:

Aluminium cans have, surprise, surprise, aluminium in them. A guy I know (a lecturer in an Irish college) once did research on Alziheimers, and said that there was a possible link between Aluminium and that disease. So, I usually stick to bottles.

Well, that's why they seal them. Aluminium contamination only happenes when they're exposed to airflow, in exactly the same way as rust.

The main reason you're more hungover after a few pints instead of after a few cans is because you tend to get more sleep after cans than after pints (you don't have to get home, you finish up earlier), and lack of sleep is a major contributor to a hangover!