So which alcohol personally gives you the worst hangover?

BetterThanThou · 01-01-2015 6:14pm #1

Over the last 2 months or so, I've gotten pissed on a different type of alcohol every night I've been out, to find out which is the best when it comes to avoiding a hangover. Personally, I've noticed whiskey, gin, vodka, cider, ale and stout will give me a fairly bad hangover, but usually after a shower, water, and eating whatever I can eat, I'll be able to go about my daily business with only some fatigue. Tequila is the work of the devil though, drinking tequila for me means staying in bed all day the next day. Lager on the other hand though, is fantastic, I can down lager by the pitcher, black out for the night, barely even make it home, go asleep at about 4 and wake up at 10, hangover free.
Has anyone else noticed similar results?

Talib Fiasco · 01-01-2015 6:21pm

I never get any hangover after vodka... I don't even get that drunk off it any more. Guinness gives me a shocking bad hangover but after a few hours I'll be alright. I think it's true when they say the darker the drink the worse the hangover. I'll be fairly shook after a tonne of Jager as well

Veloce · 01-01-2015 6:22pm

Worst hangover I've ever had came from the Erdinger served at that Oktoberfest in Dublin IFSC.

Greenmachine · 01-01-2015 6:24pm

Industrial alcohol.

john the one · 01-01-2015 6:25pm

Bud, definitely Bud. I dont know why i just bought a case of it

Its as cheap as chips

Damokc · 01-01-2015 6:25pm

That of the liquid kind.

RayM · 01-01-2015 6:26pm

All alcohol. Except white wine, for some reason.

So I hardly ever drink.

Links234 · 01-01-2015 6:26pm

Too much of anything really

john the one · 01-01-2015 6:27pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1zsRRt1FWE

pragmatic1 · 01-01-2015 6:27pm

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

I never get any hangover after vodka... I don't even get that drunk off it any more. Guinness gives me a shocking bad hangover but after a few hours I'll be alright. I think it's true when they say the darker the drink the worse the hangover. I'll be fairly shook after a tonne of Jager as well

Same for me. I never get hangovers from vodka or gin.

I find cider, whiskey and red wine the worst for hangovers.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 01-01-2015 6:28pm

I only had 4 pints last night and this morning I had a terrible hangover.

That's the last time I'm drinking whisky

Egginacup · 01-01-2015 6:30pm

The cigarettes and booming music usually are the contributing culprits.

SEPT 23 1989 · 01-01-2015 6:31pm

Beerwinevodka

TerrorFirmer · 01-01-2015 6:33pm

I usually drink only vodka, I can drink a lot of that and while I wouldn't claim to be hangover free the next day, it's fairly manageable and I'm normally respectable by lunchtime.

When I drink cider all night though, I get awful hangovers that linger for the day.

fuerte1976 · 01-01-2015 6:35pm

Pints of miller nearly finished me off years ago…
Can drink lots of wine tho hassle free..

Bad guinness is bad news. Along with the whopper hangover the dose of skitters don't help !

Connemara Farmer · 01-01-2015 6:53pm

Cider and red wine are the pits, vodka doesn't give me much of a hangover at all if any.

Sauve · 01-01-2015 6:56pm

Mixing drinks is my big no no.
Just a few of the one type and it's all good in the hood. It's when someone appears with shots or some aul concoction that it gets funky.

the evasion_kid · 01-01-2015 7:06pm

Olde english 800 malt liquor, hangover is like being hit by a freight train

Copa Mundial · 01-01-2015 7:08pm

Vodka without a doubt. The fear hits me fair hard the morning after

that and Sambuca.

I could drink cider all night and wake up fine in comparison.

Highflyer13 · 01-01-2015 7:09pm

Last night I had a lethal cocktail of heineken, Guinness, Jameson, sambuca, jaeger bombs and 2 double vodkas and red bull and I'm grand today. Only a few days ago I had a few pints of Guinness and I was in bits the next day with a hangover. Hangovers be crazy.

Nodin · 01-01-2015 7:15pm

BetterThanThou wrote: »

Over the last 2 months or so, I've gotten pissed on a different type of alcohol every night I've been out, to find out which is the best when it comes to avoiding a hangover. Personally, I've noticed whiskey, gin, vodka, cider, ale and stout will give me a fairly bad hangover, but usually after a shower, water, and eating whatever I can eat, I'll be able to go about my daily business with only some fatigue. Tequila is the work of the devil though, drinking tequila for me means staying in bed all day the next day. Lager on the other hand though, is fantastic, I can down lager by the pitcher, black out for the night, barely even make it home, go asleep at about 4 and wake up at 10, hangover free.
Has anyone else noticed similar results?

Beer, though I'd imagine that Rum or that Jager stuff would hospitalise me. Diabetes - never get it.

fleet_admiral · 01-01-2015 7:41pm

Captain Morgan and black bush. They both kill me so sadly I dont drink them anymore.

humbert · 01-01-2015 7:42pm

Methanol, vicious hangovers.

smurgen · 01-01-2015 7:45pm

Had a night of champagne and Jaeger before.I was like Hans Moleman the next day.

dudara · 01-01-2015 7:46pm

For me wine is the worst for hangovers, it's a combination of sufficient liquid to cause dehydration with high alcohol.

Spirits are best for me, the low volume of liquid means less dehydration which means "less" hangover. Or at least, a cleaner hangover.

BetterThanThou · 01-01-2015 7:49pm

dudara wrote: »

For me wine is the worst for hangovers, it's a combination of sufficient liquid to cause dehydration with high alcohol.

Spirits are best for me, the low volume of liquid means less dehydration which means "less" hangover. Or at least, a cleaner hangover.

Surely this makes no sense at all? I mean, wouldn't more liquid cause less dehydration? I figured that was one of the reasons why lager gives me no hangover, because I'm consuming more water compared to the amount of alcohol I'm drinking.

Duff · 01-01-2015 7:53pm

Erdinger or any cloudy beer. Red wine blows the tits off me too. In bed all day the next day guaranteed.

Tail Docker · 01-01-2015 7:55pm

Chilean wine doesn't give me a hangover, any other countries wine does. No idea why, maybe less additives? Spanish/American wine leaves me with a cracking headache the next day.

Macavity. · 01-01-2015 7:56pm

I don't get hangovers in the traditional sense, but I have health issues with my stomach so I usually feel the effects of drink that way. I can't think of any type of alcohol that is particularly bad though. It usually depends on the amount I drink or whether or not I've mixed alcohol.

HalloweenJack · 01-01-2015 8:13pm

Beer is about 90-95% of what I drink these days. It's always quantity that does me.

The worst hangover I ever had came from Baileys. I drank a ridiculous amount one night for some reason and I was destroyed the next day.

Aineoil · 01-01-2015 8:20pm

Gin really affects me but there's a little sign on the bottle that says

drink me please

I am like Alice in Wonderland.

rubadub · 01-01-2015 8:33pm

humbert wrote: »

Methanol, vicious hangovers.

Methanol will give terrible hangovers alright. Some drinks are a lot higher in methanol than others. There is a lot of naturally occurring methanol in cider and some wines. A cheap brandy producer would not discard or take as much care in distillation so it could have a lot more than a decent vodka would. Plum brandies are among the worst.

Skyy vodka was developed as a hangover reduced spirit. It is very pure and is meant to have minimal levels of methanol and other by products of ethanol fermentation.

Sugar based fermenations contain only minute traces of methanol, so rum should have little or none, and some vodkas are sugar based. Most hobby distillers will use sugar based brews to distill vodka.

The EU regulations allow up to 10g of methanol per litre of ethanol.

Luke92 · 01-01-2015 8:40pm

I'm alright with Guinness

that would be my go to drink these days and not too bad a hangover! Had about 10 pints last night and I wasn't too bad this morning. Well that's 10 from around 7pm to 3am.

Now the weekend before Christmas I went out and started on Guinness then went to corona then onto Captain Morgan's all the while drinking shots of half jack Daniels and half Jager.

Woke at 12 the next day still feeling drunk!

stateofflux · 01-01-2015 8:43pm

usually stick to the cider but when i also have a few whisky & cokes or rum & cokes., its major horrors the next day

Capt'n Midnight · 01-01-2015 8:43pm

Methanol is really bad, and benzyl alcohol is nasty , isopropanol is best used for cleaning things

some chemistry herein
http://www.chemistryviews.org/details/ezine/1080019/Chemistry_of_a_Hangover__Alcohol_and_its_Consequences_Part_3.html

After eight weeks, each participant had experienced and survived a fully intoxicated state from each type of drink, and was able to evaluate the severity of the resulting hangover symptoms. It turned out that there was a definite relationship between the intensity of the hangover and the beverage: brandy produced the most severe hangover, followed (in descending order) by red wine, rum, whiskey, white wine, and gin. Vodka and pure alcohol were tolerated the best

but http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12960505

CONCLUSIONS:

The fusel oil in whisky had no effect on the ethanol-induced emetic response, but it suppressed taste-aversion behavior in animal models of hangover symptoms. These results suggest that the fusel oil in whisky alleviates hangover, contrary to the common belief.

Woshy · 01-01-2015 9:15pm

Tequila - means I'll be hugging the toilet for at least a day afterwards. Vile, vile stuff. Haven't touched it in years

Shenshen · 01-01-2015 9:58pm

Any alcohol, these days.

But I've recently had to add red wines to my list of migraine triggers. My migraines feel like the worst hangovers, only without any alcohol consumed previously. Now I find a single glass of some reds can trigger it, too... And I can't figure out which ones will be triggers and which ones will be fine. There seems to be no pattern.

GoldFour4 · 01-01-2015 10:42pm

Cider for me anyway, it goes down so easy and hurts so bad the next day.

RDM_83 again · 01-01-2015 10:54pm

Red wine is probably the worst for me, seems to dehydrate me worse than even a night on spirits.
I would say the worst specific one would be the Franciscan Well Red Ale, had a much worse head after that than any other beer, craft or mass market

Candy_Girl · 01-01-2015 11:04pm

Any distilled beverage.

ErnieBert · 01-01-2015 11:13pm

Guiness gives me the smelliest farts so I don't drink it anymore. Cider makes be bloated after 3 or 4 so that's as much as I will drink of that. Tequilla tastes rotten and gives very bad hangovers ever. Vodka is great but I just stay merry and never get drunk.

Southern Comfort is a dirty bastard though. It goes down the hatch with ease but kicks the sh!te out of my brain the following day.

01-01-2015 11:26pm

Back in 1990 I drank a fair sup of brandy and port one night. I've never had a worse hangover. Never.
I cant even smell brandy now without dry wretching nevermind drink it.

Its the piss of Lucifer himself.

Robroy36 · 01-01-2015 11:30pm

Red wine and some of the IPA/ craft beers are the devils work. That said I think one of the big problems is just general fatigue - I haven't bothered drinking much over the last coue of years and still find I get "hangovers" after drink free nights out - music, caffine, sugar, the odd burger and disrupted sleep pattern just seem to ruin me.

I suppose when that I was student and I was regularly able to put away 12 plus pints and still cycle home I didn't have the stresses midweek that a fulltime job etc bring. This means when you arrive at the bar at the weekend you really are only just begining to recover from the midweek hassle exposing you to a far greater level of fatigue and consequent hangover. That is my theory anyways, nothing to do with becoming an old fart!

The Th!ng · 01-01-2015 11:57pm

I found it was a combination of drinking 4 or 5 bottles of Erdinger, a few G & T's, and a shot or two of Sambuca that gave me a migraine headache that would last for a few days.

My beer of choice these days is either Schneider Weisse Tap 7 or Staropramen depending on which of my two haunts I'm in at the time. I will be a bit hungover the next day, but this only lasts for a few hours or so. Only rarely do I drink G & T or Sambuca now.

mfergus · 02-01-2015 1:11am

Anything mixed with red bull. The red bull has serious effects on me

lakesider · 02-01-2015 1:19am

Im not much of a drinker but when I go on a Brasso binge it really fecks me up for the following few days..my piss stinks as well but I cant figure why?

Smidge · 02-01-2015 1:57am

lakesider wrote: »

Im not much of a drinker but when I go on a Brasso binge it really fecks me up for the following few days..my piss stinks as well but I cant figure why?

Yeah but I'd say your bowel motions have a hell of a shine

previous user · 02-01-2015 2:01am

Its almost impossible to get a hangover while lying down drinking in bed.

shmalentine · 02-01-2015 3:52am

Champagne

The bubbles are the death of me.

zcorpian88 · 02-01-2015 3:57am

Craft beer will give ya a woeful hangover more so than normal beer, mainly dehydration and a dose of the trots. Good lord, O Hara's Red Ale itself is a natural laxative.

Cider also gives me the worst headache, never been sick on cider but it absolutely nukes my head the day after.

Overflow · 02-01-2015 4:12am

Any kind of beer or red wine are the worst for me. Vodka give me no hangover just a weird buzz the next day, same with gin.

So which alcohol personally gives you the worst hangover?

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