Homebrew and hangovers

Daron · Post by **Daron** » Sunday Oct 23, 2005 11:34 pm

Just interested to hear from others on this. Do you get hangovers?

If not, what's your best brew you could drink all night and dance out of bed the next day?

What's everyones' view on HB hangovers compared with the over the counter headache in a bottle?

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Monday Oct 24, 2005 3:49 am

Never had one, and it is still dark when I dance out of bed (Thank God, that would be a sight, me dancing)

Dogger

peterd · Post by **peterd** » Monday Oct 24, 2005 11:20 am

> What's everyones' view on HB hangovers compared with the over the counter headache in a bottle?

After a fair number of years drinking a fair number of beers in a fair number of places, I developed the most unfortunate (for a beer lover) tendency to get really bad headaches after any more than 4 or 5 commercial beers. After a particularly memorable trip to the Brisbane International Terminal with a bucket between my knees, I went looking for explanations, and suspicion centred on the preservatives in commercial beers. So I started brewing my own. I almost never had the same effect from HB. (an exception being bres to whichI had added curacao orange essence). After a number of years of drinking mainly HB (and if I drink commercial, it is largely the exotics such as Belgium or german wheat bewers), I largely got over my "allergy", and can now (once again) tolerate reasonable quantities of commercial "swill" without much in the way of side effects.

So, by and large, I stand as living and drinking testimony to the benefits of HB (as opposed to commercial beers).

beerboy · Post by **beerboy** » Monday Oct 24, 2005 1:35 pm

I get hangovers if I drink enough of both, but I think the hangovers I get on commercial beers are a lot worse than HB.

silkworm · Post by **silkworm** » Monday Oct 24, 2005 1:49 pm

I don't know if I've ever danced out of bed! Stumbled, grumbled and mumbled a lot, fallen, brawln, crawl'n yes.
IMHO HB doesn't give me as bad a hangover as commersial beers.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Monday Oct 24, 2005 2:13 pm

I've had a number of big nights on the HB and find that I dont get as big a problem with hangovers.

Mind you my HBs tend to be bigger brews than the average commercial swill and I tend to drink them a bit slower.

Cheers,
Jay.

yardglass · Post by **yardglass** » Monday Oct 24, 2005 4:22 pm

I still have that slight dragged through a hedge backwards and sometimes even the old I need rubbing out and drawing again feeling if I nudge the HB too hard.

But these do not compare to the hangover I suffer from excess commercial p!$$.

Go HB or go home.

Beerpig · Post by **Beerpig** » Monday Oct 24, 2005 4:24 pm

I think location has a bit to do with it

Commercial beer in a smokey pub or club = mongrel dog hangover

Home brew sitting on the verandah at home = not so bad

Cheers

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Monday Oct 24, 2005 6:58 pm

Beerpig is right on the money, smoke and drinking = death the next day. I get absolutely f@#ked on HB, and wake up with a dry mouth- that's it. I have 15 commercials, and I am holding onto the bed all night, so that I don't get spun off. The next day usually involves several beroccas, and a diet almost entirely of coke.

I pick HB ANY day.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Monday Oct 24, 2005 7:00 pm

Also, when I wake up, I still have money left in my wallet, and I don't have to worry that I might be married to someone I don't know. Thankyou HB!

Daron · Post by **Daron** » Monday Oct 24, 2005 9:43 pm

I figured as much. I tend to wake up pretty good after HB, as for the skinheads jumping on my head after a night on the commercial shite... well, say no more!

Wassa · Post by **Wassa** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005 8:48 am

I find I can drink HB all night and wake up feeling good the next day.

I put it down to no preservatives or chemicals in HB.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005 11:05 am

Another vote for HB. What a surprise on a HB forum!

The Carbonator · Thursday Oct 27, 2005 12:44 pm

I havent thrown up or wet the bed since i started brewing.

Thanks Homebrew!

yardglass · Post by **yardglass** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005 4:08 pm

The Carbonator wrote:I havent thrown up or wet the bed since i started brewing.

you're not trying hard enough.

Daron · Post by **Daron** » Friday Oct 28, 2005 2:19 pm

If it's preservatives that are the killer, then what are people's views on Coopers and ahngovers and ... ahem... Tooheys Red... which says it has no preservatives?

Shaun · Post by **Shaun** » Friday Oct 28, 2005 4:21 pm

Can not comment on Coopers as I have not had that big a session on it. One can of Tooheys Red and I wake up with a hangover, not only does it taste shite, it gives the worst hangovers.

yardglass · Post by **yardglass** » Friday Oct 28, 2005 4:27 pm

Daron wrote: people's views on Coopers and ahngovers and ... ahem... Tooheys Red... which says it has no preservatives?

drink for taste mate, if i want a book i'll go to the book supository.(sp).
or the grassy knoll.

whygee

Post by **Oliver** » Saturday Oct 29, 2005 4:04 pm

beerboy wrote:I get hangovers if I drink enough of both, but I think the hangovers I get on commercial beers are a lot worse than HB.

I'll second that.

A couple of commercial beers, particularly the likes of Carlton Draught of VB (!) will leave me feeling pretty ordinary the next day. Homebrew just doesn't have that effect.

And as for Cooper's, I put it in the category of homebrew.

As well as the preservatives in (most) commercial beers, the fact that they don't have sediment is, in my humble opinion, another factor in the feeling of death the next day. Yeast is vitamin B, and drinking beer containing yeast replenishes vitamin B as the alcohol draws it out.

Oliver

mikey · Post by **mikey** » Tuesday Nov 01, 2005 5:21 pm

Oliver wrote:
beerboy wrote:I get hangovers if I drink enough of both, but I think the hangovers I get on commercial beers are a lot worse than HB.
I'll second that.

A couple of commercial beers, particularly the likes of Carlton Draught of VB (!) will leave me feeling pretty ordinary the next day. Homebrew just doesn't have that effect.

And as for Cooper's, I put it in the category of homebrew.

As well as the preservatives in (most) commercial beers, the fact that they don't have sediment is, in my humble opinion, another factor in the feeling of death the next day. Yeast is vitamin B, and drinking beer containing yeast replenishes vitamin B as the alcohol draws it out.

Oliver

No wonder beer is my prefered vitamin B provider