“A new study may help drinkers pick their poison. In a head-to-head comparison, bourbon gave drinkers a more severe hangover than vodka, report Damaris Rohsenow of Brown University and colleagues in an upcoming issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
But vodka drinkers aren’t off the hook: Drinkers’ sleep suffered equally with both drinks, as did their performance on tasks requiring attention and quick responses. Understanding the lingering effects of alcohol after a night of heavy drinking is important for people who engage in safety-sensitive tasks, such as driving, while hung over Rohsenow says.
The researchers recruited 95 healthy young adults, ages 21 to 33, and gave them caffeine-free cola mixed with bourbon, vodka or tonic water. The drinking ended when participants’ breath-alcohol concentrations hit an average of 0.11, well over the legal intoxication limit. Participants were then hooked up to sleep monitors, which record brain activity, and allowed to sleep it off. At 7 a.m. the next day, the researchers roused the subjects from bed (a wake-up that did not include coffee or aspirin) and asked them to rate the severity of their hangovers.
Overall, bourbon drinkers reported feeling worse than vodka drinkers, rating higher on scales that measure the severity of hangover malaise, including headache, nausea, loss of appetite and thirst. It should come as no surprise that alcohol drinkers said they felt much worse than those who had drunk only tonic water.”
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I just knew you posted this one Phillis xx
As someone who has been awfully drunk on vodka before now, with the mother of all hangovers the next day (a work day to boot!) I can’t quite believe that someone else drinking bourbon that evening would have felt much worse than myself the next morning.
But I still maintain that it differs from person to person, no matter how many you test.
Oh, and no, I don’t touch vodka anymore…..
LC x
I already knew that years ago. it was in Keith Floyds book of hangovers.
Oh well, I dont drink alcohol and wont need to bother about that stuff.
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The purpose of this study is not all clear to me. And this article misses a lot of facts which would have had made it more interesting to read perhaps.
Yes! Gin for the Win!
“Nopke says:
Oh well, I dont drink alcohol and wont need to bother about that stuff.
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The purpose of this study is not all clear to me. And this article misses a lot of facts which would have had made it more interesting to read perhaps.”
This appears to be a very basic comparison of the “hangover” (discernible physical / mental impact) resultant from taking in alcohol via a source that has a colored appearance versus the result when taking in alcohol from a source that has a clear appearance. What are the facts, Nopke, “which would have had made it more interesting to read perhaps.”?
When I was younger I got drunk on all kinds of stuff, but even thirty years after my big vodka hangover I still can’t face it.
Oh come on EVERYONE knows this ! : P
As an ex-heavy drinker I can say with some authority that the darker the booze the more it fucks with you guts – ie Guiness, & the higher the alcohol content the bigger the headache – ie Absinthe.
THE best thing to get pissed on is & always will be, Champagne not least because most of you can’t afford enough to do you any real damage ; )
I am very, very drunk – sorry if this makes no sense : )