“Booze, for all its magical wonder, still has big drawbacks: You can’t sober up quickly, and you often get a hangover. Now Korean researchers have found a way of tweaking booze to limit the fallout — without cutting its strength.
Doctors Kwang-il Kwon and Hye Gwang Jeong of Chungnam National University studied the properties of oxygenated alcohol – booze with oxygen bubbles added – which is a popular concoction in their country. In these drinks, oxygen is added the way carbonation is usually added to soda, and the scientists wanted to know if these oxygenated beverages affected people differently than non-oxygenated ones. The answer was a resounding yes.
They ran three experiments using 19.5% alcohol drinks, and measured the speed at which people’s blood alcohol dropped to 0.000%. In other words: How fast did they sober up?”
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this is baaaaaad….
The hangover research sounds compelling, but one of those drinks was the equivalent of 3 – 4 pints of the usual beers.
And it’s taking 5- 6 hours to “sober up” according to their data. That’s an approximate science among drinkers (based on size, gender, experience and factors such as food eaten and speed of drinking), but who would stop drinking at just one of these?
Not to mention that “sober” is so subjective that even the drink drive limit indicates drivers are sober enough at 0.08% blood alcohol level. That drink would put you around twice the drink drive limit immediately and so you’d have to wait around 2 – 3 hours to get below the drink drive limit by their reckoning.
Nice of them to try though.
As someone who currently lives in S Korea, I am not suprised at all that they developed the first hangover-free beer. Now all they have left to do is develop a GOOD Korean beer.
Might be a bit dangerous – If you don’t get a hangover, then you feel like you can drink more, and if you start drinking more, you develop health problems. Personally, I’ve never liked alcohol.
These people deserve the Nobel price for science!
WOW I CAN BE DRUNK AT NIGHT AND STILL BE IN THE OFFICE THE NEXT DAY!
This is the best day in my life AMEN!
Great! So where can I buy, say 500 bottles of it?
So the story of champagne getting faster to you is not true then? I myself dont drink so have not really much experience. Otherwise we would want to put this to a test ofcourse. Now I don’t.
Eating properly seems to help too, or drinking less (ehehe .. although you still can suffer from a hangover then).
This just reminds me of the Bottom episode when Eddie invents his hangover free booze…