Heads and hangovers
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Heads and hangovers
Now obviously making a good head cut can get a cleaner spirit flavor wise on a pot still but how about the idea that less heads means less hangover. Is this truly the case? Is it the heads/fores that make for a bad hangover or is this just a myth? Thoughts?
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Re: Heads and hangovers
Not a myth IMO. I haven't been at this very long but I will say this.....different than store-bought buzz, and I have consumed quantities of my home made that when compared to my go to storebought (SEAGRAM VO) I would of had a morning after blaahhhh. That aside, overdoing even the best cut likker will still result in something. Alcohol will do that.
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Re: Heads and hangovers
I've noticed the stuff I make leaves me feeling a lot less groggy the next day but then I was never sure if it wasn't simply power of suggestion. Last night my buddy and I got into our cups. He drank sailor Jerry and I drank my gin, nearly killed a 5th actually. He woke up hung over but I didn't....
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Re: Heads and hangovers
You figure we're quality motivated and not in it for profit.
Better cuts and (hopefully) unstressed yeast yields a better glass.
It's not in your head (pun), as a lot of us home distill drinkers suffer less.
I find myself enjoying the drink, too, rather than guzzling just to get plowed.
Better cuts and (hopefully) unstressed yeast yields a better glass.
It's not in your head (pun), as a lot of us home distill drinkers suffer less.
I find myself enjoying the drink, too, rather than guzzling just to get plowed.
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Re: Heads and hangovers
Yeah, when you pump endless hours of blood, sweat and tears into fermenting, running, perfecting cuts you tend to savor each drop. I usually do a nightcap each evening and sip my product slow. I'm it's biggest fan of course. I've gifted my buddy many a 5th of my product which he'll kill in a night and while I appreciate his praises it kills me a little to know that he just slammed the whole thing.....Lotta work went into that buzz man, Lotta work.
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Re: Heads and hangovers
I've faithfully executed my quality control protocol on my (first batch of) UJ nightly, pleased at how the product has improved, even in as little as two weeks.Alchemist75 wrote:I've noticed the stuff I make leaves me feeling a lot less groggy the next day but then I was never sure if it wasn't simply power of suggestion. Last night my buddy and I got into our cups. He drank sailor Jerry and I drank my gin, nearly killed a 5th actually. He woke up hung over but I didn't....
Last weekend, after a number of drinks of my UJ, I walked to a neighbor's, two houses down, where a glass with 3 fingers of Dewar's 12yo was waiting for me. I was stunned at how headsy it was, but soldiered on and finished it up. Sure enough, I awoke the next morning with a pretty decent headache, and I have to attribute it to the heads I drank that I'm sure were not mine.
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Re: Heads and hangovers
About the hangovers: there was a story in the newspaper about a father farmacologist and a son doctor (or the other way around) that had invented a pill to cure hangovers. It seems quite a success, but the recipe was a secret and other methods seemd to work too.
Eat a lot of fat before drinking.
Drink a glass of water with every drink.
Eat some sugar before you go to sleep.
The son and father had studied literature, but their findings were not given in the article.
One would say that everyone with enough stamina could find their findings too.
Eat a lot of fat before drinking.
Drink a glass of water with every drink.
Eat some sugar before you go to sleep.
The son and father had studied literature, but their findings were not given in the article.
One would say that everyone with enough stamina could find their findings too.
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Re: Heads and hangovers
I think it is a personal thing .Some are reaching for the Panadol after taking a wiff , I'm in the othere camp where it makes no difference to me at all .
Even when I first started home distilling and followed the HBS instructions and only tossed the first 50 mls , I was effectively drinking all the heads and I basically was a tea totaller before ..... still never got a hangover or headache and I really hammered it because it was new and exciting .
Nowererdays , I am more deserning and can taste the chemically heads so I prefer to leave them out .
Just spent nearly two weeks overseas and most of that time was spent drnking duty free and locally made spirits and in quantities that was having those around me dropping like flies . Some of us bounce the next day while others are sick as dogs
Get me drinking beer or white wine to the same extent and I'll tell you another story.
Even when I first started home distilling and followed the HBS instructions and only tossed the first 50 mls , I was effectively drinking all the heads and I basically was a tea totaller before ..... still never got a hangover or headache and I really hammered it because it was new and exciting .
Nowererdays , I am more deserning and can taste the chemically heads so I prefer to leave them out .
Just spent nearly two weeks overseas and most of that time was spent drnking duty free and locally made spirits and in quantities that was having those around me dropping like flies . Some of us bounce the next day while others are sick as dogs
Get me drinking beer or white wine to the same extent and I'll tell you another story.
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Re: Heads and hangovers
'I basically was a teetotaller before .....'
Another innocent person corrupted...
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Another innocent person corrupted...
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It is just a matter of training.
Beer makes you pee too much, liqqer makes you drunk too soon, so I prefer wine.
I never have a hangover, although I always drink about 200 ml absolute alcohol. But maybe I think that the way I feel in the morning is normal.
Beer makes you pee too much, liqqer makes you drunk too soon, so I prefer wine.
I never have a hangover, although I always drink about 200 ml absolute alcohol. But maybe I think that the way I feel in the morning is normal.
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Reminds me of the reason my old boss preferred older women....Kareltje wrote:It is just a matter of training.
Beer makes you pee too much, liqqer makes you drunk too soon, so I prefer wine.
I never have a hangover, although I always drink about 200 ml absolute alcohol. But maybe I think that the way I feel in the morning is normal.
'the really young ones giggle, and a bit older they have babies....'
I was impressed because at the time I was uncorrupted....
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