Wine hangover

[Doive]

As I'm sitting with a glass of the Polish rasperry wine, brewed out to 8%, I thought I'd ask how others get on with the morning after? I've brewed about 20 gallons of various wines now, all good or at least reasonably palatable, but I find they give me stinking hangovers. Strengths range from 8% to 14%, so nothing more than the average shop bought wine. Maybe I'm just getting old... thinking about it, I serve myself in a beer festival half pint glass, which is 284ml, and six of those at 12.5% is... ooo er missus. That's quite a bit of wine. Maybe that's my problem!

 

[ScottM]

I've not had a great deal of WOW style wines at any one time but I'll happily drink a bottle of my Ken Ridge kit in a sitting with no worries.

No untoward hangovers of note yet, although the first time I had 10 homebrew beers I could clear the house when I jumped on the throne

 

[bobsbeer]

What temperature do you ferment at, and what yeast do you use? Both of those can contribute to hangovers. I find lower temp fermentation over a longer period help to reduce hangovers. I also use wine specific yeast rather than all purpose types.

 

[Megaross]

I get hangovers with everything, homebrew or not, just how my body works.
I have friends who claim not to be hung over after drinking my brews but I had the bad luck liver or something, just poisons me every time I drink a lot.

I'll get in, have some electrolyte supplements, a load of water and a sandwich or something, and it'll barely even reduce my pain the next day.
I'll still wake up with a banging head, bad gut and a mouth like a budgies cage.

Tend to find sweating a hangover out is the only thing which actually works.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Six half pint glass at 12.5% :shock:

 

[xdaver]

After three pints of wine at 12.5% I'd expect a slight sore head aswell

 

[Jonny69]

My thoughts exactly! I think it's the quantity, not the quality

 

[Tim_Crowhurst]

3pt @ 12.5% = ~210ml alcohol, or 21 units (1 unit = 10ml)

The recommended daily limit is 3-4 units.

 

[RobWalker]

nevermind daily limits, that's the same as a half bottle of vodka :lol:

 

[iceo]

i just about polished off a 5L keg of cider(5.4%) last Saturday was fine the next day apart from a bit off acid and a bacon butty soon fixed that :party: and i had to been 2 year since i drank that much in one day. but saying that i can get a bad head from just one glass of red

 

[Tim_Crowhurst]

nevermind daily limits, that's the same as a half bottle of vodka :lol:

It's the same as 2/3 of a bottle of vodka (assuming it's a 70cl bottle)

 

[PD]

Yes...sorry about that, but I haven't much sympathy for you.
Drink that amount of alcohol in a session and you will suffer, visibly with hangovers or internally with damage to your liver kidneys etc.
Learn to drink responsibly and enjoy alcohol without problems.
We all do it occasionally, but its not good.

We have had several members on here recently, suffering the effects of long term alcohol abuse. I wish to enjoy my beers for a long time to come.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Maybe I'm just getting old... thinking about it, I serve myself in a beer festival half pint glass, which is 284ml, and six of those at 12.5% is... ooo er missus. That's quite a bit of wine. Maybe that's my problem!

You need one of these

 

[Boatbrewer]

I cant really see how a silly hat and a tank top will help a hang over.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I cant really see how a silly hat and a tank top will help a hang over.

I was referring to the smug grin. :lol:

 

[Megaross]

I tend to wake up and have a load of porridge made with water and salt and some coffee (to line my stomach and give the slow release energy), then an hour later a fry up with a boilermaker.

Usually makes me feel slightly human again, smug grins however? Not a possibility.

 

[ScottM]

Bottle of blue powerade followed by a bottle of Irn-Bru... job done.

 

[stevie1556]

I love threads like this, makes me happy that I don't get hangovers! SWMBO gets dreadful hangovers, especially with wine, but they are worse with shop bought stuff then my WOW style wines. But then seeing what she's like in the morning, I don't know why she even drinks!

 

[Wasabi]

3 pints is more than 2 bottles of wine! I always regret it if I drink more than one bottle of wine in a session.

Up to a point, drinking more alcohol seems to have a positive effect. But then I reach a point where I think "that one didn't seem to do anything, I'll have to have another..." and from that point on each successive drink undoes the benefits of an earlier one until I reach the point where I wish I'd never started. But it takes self control to say "I won't have another" just at the point you are feeling that another drink is exactly what you need!

But assuming you manage to stop short of alcohol poisoning, I find that the best thing for preventing a bad hangover is to have a pint of water after the session, since a large component of hangovers seems to be dehydration.

 

[Jeltz]

When I smoked (neigh on 5 year ago now) I used to get hangovers from hell, these days I barely notice them and can drink twice as much.