The most you can drink without having a proper hangover



Always been a bit of a binge drinker, nothing for a week or so then a session.
Never really hits me with a hangover.
But a couple of glasses of Port and I’m done.
 
gatopreto said:
To an extent I agree but had some nasty hangovers off the "pure" German stuff
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It's a myth like. It's the alcohol that knacks you, nothing else. You'll get a raging hangover if you drink 15 pints of Augustiner.

Reckon on a normal work night, 5 pints would send me into mild hangover territory. Headache the next day, feeling a bit groggy. Any more than that and I'd be in trouble.
 
gatopreto said:
As the the title states.
"Proper hangover" is subjective but I'd define it as where you experience nausea, tiredness and have a headache, where you would struggle to function well, for example, at work. Where you need to take painkillers. You may be vomitting but at least feel sick.

I normally drink beer around 4.5 - 5%. For me in pint of beer terms if I have more than 2 I can feel it slightly the next day. Not hungover but it takes the edge off me and is noticeable. However it's not until I have 6 or more pints that I could be struggling as described above. But it varies. Sometimes I could have 8 and be fine. In my younger days I'd have a dozen and sometimes get away with it.

So overall for me to guarantee not having a hangover I'd have to have a 5 pint limit.

I know the pace of drinking comes into play here as well but if I drink too slowly, which is rare, I become hungover/fatigued . Therefore IMO If you are only having 5 pints realistically you can only drink for 4 hours max otherwise would become just tired.

Whats your view SMB drinkers?
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I can honestly say as I sit here at the age of 48 that I have never had a hangover in my life. Doesn't matter if I mix my drinks or not, for some reason I just wake up without the after effects.
 
KeefBeer said:
Always been a bit of a binge drinker, nothing for a week or so then a session.
Never really hits me with a hangover.
But a couple of glasses of Port and I’m done.
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i'm similar.
when i used to drink lager many moons ago i'd always have a headache/feel rough. nowadays i drink beers and never really suffer. port is my downfall as i love a port chaser with a pint.
 
well I had 5 pints last night before moving on to a couple of non-alcoholics and I was fresh enough to do 50 lengths in the pool this morning.

I reckon 6 or 7 and I would’ve been lazy, lethargic, tired, headache.
 
Stormo said:
well I had 5 pints last night before moving on to a couple of non-alcoholics and I was fresh enough to do 50 lengths in the pool this morning.

I reckon 6 or 7 and I would’ve been lazy, lethargic, tired, headache.
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I think I'm about the same as you.
Good tactic to move on to non alcoholics at that point
 

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