Your Worst Hangover From Craft Beer...and What Caused It

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  1. rgordon

    rgordon Pooh-Bah (2,677) Apr 26, 2012 North Carolina
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    Mixing beer and distillates is never a good idea, but adding wine to that mix is "danger, danger, go to your room". I'll not do that again. Oddly, the night before my first and only go at the SAT, we drank copious quantities of Schlitz. I felt like dog schlitz on Saturday AM. Also, oddly, while not giving a schlitz about this is to this as this is to this, I did over 1400 and was stunned. They must have made a mistake, but I didn't report them!
     
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  2. GoatmanBrewsMD

    GoatmanBrewsMD Initiate (0) Dec 16, 2010 Maryland
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    This was around 2011 I believe. A friend had a bachelor party/get together. The night started at the hotel drinking a few beers then we ate at the Dogfish Head Brewpub. We had 3 or 4 rounds of various beers there (mostly high abvs I'm sure...I remember having a Burton Baton and a 90 minute). Before we left a few of us splint a few bottles of World Wide Stout, then I got a growler fill of their Shelter Pale ale because they had just stopped distributing it. We went back to the hotel and continued drinking a bunch of beers he brought back from Florida where he was living at the time. This included a ton of Cigar City (which had very limited distribution at the time) and I was excited to try them all. Then we cracked open the Growler and finished that quickly. The last beer I remember drinking by myself was a bomber of Yeti Imperial stout....why was I drinking that by myself?

    I later found out that after the party died down a bit, a few of us who were still awake headed back to Dogfish Head brewpub to watch some live music and had a few more beers (why didn't anyone stop this??). I was told we ordered some 120 to splint among us...but I don't remember.

    The next day, I spent the whole morning throwing up and I felt like I was dying. I ventured to McDonald's hoping a greasy breakfast would solve the problem but ended up not helping at all. It was by far one of the worst craft beer hangovers. By the middle of the afternoon I was feeling better, but I had to drive home which was about an hour and half away. During the drive, I had to pull over multiple times to throw up and spent the entire ride with the windows down to cool off the hangover sweats.

    Somehow I drank more and ended up the worst out of anyone including the guy who should have been drinking the most!
     
  3. drtth

    drtth Initiate (0) Nov 25, 2007 Pennsylvania
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    Same here, no craft beer hangover, but Tequila shots are seductive inducements almost guaranteed to lead to a ceaseless throbbing and fire in the brainpan.
     
  4. Alefflicted

    Alefflicted Crusader (445) Dec 2, 2017 Minnesota

    Surlyfest a couple years ago. I had free unlimited beer tokens, and Barrel Aged Pentagram was on tap. Free 16oz pours when a 22oz bomber is $28 after tax? Yeah I like that math, needless to say I drank ALOT. I honestly don't think I'd be underestimating in saying I had at least 20... Great at the time, but that's alot of brew, especially considering its a sour. The next day was difficult to say the least.
     
  5. Amendm

    Amendm Pooh-Bah (2,305) Jun 7, 2018 Rhode Island
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    I was hanging hard the morning after the first time I tried Black Ale.
    Two years ago, I was lucky to try a six-pack of Stone Enjoy by Black IPA abv. 9.4.
    First I finished off my last Wormtown Be Hoppy while the Stone was chilling and then started in on the 6-er. A great beer, I would have given it a 4.5 if I was reviewing back then.
    Five more beers later it was time to call it a night. It may have been the first time I drank any beer that strong. Had to get up earlier than usual the next morning with an awful headache and nausea.

    At least I had one left to enjoy that night.
     
  6. BeardedWalrus

    BeardedWalrus Maven (1,440) Jun 5, 2018 North Carolina
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    Mixing sherry wine with several 10%+ DIPAs was easily one of my worst decisions in recent memory.
     
  7. NYR-Zuuuuc

    NYR-Zuuuuc Maven (1,307) Jan 1, 2013 Connecticut

    Every Monday morning during football season. What caused it? Sunday Night Football....
     
  8. scottakelly

    scottakelly Initiate (0) May 9, 2007 Ohio

    Nothing comes to mind. The nights I recall having a hangover usually end up with not only craft beer but also wine and/or scotch finding their way into the mix.

    There are a couple times that amazingly/blessedly I did not have a craft beer hangover.

    One time in my late 20s I spent a day on a boat on Norris Lake in TN. Some recent college grads decided to challenge me to a drinking competition and I was still young (dumb) enough to agree. I remember mostly drinking PIlsner Urquell with Negra Modelo and some craft being in the mix. 30+ beers later I made it through the day surprisingly well.

    Another time in college a high school buddy came down and spent a weekend with me. We started the day at the Newport Hofbrauhaus as soon as they opened (10:00 am?) and closed out the college bars up by UC (Univ. Cincinnati) at 2:30 a.m. I remember going into a bar that night with some frat special of $5 all-you-can-drink Miller Lite. After an hour or so we got ill and thought of calling it a night, but instead went to another place with craft and quickly regained our stamina!
     
  9. jvgoor3786

    jvgoor3786 Grand Pooh-Bah (4,186) May 28, 2015 Arkansas
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    Orlando, FL

    DFH Palo Santo Marron

    Scotch

    (shudders)
     
  10. Lahey

    Lahey Initiate (0) Nov 12, 2016 Michigan

    Forget the alcohol, the acidity of even 5 sours back to back would eat right through my stomach lining. You got a gast iron gullet man.
     
  11. meefmoff

    meefmoff Pooh-Bah (1,848) Jul 6, 2014 Massachusetts
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    Awesome thread. Beer is generally fairly self limiting for me since it tends to make me feel full after 3 or 4 and I'll move on to something else if I want to keep drinking (if this were bourbon advocate i'd have some stories).

    I did, however, once drink a whole six pack of Torpedo in under 3 hours one night and woke up the next morning with possibly the worst headache of my life. One of those brutal ones where it feels like there's extra room in your skull for your brain to crash around in while someone, or something, slowly crushes your eyeballs.

    Come to think of it maybe this is why I don't care much for Torpedo.
     
  12. ktr5010

    ktr5010 Savant (1,016) Dec 12, 2014 Illinois
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    Can't think of the singular worst incident in particular, but I split (kind of) a 14 Prop, VR and 13 BCBCS with my fiance in one sitting on an empty stomach. I did not feel good the next day or rather at 130 in the morning when I woke up on the bathroom floor.
     
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  13. Ten_SeventySix_Brewhouse

    Ten_SeventySix_Brewhouse Zealot (744) Jul 20, 2016 Indiana

    In college, we went to a concert and ordered a couple of buckets of beer. One of some AAL, and one of a local APA in pint-sized cans at 5.6%. Everyone else in the group drank the AALs, so I had 4-5 of the APAs myself. My wife also got me a pint of a local Irish Stout, and I hadn't ever drank any dark beer in my life up until that point. I may have had an AAL from the other bucket as well, I'm not sure.

    It doesn't sound too crazy, but that was the only time in my life I felt like dying and throwing up the entire next day. It probably doesn't help that this was at a bar that still allowed smoking indoors, and people were definitely taking them up on that offer. Of course, I was probably only 21. After that day, I learned my limits.

    The funny part is, I had to cancel dinner with the dean and his wife because I felt too sick to leave the house. I got the invitation for good grades.
     
  14. deleted_user_1007501

    deleted_user_1007501 Initiate (0) Jun 30, 2015

    Finishing off a looooong day of drinking with a BA Ten Fidy stovepipe....that hangover got me shook.
     
  15. bubseymour

    bubseymour Grand Pooh-Bah (4,656) Oct 30, 2010 Maryland
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    My worst craft beer hangovers seem to be more of the result of eatting too much really bad food in combination with beers, and not necessarily having too many beers.
    - Night of eating 3 hot/spicy Italian sausages at a firepit didn't end well.
    - Eating Maryland crabs w/ Old Bay has given me some bad days
    - Dozen buffalo wings with hot sauce (at least 2-3 occassions)...another sick next morning

    I think eating stuff with too much salt/preservatives in combo with beer adds to extra dehydration or something internal going on with me personally. Others don't seem as affected.
     
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  16. Ceddd99

    Ceddd99 Zealot (585) May 14, 2018 Michigan
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    My worst hangovers have all been from cheap beer or other types of drinks, especially cider. I will not drink cider anymore because it seems to give me hangovers, even high quality brands.
     
  17. nc41

    nc41 Initiate (0) Sep 25, 2008 North Carolina
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    No shit right. You wake up next to a lady you don't know with
    Undies wrapped around your head. And sick, sick to death. Been there with Jack too. I've gotten sick on beer , but nothing like abusing shots of whatever.
     
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  18. AlcahueteJ

    AlcahueteJ Grand Pooh-Bah (3,088) Dec 4, 2004 Massachusetts
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    It's so hard to moderate yourself with a good double IPA. Especially something as legendary as Heady. You can't get it often, so you want to make the most of it. If you're up in Burlington it's easier to find than water.

    Then you do the math and realize one can is equal to over two beers. At that point you think, "I should switch to Focal Banger", which is "only" 7%...which doesn't really help.

    Fuck you IPAs.

    You had 20 Pentagrams or the equivalent of 20 standard beers worth of Pentagram? Either way it's impressive.

    I wish I were like this. Beer has never filled me up. Food doesn't really either, but that's another story.
     
  19. AllOfTheCats

    AllOfTheCats Pundit (850) Mar 27, 2018 Wisconsin
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    My last one was from consuming a bomber of Mason Ale Works' Second Son on my own within a couple of hours. It's a 14% BA Stout and Barleywine blend (50% of each). Big barleywines tend to do me in, I'm assuming because of all of the sugar.
     
  20. BeastOfTheNortheast

    BeastOfTheNortheast Pooh-Bah (2,153) Dec 26, 2009 Pennsylvania
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    I was pretty sick after my bachelor party. We went to Pizza Boy to start out, a brewfest that afternoon, then to a strip club in some lady's house (yes, you read that right). It was BYOB, so someone ended up going down the street to the closest bar and bringing back a 6 pack of Golden Monkey.
     
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