Different intoxications from different beers

Effects from different hop strains, much like cannabis (as you stated), can vary.

I've always noted the superior buzz I get from Heady Topper. Surely it's a amazingly crafted beer on all fronts, but I feel the hop strains used and their amounts, is dead on.

 

Fermentation temperature and length of fermentation and/or secondary fermentation a are HUGE factors as well. Beer fermented at higher temperature has more fusel alcohols and esters, which are contributing factors to hangovers. Theoretically, a multi distilled vodka has the least amount of hangover induced chemicals because everything is distilled out, leaving only alcohol. Every alcohol is different, so I would say the OP could have differing effects depending on alcohol consumed.

 

Is this fact?

 

I think it's some other compound in the beers. Going back decades I've known a number of people, me included, who get headaches and a hangover effect from small amounts of Budweiser. So if I'm someplace where macro brews are my only choice, it's anything but Bud.

 

I tried crazy mountain's neomexicanus hopped pale ale and a pint of that while only being 6% gave me a different/nice buzz completely unrelated to alcohol.

 

Do higher alcohols like fusels affect us much? in distillation of whisky they get rid of the heads and tails, ie the different alcohols that have a different boiling point to ethanol. But in beer we don't do that, so perhaps different yeasts/grists can produce differing amounts of those other alcohols that affect us in different ways.

 

I have a hard time, obviously, by my two posts above thinking that any alcohol can give you a different "buzz" or a different headache than any other, if we are talking the same alcohol's here. Not sure that a mixing of different grains would change the type of hangover you would have. Someone will have to show me scientific proof.

Other factors, like the amount of hydration one already has when they start consuming beer, or lack of sufficient caffeine in their system causing a caffeine withdrawal prior to drinking or allergy effect or such may play a part, but not just straight Alcohol. There is no real variable in that, at least to my knowledge.

Ethanol is it, there better not be any other alcohol's in a beer, or we are talking potentially serious hazards to one's body.

 

nope, its total bs. but lets not let it get in the way of lots of odd ball theories. it is beer talk. lol

read Hops, the book, by Stan Hieronymus

 

@azorie

You must have missed the various charts throughout the book regarding hop oils, their percentages in each hop, as well as the many varying characteristics in aroma, taste.

One could logically gather that the medicinal properties may slightly vary from strain to strain. Take it one step further and start experimenting with hop teas.

 

we assume he is normal regular guy, that maybe had a few too many bongs hits, and beers and IMHO just came up with a semi original beer talk question.....I am sure I am wrong though, lol

 

I was going to state that congeners could be a factor. I do get a different "clear headed" buzz from those vodka's/gins that have been distilled god knows how many times. But I honestly drink beer in particular for taste not for buzz and the buzz is a pleasant side effect of drinking them. So, based upon that logic I would drink only multiple distilled neutral grain spirits with no taste (to me) but alcohol, because all I am searching for is a buzz. But that is not why I drink beer, rum, or whiskey. I drink them because I like the taste, I suppose, that the congeners impart into the beverage that I choose to drink. Sometimes one has to suffer in order to truly appreciate pleasure.

 

nope I seen them, chemicals are alpha and beta oils right? mainly right,. they get boiled off and impart flavor? What do they leave behind that effects the brain, I did not read that part, give me a page number I be glad to go back and reread it.

 

cool. the smoke part was just me being silly.
I been known to enjoy a few In Amsterdam with my beer... i been known to see some pink elephants at times, j/k.....

its beer chat. who cares, its not like its rocket science anyway....
Prost.

 

Page 138 is a good place to start.

Then, if you have too much time on your hands like myself, you could begin looking into the various oils. Myrcene, limonene, linalool, caryophyllene and so forth. You'll find lots of them are contained in other herbs as well. Then you'll see studies of other herbs directly correlate those compounds to medicinal effects given.

Either way, you're right. It's beer.

 

I dunno, I can certainly tell a different type of intoxication when I drink Tequila. I am the happiest drunk in the world off anything but Tequila. It tends to get me "roudy" and aggressive and I don't like that. It affects me differently than anything else and is why I stay away from it.

 

Well, 'cause no one else has said it, Ethanol is Ethanol!

 

I too over last 10 years or so have encountered a few rare occassions of very bad "morning after" badly nauseated situations with beer with similar issues as you are describing above. Similarly most every time I was impaired but far from drunk and not very intoxicated the night before at all. Just wondering, have you had your gall bladder removed? I'm trying to find coorelation. Sometimes I even feel fine initially, wake up early, shower, eat breakfast because I'm hungry, them WAMMO, out of no where I turn pale, extremely lethargic, badly nauseated/vomiting for a few hrs and then feel fine again by afternoon. This isn't very often, maybe 7-8 times over the last 10 years at best, just a few random weird occassions after having a few beers. Maybe its some other health issue going on with me but a few beers is always the consistent denominator to it, and the fact I don't recall having this issue before I had my gall bladder removed.