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Originally Posted by Lurker

Actaually there are other chemicals in alcoholic drinks that intoxicate you, apart from ethanol, such as methanol. The darker the drink the more of these other drugs there are. So something like vodka is going to have hardly any or nothing of these other drugs, whereas guinness will fuck you up. It's why different drinks get you drunk in different ways and also why the hair of the dog hangover cure works. Methanol breaks down in the body into formaldehyde, which is a big cause of hangover, but ethanol slows the breaking down of the methanol and so alleviates the hangover.


Also Everyone should look at this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...rugsandalcohol

yes, yes--- champagne has aldehydes that get you fucked up good.

i was merely making a point about isolating a component in a chemical mishmash.

but everyone should know their booze.

because that's how you make great cocktails-- ha!