Scientists Discover Booze That Won't Give You a Hangover

Kwang-il Kwon and Hye Gwang Jeong of Chungnam National University have discovered that drinking alcohol with oxygen bubbles added leads to fewer hangovers and a shorter sobering up time. People drinking the bubbly booze sobered up 20-30 minutes faster and had less severe and fewer hangovers than people who drank the non-fizzy stuff. Kwon said: "The oxygen-enriched alcohol beverage reduces plasma alcohol concentrations faster than a normal dissolved-oxygen alcohol beverage does. This could provide both clinical and real-life significance. The oxygen-enriched alcohol beverage would allow individuals to become sober faster, and reduce the side effects of acetaldehyde without a significant difference in alcohol's effects. Furthermore, the reduced time to a lower BAC may reduce alcohol-related accidents."

Get Back to Work!!!

[Maniacal]

No hangover - Good
Faster sober - Bad

You're not done mister, get back to the lab.

Do NOT Want

[Conchobair]

If I want to be sober, I just won't drink. However, when I do drink, (I won't drive) I want to be drunk and stay drunk. I want to be drunk all night and when I wake upside down in a sleeping bag trying to get it open with my toes, I want to wonder how I got there and not be able to remember. This just takes all the fun out of drinking.

Re:Beer

[Anonymous Coward]

no he meant 160 Proof, he doesn't f$%# around when it comes to Vodka.

Re:Beer

[sopssa]

No, I did mean 80%. It kicks ass ;)

Bah...

[mdm-adph]

You can get the same thing with an alcohol enema.

And we've all been there, right?!?

Right...?

Re:Bathroom break

[Pojut]

With our Civilization 4 drinking game (drink every time you hear Leonard Nimoy's voice from ANYONE's Civ 4 game in the LAN), there is no such thing as consuming less, lol :-)

"No thanks, I like my beer like I like my women"

[PrescriptionWarning]

cold and devoid of oxygen

Re:Beer

[Otto]

Actually, he used a percentage measurement. Which is valid on both "sides of the pond", as well as anywhere else in the universe that has "math".

Most people measure alcohol in percentage ABV. Only old-timers use "proof".

And "degrees proof" is only really used in the UK, despite it making no sense. "Degrees" of what, exactly? In America, it's just "proof", if it's used at all. Usually it ain't, as places that require labeling of ABV require a percentage measurement. Nowhere requires a "proof" to be put on there, but it is generally allowed.

Are they really sure ...

[Ihlosi]

... that putting oxygen in alcohol is a good idea? It sounds like a recipe for rocket fuel to me.

Re:Hydration

[chronosan]

Is your doctor badanalogyguy?

Re:Beer

[Anonymous Coward]

Back when I lived at the geek compound, I think we had a hangover every fucking day. Emad inisted that swallowing a load of man chowder before passing out (or after!) would get rid of the hangover -- the proteins counteract the alcohol or something. Didn't seem to work but that didn't stop us.

-- HeUnique

Re:"No thanks, I like my beer like I like my women

[Arthur Grumbine]

Stout and thick-headed?

Re:Hydration

[ameline]

I disagree -- My observation has been that it's the lack of booze in your system (after boozing) that correlates with the hangover. The easy solution; don't stop drinking.

Re:"No thanks, I like my beer like I like my women

[Anonymous Coward]

Pale and Bitter?

Re:Hope they don't try this with hard liquor

[JWSmythe]

So you're saying oxygen enriched Bacardi 151 [wikipedia.org] or 190 proof Everclear [wikipedia.org] could be hazardous? :)

Now for hookers that don't leave sores.

[Anonymous Coward]

And I'll be set!

Re:Hope they don't try this with hard liquor

[clone53421]

I’d be able to tell a story about Everclear, if only I remembered it.

Re:Beer

[CaptKeen]

A solution to the problem does exist, though. It's called "everything in moderation."

... including moderation.

I find I personally like my moderation in moderate amounts.

Re:Beer

[Red Flayer]

Eh, nevermind. Didn't realize that the UK boozers used a different formula for calculating proof.

I'll go shut up now.

Who cares what the researchers say

[Fujisawa Sensei]

Who cares what the researchers say.

I'm going to have to do my own research. In cases like this, first hand knowledge is the only way to go.

Re:"No thanks, I like my beer like I like my women

[Anonymous Coward]

full bodied and regrettable the next morning?

Re:"No thanks, I like my beer like I like my women

[Chapter80]

Flat and with yeast issues?

Re:"No thanks, I like my beer like I like my women

[Xemu]

Made under the control of the German Purity Law?

Re:My fool-proof no-hangover method

[Anonymous Coward]

I have followed this rule religiously and I have NEVER gotten a hangover. Here it is:

Drink Coke and watch everyone else get plastered.

Re:"No thanks, I like my beer like I like my women

[Valdrax]

Aged 2 months and picked up at the grocery store?

Re:Bathroom break

[jsvendsen]

Meh, I'm fine with my current strategy of drinking enough to regret it in the morning but not enough to not remember why.

Re:Hope they don't try this with hard liquor

[JWSmythe]

Ahhh, the good ol' days. I remember those parties. It's respectable-ish to start, and pretty much an orgy by the end of the night. What I wouldn't give to be a stupid teenager again. :) Maybe in the next life. Of course, we have to remember the "no fat chicks" rule on the party invitations. Well, unless one of your friends is a chubby chaser, and he'd better corral the cows out of sight. :)

    [/me ducks from the "big boned" women in the audience]