Originally posted by Neubob
The head's okay. Thanks for asking.
I did find that everclear gives remarkably low impact hangovers, even better than good vodka. Makes sense, I guess. When you don't put anything but alcohol into a drink, there's that much less garbage to gum up the works the next morning.
I sometimes drink pure alcohol, usually in grog. It all depends on the quantity. I drink in quantities that are incompatible with life sometimes
In the mountains we carry pure ethanol too, there I prefer it straight, chasing with water and some onion, garlic and dry black bread (nothing much to eat before the dinner is cooked on a campfire). The problem is that when you mix it with water - it produces heat, so even coldest water from a mountain brook gets warm. And it feels like the same crap but you have more to swallow. 50ml of ethanol after walking for 8-12 hours with a full load doesn't make you drunk, you just feel as good as new for maybe 2 hours, all the fatigue is gone.
