Bourbon versus vodka: Bourbon hurts more the next day, performance is the same

Brown University ^ | 18-Dec-2009 | Damaris J. Rohsenow, Ph.D.

[Pharmboy]

New year's is coming...all you mathematicians out there: Please don't drink and derive.

[Pharmboy]

Ping...

[gibsosa]

bump

[Dr. Sivana]

Finally, a study worth funding!

[Rodebrecht]

Is it too early for whiskey sours?

[HiTech RedNeck]

One thing they didn’t tell us — does the presence of the congeners affect the rate at which the alcohol itself wears off?

[1rudeboy]

This study is worthless as long as it didn't observe the result on people who drink bourbon and vodka in order to even things out.

[bcsco]

I’ll stick with bourbon. It’s American, I enjoy the taste of good bourbon, and I don’t drink enough to worry about after affects.

[70th Division]

Ping, Bump, Run into door, Fall down. LOL

[GulfBreeze]

This thread is useless without recipes, instructions and a blender.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Bourbon sure does taste better than vodka!

[Recon Dad]

20 minutes of 10 here and I have the maraschino cherry!

[thefactor]

I had always heard that it’s better to drink clear alcohols. Less hangover. Brown alcohols were said to have more pollutants. I do love me some Captain Morgan’s, though. But Stoli is just as good.

[Pharmboy]

You make a key point: I have a few drinks before dinner, and that’s that—never feel bad in the AM. If you drink a crazy amount of ANYTHING, you’ll feel it the next day.

[thefactor]

Now you’ve done it. He’s gonna post the recipe for George Washington’s rum punch.

[1rudeboy]

There’s a scene in a Marilyn Monroe movie (I think) where Jack Lemmon (I think) claims that it’s unbearable to go to work in the morning without one or two whiskey sours.

[Pharmboy]

...and what is strange for me (and I have noticed this on several occasions), vodka puts me in a bad mood and can even make a sweet guy like me mean. It never happens with any other alcohol...very weird.

Also, I believe that the finer the whiskey (i.e., the more it is aged) it is easier to tolerate larger portions ( but I have no proof to back that up).

[Tzimisce]

Big piles of your tax money helped pay for this!

Remember that while you’re job hunting. :)

[Recon Dad]

That's because Bourbon distilling is an art form performed by artisans, where as Vodka production is done by underpaid Mexicans in dirt holes just outside of Juarez.

[trad_anglican]

impairment in people's next-day task performance is about the same for both bourbon and vodka

which is why we should all be drinking gin