Enjoy Alcohol, Without the Hangover

Re:Enjoy Alcohol, Without the Hangover by bratgpttamer on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:08AM (#36921005)

I read something a while back where the owner/CEO/VP/Head Brewer of Sam Adams, who was expected to go to certain beer/brewing events and basically have a beer with each vendor, would eat a packet of yeast beforehand.

He claimed it allowed him to make his rounds and sample everyone's beer without getting drunk/hungover.

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Re:Enjoy Alcohol, Without the Hangover by danwilkerson on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:25AM (#36921162)

Sadly, debunked:

https://www.mashed.com/439154/can-eating-yeast-really-preven....

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Re:Enjoy Alcohol, Without the Hangover by distortionfield on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:20AM (#36921116)

Whoa, I had never heard of this before but there seems to be something to this.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/07/10/327854051/al...

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Re:Enjoy Alcohol, Without the Hangover by jrmg on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:23PM (#36926340)

The article at that link seems to show there’s _not_ something to it - it doesn’t work.

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Re:Enjoy Alcohol, Without the Hangover by thumbuddy on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:20AM (#36921117)

I can't imagine a mechanism where that's plausible, but it wouldn't be the first time I felt that way and was shown something surprising. He probably just built up a tolerance.

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Re:Enjoy Alcohol, Without the Hangover by yuppie_scum on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:05PM (#36921566)

I used to see Jim Koch at those events and he’d be pretty lit up.

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Re:Enjoy Alcohol, Without the Hangover by znpy on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:24PM (#36921781)

That doesn’t really make sense. Yeasts consume sugars and emit alcohol and co2 ad byproducts. They can’t process alcohol and too much alcohol kills the yeasts.

If anything, eating yeasts should make things worse, as yeasts might have a chance to digest some sugars and produce more alcohol (unlikely to happen, if you ask me)

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