Here are some tips for a more enjoyable drinking session anytime, anywhere.
1. Drink beer while cold. It is always best to drink beer cold. You can drink it as fast as you can without much of an after taste. I have been drinking San Miguel Beer myself. And I drink it cold... very cold.
2. Gulp about half a glass of oil. My friends in the street corners once told me, "to stay long in a drinking session, gulp about half a glass of edible oil to line your stomach with water rejecting oil so it will not absorb much alcohol into your blood stream.
3. Eat oily food. Here in the Philippines, we have what we call pulutan or beer-matches - foods eaten together with beer. Again, the street corner boys suggested selecting oily foods as pulutan. This will also line your stomach with oil to lessen alcohol absorption.
4. Hard first before beer. It has always been a good practice to drink hard drinks first - whiskey, rhum, bourbon - before your drink beer. Alcohol content of hard drinks, being high, get's easily absorbed by the body thus affecting the sobriety of the drinker. On the other hand, beer takes longer to affect a person.
1. Drink beer while cold. It is always best to drink beer cold. You can drink it as fast as you can without much of an after taste. I have been drinking San Miguel Beer myself. And I drink it cold... very cold.
2. Gulp about half a glass of oil. My friends in the street corners once told me, "to stay long in a drinking session, gulp about half a glass of edible oil to line your stomach with water rejecting oil so it will not absorb much alcohol into your blood stream.
3. Eat oily food. Here in the Philippines, we have what we call pulutan or beer-matches - foods eaten together with beer. Again, the street corner boys suggested selecting oily foods as pulutan. This will also line your stomach with oil to lessen alcohol absorption.
4. Hard first before beer. It has always been a good practice to drink hard drinks first - whiskey, rhum, bourbon - before your drink beer. Alcohol content of hard drinks, being high, get's easily absorbed by the body thus affecting the sobriety of the drinker. On the other hand, beer takes longer to affect a person.
So, if you drink whiskey before you drink beer, by the time beer alcohol takes effect, whiskey alcohol effect has waned down. But if you drink beer first and then drink whiskey, fast acting whiskey alcohol will come into effect just as beer alcohol hits you taking you taking your consciousness into a wild ride down the rabbit hole.
5. Beer then wash with brandy. In another advise from a professional acquaintance, it is best to wash down beer with brandy. It was indeed. But our situation, however, is that we only had a few beers. We did not have any full blown drinking session that needed us to crawl back home.
After about 6 bottles each from a seaport side umbrella covered side walk drinking store in Tacloban, Cebu, we retired to the hotel's bar where we each had 2 shots of brandy to wash down our beer. In the morning, we were fresh as daisies sans hang over.
6. Brandy before dinner. That same acquaintance gave me another tip. Brandy first before meals. I never got to practice this but this is what he does: He drinks several shots of brandy until he feels a little light or tipsy. When that happens, he goes ahead and eats his dinner. I did not catch the scientific and probably medical explanation for that but he seems to have been fine after.
Happy drinking!
After about 6 bottles each from a seaport side umbrella covered side walk drinking store in Tacloban, Cebu, we retired to the hotel's bar where we each had 2 shots of brandy to wash down our beer. In the morning, we were fresh as daisies sans hang over.
6. Brandy before dinner. That same acquaintance gave me another tip. Brandy first before meals. I never got to practice this but this is what he does: He drinks several shots of brandy until he feels a little light or tipsy. When that happens, he goes ahead and eats his dinner. I did not catch the scientific and probably medical explanation for that but he seems to have been fine after.
Happy drinking!
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