# Homebrewed hangover

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 31, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homebrewed-hangover/198732 "2003-08-31T02:01:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![starman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@starman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/starman)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homebrewed-hangover/198732/1 "2003-08-31T02:01:50Z")

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Last night I had a couple of glasses of some cider I brewed a couple of weeks back. Now, normally I don’t get hangovers. A slightly fuzzy head perhaps, but nothing like this!  
I feel like there is a little guy in my head mashing up my brain with a sledgehammer!  
The juice I brewed to make the cider was unfiltered, so I am hypothesising that the yeasties chomped up the cellulose and produced methanol, an essential ingredient in any really top class hangover.  
Thoughts?  
-Oli

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**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homebrewed-hangover/198732/2 "2003-08-31T02:36:00Z")

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You may have had an alergic reaction to the yeast. Were your sinuses clogged up causing a massive headache?

Some people have a similar reaction to dark draft beer that is not pasteurized to kill the yeast.

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**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homebrewed-hangover/198732/3 "2003-08-31T02:40:23Z")

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A couple of weeks seems a pretty quick secondary ferment fo cider. That’d be a bare minimum for an ale, and I’ve always found cider took a whole lot longer to be ready. Was it sweet and flat?

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**Author:** ![starman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@starman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/starman)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homebrewed-hangover/198732/4 "2003-08-31T03:00:16Z")

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No, actually, It was quite harsh… at a guess, I’d say about 8%. Lightly carbonated. I’ve never brewed before. I just shoved an airlock on the top of a juice bottle and brewed in that. Turned out suprisingly drinkable.  
-Oli

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**Author:** ![starman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@starman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/starman)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homebrewed-hangover/198732/5 "2003-08-31T03:02:08Z")

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No, actually, It was quite harsh… at a guess, I’d say about 8%. Lightly carbonated. I’ve never brewed before. I just shoved an airlock on the top of a juice bottle and brewed in that. Turned out suprisingly drinkable. I used one of those “Oztops” kits.  
-Oli