What kind of alcohol (or other substance) caused your worst hangover? Have you consumed it since?
Believe it or not, I got obliterated my freshman year in college on Bud Ice and had a miserable hangover. The smell, taste, and even sight of Bud Ice makes me ill to this day.
I also got really sick once on Southern Comfort and no longer can consume said alcohol.
Gin, Tequila, Vodka, Red Wine, on the other hand, are all still fine. So far…
Sierra Navada. I was in DC on some business and stopped by my favorite restaurant for lunch and some beers (and brandy … I think) and then did a little holiday shopping.
Wandering the streets I found a nice Irish bar and nested there for most the night. No idea how many SNs I had, but I was veeeeery ill the next day.
Long Island Iced Tea.
One of our college bars used to make a mean Long Island. A friend and I sat there one night and drank way too many. I was so drunk that I puked on my living room floor because I was too sick to get from the couch to the bathroom. Ick. I can’t even stand the smell of that drink.
A home-brewed cyser. 4 gallons of apple juice, 2 pints of water, 4 pints of honey, champagne yeast. Net result: 4 1/2 gallons of 13% alcohol apple juice. I drank three of them and only did the math after finishing the third one: “Hey, that’s like drinking nine homebrews in an hour and a half!”
I hope never to be that sick again. Ever.
Newfie Screech.
Homemade liquor. About 400 proof.
Bleh.
Half a litre of neat rum. We ran out of vodka. Ouch.
Also, 2 or more glasses of red wine together with a significant amount of beer/vodka/whisky/other spirits is a recipe for disaster.
apart from having my drink spiked with potcheen?
i’d have to go with the lethal combination of beer, rum, tequila, vodka and genuine 70% absinthe in prague a couple of years ago.
i actually wasn’t sober until about 3pm the next day, and soon wished i wasn’t.
so my words of wisdom folks:
czech beer is 12% and cheap,
the tequila is cheap and nasty,
ditto rum.
they give you free shots of vodka to make you leave bars (didn’t work 
)
and absinthe is evil.
i’m a very small girl and i reckon i had about 20 units of alcohol (forgot to add in the extra from the beer at the time) in about 4 hours.
i wouldn’t recommend it.
Riunite’ on ice (it wasn’t nice).
Whisky and Vodka
At a party the opening weekend of law school (fortunately, this wasn’t IN the school), I got badly hammered on some noxious combination of Pepsi, vodka, caluha and rum. And this was me meeting most of my classmates for the first time.
The worst part was that somebody asked me to help them move furniture into his apartment the next day. It was quite the penance: I was muttering “NEVER AGAIN” to myself the whole time.
Well, I’m not a drinker, but I was quite the fan of assorted substances back in the day. That being said, the worst I have ever ever ever felt in my entire life was the muddle-headed, eye-throbbing, muscle-aching, bone-cracking hangover I had from an all-night acid and nitrous bender. And no, I never again combined the two. Actually, I think that was the last time I did nitrous period. Ugh…my head’s starting to hurt just thinking about it.
I was going to pop in and say Goldschlager.
But then I read the words Long Island Iced Tea and went “Oh, God!” and shivered.
They’re neck and neck, but I’d say the tea wins by nose.
Beer and hash. I’ve tried them together and separately since, but for whatever reason the first time I combined them I was in total “death would be a sweet relief” zombie mode for three entire days.
Extremely cheap wine, rum and tequila is another winning combination, but I’d take that hangover every day for the rest of my life rather than have the one mentioned above ever again.
As you can see here, Mr. J and Mr. B were to blame for mine. Now I can’t even look at whiskey without gagging.
In high school, I had a “buyer” for alcohol that would get me and my friends a couple of big bottles of Southern Comfort every week. He was an odd character, and it would upset him for us to change our order. So, 2 big bottles of SoCo. Every week. Whether we wanted it or not.
See, even if you didn’t have party plans that week, to a high school kid having a couple bottles of SoCo around isn’t a bad thing. Ever.
Well, one day at a party in the woods I drank too much and puked. Funny thing was, I wasn’t even that drunk. I have only puked a few times in my life that I can recall and I despise the feeling of it. Well, after that I couldn’t stomach a drop of the stuff. To this day, I still can’t stand Southern Comfort and it’s been about 10 years now.
An entire bottle of Brass Monkey consumed by my lonesome on this past New Years Eve. The only time I’ve ever gotten sick from drinking too much or had a hangover.
I’ve got another bottle waiting for me in my friend’s fridge.
Oh my… Yukon Jack. aka Pukon Jack. I was in high school, and was drinking in the woods with my friends. I got sick in the foundation of a house that was under construction, and actually bit my friends when they tried to carry me home. I think I vomited blood that nite. I still shudder when I pass that stuff in the liquor store.
Kirsch. Yes, the fondue liquor. Not good times. Bad times.
My worst hangover was from Cachasa ( a white sugarcane rum) mixed with honey. Tasted fine that night, made me wish I was dead afterwards.
My second worst was a friend’s drunken combination of tequla, everclear, and Captain Morgan’s Rum.
I can drink cachasa if it is well mixed with other stuff. I can’t even smell any of the other stuff.
Sagittarian. I’m talkin’ emotional hangover here.