I'm putting up this poll because I was curious after Small Town Boy's comment about getting a hangover because the beer is stronger at Oktoberfest. In my fairly exhaustive research into Oktoberfest (14 of them), I've never had a hangover if I only drank the beer. And this isn't a girlie one beer and no hangover, I think my record is about 4.5 Maßes in 4 hours, which is A LOT of beer for me. Still, the next day I was tired, but not in bad shape. How is it with other people?
acockreland2balls
03.Sep.2007 12:52 hrs
if it's Spatenbraeu I'm in hangover city, if it's Augustiner then everything's more or less rosy
sarabyrd
03.Sep.2007 12:54 hrs
I am ok after 3 Maß if I get enough sleep but I do tend to have the parrot cage-mouth syndrome the next day as I generally don't drink Helles. Never happens after the same amount of Weißbier.
Eleanor Rigby
03.Sep.2007 12:55 hrs
Depends how much you dance. If I'm dancing I can drink a lot more and get less drunk and hungover than if I'm just sitting around drinking.
MonksTown
03.Sep.2007 12:55 hrs
If you stick to the beer and nothing els and then go home after leaving the fest it is OK.
But its shots and dropping into a local on the wy home tht are the killers.
Carm
03.Sep.2007 12:55 hrs
like Showem said, its not usually the beer for me, it just being tired the next day, esp. after the Hash saturday.
Small Town Boy
03.Sep.2007 12:56 hrs
For me it depends on how much time elapses between finishing drinking and going to sleep - i.e. to what extent I can sober up before passing out. Last night I drank a couple of litres of isotonic drinks after drinking 4 Maß and today I'm only slightly fucked.
MonksTown
03.Sep.2007 12:56 hrs
Depends how much you dance.
Oh shit, I remember dancing now at the Freisinger Volksfest...
pootle
03.Sep.2007 12:56 hrs
You missed the option - "I only get a hangover if pootle force feeds my schnapps with every helles"
Roll on the fest!
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clepto
03.Sep.2007 12:58 hrs
I was always amazed at how well I was feeling the day after a visit to the Oktoberfest, especially considering the state in which I arrived home.
As Showem said, tired yeah, but no hangover.
I think that if I drink any other beer in those amounts in such short time, I usually get one, at least a headache.
Katrina
03.Sep.2007 12:59 hrs
You missed the option - "I only get a hangover if pootle force feeds my schnapps with every helles"
If that box had been available, that's what I would have picked.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Will it ever be any different?
I hope not!
Hutcho
03.Sep.2007 13:07 hrs
3 or more mass and I'll definitely feel it the next day.. doesn't matter if it's Oktoberfest beer or just normal beer.. and it's getting worse.. 5 years ago, would have been no problem..
Allershausen
03.Sep.2007 13:20 hrs
Well I'm really tired today after drinking 4 or 5 maß, I think, I always lose count, in Freising yesterday, no headache but definitely secondhand. Should have had a liter of water before I went to bed, which is what I usually do after a wiesn visit.
iain
03.Sep.2007 13:28 hrs
feeling quite alright myself however I did remember half way through the night that I had to run the trash bin out. Glad I caught that one. I did have a lot of beer, but also a lot of water too.
Matt T
03.Sep.2007 13:29 hrs
The next day? There's a next day after an Oktoberfest visit?