"Beer before liquor, never been sicker." - True or False?

'Beer Before Wine, You'll Be Fine' Myth Debunked by New Hangover Study

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HELEN MURPHY

 

Everyone knows the old rhymes about how to prevent a hangover by having your alcoholic drinks in a specific order (“Beer before liquor; never been sicker,” “Beer before wine; you’ll be fine,” to name a few) — but how true are they?

Turns out it may not matter what drink you have first, according to a new study by researchers at the Witten/Herdecke University in Germany and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

The study, published in February, examined whether the order of alcohol you drink in a night matters, specifically exploring the age-old advice to drink beer before wine to prevent a hangover.

The study examined 90 German medical and psychology students ranging from ages 19 to 40. Researchers divided the subjects into three groups.

One group drank about 2.5 pints of beer followed by about four glasses of wine. The second group drank the four glasses of wine first, followed by 2.5 pints of beer. The third group (the control group) drank either only beer or only wine.

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