Half a bottle of Bushmills white label yesterday evening, drank like Bourbon with loads of ice. That whiskey is too quaffable, but fortunately, I stopped and went to bed before doing the full bottle. No ill effects this morning.

Triple distilled whiskey i.e. Irish and Auchentoshan in Scotland are winners on the alcohol purity stakes.

Etna Rosso San Lorenzo 2008. Too young - v tight and controlled and I think it will be great but the tannins are too prominent at the moment and it's a bit dumb. Even overnight in the decanter didn't help. It goes away for at least 18 months.

Half a bottle is equivalent to around of 7 pints of normal 3.6% beer. I started at around 5 and finished at around 10.30pm. Plenty of time.

My experience with really good whisky, when not mixed with any other alcohol, then you can drink half a bottle easy and have very little ill effects in the morning. I once did three quarters of a bottle of 21 year old Port Ellen and got up for work and you could not tell I had been drinking. I had no hangover whatsoever. I had started drinking around 2pm and finished around 11pm. I've never done a full bottle in one go.

I do try and limit my intake to no more than a quarter of a bottle of whisky in any one sitting. But there are expressions out there, Bushmills white being one of them, which are notorious for being deceptively easy to drink. When you've done half a bottle in, and you still feel you can easily drink a couple more wee drams, then its definitely time to stop.

No, a great concept though.

They have a 'Rent a Bob' over in the Netherlands. You get a young hungry student on a folding scooter come and pick you up and drive you home whilst you regail him with drunken tales of derring-do and fights with the crew of American aircrft carriers in tropical flea bitten bars and whore houses somewhere in the South China Seas. It makes you feel good and its cheaper than a normal taxi too.

The say there's two types of hangover: the dehydration and the blood sugar level one.

You can take effective action against the first, and a fine rearguard action against the second.

Well, there's a third; the impurity overload hangover. Especially virilent with Stella Artois and bum wine. You can't take mitigating action against this hangover, only ride it out with Lucozade and Coca Cola. Either way, it will be with you all day and quite possibly a second day.

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an old fashioned.......hey a got a good mind ta call the FBI! Im drinking in a speakeasy in Bushwick, the hipster barman is wearing a vest. not that Im into all that.

Still debating whether to purchase the 4.5 litre bottle thats on sale, from this experiment with a 35cl bottle of Red, I will go for the bid red one.[

Benchmark, a very nice bourbon.

It's a long time since I've had hangovers of such intensity, but I've been there. Oddly, when I was doing copious ammounts of illicit substances, I never once had a hangover. No matter how much I boozed or how many 2-4-6-8 never too late for another white line 24/36 hour marathon sessions listening to the complete works of Lou Reed and David Byrne whilst 500 Euro an hour escort girls joined in the afrodiziac phases of coke fuelled bliss.

Well, I'm talking about coke, not speed. Stella Artois and speed hangovers are something else, they can last three or four days, evil stuff. You have to have some constitution to become a speedfreak.

Of course these days the intro of Sweet Jane from "Rock n Roll Animal" doesn't move me at all, I tune straight away into John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High" and the BBC repeats of Floggit. Fuckin' boring isn't it.