🚀 go-pugleaf

kuno@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp (Yasushi Kuno) writes:

>dirceu@taurus.cse.kyutech.ac.jp (Dirceu G. Cavendish Jr.) writes:
>> What about hangovers. I always get some the day after drinking sake, but
>> i've never experienced hangover due to shochu. Which is strongest?
>> I like hot sake a lot, but i simple can't handle the next day hangover.

>    Yes, that's why I do not have sake much.  I suspect that some
>components contained in sake might cause them.
>
>    Shochu is surely stronger, but it's a sprirt, its taste is almost
>entierly that of alcohl (??? I'm not sure about the spelling),
>especially those used for chu-hai, and this might be the reason we
>rarely experience hangovers for shochu.

I asked a chemist about this and he said that it's not the alcohol
(always hard to spell, hope I got it right!) but the lees or dregs
(that is, what's left in the liquid from the fermentation).
Distilled products don't have any, but wine (sake is a wine) does. 
 
For whatever reason, I find I have a worse hangover from hot sake,
but cold nama sake goes well :-)

Dave

--
Dave McLane                                       davidg@aegis.or.jp
You're free to copy/quote/translate this as long as credit is given. 
Nagaokakyoshi, Kyoto Japan Tel: +81-75-951-1168 Fax: +81-75-957-1087