Everyone has a tried and true hangover cure: fried food, more alcohol, over-the-counter analgesics, medically-induced comas, etc etc.

As with every illness, however, prevention is the best cure.

(Obviously the best way to avoid a hangover would be to stay sober. But we all know that’s not an option. In fact, we’re disappointed in you for making us mention it.)

Luckily our bitter enemies kindred spirits at Urban Monarch have posted the foolproof five simple rules to drink to excess and avoid a hangover. For example:

RULE # 2 : Stick to top shelf booze

Part of what causes a hangover is the amount of contaminents which remain in the liquor after the filtration process in complete. Higher quality (and yes, priced) liquor constantly advertises the fact that additional distillation is used (”Triple Distilled!”) for a reason; it makes the taste smoother and eases your body’s work in processing it. And leads to a lot less hangovers.

They all make sense, and there’s nothing there that we haven’t heard before.

But it’s amazing how soon we forget them when the thinking turns to drinking.

A tippler’s life for me : preventing hangovers [Urban Monarch via
Liquor Snob]