Oh! The cafe', I forgot the cafe'.

Just had me some double-roasted espresso that I get from the local Armenian grocery here in L.I.C.

Good stuff.

Made it in our stove-top Bialetti mocha pot at work.

1. black coffee
2. dewar's scotch
3. budweiser
4. good tequila
5. i really like red wine, but it hates me. i get an almost immediate headache upon consumption of one glass. a really dull, bastard of a headache that lasts the entire next day. just like the one i have right now because i tried some wine last night. anyone else have this happen to them?

chad wrote:really like red wine, but it hates me. i get an almost immediate headache upon consumption of one glass. anyone else have this happen to them?

I do. I love red wine, but it gives me the headaches. It's not a hangover thing, either. It's a different beast altogether.

but it gives me the headaches

ah! 'red-wine drinker's headache syndrome' - this might be worth a moment of your time?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine ... 60,00.html

1. Water
2. Bombay Dry 'n' Tonic (Sapphire gives me amnesia)
3. Vodka Gimlets (Absolut Level is the preferred vodka)
4. Anything brewed by Bell's, Sierra Nevada, Grant's, or myself

Tannins

Winemakers don't leave the grape skins in the white wines as long, so the tannins aren't transmitted to white wine (or, not nearly as much). Rotgut red wine probably includes pressed seeds, which is a tannin nightmare.

I am very happy to not suffer from this (you should see my recycling bin) but have friends who do.

cjh wrote:ah! 'red-wine drinker's headache syndrome' - this might be worth a moment of your time?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine ... 60,00.html

That's interesting. I don't get headaches, but sometimes if I drink a few glasses of red or have a few pints of darker beer, my face gets all flushed, I get hot and my breathing gets kind of wheezy. If I drink some water it goes away pretty quick. Anyway, I think it has something to do with a histamine in the wine or beer that causes this as well. Anyone else have this happen?

cjh wrote:http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1307060,00.html

Oop - better article than mine on tannins.

She can also, she discovered on holiday, drink Retsina without side effects, although I'm not sure that's great news.

Ha! (It took months in Athens before I could stomach this stuff. They put pine resin into white wine on purpose, for God's sake. Now, of course, I kind of like it. Errr, every other year or so, I mean.)

According to colleagues who suffer from the same condition, the other solution is to take...a hay-fever tablet an hour before you drink a glass of wine.

I can't imagine doing this. I'd fall out of my chair. Right?

This will not help with the wine headaches, but it is a great hangover cure:

Before going to bed, take:

2 Aspirin (not Tylonol, Aleve, Ibuprofin etc. ASPIRIN)
1 Vitamin B6
1 Vitamin B12
1 pint water

Alcohol depletes your body's supply of B vitamins, so if you really went on a bender, you can double-up on the Bs. This combination has saved me from what would certainly have been some of the worst hangovers ever experienced by man.

The Tyke wrote:

cjh wrote:ah! 'red-wine drinker's headache syndrome' - this might be worth a moment of your time?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine ... 60,00.html

That's interesting. I don't get headaches, but sometimes if I drink a few glasses of red or have a few pints of darker beer, my face gets all flushed, I get hot and my breathing gets kind of wheezy. If I drink some water it goes away pretty quick. Anyway, I think it has something to do with a histamine in the wine or beer that causes this as well. Anyone else have this happen?

Uh...I think this would happen to all humans in this situation. It's your body screaming at you for some WATER!
Really it's that simple. Coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, etc. cause major dehydration, so you need to be drinking water with those few glasses of wine/beer, and most likely this won't happen anymore, no?

Take it from someone who knows. Someone who drinks enough to know.