How Not To Get Drunk

This isn't a secret anymore. I do drink. In fact, I wrote about it sometime ago. I've also had my share of hangovers (two to be exact) and I'm not proud of each one. 

On a positive note, I make sure that I never get drunk. I always drink lots of water beforehand, eat a proper meal, and regulate my pacing at all times.

Thankfully, there's another tip I can add to my list. This tip involves ingesting a small amount of active dry yeast before drinking and was brought to me courtesy of an article by Aaron Goldfarb:

"You wanna know my secret? How I can drink beer all night long and never get drunk?" 

In fact, I had always wondered that. Though this was the first time I’d ever formally met Koch, I’d “met” him in the past at a few beer festivals. Those sorts of events are always kind of Bacchanalian shit shows, with people imbibing dozens of beer samples in a short period and soon stumbling around large convention halls drunk of their asses. Brewers included. But not Koch, who I’d long noticed was always lucid, always able to hold court, and hold his own with those much younger than him. This billionaire brewing raconteur was doing likewise with me at 4 PM on a Thursday afternoon despite the fact we were both now several beers deep. So what was the secret?

“Yeast!”

“Yeast?”

“Active yeast. Like you get at the grocery store.”

Koch told me that for years he has swallowed your standard Fleischmann’s dry yeast before he drinks, stirring the white powdery substance in with some yogurt to make it more palatable.

“One teaspoon per beer, right before you start drinking.”

You can read the rest of the article here. It also shows you the scientific reason why.