Does drinking lower quality alcohol give you worse hangovers?

Hangover is caused by dehydration. Alcohol causes the brain to stop producing a substance that tells kidneys to keep water in the blood, so after a while everything you drink goes straight to the bladder. read more

Drinking any alcoholic beverage, especially to excess, can lead to a headache and a bad hangover. The root of it all is dehydration. Alcohol is a diuretic. It makes you pee more, which means less water for your internal organs. Your organs then try to borrow water from anywhere they can, including your brain. read more

You're not imagining it: Some mornings after parties are worse than others—even if you drink the same amount. Hangovers, or veisalgia, as scientists refer to it, are our body's way of telling us that we've overindulged on alcohol. read more