Study: Beer beats water for (post activity) hydration

[DougPaul]

Good news for you post-hike beer drinkers...
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Health/2007/11/02/study_beer_beats_water_for_hydration/7563/

Note that the subjects were only given 1 pint of beer.

Doug

 

[Woody]

I didn't need a research project to tell me this!

I've been practicing this method of rehydration for the past 34 years!

 

[Kevin Rooney]

I wonder to what extent beer companies, like Corona, contributed to the 'study'?

Now we just need a 'study' underwritten by Jack Daniels ...

 

[bikehikeskifish]

Boilermakers. Best of both worlds!

Tim

 

[Rols]

I feel obligated to double check this research.

 

[Tom Rankin]

Another reason we should all be doing:

VIEWS AND BREWS!!!

 

[sweeper]

I wonder to what extent beer companies, like Corona, contributed to the 'study'?

Now we just need a 'study' underwritten by Jack Daniels ...

Real beer drink'rs know that if that's the way you get your Vit-C, Scruvy can't be that bad.

Life is TOOOooo short to drink Bad beer

 

[Paradox]

Life is good!

 

[McRat]

Yeah... but who drinks water by the six-pack?

"(hic!) Thorry Ossifer... I'm not drunk... I'm jush really... REALLY... hydrated!"

 

[MattC]

As long as one does not reach the point of intoxication, it seems obvious that beer is a good source of clean water, calories, and even some nutrients. This study only gave the subjects a pint, which seems just about right. Human beings have been drinking beer as part of a healthy diet for millenia. The whole drinking beer to get smashed thing seems to be a more recent phenomena.

Some of my current favorites for "re-hydration" include Brooklyn Lager, Pilsner Urquell, and just about any good Pale Ale-Sierra Nevada,Wolavers, Magic Hat, Saranac, etc. And of course the fine brews of Keegans Ales, brewed in Kingston, NY. Support your local brewer! Or, better yet, brew it yourself!

Matt

 

[griffin]

Is it safe to mix beer with chocolate milk?

 

[DougPaul]

Is it safe to mix beer with chocolate milk?

Probably, as long as you mix it in your stomach...

Actually, I use chocolate [skim] milk at home and plain water or electrolyte drink at the trailhead as recovery drinks. I've never tried beer as a post-exercise drink.


I would like to note that the study did not appear to include any reaction-time measurements as a function of the post-exercise drink. And the report did not say who funded the study...

Doug

 

[--M.]

Beer is the tastiest thing going during the post-hike endorphin rush, but it has one instant disqualifier for me while on the trail: it messes with fine balance. It also renders me purty darn sleepy if there's more than one involved, given the level of depletion my reserves have usually hit by then. While there's still work to be done (i.e. any time until the point at which a SAR fine would not be levied for the involvement of alcohol), I hold off.

But that's just me.

I think the WWW's caveat emptor clause should pretty much be assumed. Anyone who falls off of the North Slide while drunk because they read it was fun is probably already familiar with emergency services.

 

[MattC]

Beer is the tastiest thing going during the post-hike endorphin rush, but it has one instant disqualifier for me while on the trail: it messes with fine balance. It also renders me purty darn sleepy if there's more than one involved, given the level of depletion my reserves have usually hit by then. While there's still work to be done (i.e. any time until the point at which a SAR fine would not be levied for the involvement of alcohol), I hold off.

Sounds like a good, common sense approach.

Matt

 

[KayakDan]

This is great news!!!

I'v been ahead of the curve for years...

 

[David Metsky]

<mod hat>
Let's not bring up old wounds, OK? Everyone have a beverage of your choice and relax.
</mh>

 

[Paradox]

I gotta say that choclate milk tastes wonderful and feels very good on the tongue after vigorous excercise!

 

[WhiteMTHike]

<mod hat>
Let's not bring up old wounds, OK? Everyone have a beverage of your choice and relax.</mh>

Thanks. I'll have another beer.

 

[timmus]

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Health/2007/11/02/study_beer_beats_water_for_hydration/7563/

chocolate milk?

How many studies do we need to bring us back to good old products, like milk and beer ??

Only marketing can make us believe Gatorade and Power bars are actually good for humans.

 

[David Metsky]

The cleaned up version:

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.