Pick a category to see how it's made, what's in it, and which popular brands rank highest and lowest on hangover load.
Closest to neutral alcohol you can drink
Vodka rerun through a garden
Agave, regulated, sometimes adulterated
Smoke, terroir, and unfiltered character
Sugarcane, sweet and heavy
American oak, corn-led, congener-rich
Aged, peated, complex chemistry
Wine, distilled twice, aged in Limousin oak
Tannin, histamine, sulfite trifecta
Lower tannin, higher sulfites
Bubbles speed everything up
Volume, gluten, biogenic amines
Sugar-bombs in a bottle