I drank for 12 hours and woke up hangover-free, you’ll never believe how

Colin Joliat

Like most guys, I’m very skeptical of any company saying they can cure or prevent a hangover. After drinking for 12 hours straight this weekend and waking up feeling fine though, there’s one supplement to which I have to tip my hat.

The marketing people at Forgiven have been trying to get me to try their alcohol metabolizer since last June, but I wasn’t willing to buy into their free samples. I do a bar crawl every year though, and that seemed like the perfect place to give it a shot. A hangover was inevitable after 10 bars and 12 hours of drinking so there wasn’t much downside. I even recruited some friends as test dummies to get a sample size larger than one.

15 craft session beers perfect for any bar crawl.

Forgiven alcohol metabolizer comes in a Five Hour Energy size bottle, which unfortunately led to constantly having to tell people that reached into my goodie bag full of hangover helpers that they weren’t energy shots. Of course they were still all willing to take one because people love free stuff and hate hangovers. None believed Forgiven would work though nor did they think they would remember to take it once done drinking for the night.

Colin Joliat

My first thought when I woke up in the morning was that I had forgotten take my Forgiven shot. I’m terrible at remembering things I’m supposed to do, like putting on a condom, after more than dozen drinks let alone following through on them. I certainly didn’t chug my standard post-bar crawl bottle of Pedialyte. Luckily upon investigating my pants’ pocket I found an empty shot bottle. That alone was a victory.

Even had I not found evidence, it was clear that I had taken Forgiven because I felt fine. There was no mistaking that I had been drinking the night before, but I didn’t have a pounding headache or the unnecessary salivation that we all know as the precursor to puking. There was no need to contemplate various ways to end the suffering through suicide either. I didn’t even promise to never drink again. I was actually thinking about whether or not I should go out Sunday night.

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Reports rolled in from friends, each of which thought it worked. One couldn’t tell if it was the Forgiven or eating an entire 20-piece McNugget that saved him, but there’s no reason you couldn’t make both a part of your routine just to be sure. Another was brave enough to text me that her pee smelled like Fruity Pebbles. I can think of worse side effects. Actually, I’m not sure I can think of better side effects.

Overall, Forgiven alcohol metabolizer smells bad, looks worse, tastes alright, and works well. The last one is definitely worth the first three, assuming you can remember to take the shot when you’re in a drunken stupor.