You have seen the commercials. A couple on the screen, the man is complaining of a headache and hangover and asking his wife how she is feeling so good even though she drank more than him. She tells him she took Chaser so she is just fine. I often wondered why she didn't give him some too, but that probably would cut into the effectiveness of the commercial. Maybe they met at the party and were waking up from a one-night-stand, I don't know. But another question I had after viewing this commercial was the obvious, 'Does Chaser actually work?'. So right before New Year's Eve I bought some at a local liquor store and anticipated some rigorous testing. Well, on New Year's I ended up staying at home, so didn't get a chance to try them out.
Fast forward to last week, I finally took the Chaser Challenge. I went to a local bar and brought in my Chasers. I informed the bartender I would be trying them out and she seemed to have told everyone in the bar by the end of the night. I read the instructions, they say take 2 with your first drink for every 3 hours of drinking or every 6 drinks. Okay, I pop two with my first beer, a 23 ounce beer. First thing, if you have trouble taking pills, these are not for you. These are some big, big pills. In fact, for a short time after taking them my throat was a bit sore. Anyway, I sat and I felt weird. Okay weird is not the right adjective, I felt very different. Like maybe I wasn't getting the beer, like it was being diverted in a way. Well, I kept drinking anyway, wondering what exactly what was happening to me. I finished the 23 ounce beverage and ordered another, I moved to the opposite side of the bar to get a better view of the game on TV and towards the end of that beer, another patron walked up to me asking me was I trying Chaser. I told him I was, and he offered to buy me a REAL DRINK, as he put it. I rarely turn down a free drink, so he got me a Jack and Coke and wished me good luck with the test. Well, to make a long story short, rumors of my test had gotten around the bar and people wanted to help science or something. By the end of the night I had a total of 2 beers, 1 Jack and coke, 4 Bacardi and Cokes, 2 Bull Blasters, and a Tuaca shot. I left the bar having not paid for most of that.
So I get home, not really feeling bad actually. I played some Uno on Xbox 360 and reflected on the night. First amazed so many people wanted to test the limits of Chaser at their own expense and secondly I remembered that I had an abnormal amount of gas at the bar. Maybe Chaser turns the alhocol into gas!!! Anyway, I had a couple of glasses of water and headed to bed expecting to feel like I normally feel after mixing things up like that, mainly headache and nausea. Fast forward to the morning, I woke up feeling fine. I actually woke up an hour earlier than normal. No headache, no nausea, not tired, felt fine. So yes Chaser did work as advertised. But...there are side effects that you should be aware of that seemingly every review I have read also reports. The next day the gas continued and you will have to make trips to the bathroom the next day. Not quite diareaa, but a touch of it atleast. So if you are in a position to be able to deal with that the next day, then I say go for it.
A question that I kept getting asked about is how does Chaser work? Well, hitting the website, everything makes sense now. Chaser is basically an absorbant that is Carbon/Charcoal based. The same stuff in your fish tanks that works as a filter, is working as a filter in your stomach. It collects all the toxins so they can't affect you as normal. So that would explain the time of effectiveness and number of drinks it supports. The trips to the bathroom the next day can also be explained that way. I guess that would rule out the possibility of Chaser becoming less and less effective as you use it also. I think I am going to need more testing to make sure this one time was not a fluke. The upcoming Texans game in the Fall seem like a good testing ground. Luckily there are plenty of 'Lil Blue Houses' are out there in case a trip to the toilet is in order!
