Not just the burning in your throat, that warmth from your stomach, too.
2006-11-04 17:59:38 · 12 answers · asked by Link 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
"Drinking makes you feel warmer no matter what the season, but its net effect is to cool off the body. Alcohol is what is known as a vasodilator--it causes the blood vessels to expand, particularly the capillaries located just under the surface of the skin. In doing so it overrides the body's normal heat regulating process, which also makes use of dilation. What happens when the blood vessels expand is that a greater volume of blood is brought to the skin surface, where the heat of the blood is dissipated to the surrounding air. That's why you take on a flushed appearance when you drink. Since most of your heat-sensing nerves are also located in the skin surface, drinking makes you feel superficially warmer in both summer and winter. In winter, however, heat is carried away so rapidly that the body's metabolic reserves are quickly exhausted, resulting in frostbite or hypothermia. Hence the danger of freezing to death after a midwinter binge"
2006-11-04 18:03:56 · answer #1 · answered by mystique_dragon4 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's the way it's distilled, meaning "brought about" how it ferments (sits) in the barrels. The longer it "sits" in the stills & what is added to it (long story there) make it stronger or weaker. You must be drinking hard liquor, which is expensive. It's warm, but the effects are not. Some are good, some not. You feel that "warm" sensation...be careful. Also, if you have a mixed drink & can't taste the alcohol, that's a good drink!
2006-11-04 19:20:22 · answer #2 · answered by hey you 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ıt irritates all your inner mucosa. It burns! Your stomach is an inner protection layer which is highly consists of fatty acids (fats let's say in simple) alcohol diffuses faster because it can dissolve fats. It can pass into the places where it shouldn't be. Don't forget the amount of alcohol you take is never been meant to be there.
2006-11-04 18:08:11 · answer #3 · answered by bt the tooth fetish 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it causes a rush of blood to the stomach.
2006-11-04 18:08:26 · answer #4 · answered by Heidi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the same reason why it burns when you put it on a fresh cut it's evil juice lol
2006-11-04 18:08:59 · answer #5 · answered by p-nut butter princess 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
your body burns alcohol... it gives off heat
2006-11-05 02:27:10 · answer #6 · answered by Paul 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because you are drinking it empty stomach!.. eat before otherwise its going to hit you twise as much!.. might even throw up later...
2006-11-04 18:01:07 · answer #7 · answered by horsecharlie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put it in refrigerate and it will not be so warm when you drink it
2006-11-04 18:45:04 · answer #8 · answered by Stan the man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its one of those abominable illusions...like you see in the sky?
2006-11-04 18:01:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey
maybe you should put it in the fridge???
secret sparkle.
2006-11-04 18:01:59 · answer #10 · answered by +++_Secret.Sparkle_+++ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋