Why do different alcohols affect people differently?

Question

It would seem that a person should not react differently to rum or vodka or gin if all the beverages have the same percentage of alcohol. Why would one drink make a person feel "more drunk" than another?

Also, is it actually bad to mix light and dark colored drinks?

I've always wondered about this.
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Sorry. Why would one drink make a person feel "more drunk" than another drink would make them feel?
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Answer 1

I agree that different alcohols affect some people differently. I don't understand that either, because I don't see how the body would know the difference---alcohol is alcohol, isn't it.

But, as a former bar tender (years ago) I can tell you that I've seen many people who can sit and drink beer all night and be a happy drunk. But get them on the whiskey and all he11 breaks loose. Nothing worse than a mean drunk.

Same for wine.... or champagne. People get mellow on wine and downright silly on champagne.

What gives?

Answer 2

There's a lot to your question. It depends on your gender, body weight, body make-up, etc. I know some people who drink a lot but don't get drunk; but if they drink a glass of wine, they're gone. It's not bad to mix light and dark colored drinks, however, mixed drinks are the most dangerous because there is no actual way you can tell how much alcohol is in them unless you are the person making it. Furthermore, if you drink a variety of mix drinks in one night, they obviously are going to contain different types of alcohol and mixing those aren't healthy for you. Hope my answer helped! Take care.

Answer 3

According the experts this is all a myth, and as far as you Blood Alcohol Content goes they are all the same. However I know people certainly can act differently depending on which spirit they get drunk on. It probably depends on what the liquor was distilled from. Tequila has a long reputation of making people crazy, even though it has the same alcohol as other hard liquor. As for the mixing of light and dark drinks, it is purely a taste things, and there are many great drinks made by combining light and dark liquors.

Answer 4

Okay, a person's weight affects how they react to drink. As does drinking on an empty stomach. Someone who hasn't had much drinking experience can't hold their liquor very well either. I've heard that mixing alcohol with a colored mixer will give you a hangover and that red wine also give you a hangover. So stay away from colored drinks. I don't drink any more, but when I did, I drank a glass of water and took an Excedrin before bed (not Tylenol or Advil--they can hurt your liver).

Answer 5

There are distinctive kinds of alcohol. including Fusel alcohols which seems extra elementary in not elementary liquors that then get distilled. they're additionally in poorly made beers. different than that and the obtrusive alcohol content fabric that all and sundry else has indexed, it might desire to be the way you're ingesting it. while you're ingesting wine, you're probably sipping it with dinner or at a relax occasion that has cheese and different food. antagonistic to slamming some photographs of jack daniels at a close-by bar on an empty abdomen, or ingesting some pints of beer at a pal's domicile with chips and pizza. not in basic terms the intake however the ambience might dictate the way you cope with your self.

Answer 6

Not everyone is physiologically the same, and the ingrediants other than alcohol may not agree with them. The mixing, I don't know..never bothered me, when I used to drink.

Answer 7

peoples body takes the drinks a diff way i guess,it depends
im not rlly sure

Answer 8

different body chemistries
weights
metabolisms
food eaten prior to drinking
genetics

just a few variables