why does "high gravity" malt liquor get you more drunk?

Question

i've drank OLDE ENGLISH 800 (i think it was 7.0%) and i've drank OLDE ENGLISH 800 HG (high gravity, and is 8.0%). thats only 1/100th less alcohol, but for some reason i can drink 2 regulars, to get me feeling the same as one High gravity.

Answer 1

Think about the concentrations. What makes you drunk is the concentration of alcohol in your blood, a.k.a. your blood alcohol content (BAC). If the liquid in your stomach is high in alcohol, the alcohol will quickly diffuse into your bloodstream until the concentrations of alcohol in your gut and in your blood are nearly equal. So, if instead of drinking 6 4% beers, you drink 24 1% beers, if you weigh 200lbs, in the first case, your BAC is (using that a can of beer is about 0.8lbs)

.8lbs(6)(.04)
----------------- = .09375%
(200 + 6(.8))lbs

in the second case

.8lbs(24)(.01)
------------------- = .08759%
(200 + 24(.8))lbs

Even though the total amount of alcohol consumed is identical in both cases. Keep in mind also that the amount of alcohol is constantly decreasing if your liver is functional, so the fact that you can drink more alcohol FASTER if the concentration is higher is also an important factor.

Answer 2

There is a lot more alcohol by volume in the 8.0% high gravity. I use to drank the Old English 800 and like you said it only took one of the 800% high gravity for me to feel it. My son drank the 211% high gravity in the 16oz cans and when he drank just two or one and a half can I can tell the different.

There is times that he will buy the smaller cans and he will have to drank twice the amount. I think that in all the high gravity malt liquors has more alcohol by volume that the only answer I can come up with. Be careful how much of any of it that you drank okay?

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Answer 3

What Karl H said is true. Maybe I missed the correct answer here somewhere but I've been drinking mostly 2 beers since I was in my early 20's. I'm 35 now. They are Steel Reserve & Coors light. Same with my two brothers. We started partying together and drank the same ****. It stuck. Point being, it takes me most of the 6 pack to get the same feeling the Steely gives me half way through it. Not to mention I've tried multiple other HG beers & same %age beers and they don't hold a candle to the Steel buzz.

Answer 4

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why does "high gravity" malt liquor get you more drunk?
i've drank OLDE ENGLISH 800 (i think it was 7.0%) and i've drank OLDE ENGLISH 800 HG (high gravity, and is 8.0%). thats only 1/100th less alcohol, but for some reason i can drink 2 regulars, to get me feeling the same as one High gravity.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The fact is that is not true. 8% aalcohol is 8% and 7% is 7%. I am not saying you didn't feel different I am saying that. The difference is some other external factor like, what you ate that day could be the difference.

What you mix the alcohol is make no difference. if you mix it in gadorade, orange juice etc it is the same amount of alcohol.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

High Gravity beers have more carbonation in them. Carbonation causes the alcohol to absorb faster.

Answer 9

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After the yeast produces the alcohol, and essentially swims around in its own excretory product, it dies. When the yeast dies, it no longer converts sugar to alcohol and the fermentation process stops.

Many of the Belgian-brewed beers taste sweet and sugary because they're brewed with rock candy. Because fermented sugar becomes alcohol, the rock candy Ð just like what you ate on a stick as a little kid Ð provides a higher alcohol content and gives these beers their distinctive sweetness.

While most non-beer-drinkers assume that the only difference between high gravity beer and regular beer is alcohol content, Ogletree says that's not actually the case.

"It's not the alcohol at all," he says. "It really comes down to flavor. It doesn't taste like alcohol."

For example, Celebrator Double Bock, made near Munich, is only 6.5 percent. "It's a beautiful beer; complex and chocolaty, and it's just a hair over the old six percent legal limit," Ogletree says.

On the other hand, Samuel Adams makes a Triple Bock that's 16 percent. Beers over 16 percent, however, often taste like Worcestershire sauce. Higher content doesn't necessarily mean better beer.

As beer connoisseurs discovered long ago, high gravity beers taste delicious served alongside several varieties of foods, desserts and cheeses because they're carbonated and sweet. Many are comparable to champagne Ð bubbly and packaged in large, dark glass bottles with pressurized cork tops. And, like wine, high-gravity beers only get better with age.

"High gravity beers go really well with food," Ogletree says. "Instead of wine, have a beer -- it's more versatile than wine. What wines go with Mexican food or Indian food?"

Many high gravity beers do.

"They also go very well with desserts," Ogletree says. "For example, Old Rasputin Imperial Stout is strong and intense. It goes well with fruit desserts, chocolate cake, and really just about anything chocolate."

Because it's more expensive than regular light beer, high gravity beer doesn't appeal as much to social drinkers. Not many people, especially college students, are willing to spend $8 or $10 for a single beer, much less enough with which to have a huge party. While some students and Athens residents have had high-gravity tasting parties, these beers are better suited for unwinding at home after a long day.

"They're really great for relaxing in front of the TV," says Darrell Rainey as he buys a bottle of Duinen-Tripel at Five Points Bottle Shop. "But even 13 percent is too much alcohol. It gets in the way of flavor when it gets that high."

That doesn't stop him -- and others -- from tasting, though. "There's an explosion of beers to try all of a sudden," Rainey says.

And beer connoisseurs like Rainey and Ogletree, who waited for HB-645 to pass, no longer have to settle for a "pale" 6 percent.

Answer 10

lol, are you serious? ok different liquors may preform different in your body. 8.0 can make a big difference but they say you drink them can change and in heighten the affects.