Do different kinds of drink get you different kinds of drunk?

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Do you notice any differences in your drunken behaviour, depending upon what you've had to drink?

I notice that red wine makes me sociable but not dancy. Whereas white wine gets me truly leathered and is what makes me act most silly.

Beer...in moderation I barely feel drunk, then I suddenly feel sleepy / sick depending on how much I've had.

When I go out to a party or wedding etc., I always try to drink vodka. Vodka + fizzy mixer makes me sociable / happy drunk.:D

No one drink makes me particularly more aggressive than another. That side of it's more down to state of mind / situation in my experience.

I can't explain it and from Googling around, many people seem to believe that alcohol is alcohol and any variances between types of drunk, depend on your prior mental state as opposed to what you've consumed.

However surely the body reacts differently to spirit plus sugary mixer vs. lots of carby fizz like lager as the chemical effects are different...or maybe it's just that different kinds of drink are taken on different kinds of occasion.

Really my question is...how do different kinds of booze affect you? Or do you feel the same kind of drunk, irrespective of the 'carrier'?
 
I'm not sure what alcohol is used in drink. (Is it ethanol?)

But I'd imagine that if it's the same alcohol used in all drinks, the effects would be the same. No science behind my comment, just some deduction based on my possibly flawed logic :)
 
If I'm on a proper night out I tend to vary my drinks quite a bit so it's difficult to draw any conclusions from it - I've never been one to abide by "never mix the grape and the grain" or "beer before liquor, never sicker" etc etc, it's just whatever I feel like drinking at any given time. I know a few people who think that they get certain reactions/feelings from XX type of alcohol but I'd suspect the results are at least partly psychological.
 
I know some people who totally change depending on what they drink and as such many of them now don't touch certain drinks.
Though with me I'll throw anything down my throat and generally will just result in getting drunk. If I get stroppy drunk, it's not because of the drink but just an occasional unfortunate consequence of drinking. Depends on the person I think, but it's definitely true that some drinks can effect some people in a special way.
 
Oh absolutely, being drunk's 'all in the head' and it depends on what you're drinking.

Vodka with lemmo/coke = drunk, poor motor skills, e.g. spazzing about, speech has gone. But oddly enough no memory loss unless I really down them, which I haven't been bothered to do since I was in my early twenties.
Vodka with redbull = same as above, but very alert, slightly hyper kind of drunk
Beer= bloaty after a while, slightly more sedated kind of drunk.
Cider= very bloaty, even more sedated.
Alcopops= can't get drunk off these. Feel slightly tipsy after loads but very spaced out (hyperglycaemic). Alcohol and lots of ready and barely needed to digest sugar. This is why women often go nuts on a night out.
 
I find that different drinks do usualy have different effects.

Beer as you said is chilled out sort of drunk, wine just gives me a shocking hangover but usualy a sociable level of drunkeness. Spirits are for going out. Cider on the other hand gives me a headache and in the past tended to make me get a bit aggro.

I dont know if this is down to the chemicals or the social aspect itself. As where/what you are going/doing usualy influences what drinks you have.

Stumble Bum said:
Stella makes me beat the bitch!!!!
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Haha :D
 
Getting drunk after a few beers is entirely different to me after a good few whiskies.
Saying that though, different beers seem to have different effects.

I can't say different situations cause different effects, it's purely down to what I've had to drink.
 
TheCenturion said:
I'm not sure what alcohol is used in drink. (Is it ethanol?)

But I'd imagine that if it's the same alcohol used in all drinks, the effects would be the same. No science behind my comment, just some deduction based on my possibly flawed logic :)
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YES it is ethanol, if it was methanol you would go blind and then die.

Ethanol- C2 H5 OH
Methanol C H3 OH

What a difference 1 carbon makes.
 
With wine I usually fall asleep before I end up drunk, wake up seriously thirsty during the night, after even a couple of glasses.

With cider I get bloated and slow, takes quite a lot of it to be that noticeable though.

Strong spirits usually give me a headache after a little while.
 
Not as far as Im aware, however I get very bad memory loss when drinking spirits. Thats due to me drinking too much of them/too fast though.
 
I find being drunk on lager makes me slow and dim witted.
Vodka doesn't really affect me til I try to stand up
Bourbon just leaves my head feeling a bit fuzzy
and as for alcopops, i'd get more drunk on a bottle of volvic
 
Yes

beer doesnt get me drunk.

My stomach gets too full before that happens

Spirits on the other hand ... 3/4 of a bottle of vodka and i'm rat ******
 
The difference isn't really in the alcohol though, it is everything else that is in the drink.

With beer you end up very bloated but not massively dehydrated.
Any alcopop thing or redbull will just screw you over with chemicals regardless of the alcohol.
 
Having nothing but beer all night makes me do crazy stuff, like jump out of windows.

Drinking harder alcohol however doesn't make me do crazy stuff.
 
flibbage0 said:
What a difference 1 methylene group makes.
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Fixed.

In personal experience I do tend to notice slight changes in behavior dependent on what I'm drinking but this is probably a combination of psychosomatic expectations and the other ingredients. The only definite difference is the severity/type of hangover.
 
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If I stick to whisky I'm usually ok even after a big session, but if I tried to drink the same units in beer I would probably be sick.
 
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