Stella makes people aggressive?

[BuffetSlayer]

Having a hangover is not the point in question.

I definitely think different drinks make you feel worse or less worse the next day

Yes but it is not a giant leap of faith to extend the logic of next day effects to 'during consumption' effects.

With regard to frame of mind, I actually partly agree with you - because I have believed for a long time Alcohol is a mind altering drug. It effects behaviour, perception, memory and a whole host of things. Unfortunately, after enough of the stuff, our ability to control ourselves finally lets go, resulting in abnormal behaviour, as well as loss of normal functions (such as not wetting the bed).

You only have to see any random woman drunk on Gin to see it turns people into depressed and weeping wrecks!

Buff

 

[lemonkettaz]

Being drunk is great

I guess most people don't know their limits, I've learned the limit of what is socially acceptable the hard way probably like most people.

I know when to stop drinking whatever because anymore and Ill end up being a complete bell end.

 

[topshot]

Are you really saying that you feel the same kind of drunk from all types of alcohol?

Lager is a different drunk to wine, which is different to vodka, which is different to whisky, etc.

Plus the hangovers can vary by type as well.

Yes i am, I Only drink real ale or spirits when out at night.
Hangover is totally different to saying certain brands of beer cause you to act diffent

 

[4T5]

OUTSIDE THE LOT OF YA!!!

 

[topshot]

Are you really saying that you feel the same kind of drunk from all types of alcohol?

Lager is a different drunk to wine, which is different to vodka, which is different to whisky, etc.

Plus the hangovers can vary by type as well.

Yes i am, I Only drink real ale or spirits when out at night.
Hangover is totally different to saying certain brands of beer cause you to act diffent

 

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[One]

Becks Vier gives me worse hangovers than any other beer. 4 pints of it and I feel like cack the next day, yet 6 of say Fosters and, sure I'm groggy but I don't feel like I'm going to die.

I have a feeling it will be to do with different type of water or hops. There must be something to it as they do taste different so it stands to reason the beer contains different chemicals.

 

[Hitman_Leon]

I never quite got why people get aggressive when they have a drink, it just makes me want to go sleep when I have a had a few if the conversation is not flowing or the surroundings or company not lively.

Different strokes for different folks and all that, I go with the thinking that alcohol just reveals the true person when self control and inhibitions are dulled with it.

 

[Locky]

All beer/ale tastes like crap.

 

[LordSplodge]

All beer/ale tastes like crap.

Insightful. Would read again.

 

[OhEsEcks]

I remember the study they did in Scotland linking Buckfast to violent crime.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8464359.stm

What it doesn't mention in the article is the age of those involved. However the article does say;

The evidence from Strathclyde Police appears to back up concerns raised by research conducted in Polmont Young Offenders Institution in 2007.

So I'd say the age of those drinking the product has more to do with the aggressive image than the product itself.

 

[PapaLazaru]

It is a myth. Stella, at one point in time, was the only 5.2% lager widely available, when most of the others were around 4%.

Anyone drinking it would get leathered as they were not used to it. The myth has just continued over the years. Myself and my mates know it simply as 'wife beater', but I get just as spannered drinking that, than any other 5% cheap lager. It is cheap nasty stuff as can be felt the morning after as the hangovers are particularly bad.

 

[TheCenturion]

I can't understand how different drinks could make you act differently? The effect that they have on you comes from the alcohol content, and seeing as they all contain ethanol, and the point of them is to raise your blood alcohol concentration, different drinks shouldn't make you act differently.

 

[thedoc46]

I can't understand how different drinks could make you act differently? The effect that they have on you comes from the alcohol content, and seeing as they all contain ethanol, and the point of them is to raise your blood alcohol concentration, different drinks shouldn't make you act differently.

I can't understand, why you can't understand how different drinks can make you act differently.

 

[TheCenturion]

I can't understand, why you can't understand how different drinks can make you act differently.

Explain it to me.

 

[Narj]

I always slated Foster's and it is horrible stuff, but if I'm being dragged out on an all-day sesh then I will do Foster's tops. I guarantee I'll be fine the next day. Weak beer for a long session is just being sensible.

I find that bottled Beck's is good for not making me feel like crap as well. I've done a crate and a bit (~12 pints) of that before and still been OK the next day.

Any more than 6 pints of Peroni/Stella makes me so damned ill.

 

[Glaucus]

Explain it to me.

He can't other than placebo effect.

 

[TheCenturion]

He can't other than placebo effect.

Exactly, it has to be placebo. It can't be anything in the drink. Other than alcohol, there's nothing in these drinks that would alter behaviour.

Drunk is drunk.

 

[OhEsEcks]

Exactly, it has to be placebo. It can't be anything in the drink. Other than alcohol, there's nothing in these drinks that would alter behaviour.

Drunk is drunk.

Caffeine and sugar according to the link I posted above.

He said consuming large amounts of caffeine would make people feel "very anxious and aggressive".
Concerns have been raised about the effect of the stimulant when mixed with alcohol, with the US Food and Drug Administration is considering banning pre-mixed caffeinated alcohol drinks.
Health warnings about mixing the two are also starting to appear in countries like Canada, France, the Republic of Ireland, Sweden and Australia.

 

[TheCenturion]

Caffeine and sugar according to the link I posted above.

Caffeine fair enough. But what drinks have caffeine in them? Yeah if you're downing spirits with energy drinks you'll go mad but that's obvious.

Oh and that's not necessarily different drinks giving you a different drunk. That's just two different drugs having their effect on you. What I'm talking about is drinking one type of beer won't give you a different drunk compared to another type of beer, or compared to vodka for example.

Sugar, I'm not so sure. Ethanol tends to get metabolised over glucose as a priority, so maybe alcoholic drinks with alcohol in them make you hyperglycemic? I can't see how that would affect your behaviour though.