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

rum = Aggressive
Cider = Mellow/tired
whiskey = hyper
lagar and ale = Happy, chatty and huggy

Don't really drink cider or rum, tend to stick to ale these days

I had a really bad night out a few weeks ago, hadn't eaten anything all day, went out and drank quite a lot, didn't feel too drunk until I got home when i got what I think is called "punch drunk" where it all hit me at once, cutting a long story short my missus woke me up by shouting at me at 4AM because I was....or I assume I was... sleepwalking and taking a wizz up against the chest of draws, merrily piddling away in the middle of the bedroom, took me ages to realise what was going on when she woke me up, I even got stropy at her for shouting at me until I realised what I was actually doing, only actually remember about 3 seconds of her shouting at me though..next thing i remember is leaning over the bed at a weird angle throwing up (a nice dark sticky brown stain from all the Newcastle brown ale I'd drunk) :D
 
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To be honest I think it's the mentallity of the drink, ie if you're on the shots you drink more than 1 it's something you do as a group, so they make me get into the party mood.

can't beleive I wrote that after 3 ciders :d.
 
KNiVES said:
Yes, although scientifically it shouldn't. Alcohol is alcohol!

Stella Artois always makes me super aggressive, yet Foster's or Vodka/Red Bull always keeps me mellow. Spirits generally just daze me into a stupor.
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Alcohol isn't alcohol scientifically, in that sense, ethanol is ethanol in talking about drinking alcohol and yes you're right, it is the same.

The thing is since when was alcohol the ONLY substance that causes your brain chemistry to react, answer is, never.

Theres other alcohols produced in smaller quantities, for instance propanol, glycol, probably others, and theres a whole bunch of other things.

Hops is used in many natural sleep remedy type pills, and you'll also potentially have the slight effect of hops working on your brain.

The main thing is, different types of drinks, are, unsurprisingly, different.

Your body needs both good and bad cholestrol but it will react different with different ratios in the body. Thats pretty much the same for most interactions, most are effected by others.

Maybe hops has a more profound effect on a "drunk" brain than a sober one, maybe a higher ratio of ethanol to propanol produces a happier drunk than one with more propanol, theres dozens of chemicals in every alcoholic drink, ethanol is simply the MAIN brain effecting chemical, not the only one.


Then theres the other fairly simple, and not always accurate case of, people drink depending on their mood to start with.

Bad mood, want to get rat arsed, get straight on a spirit and end up in a fight. Hard days work, come home, have a glass of wine with the wife over dinner and feel naturally tired at the end of the day, do that often enough and even when you drink in a different situation your body reacts by routine and thinks its bed time soon.

Theres loads of different reasons drinks effect you differently, different chemicals, different reasons for drinking, simply being used to a certain routine.
 
whisky makes me bite...and have memory blanks
red wine makes me sleepy
others - make me happy/hyper
...and i don't like beer

although I agree it does depend on your mood as well
 
I have moods, but in my experience, it has no relavence to drinks

I believe you guys have different moods which changes your type of drunk. For example some drink tastes nasty, it affects your brain because of that, you feel different.

So basically more a mental thing than physical..
 
I can drink lager all night and feel pretty fine the next day.
If I have 6 K ciders I feel like a dead person the next morning. I blame the sulphites.
Red wine I'm fine with as long as I don't mix it with, say, gin and sambuca :o
White wine is basically better tasting water and I rarely get a hangover with it.
Whisky. *sighs* Oh, whisky, how I love you but then you punish me the next day because I loved you too much.
I can't drink the kiddy alcopop things as they make my teeth feel like they're bursting out of my gums.
 
the effects are the same for me no matter what i drink. how hard/quick it hits is down to wether i have a strong drink or not.

theres one thats different to all the rest and its stella, it gives me a headache everytime i have one can/pint and thus in a bad mood cos of the headache. stellas 5% i think and i drink grolsch, bud,becks which are 5% as well and i never get a headache ?
 
Not a big drinker, but I find items with high alcohol content tend to make me feel less bloated and lethargic as I don't drink a lot of it. I don't mind getting a "buzz" but I stop drinking when I get to that buzz.

I think it depends more on my mood and whether or not I've had a big meal or not.
 
Interesting how a lot of people are saying that Stella gets them different drunk to other stronger lagers. This sounds psycological to me more than anything, because Stella and Grolsch are far more similar than Stella and vodka. Are people being influenced by Stella's reputation? :D

My hangover is always harshest after red wine.
 
If I'm staying in with friends having a chat and stuff I like to stick to red wine, I find it really mellows me, whereas if I'm going out its Redbull & Vodka all the way.
Totally different kind of drunk, I know what you mean ;)
 
I read something once that said Wine tends to enhance your current mood. So drinking Wine when depressed = bad, drinking wine when happy = great. Don't know how much truth there is in it, or why it should relate to wine more than other forms of alcohol.

Heavy amounts of vodka can give me memory loss (allegedly getting chucked out of club that I don't even remember going in!) which I never seem to get from beer/cider/wine.
 
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