Higher tolerance towards a certain type of alcohol?

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As title really.

When I'm out, or at parties, I prefer spirits usually (they just taste better to me... :D ) but recently, I went to a party and they only had beers and largers for some reason (catering to the majority I suppose!), which I don't normally drink but did on this occasion.

I started feeling the effects a bit sooner than I would have expected...usually takes a fair few shots and several double JDs and coke till I'm feeling the same way...

Do different drinks affect you in different ways and can u build up a tolerance over time to a certain grain for example?

Enlighten me oh wise alcohol gurus... :)
 
It's what you're used to, I suppose.

I can drink a lot more whiskey than beer before I'm x amount drunk, because I rarely drink beer, but drink whiskey quite often. Wine puts me on my arse after about two :/
 
yeah i swear this is the case.

I used to only drink shots and spirits then i started drinking snakebites and beers and they got me wasted quicker i think.

Dunno why
 
After a few cans I can definately feel the dizziness you get from alcohol, takes qutie a bit more for me to start expressing the effects of alcohol though (remembers run in with a substantial amount of Diamond White)
 
Aye it's the same for me. I can knock back whiskey and Guinness 'till the cows come home but give me two glasses of Vodka and I'll be running around like a wet snatter in an absolute mess. I have no idea what the explanation is, all I know is that I can't handle vodka :p
 
Feed me a few cans of Red Stripe and I go bonkers, come to think of it.

I get in a reet proper state when I mix my drinks, and I only ever drink red stripe when I'm already drunk on whiskey...

Intelligent of me, I know.
 
Ahh good to know its not just me then. I did wonder... :p

Be interesting if anyone knows why, and if its different based on the individual person or just what they're used to drinking most of.

For me, that means a few pints of any larger is my achilles heel! Doh.

Whilst we're on the subject - why is mixing grains bad...?
 
Six6siX said:
Whilst we're on the subject - why is mixing grains bad...?
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I dunno but from experience it's a very bad idea. Vodka + whiskey is a big no no. Another one to avoid is to mix the grape and the grain, i.e. wine and whiskey. You will lose a day of your life if you do that.
 
Beer then Wine - feeling fine, Wine then Beer - fight doormen, break into your own house, be sick on your mum's old wedding dress and wake up under your sister's bed in a pool of your own blood and vomit

I think that's the old phrase, anyway.
 
I am told the purer the spirit the less of a hangover you get. Perhaps it is related also to the rate you get drunk. Be it the finest scotch single malt or that 5 quid 2 litre bottle of sheep dip.

I drink beer mainly while out and I can sink rather a lot before I start thinking I am Spiderman. I drink quite a bit of whisky at home but I have never really been drunk from it, at least not just the whisky :p

SiriusB
 
Mohinder said:
Beer then Wine - feeling fine, Wine then Beer - fight doormen, break into your own house, be sick on your mum's old wedding dress and wake up under your sister's bed in a pool of your own blood and vomit

I think that's the old phrase, anyway.
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Lol, near enough eh? :D

Scuzi said:
I dunno but from experience it's a very bad idea. Vodka + whiskey is a big no no. Another one to avoid is to mix the grape and the grain, i.e. wine and whiskey. You will lose a day of your life if you do that.
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I've always been told that its a bad idea, however, vodka + whisky didn't do much damage, but wine + whiskey, I agree is a no go. Wine always seems to slaughter me, now that I think about it.

It seems like its mostly down to the individual then.
 
depends on the night, but i can often go through many alcoholic pop drinks and many shots + a few double vodka and redbulls without issue.

however half a bottle of wine and I'm a cheap date....... :( :o

i think its because you get used to certain drinks.

beer (which i hate) makes me very sick quiet fast......and not cos i drunk, its the taste.... plus it just boils in my stomach before making reappearance....
 
I find that stuff with bubbles gets me drunk much more quickly than, say, a spirit mixed with fruit juice. I'm sure my 6th year Chemistry teacher told us a scientific reason for it, but that was 5 years ago, so I can't remember now.
I'm very limited to what my body will tolerate though (can't drink beer/lager or vodka), so I don't have much to compare with.
 
yep ive read this that a weaker volume of alcohol is absorbed quicker into the system so spirits probabely hit when your asleep.
:)
 
Mohinder said:
Feed me a few cans of Red Stripe and I go bonkers, come to think of it.

I get in a reet proper state when I mix my drinks, and I only ever drink red stripe when I'm already drunk on whiskey...

Intelligent of me, I know.
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Red stripe gets me blootered really well too. Potent stuff! Must be the Jamaican-lager-beer concoction.. man.
 
Guinness for me, i can drink into double figures and still be OK. Lager though, after 3 pints and 3 visits to the toilet :D coz it goes right through me, i can feel quite rough.
 
I seem to be able to handle beer better than i can any other drink...Or well, its caused the least amount of puke and hangovers, anyway :)

Casmeister.
 
Scuzi said:
I dunno but from experience it's a very bad idea. Vodka + whiskey is a big no no. Another one to avoid is to mix the grape and the grain, i.e. wine and whiskey. You will lose a day of your life if you do that.
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Tell me that now,i was sat with a pint of voka+irn bru and my mates uncles poured a lot of whiskey into it. :eek: Omg i fell down the stairs 4 times :o

I stick to what im used to which would be vodka/cointreau/furstenberg
 
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