Eli5: does mixing alcohols really make you sick? If it does, why?

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I’ve always heard things like liquor before beer. You’re in the clear and that mixing brown and white can go bad, but why are you not supposed to mix alcohols?

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The idea with liquor before beer is just not to move on to stronger drinks after you’ve already had lower abv drinks. The idea being, you’ve got a couple beers digesting then take a shot and they will all hit you much faster so you end up drunker, quicker than expected. 

Vs if you drank liquor first, in theory the smaller volume and higher abv will have you at about a level of drunkenness you’d expect before “winding down” with beer. 

This is all frat science of course. But the theory is about pacing in general. 

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