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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It’s more “Beer before liquor, never been sicker. Liquor before beer, you’re in the clear.”

… because when you are already drunk it’s really easy to overdrink liquor.

You could easily drink 12 shots in an hour, 12 beers in a hour would quite the feat. I think I did that one time but I don’t remember it. 😉

A 4 oz pour of whisky doesn’t look like much in a cocktail glass or a wine glass. That almost equivalent to 3 beers.

Plus liquor makes you thirstier so you pour another whisky.

I’ve done an “hour of power” 1 shot of beer every minute for an hour, several times and that only about 6 bears. Doable but not easy.

You are very full after about 30 minutes you start to dread the next shot.

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