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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No, it’s really just the drinking alot of quantity.

But the old saying, “liquor before beer, never fear. Beer before liquor, never sicker” has a certain logic. Basically if you’re drinking beer, you’re probably drinking alot of it, cause it’s weaker. It’s nothing to shotgun 12oz of beer. So, if you start with beer you’ve got a full stomach. Then take a shot and suddenly that full stomach is agitated. Boom, sick. Just like my 28th birthday.

But start with the shot, stomach is not as full, and it settles before you drink too much beer.

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