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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Depending on the drink, the amount of other (higher) alcohols (isoamyl, propanol, isopropanol,…) can have an influence. They are, relatively speaking, more toxic and stay in your body longer.
Artisanal spirits, beers and some wines tend to have very complex flavour profiles, this is in some part due to those alcohols. You normally dont drink a lot of those products, but if you do you probabably mix them up a bit.

So the effect seems to be the mixing, but infact its just the quantity.

That’s the case for me at least. The craft beer and red wine headache is far worse than the just lager beer headache. And we do not talk about the homemade Slibowica headache.

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