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, thats not true.
You get sick based on total amount of pure alcohol consumed. Most people only see the alcohol content percentages on their drink, so quickly lose track of what they’ve actually consumed.
If you’re sticking to low alcohol beers, and you drink 10 of them, you get happily drunk. You know your limit is 10 drinks.
But on another night, you decide to switch to vodka half way through and stick to your 10 drink limit. Those vodkas are much stronger than the beers, so you end up consuming far more pure alcohol than you would have if just drinking weaker drinks.
If your country labels drinks by ‘standard drinks’, then that is the perfect system to follow. Each unit of pure alcohol is one standard drink. That low alcohol beer contains one unit of alcohol (one standard drink). Those vodkas contain two standard drinks.
Tonight (friday night) ive had a beer, a wine, a cocktail, and a whisky. Ill be perfectly fine tomorrow, because I know that some of those drinks are far stronger than others, but my total alcohol intake is at a sensible level.
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