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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I don’t really get this. Whet you go to a restaurant or bar nearly any drink is mixed with a few different types of alcohol. So, the premise of not mixing alcohol is wrong?
There was a study done, where (i think), 100 people were collected in a hall, with all 100 people getting free booze the entire night, with entertainment etc. 50 of them were asked to choose 1 kind of alcohol they would stick with the entire night (only beer, only wine or such). The other 50 people were free to do as they pleased. The result was that the people where they mixed alcohol got worse hangovers. HOWEVER, the real study was done at the bar where they counted the beverages per person. Apparently the people that mixed drinks drank more, because mixing it up is more interesting, than drinking beer number 8 or 9. So it seems the majority of it at least is that it makes you sick more to mix, simply because it’s easier/more interesting to drink more if you mix it up than just keep chugging beers the entire night.
No. Alcohol is alcohol and is the ingredient makes you feel sick. Technically, there are other compounds and makeups in wine/beer/liquor but they are not enough to make you sick. Like another redditor said – Nights where multiple alcohols are involved you’re likely drinking to excess and not realizing.
That being said…….
Nobody likes the “akshually☝️” guy at parties, so if someone’s lamenting about how they shouldn’t have mixed rum and tequila last night, don’t correct them and just enjoy your hangover together
I think it’s in general nonsense, but it’s a nice excuse for “I lost track of how much I was drinking and ended up drinking more than I wanted to”. It is of course easier to lose track if you have lots of different kinds of things of different strengths. Or if you have three beers to get happy drunk, then three shots, that’ll quickly push you into not a sensible amount. But if you start with three shots then you’ll realise it mid way through the first beer, so might well not go on to order the second or third.
Never had a problem mixing spirits or beer.
However, if I drank too much… obviously I’d be sick. Or if I had sugary drinks, sugary alcoholic beverages make me sick and I’d always have a bad hangover
It’s a myth that mixing drinks makes you more hung over or feel worse. It’s the quantity of alcohol drunk that makes you feel bad.
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.
Alocholic here (now sober). Generally in my decades of drinking, my thought on it was this. If you drink liquor first (straight or close to it), you are getting the hard fast hitting alcohol fast. Not a lot of volume to absorb by your stomach. You get drunk fast, and (unless you’re an alcoholic) you slow down a bit then as the effects come on.
If you’re on beer, you’re drinking higher volumes of a less potent solution. This gets absorbed slower by your stomach, and the alcohol gets absorbed first leaving a lot of liquid there. If you switch to liquor now, you start turning that large volume of low alcohol liquid into a giant punch bowl in your stomach. Now you’re already intoxicated, but have a lot more coming, Even if you stop drinking, it will continue to get absorbed until its gone one way or another.
The first course of tasting menus is often served with a sparkling wine. The idea is to disturb your stomach acids a bit with the bubbles, making the alcohol of subsequent drinks more effecting.
I think most of those ‘liquor before beer’ advisements often place the carbonated beverage last, which is the better practice for not disturbing your stomach early in the drinking session.
Because you’re necessarily drinking a lot if you’re mixing drinks. Mixing in certain ways makes you more likely to drink a lot, such as drinking a high ABV drink after a low ABV drink, or multiple kinds of high ABV drinks.
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