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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There is a German saying: Wein auf Bier das rat ich dir. Bier auf Wein, dass lass sein.
Means: I advise you to have wine on beer. Beer on wine, don’t!
I don’t know if there’s any science to support it, but the justification I’ve heard is that your body is metabolizing one alcohol at whatever rate it is, like beer. Then if you swap to something harder it’s still digesting and metabolizing it at the same rate, but suddenly it’s much higher alcohol percentage. Actually typing it out i realize this doesn’t really doesn’t make any sense is probably just BS. It’s probably just because you’ve been drinking a lot.
In a similar vein: I’ve heard a myth about drinking/consuming fat (most extreme would be drinking cream) before drinking alcohol will make your body burn it off slower. Making you less drunk but for longer.
I assume it’s not true but can anyone smarter than me debunk it?
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.
The idea with liquor before beer is just not to move on to stronger drinks after you’ve already had lower abv drinks. The idea being, you’ve got a couple beers digesting then take a shot and they will all hit you much faster so you end up drunker, quicker than expected.
Vs if you drank liquor first, in theory the smaller volume and higher abv will have you at about a level of drunkenness you’d expect before “winding down” with beer.
This is all frat science of course. But the theory is about pacing in general.
I always thought of it like this. Beer before liquor is an issue for some. The reason why is beer goes down easier than liquor. Meaning most people drink it faster. If you start with beer, your pace will be to drink faster than sipping on liquor. Meaning, once you switch, you’ll drink liquor faster especially if it’s in a mixed drink.
Presumably you’re more likely to drink too much if you start drinking the strong stuff when you’re already drunk, rather than the other way around.
In my younger days I was at a party that ran out of mixers. Someone thought it was a good idea to mix Jim bean with vodka. That seemed to make anyone who tried it sick.
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