I’m not a huge drinker. People always talk about getting different kinds of drunk on different kinds of alcohol. To your body, isn’t alcohol just alcohol? Sure, proof would matter, but does your body know the difference beyond that?
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ELI5: it’s make-believe to think different booze makes you feel differently. It’s an effect of your mind’s creation. Ethanol is ethanol, end of story. If there’s other forms of alcohol in your drink, then you’d be very sick, dead, or there wouldn’t be enough to tell a difference.
Man this is a bad ELI5. So many responses that completely nonsense. OP: don’t listen to any of these folks unless they have a source. Like this:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2965491/
Results:
**Findings suggested that individuals may expect different effects from consuming different types of alcoholic beverages.** Participants expressed more agreement that wine would have relaxation effects and rated this effect more positively. Participants expressed more disagreement that beer or shots would have effects on sexuality and rated sexuality effects more positively for wine. Participants reported less agreement that wine would have impairing effects, as well as more disagreement that wine would affect risk, aggression, and self-perception. Impairing effects of wine were also viewed less negatively than other condition beverages.
Conclusions:
Findings suggest that individuals may hold different beliefs about the effects of wine, compared with beer and shots of distilled spirits. Research and interventions targeting general alcohol expectancies may miss important between-beverage differences in **perceived effects and subjective evaluations regarding alcohol’s effects.**
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