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?
In: Biology
While what others say about the chemical composition of drinks being slightly different is true, this isn’t actually a very significant effect. Your main intuition that the body doesn’t really know the difference anyway is correct.
But people interpret situations differently and behave differently on different occasions – even without alcohol. For example,e when getting drunk on beer it was likely just a relaxed fun evening with some close friends, this will influence your behaviour when drunk much more than the type of alcohol. When people get drunk on tequila on the other hand, they probably set out to party hard and get drunk -leading to wildly different behaviour.
It isn’t so much the type of alcohol we drink but what mood we were in before getting drunk. It influences our choice of drink as well as our behavior when drunk.
Latest Answers