Different alcohol... different drunk?

Ive notice the same thing in several different scenarios

There's different levels of ethanol purity, but if it's made for consumption, it's almost all the same. You'd get a different kind of drunk if you went to a chem lab and drank some absolute ethanol. (You'd probably put yourself in a coma.)

it's all the same to me as long as you pay the tab

I would even take it one step further and say that whiskey gives a different drunk than say vodka, or gin. Rum too has a drunk all its own, for me, the dark ones = BLACKOUT

There are totally different kinds of drunks. Last night was a prime example of capt morgan drunk vs natti light drunk.

Felt way different with the capt morgan drunk plus it went by a lot quicker.

From experience.. Wine turns me into a drunk that is reminiscent of watching 6 year old child on a sugar high running around his playpen.

Beer on the other hand, (when i get drunk off beer, which is rare these days) allows me to act normally, without any of the social inhibitions that i usually feel constrain me when i'm sober

Whiskey turns me into a fightin' drunk!

That's probably the irishness in me though!

Pelican Migration wrote:

Whiskey turns me into a fightin' drunk!

That's probably the irishness in me though!

Yeah or the c*cklover in you.

I've thought about this too- it definitely has to do with alcohol content, but there seems to be other factors too...

For example, when I drink beer it's usually a "chill" drunk, probably because beer is ~5% alcohol which consequently results in a gradual, progressive drunkenness. Whereas wine is ~12%, so it seems to go to your head faster and give you kind of a giddy feeling. And finally- hard liquor is generally around 35-50% and is usually done as shots- so it hits you hard and all at once, resulting in a more wild/rowdy drunkenness.

However- as someone mentioned- there seems to be variability among different types of hard liquor, so I'm not sure how to explain that...

I think the "drunk" you get has to do with how quickly you get drunk and how drunk you get. So drinking beer, you aren't going to get drunk too quickly unless you're really trying, and you won't end up getting alcohol poisoning or anything. Drink everclear and you get drunk real quick and real hard if you're not careful.

Groundskeeper Willie wrote:

I would even take it one step further and say that whiskey gives a different drunk than say vodka, or gin. Rum too has a drunk all its own, for me, the dark ones = BLACKOUT

Haha. I remember one time I had had a few, and then I was introduced to a bottle of Captain Morgan's rum. I thought, "Oh, that looks good," so I mixed it with lemonade in a cup and drank up. At that point, I was too drunk to realize that what I was drinking wasn't beer anymore. Then, I got pretty darn drunk, but I never blacked out or puked, thankfully.

Wine is a very heady, giddy drunk, at least for me.

Wine gives me a headache and makes me tired. Makes food taste better, however if just a glass or two.

Beer is better because you can control more how quickly or how much you get drunk. For me, anyway.

beer - normal

wine - headache and shaky

tequila - my clothes typically come off.

vodka - i end up trying to swallow fire.

rum - blackout wherever i am sitting.

beer - I rarely feel drunk from drinking beer. Even downing them fast I feel a good buzz that quickly goes away. Too much work to keep up a buzz.

wine - Makes me feel warm & good, I usually just sit with a smile on my face when drinking wine. But I can't drink much wine, because to me it's too sugary. Yes even drier wine like merlot.

liquor - Makes me feel numb & dumb. I lose my peripheral vision & start making stupid mistakes. About half the times I drink it I develop a headache from the first glass on.

What works best with me is a glass of liquor to get it started followed by beers.

If you get a headache from wine, it's probably because of an intolerance to sulfates. I'm no wine connoisseur, but I think it's what they treat the grapes with for preservation? Raisins and many other dried fruits give me instant headaches as well, until I discovered that most organic varieties do not contain the sulfites. So if you enjoy the wine but not the headaches, look into the organic brands.

You guys are such tools.

Man, I am so glad I am over this stage in life.

Losers...