Do you find yourself being a different kind of drunk depending on what you’ve been drinking ?
If I have beer I get sleepy, physically and mentally. Red wine just makes me mellow but my mind seems to work better. (Most of my d&d plots I’ve written were under the influence of red wine).
Over all alcohol consumed is comparable; however the effect is quite different. I wonder if it’s the ‘full’ feeling you get from drinking lotsa beer.
Ethanol is ethanol, whether it’s in your beer, wine or tequila. I also don’t buy most of the legends about congeners giving different effects to different types of booze.
However, set and setting do make a difference. I think a lot of the effect of alcohol has to do with expectations. For example, people often drink red wine in the context of chatting sociably with a small group of people, but I don’t think there’s anything in the wine itself to cause that. If red wine was associated, societally, with crazed teenagers trashing heavy metal bars, I don’t think there’s anything in the wine itself that would prevent that.
Also, there’s alcohol content. Even very potent beers only contain 8 or 10 percent alcohol, and most beers are around 5%. That dilution means that beer imposes its own pace on you - unlike vodka, where I could easily drink enough in ten minutes to make myself pass out, there’s an upper limit, determined by stomoach volume, to how fast and hard you’ll get drunk off beer. Add to this the fact that beer, with its loads of carbs and maltodextrin, is going to give you a major sugar rush, and it’s easy to see how the experience of throwing back six beers “feels” different from six glasses of wine or six shots of whiskey.
Yes, I find that beer makes me a happy drunk, but hard liquor does not give me the same happy feeling. I opened a similar thread a year or more ago. Here is the link
Many there agreed with me.
Getting drunk on 4% is a different feeling to getting drunk on 5%
Stella and Kronenbourg aren’t referred to as ‘Wifebeater’ for a giggle.
8 pints at 4% Vs 8 pints at 5% is a radically different animal.
With wine drinking, a 9% hit slows your pace, giddyness hits early if your hitting it hard so you calm down. Most wine drinkers could polish off two bottles in a session and be drunk as skunks but happy as larry.
Spirits I’m not concerned with because they will instantly trash your senses on a night out. Watching someone neck two double vodkas in a nightclub is par for the course and a big hooray.
Then you realise they just consumed the same amount of alchohol as they had just drunk in the preceeding 4 hours (8 pints).
They are usually incapable of walking towards the end of the evening.
The 5% ers are the issue, there is no happy and silly with it.
Just gaunt staring eyes and the threat of violence.
The five percenters manage to keep the person cogent but without a sense fear, and an irrational exception to any and all thing that they might take exception too.
Violence ensues.
Been there done that and now sucking on 4%
definitely something to this, at least in my experience.
i can drink wine all night long, but i found out i have no tolerance for a gin martini. i managed to get myself hammered on a single, really bad martini over the weekend. yes, just one.
i’ve learned - first-hand and painfully - that i can neither drink them nor make them. damn thing gave me the most **unpleasant ** hangover. :eek:
Its not the booze, but the mood you are in that makes you drink it.
This condenses my entire post upthread into about 15 words. Bravo. 
If I’m drinking beer, it’s probably because I’m out being loud and silly with friends and it’s going to be a long night.
If I’m drinking wine, it’s probably because I’m in being quiet and deep with friends and it’s going to be a long night.
If I’m doing shots, or straight liquor, it’s probably because I’m at a party or club and my entire aim is to get laid before I lose the ability to maintain an erection.
It’s the mindset that determines the buzz, not the booze. 
But what of all the other stuff in the drinks? Carbohydrates in beers, sugar in boat drinks, caffeine in others - all of these have a noticable impact when consumed alone, why not when mixed in a drink?
I definitely get a much different drunk from drinking spirits or drinking beer.
When drinking beer I get a lot louder and obnoxious.
With spirits you won’t be able to tell if I am drunk or not.
Tequila is a lose-your-pants drunk. Always. Ignore the bah humbuggers.
Tequila is about the only liquor that will get me crazy, unable-to-walk-in-a-straight-line drunk.
That stuff should have some serious disclaimers on it. 
I’m with you on this one ForumBot. After a three-day-festival at my house I vowed never to drink Tequila again. I had about a fifth of a bottle on the third night and could taste it for three days afterwards.
So if the ethanol is the same chemical (and it is) in differant booze it’s gonna be the other stuff. I agree that mood has something to do with it, but I usually just find booze makes my existing mood more extreme. Doesn’t matter if it’s a good mood or bad mood, it just gets more.
A big factor I didn’t think about before is the self limiting factor. When I finish a bottle of wine there’s not enough time left to drink another so I don’t open one. When I’m drinking beer I can keep opening another can and go right past my personal booze limit.
My hubby can’t drink rye - it makes him mean and brewing for a fight.
Certain kinds of alcohol give me a wicked migraine.
I avoid certain beers, and confine my spirits drinking these days to rum, gin and Pimm’s, by and large.
BTW, I have had to almost entirely give up red wine.
Yup. I can say for 100% sure that the amount of sugar in a particular beverage affects how I am drunk on it. The more sugar, the sleepier I am. I no longer drink pina coladas because of this.
Whiskey makes me a very social drunk. I become a total flirt, and very talkative. With wine, I get quieter, more mellow. I don’t drink beer. I get mean on vodka or rum. I donno if there are other correlating factors, but that’s just my observations. It’s why I tend to drink whiskey.
Red wine puts me to sleep. Beer makes me happy and talkative. Tequila makes me cross-eyed, really fast. Rum also makes me happy and talkative. YMMV.
When I worked in a pub in a blue collar town, we ended up refusing to sell Drambuie because there would be a brawl every single time the lads got drunk on that stuff. They could get totally smashed on anything else without much problem though (except maybe tequila - we kept an eye on that stuff too).
For me, I am famous amongst my friends for being able to hold my spirits. They can be lying under the table, and I just feel a nice buzz. Beer, on the other hand, makes me messy.
I always tell people that “Tequila is a special kind of drunk”
It seems the same to no matter what I drink but I do drink different things in different situations.
At home alone it’s straight vodka. I drag the shots out so I don’t pass out after an hour and a half. I’ll do two shots to start off with and then I do another shot every hour after that. By the time I get sleepy it’s bed time anyways.
If friends are over or I’m at a friends house it’s beer. I get drunk slower so I’m more social and talkative.
At the pub it’s two shots and then slowly sipping a couple of good beers the rest of the night. If it wasn’t so expensive at the pub I’d probably drink more beer.
Are you sure you don’t just like it more, so you drink more?
Mmmm… margaritas. Must buy some mix and limes on the way home; I already have the tequila.