Why is it that some people say you shouldn’t mix drinks.For example if you are drinking beer you should not start drinking vodka or other hard liquors?? Isn’t alcohol …alcohol??? I’ve gotten wasted on one kind of drink just as much as I have mixing them LOL
More a matter of getting sick than wasted.
“Whiskey after beer, never fear. Beer after whiskey, mighty risky.”
I try to avoid blended scotches. Single malt seems to have no ill effects.
That’s an even better way to put it…why does a person get sick???
Beer before liquor never been sicker
Liquor before beer, you’re in the clear
Light + Dark = Alochol poisoning
Notice how there are already two common helpful little rhymes repeated here about whiskey/liquor and beer which completely contradict each other; they give the exact opposite advise of each other, yet I’ll bet there are thousands of people willing to fight to the death defending either one… :rolleyes: 
Well, that’s because TWOTfan’s little rhyme is wrong – it’s always “X BEFORE Y,” never “X AFTER Y.”
It’s been suggested elsewhere on this board that drinking beer sets a fast drinking pace; once you’re drunk on beer, liquor slides down the throat at the same pace, resulting in greater drunkenness and more severe side effects. Starting with liquor gets you into the sipping mode, which carries over onto one’s beer-drinking – slower consumption equals less misery overall.
No wonder I’ve been puking my guts out for years!
Seriously, I’ve never taken the rhyme seriously since I’m not a heavy drinker. I could well have misremembered it.
Nametag’s explanation makes a lot of sense but I don’t know if it is true.
Last Christmas my aunt told me that, so I wanted to prover her wrong.
Over a course of about 6 hours I had:
- Mateusse Wine
- Red Wine
- Beer
- Rye
- Rum
- Vodka
- Gin
- Dubinee
I had a bit of a headache the next day, but my tummy was still emm double I, en Tee!
MtM