# Mixing drinks **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 21, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixing-drinks/220245 "2003-12-21T02:09:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Freejack00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Freejack00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejack00)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixing-drinks/220245/1 "2003-12-21T02:09:23Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![TWOTfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@TWOTfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWOTfan)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixing-drinks/220245/2 "2003-12-21T02:20:45Z")
More a matter of getting sick than wasted. “Whiskey after beer, never fear. Beer after whiskey, mighty risky.” ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixing-drinks/220245/3 "2003-12-21T02:35:02Z")
I try to avoid blended scotches. Single malt seems to have no ill effects. ---
**Author:** ![Freejack00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Freejack00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejack00)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixing-drinks/220245/4 "2003-12-21T02:42:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TWOTfan \* > \*\*More a matter of getting sick than wasted. > > “Whiskey after beer, never fear. Beer after whiskey, mighty risky.” \*\* That’s an even better way to put it…why does a person get sick??? ---
**Author:** ![ekow2kn3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@ekow2kn3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekow2kn3)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixing-drinks/220245/5 "2003-12-21T03:41:22Z")
Beer before liquor never been sicker Liquor before beer, you’re in the clear Light + Dark = Alochol poisoning ---
**Author:** ![mmmiiikkkeee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@mmmiiikkkeee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmmiiikkkeee)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixing-drinks/220245/6 "2003-12-21T05:54:47Z")
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: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixing-drinks/220245/7 "2003-12-21T07:57:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TWOTfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@TWOTfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWOTfan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixing-drinks/220245/8 "2003-12-22T13:33:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDeath_the_Mad)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mixing-drinks/220245/9 "2003-12-22T17:08:10Z")
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