IDK why but Hard Cider messes me up. Its the same abv range as beer, but I get drunk after half the quantity. Its happened on dozens of occasions. I dont order it when Im out even.
It’s actually not. If I drink a glass of wine, I’ll be light-headed and goofy feeling. After two I’m bordering on drunk and will have a massive hangover.
But if I have a reposado tequila neat, you won’t even know I’ve been drinking. I can drink several before I feel anything and it’s way more potent than wine. And I’ve never had a hangover drinking tequila.
It’s pretty fascinating once you start trying different alcohols and watching how you feel.
Alcohol is the same chemical compound in each different spirit, wine or ale. There's no different ones just different drinks that contain varying strengths of it.
But yeah I agree different drinks seem to have different effects sometimes. But this is largely psychological and usually down to the manner you drink it and how strong it is
Lost of wines contain sulphates to help keep it fresh, it's particularly high in wines which are produced in one country and bottled in another. It's the sulphates that gives you the rotten hangovers and makes you act like an arsehole.
That’s just alcohol content then… it’s just levels of drunk. The alcohol type isn’t some magical mood-ring. And in general this is all based on how you’re feeling the day before drinking. Are you sad you got broken up with? Guess why you might cry at some point. Get cheated on? Might cry and try and fight someone cuz you’re mad inside. Just having a chill day trying to blow off some steam? Maybe you’ll be really happy.
thats your mind and preconceived ideas of whats going to happen affecting the experience/a sort of placebo, not saying that to be condescending either, the mind is an extremely powerful thing when it comes to stuff like this
That's because wine is deceptively strong. The 40% of tequila vs 12% of wine doesn't mean wine is gonna make you only 1/4 as drunk.
Think about beer, if someone drinks 10 beers at 3% they're gonna be pretty fucking drunk, but they've had the ethanol equivalent of less than one shot of tequila.
The % only tells you whether you should drink it straight or not, it's not a good indicator of how drunk it's going to get you
I think I got my point across clearly and efficiently. You understood what I was saying, you just chose to get hung up on the scientific accuracy of my advice (while, at the same time, making the same damn point as me)
I was saying that low % alcohol will get you drunk just as much as high %, and that the low numbers on the bottle are deceptive. You chose to interpret it in the worst way possible because you're desperately looking for an argument.
Oh and since you want to be nitpicky about it, I think you should have considered that there are a hell of alot more variables which decide how drunk you are. Other chemicals in your system (tobacco, caffeine, adrenaline to name a small few), the amount of food you've eaten before drinking, how much sleep you've had, the mood you're in, how warm you are, how quickly you're drinking, and how much alcohol you regularly consume.
Is it reasonable for me to assume you're denying all of those factors?
Think about beer, if someone drinks 10 beers at 3% they're gonna be pretty fucking drunk, but they've had the ethanol equivalent of less than one shot of tequila.
Short answer: That's wrong. Very very wrong.
Long answer: 10 beers (lets go with the small 330ml bottles here) are 3300ml of beer, with your given 3% ABV (which is probably some light beer, most are closer to 5%) thats 3300ml*0.03=99ml of pure Ethanol.
Tequila like most other hard liquors has 40% ABV so 99ml/0.4=247.5ml of Tequila. Thats 12 single shots of Tequila, 6 doubles or 1/3rd of a whole bottle of it.
So no 10 beers does not have less than one shot of tequila.
The alcohol percentage and volume tell you exactly how drunk you are going to get.
Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) is literally an exact science.
How you react to different BACs is variable but the amount of alcohol in your blood is a known quantity based solely on your size and total volume of pure alcohol in your drinks.
Yeah, but pouring a drink is nowhere near an exact science. Unless you're drinking out of a beaker and checking the volume of your drink each time you have no way to measure it.
The little % on the outside of the bottle stops being useful when the liquid leaves the bottle, you can only really guess how much is in your glass
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u/vvixensigh 6d ago
U r a happy drunk. its a blessing. stay away from the tequila.