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Thinking outside the box, you might be having a carb crash. Beer is carb-heavy, while whiskey is carb-free.
No alcohol is carb-free, because alcohol is a carb. It’s an oxymoron like “acid-free vinegar” or “no-sodium table salt”. But yes, beer has a lot of carbs in comparison.
Alcohol of any kind is a carb, a fairly simple one at that.
But there's definitely more volume to a beer, and I'm pretty confident it's carb count is way higher.
There's also other things in beer, while whiskey is nearly all alcohol and water.
Do you have a source to support that statement? Everything I can find, including the American Diabetes Association and Teladoc, says otherwise.
I get that your body processes alcohol similar to fructose, but that doesn't make it a carb.
I am prediabetic and I don't drink often. I just notice beer puts me to sleep and buzzes me far faster than liquor
You do actually absorb alcohol faster when it is watered down. And beer has more water, so you would absorb the alcohol from it faster. The reason shots are typically associated with getting drunk quickly is simply because you can drink a lot of shots faster than you can drink a lot of beer. Doing four shots back-to-back would have people in a good mood, but slamming four beers would have most people uncomfortably trying to keep it down. Simply because the volume and carbonation in beer makes it harder to drink quickly.
All of this is to say: If you want to get proper sloshed, chase your shots with some water. It’ll water down the shots you just took and make them hit you faster.
This may be the correct answer because my brother has the same issue. He can down many shots but when he drinks beer, he gets tired faster. I myself can't really comment because I don't drink