Gluten allergy?
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Hops are also a sedative. It might be you are very sensitive to hops.
came here to say this, some people are very sensitive to them
Huh, TIL. Thanks for sharing.
Can you buy alcohol free beer? Try drinking two and see what happens.
in the same time period? I have a hard time believing this honestly. It just does not work that way.
I can chug two beers maybe have a third and if I stop I'm lights out in 30 minutes..
Liquor. Usually whiskey and diet soda. I can chug the first. Sip the rest of them. Maybe about 4 a hour. keeps me awake and the buzz is a lot smoother, best way to describe it than beer.
oh yeah. then its definately the carbs. try having two donuts with the wiskey and see how you do. or like two servings of oat meal. alternatively try two light beers.
Brown sugar and Irish whiskey in oatmeal is actually amazing.
os sure pouring alcohol into your breakfast. totally not an alcoholic with that behaviour :). Im sorta wondering with like rice and oatmeal and other things that absorb the liquid around them. like they are to volatile to stove cook it but if you thermos cook it with 50% boiling water and really warm alcohol and seal it tight. like all other ingredients in first and then boiling water right at the end. mmmmmm.
Sounds delicious. I'm down.
just make sure to scarf the donuts as fast as you drink the beer. so if you get a beer and drink it down real fast and then have another. you want to have a shot and scarf a donut and have another shot and then eat another donut.
And four more whiskey shots after that; got it.
theoretically you should be tired at that point. hey. wait a second. your not the op!
Carbs in the beer + the caffeine and sugar in the soda, I’d bet
Could be how much you've eaten prior to drinking. That can definitely make a difference.
Are you sure you don’t just “think” you’re more functional. Hard booze gives me a much “brighter” drunkenness . You still get drunk but have more energy without all the heavy carbs and sugars
Allergy.
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.
Alcohol of any kind is a carb, a fairly simple one at that.
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.
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The whiskey puts alcohol relatively fast into your body, making that you don't feel drunk yet even though motor skills are probably lacking. With beer, the delivery is slower, making your mind slow before the motor skills give in. At least, that's how it works for me.
What size are those shots? Just about every country has its own shot size, and "a beer" could be .33l or .5l.
That said, I experience similar effects even if I make sure that the alcohol amounts are equivalent. Something about beer makes it go right to my head, unlike spirits. IIRC both sugar content and carbonation increase the speed at which alcohol gets absorbed, but I don't get this effect with longdrinks, either. Maybe it's just placebo ...
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Not sure, all alcohol is equivalent. It doesn't matter if you have whisky, beer, tequila, wine, etc. It's all the same alcohol. It's possible that it's related to a routine, are you usually in a more active mindset when drinking whiskey? Do you usually have a beer or two right before bed?
All alcohol is equivalent, yes, but there are other ingredients in the drink other than alcohol, which can make a difference when it comes to how the alcohol is absorbed and can impact the body in other ways as well.
The alcohol isn’t the only ingredient though. For instance, the gut absorbs alcohol more readily when it is more diluted. So shots are good for efficiently getting alcohol into your stomach, but then your stomach won’t be able to absorb them very quickly. Whereas a beer is mostly water, so it will be readily absorbed by your gut.
The only reason shots are the go-to for getting drunk quickly is because nobody wants to slam a six-pack right at the start of the party, then feel bloated all evening due to the carbonation and carbs. But doing six shots is easy in comparison.
Carbonation enables the digestive system able to metabolize alcohol faster. So a carbonated beer may peak your blood alcohol faster.
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How fast are you drinking the shots? There is also differential absorption between the stomach and the lower intestine.
For science try drinking your normal shots then two pints of water. This is not medical advice.
Wait......is 6-8 shots a lot?
Damn. Maybe I was an alcoholic in my drinking days. I'd also be just fine with 6-8 shots.
But I wouldn't be ok with beer. Not because the beer is too potent. It's more that beer is very carbinated, and filling. I'd drink a few beers and just not have room until I pee. Whereas with shots, you could do like 60-80 shots throughout the day, and maybe pee twice. Although you won't remember it.
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