Post: #1

I've noticed different types of alcohol have a different effect on me.

From party guy, to sleepy guy, to guy who thinks he can fight and so forth.

While I'm curtailing booze in general, once in a while i will tear it up. So may as well be in a great mood...what should I try?

Thanks,

Post: #2

It's not like weed where different strains can have fairly different effects. Ethanol is ethanol.

The only real variations to take into account would be how cheap what you're drinking is. Cheaper booze will have lower quality ingredients that went into it, the end product will have more conjoiners (junky leftover chemicals), and they probably added sugar and flavoring to it. In the case of carbonated stuff like alcopops or champagne the carbonation will make you absorb the alcohol faster.

Also, because of conjoiner content, even high quality top shelf dark colored drinks will tend to give you worse hangovers the next day, or headaches and stomach aches while you're drinking it. Red wine and whiskey are notorious for this. If you like straight or mixed drinks, good vodka would be the way to go.

My personal favorite way to catch a buzz is definitely beer. You can sip it and savor it, it's refreshing on a hot ass day, and you get a much finer control over how drunk you end up getting. Worth having to take a piss every 30 minutes? In my opinion, totally.

Post: #3

(02-07-2015 01:33 AM)Ziltoid Wrote:  It's not like weed where different strains can have fairly different effects. Ethanol is ethanol.

The only real variations to take into account would be how cheap what you're drinking is. Cheaper booze will have lower quality ingredients that went into it, the end product will have more conjoiners (junky leftover chemicals), and they probably added sugar and flavoring to it. In the case of carbonated stuff like alcopops or champagne the carbonation will make you absorb the alcohol faster.

Also, because of conjoiner content, even high quality top shelf dark colored drinks will tend to give you worse hangovers the next day, or headaches and stomach aches while you're drinking it. Red wine and whiskey are notorious for this. If you like straight or mixed drinks, good vodka would be the way to go.

My personal favorite way to catch a buzz is definitely beer. You can sip it and savor it, it's refreshing on a hot ass day, and you get a much finer control over how drunk you end up getting. Worth having to take a piss every 30 minutes? In my opinion, totally.

Chemically, ethanol is ethanol, but the feeling of the buzz is significantly different with different types of booze. Beer eventually builds up a buzz, but it makes you bloated and waterlogged at the same time. Hard alcohol gives you a strong fast buzz. My favorite is to have beer and whiskey together, because the buzz is a hybrid of the two separate buzzes.

On a side note, I recently had hot wings, and was drinking sugar free red bull and vodka, and I found the drinks were really hammering me. I was strongly buzzed after two drinks, walking and talking a little funny. This was a chain restaurant on a busy Saturday, so I doubt they were pouring heavy.
I think the dopamine rush from the hot food, plus the booze and the red bull kick all combined to hit me extra hard. Planning to test this again this weekend.

Post: #4

Hard booze plus caffeinated mixer. You put upper and downer together. Rum and coke, vodka and red bull, etc.

Post: #5

Different alcohol types definitely have different effects, I've noticed it in the past myself:

Beer: makes you gassy (all that carbonation), piss a lot, also makes me feel buzzed very quickly. After a beer or 2 I feel sleepy, slurry and clumsy. Perfect drink for watching and shouting at football games but I don't like drinking it in social settings.

Hard liquor: Vodka, Whisky, Rum, Gin etc is perfect for being active or socializing. I stopped drinking shots, just usually make myself a long drink and sip on it. More alcohol in the beginning of a party in that long drink, with increasingly less amounts mixed in the longer the night goes. I can get a mellow buzz but still talk and think normally. I actually makes one more awake and active at the beginning amounts but you can crash hard if you overdo it. Perfect for parties

Wine: The holy grail of drinking with a woman. When I was younger I thought that giving women hard liquor cocktails would be better to lube it up, since it has more alcohol, but the effect was that they just drank it slower. Wine is actually perfect for mild socializing: you get a nice subtle buzz but the effect isn't as pronounced and for all intents and purposes, you're actually not THAT drunk because it's lower alcohol content, you simply feel very relaxed and bubbly. Also the one alcohol that makes you behave crazily. I dunno, hard to describe but when you drink wine with a woman, you're both ready to get into adventures. Some girls admitted to me that vodka does nothing for them, not even in huge amounts, but wine immidiately gets them horny and buzzed (can attest to that, I girl seriously drank ungodly amounts of vodka and behaved normal, but got some wine and was giggling and being tipsy immidiately).

Tequilla: Special category for this because I dunno, never had a good night when drinking tequilla

Even harder liquors (>55% alcohol): Now you're just drinking for the sake of getting drunk. Godspeed you alconaut

(02-07-2015 01:33 AM)Ziltoid Wrote:  It's not like weed where different strains can have fairly different effects. Ethanol is ethanol.

Kind of a wrong and useless observation. THC is THC, no? Different alcohols also have different side effects. They'll all get you shitfaced drunk in high enough amounts, for sure, but the journey there is different.

Post: #6

(02-07-2015 01:42 AM)RoastBeefCurtains4Me Wrote:  Chemically, ethanol is ethanol, but the feeling of the buzz is significantly different with different types of booze. Beer eventually builds up a buzz, but it makes you bloated and waterlogged at the same time. Hard alcohol gives you a strong fast buzz. My favorite is to have beer and whiskey together, because the buzz is a hybrid of the two separate buzzes.

I'm actually a little drunk on that combo right now. Beer makes me bloated, Whiskey makes me sleepy. The combination's fine for a boozy dinner, but not for a party or the club.

Post: #7

(02-07-2015 07:24 AM)Rangarr Wrote:  

(02-07-2015 01:33 AM)Ziltoid Wrote:  It's not like weed where different strains can have fairly different effects. Ethanol is ethanol.

Kind of a wrong and useless observation. THC is THC, no? Different alcohols also have different side effects. They'll all get you shitfaced drunk in high enough amounts, for sure, but the journey there is different.

No.
Different strains of cannabis have different amounts of different psychoactive cannabinoids (of which THC is one). This is why Indica and Sativa give you different highs.

Post: #8

Rangarr - THC is THC insofar that all strains have it. But no, not all weed gives you the same high as much as all alcohol still grtd you drunk.

You got your indica strains dishing out couch lock and relaxation.
You got your sativa strains accomaditing elevated moods and energy.

And you have a host of combinations and variations of 80/20 sativa indica blend, 60/40 indica dominant. Etc etc.... That can give you everything from narcotic pain relief to an anti depressant. Medically speaking of course.

To most people though I guess its just about getting high. Much like the lay man's purpose of getting drunk. Doesn't matter what it is, it'll do the job.

Post: #9

Red bull and vodka is the drink for you and the choice of champions such as myself. Nothing like it whether you have a chick raring to go right next to you, out alone, or in the midst of a club or party. The right mix of liquid confidence and a boost.

Post: #10

All I know is that in general, vodka tonics give me a pretty solid buzz that lasts for a long while and doesn't give me a hangover.

Beer just wrecks me for some reason. I almost quit drinking it since I feel terrible for several days afterwards.

I only drink red bull vodkas when I have no more fucks to give.

Post: #11

I can only do beer or wine now that I've changed my diet. Since I cut out alot of carbs and starches, hard alcohol really does me in. I get super happy to aggressive, then once I sleep, I end up sleep walking and pissing on things besides the toilet. So no more hard stuff for me.

Post: #12

When you reach the age of 21-22 it just takes a toll on you. Back in the day it was easy to drink 10-12 pints in the night and then the day after feel just fine after a fry up. It disorientates you for a day or two now, effects your judgement and makes you feel depleted.

There is a big emphasis in some parts on the world, on how alcohol is a clever way to subvert a nation and the population it contains. In the U.K there is such a big drinking culture that I would say it even goes past Eastern Europe. Its more because in the U.K, its all about binge drinking and if you get paralytic its almost like some sort of bonus. This starts in the early teens and carries on until their 30s and 40s. Plus it is across class and background, some of the biggest drunkards have professional lifestyles. Just ask any police officer who has to deal with the mess in the City of London. You find investment bankers and senior accountants getting wasted and starting fights with each other in the square mile on a friday/saturday night.

Post: #13

I have come to love and appreciate beer as the years go by while having the opposite attraction and feeling towards liquor. it is a lot harder for me to gauge and control my drunk level with liquor plus I feel like Shit the next day! my hangovers are much, much less severe with any sort of beer, including hobo piss beer LOL

Post: #14

This drink has a reputation for making Aussie blokes violent to the point where they will punch up their best mates. Maybe it's the sugar rush from consuming all that coke with it?

Post: #15

That's very likely. They had a mixed drink in America - 4loko - which was super sugary, super caffeinated and with a 20 or 30% alcohol content. Think of a vodka red bull squared. It was notorious for making people black out and getting into hospitals cause they'd drink it quickly, would not feel how drunk they are, drink some more and then when the energy and sugar effect wore off it would hit them.

In general, alcohol is a downer, it's supposed to get you drowsy and relaxed. Energy or sugary drinks have an upper effect and they mask your true level of drunkenness. So when you're drinking mixed drinks, especially mixed red bull, keep in mind that you're probably drunker than you feel

Post: #16

Ethanol is ethanol.

Its effects vary primarily with:

1. How quickly consumed
2. Overall amount consumed
3. Degree of hangover (based in part on amount of congeners, as well as the amount of water consumed)
   

It is easier to drink hard liquor faster than beer. Looky, now you have six shots in one hour and want to fight -- factor 1.

Good vodka may have fewer congeners than cheap whiskey -- factor 3.

If you drink 6 shots of vodka to 6 beers, you will consume more water with the beer, and this may affect hangover -- factor 3

You feel different if you drink 12 beers compared to two beers -- I hope you know this already, but factor 2.

All other supposed differences can be boiled down to these three factors (even Red Bull and vodka as it allows you to consume more by exciting your nervous system -- factor 2)

Post: #17

As a European whose first visit to the US came through Canada, I must sympathise with Americans on the beer that is on sale in their country. It tastes like beer-flavoured soda.

Post: #18

Depends on your situation. A scene where I feel more comfortable is good for vodka and Red Bull. I get energetic. A scene where I could do well but I am starting at some kind of social disadvantage is rum and coke time. It makes me ballsier. Different people probably have different tastes/reactions. You have to test your reactions.

Post: #19

(02-07-2015 11:58 AM)N°6 Wrote:  As a European whose first visit to the US came through Canada, I must sympathise with Americans on the beer that is on sale in their country. It tastes like beer-flavoured soda.

Realize the only kind of American beer that is good is the local craft breweries but that's really it.

Post: #20

Myself personally: Beer gets me rambling (positive) but also makes me sleepy after a short while (negative) - plus I'm just not a fan of the taste in general. My two favorite drinks right now are Gin+Tonics and Vodka+RedBull. For whatever reason, I don't like Rum+Coke - rum seems to make my game go out the window for whatever reason.

HSLD

Post: #21

I can drink beer like a fiend so its my go to when i go out. If I start dragging ass, vodka red bull will perk me up. On the weekends, I'll start out with screwdrivers to get a strong buzz in the morning. When I get buzzed, I feel really warm and my eyes start to droop. Fantastic.

Whiskey switches on my "act like a douchebag" personality, unless its fireball. Tequila makes me piss my pants.

Post: #22

"Whiskey makes you drowsy,
Gin makes you think"

Post: #23

I quit drinking but I used to like cheap malt liquor (Steel Reserve, 8.1% alc) because it has my favorite buzz and mid-range to expensive vodka (various brands, preferably Grey Goose, anything at least $15 a fifth would suffice) because it left me with the least hangover.

Post: #24

The thing with booze and drugs is, your feelings (your mental state) is generally amplified. If you're feeling down and depressed, booze and drugs will generally make you feel worse (but differently). For some people, that mind-alteration is all their looking for, but if you're looking to feel on top of your game, and booze isn't helping, that means there's something deep within you that needs fixing.

Aside from that, If i'm already feeling good, but want to feel buzzed my drinks of choice are either vodka based, champagne/white wine based, or beer/malt based.

Red wine just makes me feel slow.

Post: #25

(02-07-2015 06:05 PM)kerouac Wrote:  Red wine just makes me feel slow.

Red wine gave me brutal, crushing hangovers when I used to drink. I would need a full bottle to get a buzz though so maybe all the sulfites caught up to me, as opposed to the normal way of drinking wine (a glass or two.)