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Do you notice any difference in the psychoactive effects between liquors of the same proof, or is that a myth? I swear 80 proof whiskey is a much better buzz than 80 proof vodka. Conversely, vodka seems to have little to no hangover compared to whiskey. But this may all be in my head as alcohol should be alcohol, no?
 
Probably just the speed at which you're consuming different alcohols more than anything. Hangovers vary wildly person to person and hydration level matters more than anything else.

Always chalked the clear vs dark liquors thing to people tend to mix dark liquors less than clear. Most people aren't drinking straight vodka or gin. Vodka gets mixed with various watery mixers pretty often and tonic has quinine which helps with dehydration. Dark liquors are usually getting mixed with something sugary like soda.
 
Motorcharge said:
Always chalked the clear vs dark liquors thing to people tend to mix dark liquors less than clear. Most people aren't drinking straight vodka or gin. Vodka gets mixed with various watery mixers pretty often and tonic has quinine which helps with dehydration. Dark liquors are usually getting mixed with something sugary like soda.
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Congeners.

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The Consensus: Darker Alcohol Is More Likely to Cause Worse Hangovers - Consensus: AI Search Engine for Research

Darker alcoholic drinks contain high amounts of substances called congeners which increase the likelihood and severity of hangover symptoms the next day. The effect of congeners though is only part of the hangover story because alcohol and its metabolites also have toxic effects no matter what...
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the conservative atheist said:
Do you notice any difference in the psychoactive effects between liquors of the same proof, or is that a myth? I swear 80 proof whiskey is a much better buzz than 80 proof vodka. Conversely, vodka seems to have little to no hangover compared to whiskey. But this may all be in my head as alcohol should be alcohol, no?
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You need to step up to Tequila

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Yes, It has been a long time. But I found that i drank less Kettle One than i Di of other potato vodkas of the same proof. Cheap Georgie Knocked em all out of the box just tastes like crap. Mind you that when i drank, it was also at room temp straight. Not sure if that matters.

I tried Tequila once. Whatever 1800 or name brands that the Brothas be drankin.:shaking: "Years of Coworker team member pressure". Did not get a buzz, no hang over and resulted in a bad night. I pee'd so much that the bathroom attendant made bank on me at the sick counter. 7 hours of listening to a married lady vent on my shoulder without a buzz is some hard mental work.
 
I don't notice anything. I drink everything straight up over ice though. Mixers are dumb :flipoff2:

Really, a whiskey coke tastes like sometime fucked up coke to me. Absolutely hate it, makes me want to gag.
Bourbon or Scotch on the rocks? Fucking delicious! :grinpimp:


Vodka makes my wife more violent than whiskey. She drinks vodka soda or whiskey ditch. :homer:
 
All the same as far as I can tell. I know people claim different booze makes them do different shit (tequila as a prime example) and that may be for some but I'd hazard a guess it's mostly from the types of drinks made with each booze type. Tequila is always a party lubricant so shots, stout margaritas are the norm.
 
Getting too old to drink hard as I used to. I remember stumbling around barely walking 😝

I do notice beer hang overs when I have bulk mass produced product like Bud et al. Betting it has to do with the preservatives.

Killed a 26 of gin a few weeks ago and never got drunk?? In a matter of five days plus beers. Maybe I’m an alcoholic 😆
 
Sailor Jerry rum gives me wicked insane dreams. Way different than any other rums.
 
the conservative atheist said:
Do you notice any difference in the psychoactive effects between liquors of the same proof, or is that a myth? I swear 80 proof whiskey is a much better buzz than 80 proof vodka. Conversely, vodka seems to have little to no hangover compared to whiskey. But this may all be in my head as alcohol should be alcohol, no?
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I do. Beer gets me buzzed quick, wine I can drink a ton of it and not really get very buzzed or "drunk", whiskey the same as wine until I get the spins then it's bad times, vodka depends what it's in. The beer thing I think is mostly mental as I used to drink it all the time after work and I reeeeealy like (not good long term), so I think that's why it messed me up so quick.
 
I step up the shit talkin with whiskey.

I start and loose fights when rum is involved.

Beer is pretty safe with the exception of Blue Moon. I'll get a gnarly hangover from just one of those damn things
 
Real moonshine and a doobie. You skip the buzz. It hurts the next day.
 
When i drank the hard stuff, i allways felt the buzz in my head first like cheeks, nose, and ears would go numb, not the rest of my body.
Got hangovers in my 20s.
Now i just drink beer, its more of a whole body buzz, no hangovers
 
Steve300xcw said:
I step up the shit talkin with whiskey.

I start and loose fights when rum is involved.

Beer is pretty safe with the exception of Blue Moon. I'll get a gnarly hangover from just one of those damn things
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An old neighbor used to get killer hangover from Budweiser. I think it is because they use rice as the primary fermentable.
 
Pony_Driver said:
An old neighbor used to get killer hangover from Budweiser. I think it is because they use rice as the primary fermentable.
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I've found I'm just allergic to something with alcohol, or the alcohol itself. Beer is 50x worse than non-beer, but either way

If I take 2 Claritin before I go to sleep after drinking anything but beer, I wake up more or less normal. I sleep like shit but minimum hangover. With (regular) beer I need to take 2 when I go to bed and 2 more when I wake up, and it still will hang on a bit
If I'm IPA drunk (sometimes even just buzzed) I'm getting a hangover no matter what. I dunno how many allergy pills I can take without dying from those instead, lol.

If I don't take allergy pills, I'm 100% hungover. Even 2 light beers will give me a hangover. Real drunk means I'm basically not leaving bed the next day.
 
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Extremely hoppy IPAs are a different buzz IMO. It makes sense. Hops are a cousin of marijuana and share a lot of the same terpenes. The terpene content is probably highly responsible for the fact that different marijuana strains have fairly significantly different types of highs.
 
DWT said:
All the same as far as I can tell. I know people claim different booze makes them do different shit (tequila as a prime example) and that may be for some but I'd hazard a guess it's mostly from the types of drinks made with each booze type. Tequila is always a party lubricant so shots, stout margaritas are the norm.
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I can and will drink literally anything else and I'm just talkative and social. Beer, whiskey, wine, rum, gin, vodka, you name it and I'll drink it and be pretty much the same as normal, just more talkative.

Tequila I get sick as a dog, will puke all over the place, and turn into a raging asshole ready to fight anyone. No idea why and nothing else gets me like that. Doesn't matter if it's straight, margs, whatever, I just flat out can't drink it.
 
east_beast said:
Extremely hoppy IPAs are a different buzz IMO. It makes sense. Hops are a cousin of marijuana and share a lot of the same terpenes. The terpene content is probably highly responsible for the fact that different marijuana strains have fairly significantly different types of highs.
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When I was home-brewing, I experimented with a High-Gravity Belgian Tripel. During the hops cycle of making the wort, I replaced some of them with 1/4 oz of Orange Kush I had brought back from CO. It was too high gravity and distressed the yeast, so I left it an extra week in fermentation, tossing in some Saison (a very hardy yeast), and it came out at about 14.7% and tasted amazing. It put everyone who tried it on their ass as well.
 
I talked to a science-y guy about different alcohols affecting people differently...as I didn't really believe the subjective observations of drunk people^^^

He thought it was true but his reason was everyone has different enzymes in their stomach and they react differently with different alcohol types...

Made some sort of sense to me:flipoff2:
 
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