Different intoxications from different beers

I've never noticed a difference with beers except PBR in which I beat my wife hahaha obviously kidding. With liquor on the other hand, I have noticed a difference. Whiskey makes me rowdy as hell.

 

No

nope. Dirt dog from CA.

 

I haven't really noticed any differences between beer styles. Between different types of alcohol yes (i.e. scotch drunk is very different than rum or vodka drunk) but beer usually takes me to varying degrees of the same place depending on the amount consumed.

 

Thought Dirt Mcgirt was lowered into the dirt so to speak, no?

 

Long live big baby Jesus, Dirt McGirt and Osiris.
Wu Tang for life/for the children

 

Yea, but that 92% won't give you a hang over or give you a buzz.

 

Is it entirely implausible that the intoxicating potential of hops is not fully understood? I have absolutely no science to back that up, only my own observations that having a single hoppy beer like hoptimun or dirtwolf makes me feel a bit euphoric and can have me feeling slightly foggy for a day or so, while a stronger stout or barlrywine has no such affect.

Of course ethanol is ethanol, but is that the only factor at work? Plenty of hop varieties used today are relatively new, maybe they do affect people differently.

 

I don't believe different intoxications from different alcohols is possible. If the same person, in three different sessions, drank two beers over the course of an hour, two glasses of wine over the course of an hour and a double shot of bourbon over the course of an hour all after having consumed the same amount of calories, drank the same amount of water, slept the same amount of hours the previous night and experienced the same amount of stress during the course of the day, s/he would report the same feelings of intoxication all three times.

If people have credible research that suggests otherwise, I'd be interested to see it.

 

Very

Very odd as there is usually a massive hop load in b-wine.
Diversify your hops

 

Could this be something involving congeners as in why many people prefer "97 times distilled" vodkas over bourbon/rum/brandy? The vodka is much "cleaner" than the dark liquors and so people claim (substantiated?) that it makes for a better experience both while drinking and the morning after.

 

Gin makes me an angry angry man. No idea why. I can drink one or two and be okay but more then that, i become the hulk. Tequila and I don't find each other very often after our rendezvous in Cancun. That being said, some ipas will give me a nice buzz for sure. The one that I have really noticed is crusher. I had a bottle of Oracle and felt fine after it. The one crusher I have had gave me a big time buzz. God bless thick 9.6% dipas.

 

So you guys are saying, if you walk through a Hops field and eat hops grain you'll feel different than when you walk through a Rye field and eat Rye grain?

 

It's mostly in your mind, but part of it may also be in speed of consumption as well as choice of food.

There are a lot of factors that contribute to how alcohol makes one feel. Blood sugar, electrolyte levels and balance, level of physical exhaustion, level of hunger, amount of food in your stomach, illness, disease, and your emotional state are but some of the factors that can affect the way you feel from drinking alcohol. Controlling for all or even most of these factors in determining whether certain alcohol affects you differently is pretty much impossible, and it's likely that they've all been rather different in various sessions with the beers you mention.

What this boils down to is you've probably had one or two memorable experiences that now you've extrapolated into something that happens all the time. It has now become self-perpetuating - you believe that Beer A affects you one way and Beer B another, so when you drink them, they tend to conform to your pre-conceived notion about how they will affect you. Your mind basically chucks all the other factors out the window and tells you how it is. It's one of the mind's many talents.

 

needs more Jeff Vanvonderen

 

That wasn't my point.

 

While ethanol and its effects are similar in one 5% beer to another, there can be other spillover products from fermentation that can greatly effect your processing and overall results. Fusel/higher alcohols in particular can cause differences.

 

My uncle who is an avid wine collector once told me that the hangover from red wine is worse than other alcoholic drinks because of all the the antioxidants or something. Not sure if this is true, but who knows.

These things make sense to me. Yes ethanol is ethanol, but there are other chemical compounds that affect the body in other ways, not just ethanol. There may be something to this, but it still blows my mind that you can have 4, 16oz drinks at 8% an not feel anything unless this is over quite a few hours. I don't think anything I've said could explain something that significant.

Someone more knowledgeable, please feel free to redact this post if anything I said was unknowingly bullshit

 

Just to throw something else out there...when I drink lots of different styles in one "outing"...I feel like shit. But I can stick with IPAs all night and although I am wasted, I wake up in the morning bright eyed and bushy tailed.

 

My buddies always called draft Hacker Pschorr "liquid LSD".