Drunk on a barmans fart!!

Clár

I am not much of a drinker although i do enjoy a drink when i go down the pub. I am only ickle and very thin and therefore it does not take very much to get me pissed. I usually drink coors light but after 4 bottles i am on my ear (i think its 1 the lightest beers u can get).

But i have recently started drinking vodka and cranberry juice and i dont tend to be as pissed after say 4 of them. Mind you im not sure if i could drink any more than 4 or 5. I am just a little surprised that i can handle vodka and not beer. I am going out this weekend and it will be a long nite and i dunno wot to be drinking.

WhiteWashMan

some people handle shorts better than beer.

what exactly are you looking for?

Steve_o

the problem is you said "ickle".......only kidding:D

On topic: some people do indeed find it easier to drink spirits because you drink them slower i guess!!

Shabadu

Drink a pint of water between each drink.

kenmc

Cl&#225 wrote: »

I usually drink coors light but after 4 bottles i am on my ear (i think its 1 the lightest beers u can get).

"Light" does not mean low alcohol, it means low calories. it's 4.2% and fizzy. I'd say the bubbles are adding to your intoxication too, cranberry and vodka has none.
Most draught beer in Ireland is around that percentage also - Guinness Draught is 4.0, Murphys also 4.0 (http://www.realbeer.com/edu/health/calories.php) so you could try drinking them instead of the fizzy pi$$ that is coors/miller/bud. Smithwicks is also an option - basically anything thats less fizzy will likely be less drunken for you.

noby

I guess with the vodka, you can go heavier on the mixer, to pace yourself.

With beer, Coors light (and Bud light and the like) are all 4% or so. I presume that's what you mean by lightest beers you can get. The "light" range is well marketed. To put it in context, Guinness is only 4.2%. Smithwicks is 3.8%

If you were in England you'd have the world of milds to choose from, alot of which are in the 3.5% range

You could just drink slower, or have a glass of water in between drinks.

<edit: ok ken said it better>

Crucifix

It's whispered on the wind a good amount of milk before you go out will up your tolerance, but I'm not sure on the science behind it.

MiCr0

or drink shandy?

Retr0gamer

A good feed before you go out helps. The food absorbs the alcohol so will enter your system much slower. I can handle a fair amount of booze before the dinosaur phase sets it but if I'm drinking on an empty stomach I'd be fairly locked at around the 5th pint.

Winter Slide

Shabadu wrote:

Drink a pint of water between each drink.

Boo-urns

The Sweeper

I have my eye on this thread. And comments like Boo-urns in response to some perfectly sensible advice lead me to suggest the following:

READ THE CHARTER.

Clár

YEah your right about the bubble they probably do go to my head when i drink Coors Light. I do know that the Light means low calories, thats why i started drinking it. But it is only 4.3% alcohol so it is also not that strong and maybe corona or miller.

I do enjoy shandies and guinness when i am just down the pub on a Sunday afternoon or going out with work.

I do drink water in between drinks if i start to feel queesy or like im getting too pissed. I try have a hearty meal before i go out but i tend not to start drinking till 9pm and i would have my dinner at 6 so i probably just need to eat later. I workout every Sat afternoon and mt Dad reckons my body might still be dedrated and therefore get hammered easily.

Mec-a-nic

I used to start on beer and end up on spirts because I was full (I'm not large either). Not good for the resulting hangover.

So now I know if there is a session starting, I start and stay on spirits with a mixer. If I need the energy, I'll go for a caffene mixer (coke, etc). If I'm feeling tipsy, the next round is just the mixer on its own, and no-one notices that there's no al-key-hol.
This gets around the hasstle of drunk friends trying to buy extra rounds for me if they see me drinking water... !

Cheers
mec

rubadub

Mec-a-nic wrote:

I used to start on beer and end up on spirts because I was full (I'm not large either). Not good for the resulting hangover.

thats the big no-no in my book that I can never understand why people do it. I only drink spirits at the start of the night. Usually a few before I head out, moreso to play catch-up if my mates started earlier. Later on you are drunk, spirits go down like water, and at that stage you do not even need them. You say you are full, full of beer! it is not getting a chance to even pass through your system so you have a few pints still to take effect and you go and drink spirits. I am not preaching, I am a big drinker myself, I just see it as a waste of money, spirits are way overpriced in puibs and if I did go on them later I know I would not remember a thing.

35.5mlx37.5%=1331.25
330mlx4.3%=1419
so there is more booze in the bottles of coors, but if you only mix the vodka with a little mixer it is stronger and takes effect quicker and leads to a higher blood alcohol level. A little water in between will help, so will eating WHILE drinking, not little mini bags of peanuts for €1 a pop, walk outside the pub and get a burger or chips, the walk will also sober you up a bit.

ArthurG

Alcohol can only be absorbed through the lining of your stomach at a certain rate, once this is reached the concentration of alcohol (i.e. from spirits or beer) is somewhat irrelevant.

What plays a bigger role is the volume of liquid in your stomach - the more in there the more alcohol in contact with the lining of your stomach. The more lining covered the more alcohol you intake into your blood.

So beer actually will make you drunk quicker, spirits due to their lower volume slower.

Of course this is all somewhat theoretical, as your metabolism, what you've eaten etc will also have an impact.

PS - most draft beers in Ireland are at 4.2% not 4.0.

rubadub

ArthurG wrote:

What plays a bigger role is the volume of liquid in your stomach - the more in there the more alcohol in contact with the lining of your stomach. The more lining covered the more alcohol you intake into your blood.

So beer actually will make you drunk quicker, spirits due to their lower volume slower.

Is that a joke? Do you actually drink yourself? A few 1000 blackouts and a fistfull of summons's would lead me to think spirits do get you far more drunk per unit. i.e. 500ml of 45% spirits will get me far more drunk than 5000ml of 4.5% beer drunk over the same length of time.

I think you need to recheck your maths books about volume and surface area. By your theory if people drank a pint of water with every pint of beer they would get even more drunk. I know plenty of people who drink water to sober up. I have never once heard a person saying "I think he has had a bit too much, he better stick to the spirits", I hear the opposite all the time.