Alcohol Consumption

[InlineFour]

say you have a 20oz bottle wine A that has 10% alcohol and a 10oz bottle of wine B that has 20% alcohol. assuming both bottles contain the same overall alcohol volume, would both drinks have the same effect on a person?

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Alcohol is alcohol...

 

[notfred]

Close enough.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

No. Different types of alcohol can have markedly different effects on people.

- M4H

 

[Schadenfreude]

Well, I would think that it would also be dependant on the time it took for the person to consume the wines. Obviously people don't drink thinking about alcohol volume but about how much wine, i.e. gross volume of wine they've consumed.

 

[Midlander]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
No. Different types of alcohol can have markedly different effects on people.

- M4H

How do you figure?

 

[Descartes]

How can a 20oz bottle with 10% alcohol have the same amount of alcohol by volume as a 10oz bottle with 20%?

 

[Indolent]

Originally posted by: Descartes
How can a 20oz bottle with 10% alcohol have the same amount of alcohol by volume as a 10oz bottle with 20%?

I'm guessing math wasn't your strong subject.


*edit* oh, you just misread, he said "overall alcohol volume" not "alcohol by volume"

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Midlander

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
No. Different types of alcohol can have markedly different effects on people.

- M4H

How do you figure?

Thousands of witnessed events where the same people act different depending on what they're drinking?

Indian friend (Feather, not dot):
- Drinks beer = Just fine
- Drinks wine = "Drunken Indian Stereotype"

Other friend:
- Drinks beer = Happy drunk
- Drinks wine = Falls asleep
- Drinks vodka = Happy drunk
- Drinks shots of Jack = Angry drunk

- M4H

 

[SchrodingersDog]

Is the 20oz bottle half empty? Did you drink half of it before deciding which to drink next?

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
No. Different types of alcohol can have markedly different effects on people.

- M4H

Only when they consume the same volumes of liquid with varying percentages of alcohol content.

In the end it's all just various flavors of ethanol

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
No. Different types of alcohol can have markedly different effects on people.

- M4H

Is it the alcohol that is different or the amount and type of other chemicals present in various alcoholic drinks?

 

[Midlander]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Midlander

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
No. Different types of alcohol can have markedly different effects on people.

- M4H

How do you figure?

Thousands of witnessed events where the same people act different depending on what they're drinking?

Indian friend (Feather, not dot):
- Drinks beer = Just fine
- Drinks wine = "Drunken Indian Stereotype"

Other friend:
- Drinks beer = Happy drunk
- Drinks wine = Falls asleep
- Drinks vodka = Happy drunk
- Drinks shots of Jack = Angry drunk

- M4H

Then it has to be the amount of alcohol consumed. Ethanol is ethanol.

There can be some effect from other things consumed, but what you described as "type of alcohol" doesn't make any sense.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: kogase

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
No. Different types of alcohol can have markedly different effects on people.

- M4H

Is it the alcohol that is different or the amount and type of other chemicals present in various alcoholic drinks?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer...=PubMed&list_uids=654596&dopt=Abstract
I'd go with the "other things" idea.

 

[InlineFour]

Originally posted by: Descartes
How can a 20oz bottle with 10% alcohol have the same amount of alcohol by volume as a 10oz bottle with 20%?

the numbers are arbitrary. the point is, if you drink the same amount of alcohol with more or less water added, will it have the same effect?

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

in a crapulous state ("hang-over")

LOL... The word for the day is "Crapulous"

"How are you feeling today?"
"Juuuuust crapulous!"

Vocabulary growth FTW!

 

[Fenixgoon]

well, the 10oz bottle also has a higher % alcohol per unit volume.....

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
No. Different types of alcohol can have markedly different effects on people.

- M4H

Ethanol = Ethanol != Ethanol?

 

[HomeAppraiser]

Originally posted by: InlineFour
say you have a 20oz bottle wine A that has 10% alcohol and a 10oz bottle of wine B that has 20% alcohol. assuming both bottles contain the same overall alcohol volume, would both drinks have the same effect on a person?

I would think that the 20% bottle would be more dehydrating to a person. Wine that is 20% alcohol would have to be that fortified crap that bums and frat boys drink, so who knows what additives are in it. Wine at 10% is your average red, champagne or a strong white.

 

[zanieladie]

Sounds like an experiment is in order...

 

[BatmanNate]

Ethanol may be ethanol, but the other fermentation byproducts that your body absorbs while your liver is overwhelmed sorting out all the alcohol can have marked effects. Why do you think drinking a heavily filtered liquor versus a cheap unfiltered one will produce less hangover? People also tend to experience worse after effects from ingestion of fruit alcohol vs. grain alcohol and vice versa. Yeast leaves difference chemicals behind besides just ethanol when it's fermenting fructose vs. maltose. Not to mention that temperature and variety of yeast, and original ingredients play a pretty big part as well.