Do certain spirits cause different moods?

[JesseJB]

Tell me if I'm wrong on this, but:

Whiskey makes you argumentative and aggressive.
Vodka just makes you really drunk.
Tequila makes you party.
Rum makes you mellow.
Wine makes you confident.
Beer makes you social.

I've heard different variations of this and it seems to be true, especially with whiskey. How is this possible?

 

[tagutcow]

Beer makes me feel drunk.
Wine makes me sleepy.
Tequila makes my clothes fall off.

 

[ysc]

I don't agree with your list of what they do, or that they do different things. They might have different associations for you and people you know, so maybe you reach for the whiskey because of its burn when you are feeling unhappy, and for the vodka when you just want to get wasted and tequlia when you want to party, if you are already in those moods when you drink them, then the booze is going to accentuate your mood.
I do find I feel slightly different drunk on beer vs spirits though.

I do find that tequila makes me vomit though, more or less everytime and straight away, there is nothing interesting about that though, I just drank too much cheap tequila and now my body won't have any of it.

 

[Milhouse]

Beer makes me need to urinate a lot, and probably makes me more argumentative since it is so much harder to get drunk with beer.

Wine makes me feel good.

Whiskey makes me feel good.

Rum often makes me feel tired, mellow, calm, or other similar adjective.

 

[ysc]

I suppose it is not impossible that other chemicals in the booze might mean that it has slightly different effects (I think they do when it comes to having a hangover) but I do find it a bit unlikely.

 

[Piobaire]

More than a six pack of beer makes me sleepy these days.

Hard liquors all give me the same feeling.

The buzz from wine, is somehow more organic. Don't ask me to explain that.

 

[samus]

Originally Posted by youngscientist

I don't agree with your list of what they do, or that they do different things. They might have different associations for you and people you know, so maybe you reach for the whiskey because of its burn when you are feeling unhappy, and for the vodka when you just want to get wasted and tequlia when you want to party, if you are already in those moods when you drink them, then the booze is going to accentuate your mood.
I do find I feel slightly different drunk on beer vs spirits though.

I do find that tequila makes me vomit though, more or less everytime and straight away, there is nothing interesting about that though, I just drank too much cheap tequila and now my body won't have any of it.

Correct. Correlation does not imply causation.

 

[tagutcow]

Originally Posted by youngscientist

I don't agree with your list of what they do, or that they do different things. They might have different associations for you and people you know, so maybe you reach for the whiskey because of its burn when you are feeling unhappy, and for the vodka when you just want to get wasted and tequlia when you want to party, if you are already in those moods when you drink them, then the booze is going to accentuate your mood.
I do find I feel slightly different drunk on beer vs spirits though.

I do find that tequila makes me vomit though, more or less everytime and straight away, there is nothing interesting about that though, I just drank too much cheap tequila and now my body won't have any of it.

Well wine has sulfites in it, and different people respond to sulfites in different ways.

Set and setting are everything. If I'm feeling lonely and depressed, alcohol- any type of alcohol, is only going to exacerbate the situation.

I usually drink wine when I'm around my family, so perhaps that's part of the reason I associate it with feeling exhausted.

I don't know if different liquors affect me in different ways, but I will say liquor in general acts much more "insidiously" than beer does. I'll have six shots and notice some perceptual quirks, but no psychological sensation of being drunk. Much more after that, and it catches up with me in a hurry!

 

[Dakota rube]

I have always said a tequila drunk is more like a drug buzz than booze.

 

[Thomas]

How a spirit makes me feel is more related to how I felt before tipping the glass than what's in the glass.

 

[TylerTheToaster]

I never thought specific boozes affected me differently so I tend to not believe the hype. Still tequila does make strange things happen...

 

[trex]

Rum - acts on me like tequila, hard crazy partying.

red wine - makes me sleepy

white wine - mellow mood

whisky - numbs me, slurry speach

gin - nice drunkness

beer - I have to drink too much too fast to get drunk, so I just end up with a full belly and having to go to pee a lot.