Why does mixing your drinks get you drunker?!
Why does mixing your drinks get you drunker?
Answers:
I once heard it explained via this little ditty.
"Beer on Wine and I feel fine.
Wine on Beer and I feel queer."
You drink the lower percentage alcohol and get used to drinking at a certain rate. You then move to a higher percentage and keep drinking at the same rate... in other words effectively drinking more alcohol over the same time period. So, in the first 2 hours you have 6 beers then in the next 2 hours you have 6 large wines/spirits which is about the same as 12 or more beers.
Can be even worse if you free pour and then gulp the wine/spirit the same way as a gulp of beer rather than just sipping at them.
Makes sort of sense when you think of it that way.