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Sobbing after whisky?

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CrotchBurn · 21/01/2021 19:54

Anyone else get wildly overly emotional with spirits?

Came home from work and had a glass of a whisky my dad gave me. Cue actual sobbing and horrible feelings. I know life isn't easy right now, but still...

This also happens to me with gin. Anyone else?

Why does this happen with spirits whereas with wine or beer you can get much drunker but nowhere near as OTT?!

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GnomeOrMistAndIceGuy · 21/01/2021 21:18

Alcohol is alcohol is alcohol. You know that right? It can’t affect you differently in a whisky to a beer.
Completely wrong.

Bluntness100 · 21/01/2021 21:18

We also find that with whisky,,,if my husband drinks it he gets really arsey, argumentative and pissed off,,and he’s usually very mild mannered, so he doesn’t drink it.

For me it’s southern comfort, also a type of whisky, I don’t like any other, and I can become quite cunty, I went through a phase of drinking it before Covid started and had to stop, I was finding myself eyeing my friends and finding myself annoyed and argumentative, when usually I’m having a lot of laughs, so after about three or four social events, I noticed the pattern of being really annoyed at them after a few and made the link, so I knocked it on the head and went back to normal self.

IrenetheQuaint · 21/01/2021 21:21

Whisky makes me all twitchy and anxious, then I can't sleep. Infuriating as I love it.

WarmSausageTea · 21/01/2021 21:21

When I was young, people would say that gin makes you maudlin.

Personally, gin makes my day.

TheMobileSiteMadeMeSignup · 21/01/2021 21:23

Oh, and DH no longer drinks jagermeister since it makes him aggressive.

Tequila on the other hand he's a happy chatty person then falls asleep.

peakygal · 21/01/2021 21:23

I love Jack Daniels but when I drink it I feel incredible anger so I never go near it

Brandyb · 21/01/2021 21:23

@GnomeOrMistAndIceGuy

Alcohol is alcohol is alcohol. You know that right? It can’t affect you differently in a whisky to a beer. Completely wrong.
It isn't wrong. It's all ethanol with different flavourings
Bluntness100 · 21/01/2021 21:26

It isn't wrong. It's all ethanol with different flavourings

It’s not all brewed or distilled the same way, and it also all has different herbs, berries, grains etc in thr process and it does impact people differently, there has been scientific studies on it. Google it if you struggle to understand why.

LakeGeneva · 21/01/2021 21:27

Yes I definitely find my mood is different with different drinks. I guess that's why we have different types of alcohol ..?

Like a pp, gin makes me maudlin, whisky makes me aggressive.

And I'd never really thought about it before @TheMobileSiteMadeMeSignUp but similar to your DH tequila makes me really really giggly.

Fallsballs · 21/01/2021 21:29

I can’t drink vodka, I get morbid and more than 2 whiskies I’d start a fight in a car park.

Bluntness100 · 21/01/2021 21:37

@Fallsballs

I can’t drink vodka, I get morbid and more than 2 whiskies I’d start a fight in a car park.
Yes, whisky impacts a lot of people like that, makes them aggressive snd pissed off. It’s obviously something to do with the alcohol and fermented grains, mixing alcohol with different grains, spices, herbs, and the different distilling, brewing, fermenting processes has different impacts on our brains,

So for example the common ones, whisky aggression, gin depression, red wine relaxation, white wine invigoration etc.

MinnieJackson · 21/01/2021 21:42

I always assumed that's why they called gin 'mothers ruin'

CounsellorTroi · 21/01/2021 21:49

Gin has that effect on me.

Bluntness100 · 21/01/2021 21:51

@MinnieJackson

I always assumed that's why they called gin 'mothers ruin'
No, it was due to the popularity of gin and gin joints in thr 1700s, as it was produced in folks homes,,if you produced it, you didn’t need to house soldiers, so ,everyone was producing it and subsequently necking it and spending their days pissed, women included.

Due to spending their days pissed, kids were neglected and women became prostitutes to help them pay for it, so it was called “mothers ruin”, it was a real issue at the time. The government had to step in and put a stop to it. It was dirt cheap, thousands of gin joints, and people were drinking on average something like two litres a week of it, and spending their days off their faces.

So folks then needed licences to sell it and it was taxed. But that’s where the phrase came from.

CounsellorTroi · 21/01/2021 21:53

My MIL had a theory that there was something in the lager lout thing - something that made people aggressively drunk as people who drink bitter/real ale types and stout tend not to get so nasty.

MinnieJackson · 22/01/2021 07:20

Wow @Bluntness100 I never knew that! Thank you, that's fascinating.

IndieRo · 22/01/2021 07:35

@Bluntness100, enjoyed reading that thank you. Very interesting.

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CrotchBurn · 22/01/2021 07:41

Also very much enjoyed reading your explanation Bluntness!

And also got a kick out of the little insight into you being "quite cunty" on southern comfort 🤭

My dad is Irish and whenever I leave after seeing him he gives me a nice bottle of whisky, so this Christmas I got a good one. But it's a complete disaster for me no matter how much I love it.

Quite literally just had a glass (maybe two fingers worth) last night and tears streaming down face, blanked my DP for no reason, then fell asleep and woke up again at 10pm. From now on I'm sticking to the red wine, which just leaves me mellow even after multiple glasses.

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CrotchBurn · 22/01/2021 07:44

Actually it was probably closer to three fingers. Does anyone know what the equivalent amount in terms of alcohol intensity would be for wine?

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skirtingbore · 22/01/2021 07:44

[quote CrotchBurn]@TheMobileSiteMadeMeSignup
Apparently it's all psychological though- I'm reading a few articles now and there doesn't seem to be any scientific research that definitely shows spirits fuck your emotions up more than beer or wine. Weird.[/quote]
Alcohol is alcohol

linerforlife · 22/01/2021 07:49

Whiskey makes me such a bastard. And quite aggressive. I am however EXCELLENT fun on tequila.

pisspants · 22/01/2021 07:53

I am a sobbing mess after red wine. No idea why. Just brings on a melancholy

JiltedJohnsJulie · 22/01/2021 07:57

Not the same reaction but DH once bought a bottle of vodka to take camping with us. Everytime I tried it I came narky. Stopped drinking it and was fine. I've never touched the stuff since.

skirtingbore · 22/01/2021 08:05

@linerforlife

Whiskey makes me such a bastard. And quite aggressive. I am however EXCELLENT fun on tequila.
It'll be a connection between your mood before choosing a particular drink probably.

So if you're in a good mood you're more likely to choose tequila and that's carried forward into being a good drunk.

Etc etc

mintich · 22/01/2021 08:32

Tequila makes me teary so I never drink it, but I don't have a reaction to any other alcohol