You might say whiskey makes you frisky, tequila makes you crazy and wine makes you actually whine — but the truth is there’s no scientific evidence proving any of this.
It’s possible you feel all these different emotions based on a variety of other circumstances, such as how much alcohol you drank and how quickly you drank it, your mood, the context in which you usually drink this specific alcohol and your associations with the specific alcohol.
Memory associations in human beings are particularly strong. For example, maybe your first drink in college was a gin and tonic, so now you always associate gin with a good time.
Maybe you drank vodka when your boyfriend dumped you, so now vodka makes you sad and angry.
Aside from those kinds of associations, though, whiskey doesn’t make everyone who drinks it frisky. Just some of us.
Yet, while there’s no proof different kinds of alcohol make you act differently while you’re out, they do make you physically feel differently, especially when you’re hungover.
We all know the classic hangover symptoms: headaches, nausea, dehydration, tremors and fatigue, all of which interfere with your ability to concentrate, pay attention and respond to your environment.
The severity of these symptoms, however, depends on what kind of alcohol you consume.
Red Wine
Like those dark liquors, red wine has a high amount of those congeners to give you the most severe hangovers.
And the cheaper the wine, the higher the amount of congeners, and the worse the hangover (this is a general rule of thumb for alcohol, but it’s especially true for red wine).
Franzia lovers beware: Red wine is already guaranteed to make you feel like sh*t the next day, so don’t make it worse.
Additionally, red wine can make you the sleepiest out of all alcoholic beverages.
This is because the skin of the red grapes used to make red wine has high levels of melatonin, the natural chemical present in your bodies helping you fall asleep.
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