Cider / Lager

[ivor4781]

if i drink 3 bottles of stella cidre 4.5 %
how come i dont feel tipsy unlike when i drink 3 bottles of stella larger also 4.5 % ?

[Obiter]

Wish I could get tipsy on three bottles of anything (apart from spirits or wine). Costs me a fortune.

[Old_Geezer]

Perhaps you should have tested the larger first ?

[Captain2]

Perhaps it was a larger lager bottle

[Captain2]

(Also thought Stella Lager was 4.8%)

[AlwaysConfused]

i'd imagine it's something to do with the chemicals, as they'd differ between the drinks

[Tilly2]

.....or the cidre bottles are smaller.

[ivor4781]

the bottles are the same size i'm not stupid and I've just checked there both 4% not 4.5% ( ive never been a big drinker)

[ivor4781]

for those who don't know cidre is cider

[Tilly2]

Drinking cidre or lager doesn't seem to be doing much for your sense of humour, ivor. :-)

[ivor4781]

just try to get a sensible answer tilly

[Old_Geezer]

Given the lack of scientific replies so far (although you might have got more had you posted in the Science forum) I suggest your answer is that it's your subjective experience / interpretation rather than objective reality. That both may be having the same affect but that you expect one to have more and so that is what you experience. A lot of what one feels is psychological anyway; as shown by experiments where folk believed they were drinking alcoholic drinks but we're not.

[Old_Geezer]

A lot of what one feels IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES is psychological...