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Originally Posted by bhutocracy
This is incorrect. Ethanol is ethanol. It's more likely that your buddy ate a lot more, had a better chemistry that day (no residual painkillers, cold and flu medicine etc) wasn't fighting off infection, less tired and run down etc. Either that or other additives to the alcohol affected things, ie a higher sugar content or sugar type (maltose in beer) had an pre-disposed effect on ADHD, diabetes/any kind of sugar related condition or effects from sulfur other additives etc. The difference might be seen between say, rum and whiskey, or whiskey and beer.. but not generally between two types of the same distilling process.
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Sound reasoning. Furthermore, fusel alcohols along with methanol and a few other noxious nasties are mostly discarded / stripped because they are not desirable constituents.
Everything else is fairly innocuous in quantity and or nature. The obvious factors are rate of ingestion, absorbtion and so on. All quite unrelated to the liquor in question. I suppose blood glucose effects would possibly make you feel a little weird, but that's more of an extraneous issue.
I sincerely doubt liquor constituents would catalyse ethanol metabolism by incident. There are multiple enzymes performing that function; nonspecific interference would probably make you quite ill. That said, the aforementioned enzymes, respective metabolic function, and neural paths could very well be affected by medication or genetic disposition. Such effects would not differ by liquor brand name however.