Drinking Tips

Ive just been told an interesting rhythm which seems crazy enough to investigate. Whilst discussing a works night out, the girl at the next desk to me (the one who keeps me refreshed with numberous cups of tea a day) told me:

Drink beer before wine all fine, Drink wine before beer... oh dear!

So i did a bit of ivestigating and ive found a possible explanation that can be applied to all sorts of drinking situations.

At the bottom of the stomach is the pyloric sphincter muscle which regulates the flow of food and drink into the intestine. Normally this is closed, opening at regular intervals to allow food etc through. When you drink a fizzy drink the bubbles will form on the stomach lining similar to how they form on the side and bottom of a glass. These bubbles stimulate the pyloric sphincter muscle and cause it to open allowing food and drink into the intestine. The intestine has a much higher surface area to volume ratio than the stomach which allows much increased absorption of nutrients etc including alcohol. When you have been drinking wine this will sit in the stomach and is slowly released into the intestine. If you then drink a fizzy drink, such as beer, this opens the sphincter muscle and allows beer AND wine into the intestine. This cocktail is rapidly absorbed and everything goes a bit "oh dear". If you drink the beer first then the same thing happens except that the cocktail entering the intestine is just beer and therefore "all fine". Subsequent wine consumption will be absorbed more slowly since the sphincter would then be working normally. Incidentally, this is the same mechanism by which Champagne goes "straight to your head".