[antonymoose]

Why would liquor be absorbed faster than beer given the same route (drinking)?

[peterabbitcook]

Fick’s Law. The rate of absorption is proportional to the concentration gradient.

[timeinput]

It's easier to drink more units of alcohol faster when it's more concentrated, and not full of bubbles.

I don't think its so much that it's absorbed faster than it's just physically possible to drink 200 ml of liquor faster than it is to drink 1600ml of beer.

[eth0up]

Let's go Polymark on this one. We have a race to alcohol poisoning.

Alice gets ∞ of the Champagne of Beers. Bob gets one bottle of EverClear.

Ready. Set. Go

I think Bob wins.

One could also be obnoxious and argue that liquor is more easily concealed, transported, etc, therefore facilitating alcoholism more effectively by allowing a larger landscape.

But HN.