I guess everybody's different. I don't experience any discomfort while drinking beer. Actually, it relaxes me and after 4 I start to feel euphoric. After that amount I get drunk. The nice thing is it's hard to get uncontrollably drunk and my record is 16 beers over a few hours, mind you I only weigh 120lbs; but I was walking around and not outwardly drunk
On my 30th birthday somebody kept giving me whisky shots but I quit the hard stuff after that, besides drinking two shots of vodka in 2015. I think when I was new to drinking I just wanted to get hammered but I can hardly stand the stuff anymore. I don't get hangovers from alcohol whatsoever but on the morning after my birthday, I felt like I was dying inside. I don't know how to explain it but it wasn't fun and I've felt an aversion to hard stuff ever since. I just stick to beer now