inebriative

I've written about how I could feel a distinct difference in inebriative feeling depending on what hard liquor I drank - vodka's a sort of heavy drunk, whereas beer is very thick and makes you dumb - and interestingly enough, wine makes you very, very giddy.

Iron Chef scarletdemon 2005

But the modern world has had little use for it beyond its perceived gustatory and inebriative effects, until a series of studies in the 1980's and '90's postulated the "French Paradox" -- to wit, that the French, in spite of their high-fat and intense-dairy diet, had a much lower rate of heart disease than the Americans and British who consumed a similar diet.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Neil Zevnik 2011