Drinking while brown Kolkata Libertarian points me this story which indicates that Indians and alcohol do not mix. From the story:

Neil Fisher, author of the study, told TNN, "I wouldn’t like to make racist generalisations, but our seven-year study did start out because we suspected that there were more Asians with alcoholic liver disease than there should be." Fisher’s study is set in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, where Indians constitute 11 per cent of the population. It found a 100 per cent increase in liver disease, up from six per cent in 1993. The rate of increase, said Fisher, was the same for white men, white women and Indian men, but the Indians were four times as likely to die.

The author of the study-thank gods-overcame his fear of "racist generalizations" and noted the obvious, that group x dies from ailment y at far higher rates than the general population. Note-this is a matter of life and death, and yet the researcher that published these findings was still quite nervous about being racist! The study also adds further ethnic detail:

Eighty per cent of the Asian deaths documented were of Sikhs, five to 10 per cent Hindus and five per cent or less Muslims, Fisher added.

It would be nice if they noted what the statistical breakdown of the 11% Indian population was-as the above figures make no sense without that context.