What is the most amount of alcohol you drank in 1 day?

[gravenewworld]

I would be rather surprised to believe you drank 2 litre of vodka and lived to tell the tale.
That is 40 units + 6 for the wine. The same as 23 pints of beer.
Most I have ever managed is about 10 pints spread over the whole day but that gives your body time to metabolise some of the alcohol, the time scale makes a difference.
Over 20 units is usually enough to surpress respiration ie stop you breathing.
I guess you could manage it is you are pretty heavy, 20 stone+.
You would feel fine the next day because basically you would still be drunk, well over the drink driving limit.

Only just read the bit about throwing up, that's probalby why you are alive to tell the tale. They don't tell you alcohol is poison in the advertisements but your body knows, fortunately (usually). Drinking large amounts of alcohol is nothing to be 'proud' of, it screws up every organ in your body. you would not ask anyone what is the largest amount of rat poisen they have ever consumed. Alcohol is far more dangerous than smoking.
There is something highly ironic about banning smoking in bars, if you were to ban anything on health ground in bars based upon the number of years of life lost it would be alcohol, not smoking, furthermore alcohol also causes dependancy, unlike smoking.
Alcohol can kill you in the short term unlike smoking and it's long term effects are worse.
Not that I don't drink.

You'd be surprised how much some people can drink. I've seen some dudes kill a whole 30 pack plus more by themselves in a day. It all depends on how fast you drink 23 pints of beer. It could easily be done over the course of 12 hours. Here is a video of a guy doing 50 shots at the bar over the course of a few hours:



(granted it's peach schnopps, but it is still a ridiculous amount of alcohol)
I read once that in Japan it is socially acceptable for business men to go out after work and get totally bombed with each other. People of Asian decent have a much higher chance of being much more sensitive to alcohol, so in Japan they lose tons and tons of work days from people calling in sick with a hangover.

 

[Kurdt]

Yes everyones alcohol tolerance is different. I know some people that can easily do 20 pints in a session and more if they want. Thats not just during a whole day, that is one night out.

Its quite incredible to watch.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

3 bottles of wine 14% 225/2.25 cl/l of wine. Or beer wise 13 pints of Stella, that's beer 5.3% I think. Alot. My friend did 28 pints once but he's strangely able to keep going above and beyond the normal person. Plus at one time he was on a bottle of gin a day, but he grew out of that or whatever. Now he just drinks at weekends. Saturdays only.

 

[Kurdt]

Stella Artois is 5.2%.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Stella Artois is 5.2%.

It changes periodically it used to be 5.3% at that time about 15 years ago it was 5.3% IIRC.

 

[esbo]

You'd be surprised how much some people can drink. I've seen some dudes kill a whole 30 pack plus more by themselves in a day. It all depends on how fast you drink 23 pints of beer. It could easily be done over the course of 12 hours. Here is a video of a guy doing 50 shots at the bar over the course of a few hours:



(granted it's peach schnopps, but it is still a ridiculous amount of alcohol)



I read once that in Japan it is socially acceptable for business men to go out after work and get totally bombed with each other. People of Asian decent have a much higher chance of being much more sensitive to alcohol, so in Japan they lose tons and tons of work days from people calling in sick with a hangover.

Notice the guy in the video looks about 20 stone and that he does not actually drink it in the sense he metabolises it, he brings most of it back up.
There was a Canadian snooker player who used to drink 6-8 pints before he started
playing and then one a frame (to calm his tremor), he was said to drink 20 pints a day.
(one report said 50, but such things are very prone to exaggeration), he too was about 20 stone, obviously the bigger you are the more you can 'absorb' the alcohol to a certain extend.
He did die at 56 though. When I was at university there was a guy, about 5'10
and slightly built you could drink a yard of ale (2.5 - 3 pints) in a few seconds, but he would then go to the gents to throw it all back up. I remember seeing some eating competition where a slightly built girl beat a load of guys 2 or 3 times her weight!

 

[Kurdt]

What tends to happen is that those that are bigger have a better liver than most other people else they would not be able to reach that size normally. I watched a documentary about a guy that was 50+ stones and they tested all his body functions and said his liver was unbelievable and could cope with all the crap he threw at it. This was a guy that could drink 30 pints a night. There was another documentary about a morbidly obese guy and he could also drink 25+ pints per night. There must be some sort of connection which I'm sure Moonbear will know of.

People all have different abilities.

 

[Cyrus]

What are stones and pints.

Lbs and Oz god dammit!

 

[Kurdt]

Never drink a pint of Stones. Its awful.

 

[Moridin]

I'm an alcohol virgin, and you people have put me of forever.

 

[mattmns]

6 or 7 drinks in one night. Maybe 4 or 5 in one hour. Never have thrown up, but have felt a little wobbly

 

[scorpa]

Most I've ever had was 3 or 4 rye and cokes and a beer, during the oilers playoff run when a friend and I went to watch the game for his birthday, so yes I am obviously not a big drinker. It never gave me so much as a buzz but I ran out of money so I never had any more. Usually just a cooler around the campfire for me. You can pretty much count the number of drinks I have in a year on one hand. I prefer to spend my money on other things. Doesn't help that I hate beer, I have to have the pretty girly drinks.

 

[esbo]

The most I have ever drank in a day is about 10 pints, but that was over 12 hours, you
typically metobalise 1/2 a pint in and hour, so after 12 hours you have metabolised 6 pints,
so you don't really feel that drunk, I actually felt 'fairly' sober on that occasion, effectively I only had 4 pints in me.
I have felt a lot worse on less, drank over a shorter timescale. It is a case of how much
alcohol is in your blood stream, not what you have drank.

Incidently (I have heard) for people who have drank methanol, which is more poisonous then alcohol, the antidote is to give them alcohol, as the liver will metobolise that first, giving it more time to recover. I'm not stating that as fact obviously, I just recall reading it, I might have been drunk at the time so don't take it as gospel ;O)

 

[scorpa]

Incidently (I have heard) for people who have drank methanol, which is more poisonous then alcohol, the antidote is to give them alcohol, as the liver will metobolise that first, giving it more time to recover. I'm not stating that as fact obviously, I just recall reading it, I might have been drunk at the time so don't take it as gospel ;O)

No that is true. It's not uncommon for an alcoholic who can't afford booze to drink something with methanol in it and then go to the hospital for an ethanol drip. There are guys that will be in multiple times a week, at different hospitals each time until someone wises up to it. Some get so bold as to walk in and actually request an ethanol drip because they ingested methanol haha.

 

[Moonbear]

I'm an alcohol virgin, and you people have put me of forever.

You're probably better off for it. I have friends who don't drink at all. One because she grew up around an alcoholic father so doesn't even want to take a chance touching the stuff, and another who just doesn't like the taste, so sticks with Cokes when we go out or have parties.

 

[bassplayer142]

About 7 beer bongs in about an hour. The next part is embarrassing but here goes. I actually pissed my pants. Funny thing was that I came out of the bathroom and everyone was laughing and pointing telling me I pissed my pants. The only logic I found since I remember standing at the toilet was that I forgot to unzip. Later that night after puking I was carried by two friends away form the toilet like a crucifix. Not a good night (or mourning).

 

[Zantra]

2 40 oz beers, 1 5th of jack and 5th of jim bean-each(straight). And a bottle of cheap wine.

It was the only time I ever blacked out. That was 15 years ago, and nowadays my idea of fun is a nice glass of merlot or a reisling.

On a side note, someone mentioned alchoholism running in their family. Addiction runs in my family, and I'm proud to say I've broken the cycle. I've never had any problems with drugs or alcohol except what any normal teen/twenty something goes through. Or if I did, I got bored with it.

All things in moderation.

 

[cristo]

About 7 beer bongs in about an hour. The next part is embarrassing but here goes. I actually pissed my pants. Funny thing was that I came out of the bathroom and everyone was laughing and pointing telling me I pissed my pants. The only logic I found since I remember standing at the toilet was that I forgot to unzip. Later that night after puking I was carried by two friends away form the toilet like a crucifix. Not a good night (or mourning).

Is this kind of story meant to be impressive? Good for you; you're crap at beer pong, can't take your drink and don't know your limit!

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Anyone who thinks it's great to be able to down 18 pints and still walk home, clearly hasn't understood the economic benefits of being a relative light weight. Or is between 18-24 possibly.

 

[bassplayer142]

Is this kind of story meant to be impressive? Good for you; you're crap at beer pong, can't take your drink and don't know your limit!

Not Beer Pong, Beer Bong. I know my limit until I pick one up because no matter how much you drink you can't feel it. When I pick one up I can get out of control. Not impressive either just funny.

 

[gravenewworld]

What are stones and pints.

Lbs and Oz god dammit!

When you get a pint at a typical American bar, it is 16 oz. When you go to Europe, a lot of the times a pint of beer is a little bit bigger, probably around 20 oz.

 

[rewebster]

Me: half a bottle of 151 and a 1/4 bottle of tequila. Also 3/4 of a 5th of JD.



Yes it was dumb and yes I was very sick the next day. Next?

boy oh boy---151 and 1800----brings back a lot of false memories of how much fun it was

--oh yeah--and $2 pitchers

 

[Benzoate]

I don't drink alcohol much because most of the alcohol taste bitter and has no flavor. I don't see the 'thrill' people get out of it. Alcohol is wayyy overrated.

 

[larkspur]

Two ounces of Everclear was enough to knock me on my arse. Never again!

 

[JasonRox]

You can have fun with alcohol. I don't know how some of you say it's dumb and retarded. And I also don't understand how some of you went overboard either.

I don't drink often at all, but I do have fun when I do. I wouldn't do it otherwise. (I do go out a lot though.)

 

[gravenewworld]

You can have fun with alcohol. I don't know how some of you say it's dumb and retarded. And I also don't understand how some of you went overboard either.

I don't drink often at all, but I do have fun when I do. I wouldn't do it otherwise. (I do go out a lot though.)

Of course you can have fun, but when you drink so much that you pass out or get extremely sick the next day it is dumb. There's drunk, and then there is excessive drunk.It is easy to go overboard, especially when you are with friends who like to party a lot but can drink more than you.

 

[binzing]

I think its dumb, these kids that go out every weekend and get totally wasted. It's like "Go get a syringe and some 200 proof sh!t and just shoot it up, it'll do you better"

 

[Matthew_Wilke]

Hey guys !

Pleasure to be here - I love physics, computers, women etc - anything logical.

Ok - scratch the women bit - but come one, there are SOME things that the laws of physics can't handle.

Re drinks - wow - I am a bona-fide alcoholic - so maybe I'm a bad one to reply on this forum - but I thought it may make a few of you guys feel better.

Sometimes I am on the waggon - nothing at all, and sometimes I fall off in grandios style - but to put it into perspective...

I fancied a drink at the start of this month sometime, so I bought a 375ml bottle of vodka (Pushkin at 43% abv.) - I had polished that off with a bottle of coca-cola by around 10am, and, in the mood, went out to a meeting where we had beers - I had 6 'Castle' Drafts - which is 6 litres at 5.5% abv - so there's a lot of water there.

On the way home I bought a 'box' of wine (Namaqua Blanc de Blanc - 12.5% abv) - this is common here in South Africa - you can buy a 5 litre sack of wine in a box with it's own little tap on the front - I polished that off with ice and soda.

By around 10pm I was watching TV, a couple of friends had come around to my pad with a few girls and the booze started flowing again... so what could I do?

This time is was brandy (Richlieu) and coke - another favourite over here...

I went to bed (not alone, I hasten to add) at around 4am - the only adverse effect of the copious quantity of alcohol I had consumed was my lack of libido - I could have countered this with a little blue pill, but felt sorry for my heart and the stress this would put it under, bearing in mind the fact I had got through about 5 packs of Camel Lights during the day (I should have stuck to filter or at least mild, as since I switched to lights, I smoke twice as much at least).

At 40 years old, I feel 30, I look 50, but I'm still having a good time, and whilst the money keeps flowing, the jokes keep going and the (ever younger) women keep coming, then why should I worry?

That day, I have no idea how much I drank - but it should have been enough to put a rhino out - is this good or bad?

All I can say, my fellow doctors, associate professors under-graduate (and p/g) friends I have shared with along the way, don't feel too bad - there's always someone better or worse (there go the vows!)

I'll leave you with a quote...

"If you are scared of falling, don’t climb. Only those not afraid of falling will reach the very top. Just make sure you fall because of a loose rock or slippery boots, not too many pints at some boozer on the way up…"

If you are wondering "Who said that?" - it was me !

Keep on keeping on...

Matt

 

[kudoushinichi88]

I don't think and I don't ever want to. My body might be able to take it, but if I drink I will somewhat become an example to others that it is "okay to drink". It all leads to people doing stuff that should not have happened in the first place.

I don't think it's true that drinking doesn't affect other people like smoking does.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Anyone had a "Four Horsemen"? It's a "Three Wisemen" with Crown Royal. As a tumbler drink! A few of those will knock you out cold!