What's the most amount of alcohol you've witnessed somebody drink in a night and be relatively fine?

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Huge_Horse_8945@reddit

I once drank 18 330ml cans of beer at a BYOB wedding.

Yes I am an alcoholic

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MaleficentStop7733@reddit

Is this sarcasm? Because drinking just over 10 pints in a wedding spanning approx 12 hours is a pretty average performance otherwise…

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unaubisque@reddit

I'm really not sure that drinking 10 pints during a wedding is average. You might be in social groups with other alcoholics.

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Huge_Horse_8945@reddit

No, I am in fact an alcoholic in general.

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hhfugrr3@reddit

I went to the Great British Beer Festival years ago and put away about 35 pints through the day. Got the train home and was up in time for work the next day.

Sounds a lot, but it's slightly less than 3 an hour and i was relatively young.

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robbodagreat@reddit

Sounds a lot with any justification. Would also cost at least £200 these days!

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hhfugrr3@reddit

A lot of it was free as a mate brought one of his clients along & they had access to the corporate hospitality suite so we raided that for we many free beer vouchers as we could carry.

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RogeredSterling@reddit

Relatively being the key word.

He'll probably be dead in his 40s. Definitely 50s.

Already looks years and years older than he is. It's absolutely grim.

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Puzzled-Job9556@reddit

There are scores of men up and down the country that spend all day, every day in spit and sawdust pubs who live well into their 60s.

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RogeredSterling@reddit

Survivorship bias. Luck. My nan smoked 20-30 a day until 85. Doesn't mean it didn't kill her or she wouldn't have lived longer not doing that.

Also, seriously doubt anyone who's not retired can afford to spend all day everyday in the pub. Probably not since the 90s. If they're not getting money from employment, they can't afford to drink at Sandro (32 looking 50) Ford levels in the pub. All day. Every day.

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Puzzled-Job9556@reddit

Have you ever been into a backstreet pub ffs?

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CarelessCredit3466@reddit (OP)

He was actually the reason I asked this question

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justmoochin@reddit

I wonder sometimes if he’s bluffing about how much he’s drinking as it is a shit ton, especially the shots, there’s no need when your 10 pints deep in mahou 😂

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RogeredSterling@reddit

Then I should point out that him looking fine after what he consumes proves he isn't fine.

It just proves he's a colossal alcoholic. Any normal person is not fine after 10 pints, multiple cocktails and a bottle of wine.

And I say this as someone who liked the sesh until I was older than he is.

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OkVeterinarian197@reddit

So... How old is he? For reference I'm 40. He looks older. I'm guessing he isn't 😂

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RogeredSterling@reddit

He's 32. Genuinely thought he was mid 40s. His mates look even older but I think are a similar age.

My friends and I are c.40 and like a pint. But nothing like these fellas.

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treeofoak@reddit

32 yet looks 64.

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Collapsinginblue@reddit

Down the hatch!

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Doomergeneration@reddit

This! Do you reckon he really drinks the amount he says, I’d honestly be dead on a quarter of what he drinks in a night

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theotherquantumjim@reddit

Knew this guy would be the top answer. Insane levels of drinking. Him and his mates all look absolutely ruined by drink

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ceciem2100@reddit

I'm an alcoholic (currently sober) when I'm drinking I drink a quart of vodka a day at LEAST. I'm 44/f about 48kg at 5'5" so it is a HUGE amount of alcohol. I can get along seemingly fine (despite the smell).

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LocalObelix@reddit

What is a quart?

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Shrimpingtons@reddit

Just under a litre. 🫡

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Martipar@reddit

2 pints, 1/4 of a gallon hence "quart" it's mostly used in the US but it's definitely a valid UK measurement too.

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-LargeHardOnCollider@reddit

Never heard quart before in the UK but that's mega

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ConnectionPlus7415@reddit

I'm in the same boat as you,but I am a binge drinker,I drink because I love it. The mornings are my nemesis.

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-LargeHardOnCollider@reddit

My mate drank 7 litres of frosty jacks in a day, that's about the most I know of

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Aromatic_Lettuce5603@reddit

I drank 8 cans then shared 3 bottles of rum with my mate then drank the 4th one to myself after he passed out. No drugs were involved. I was ill for 4 days after with a hangover and panic attacks. True story. However when drugs were involved wouldn't think anything of drinking cider and black snakebites from 10am till the early hours of the morning

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ross-dirext-words137@reddit

Relatively fine is relative. I seen people drink a 1L of vodka and they been pretty drunk. They lived and were fine.

Alcoholics can drink crazy amounts and still function.

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hhfugrr3@reddit

I saw two lads share a litre of vodka. Put the whole bottle away in under 5 minutes between them. Was incredible watching them go through all the phases of drunk from stone cold sober to wasted in a few minutes.

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Upper_Paramedic_2043@reddit

My Dad used to regularly during 15-20 pints in an evening and still remain relatively sober. This is British beer, not the weak stuff over the pond.

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g00gleb00gle@reddit

Try European beer. German stuff is rocket fuel. Well the proper stuff. Not uk brewed.

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Upper_Paramedic_2043@reddit

I went on business to Brussels a number of years back and got really drunk in quite a short space of time in the hotel bar due to my manager getting me bottles of Duvall.

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Collapsinginblue@reddit

British beer is actually weak too if you compare it with other European beers.

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allenysm@reddit

In my mid-20s I used to get through 8 pints, move onto whiskey and Coca Cola mixers, a few Jäegermeister or Goldschlager shots on a Friday night, have a hangover but get up the next day and do it again. I couldn’t do that every day though! I sorted myself out when I was 27 and can barely manage two pints now without wanting to go to bed 😂

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niteninja1@reddit

a friend drunk 18 pints on tuesday night while sat in a hot tub

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Forever_a_Kumquat@reddit

Someone I kinda knew drank 10 cans of Stella in front of me but had been at this place for about an hour before I arrived, so potentially quite a few more. At the end of the night, they got in their car and drove home. He seemed absolutely normal, no staggering, no slurring, just like he'd been drinking water.

I was both horrified and impressed.

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Lazy-Kaleidoscope179@reddit

That's fairly standard in my experience. It's weird how different people's experience of drinking is.

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Monkeyboogaloo@reddit

I drank 22 330 bottles of beer on boxing day evening… I was not relatively ok. I threw a strop a 1 am as I couldn't find the turkey in the kitchen, which was big and bold in the fridge.

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stupre1972@reddit

I used to be a binge drinker and a (heavy) Saturday for me would be something like; 3off 660ml bottles of Estrella followed by a bottle of red and then between a ¼ and a ⅓ of a bottle of whisky.

I would start drinking once everything was done for the day - so 1500 or there about - and then just keep plodding on until bed time at 2300

Looking back, I wonder how I managed to function on a Sunday.

I've been dry now for over 2½ years and I wonder how I ever managed to drink that much

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nightfire_83@reddit

Drunk histories is fucking brilliant, and shows the tolerance difference between people.

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musicallymotivated93@reddit

Probably me when I was 8 stone fatter and used to drink regularly, doing well over a litre of vodka in a day at Download. I used to get to a point where I'd start to feel it, then be on a level, but that didn't lead to slurring speech, staggering, chucking up and so on unless I did something stupid like drink faster.

The one thing I will say that helped is because this was at Download, we'd start almost as soon as we woke up and pace ourselves throughout the day.

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