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It's really absurd. I've known men who claim that they have drunk an entire box (i.e. about 24 bottles) of beer in a night. Others are already done after 2 bottles, or don't drink at all, or just don't like beer.
Conclusion, ASK.
This depends on the person and the beer. Drinking a case of Miller light over a prolonged, maybe 8 hour period, is certainly possible. After all, 24 bottles is 8 liters of 95% water anyway, and 3 beers an hour. Light yellow beers are 100-150 calories each. Real people do this all the time. Sure, real people with a drinking problem, but still.
Drinking 24 heavy beers like porter, milk or Imperial stouts, or Belgian trappist beers would have so much sugar and higher ABV that it's very different and sounds like a disaster. Twice as many calories or more, and maybe 20-50% more alcohol.
I was an alcoholic years ago. I drink roughly twice a month these days, and rarely more than three. Quickly drinking six will get me drunk. That's good beer though.
In my prime, I could drink infinite light beer and never get drunk.
"real people with a drinking problem", indeed.
Where I live, the standard beer is 5% lager and these people were usually talking about 0.5l bottles. It just sounds like anyone who is not already a hardcore alcoholic should be fall-down, barf-everywhere drunk after drinking that much alcohol, even if its over a 12 hour period. Frankly, I would have huge trouble drinking half that much even if it was just carbonated water (I'm fine with carbonated water, just not that much).
The conclusion remains: ASK
Sure, 5% is standard, but a .333L bottle is far more likely if they come in a "box" of 24. That's a difference between 12L of beer and 8L for 24 bottles. Both are a lot, but one is A LOT a lot. Personally, I would struggle to get though 4 liters of yellow lite beer in an evening, but it's also weird to ask "hey, do we have any functional alcoholics coming? If so I should buy 100 beers."
Conclusion is based on bad data. Estimate 1 beer per person for 45 minutes of time and you'll be lucky to have 2 left over afterwards.
My conclusion is not based on bad data, since my conclusion, ASK, is to get more data.
I’ve been around men who have drank a whole crate of beer and more. Many of my friends. Cocaine was involved.
At my prime, depending on the beer, would go down like water. I could easily drink 10 coors light.
But hit me with 1-2 dark beers and I'm out (or extremely frisky)
See, this is one of the disconnects for me - I wouldn't be able to drink water or anything else like that. 1l in one hour, sure, especially if it's still water, but not 3l in 3 hours.
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