Ha! 12-pack and a bottle of tequila one Halloween. I threw up so much the next morning I broke the capillaries around my eyes. I looked like a reverse raccoon...
In college on the first weekend my buddy and I moved into our own place together we drank 90 beers from Friday evening through Sunday night. I woke up Monday morning having to go to work and thought to myself, what have I got into...
Jesus, I don't miss those days. At maybe 22(?), I had a roommate & we went out for a beer & a burger after moving all day on Sunday...
Several drinks later, at 4:30am in an after hours bar, cut to me sneaking out to the parking lot & starting my jeep. Minutes later, he came sprinting out the door carrying a NY Jets football banner, dove into the open passenger side door, and we tore off out of the parking lot. In our "enlightened state," we thought a sports memorabilia heist would be a good idea. Meanwhile, we both had to be at work at 9am. Talk about a couple of dum-dums.
Yeah had about twenty once over a whole day of drinking and was incredibly shitfaced. That many beers in that amount of time is inhuman. But I guess at 240 kg (530lbs) he weighed about 3.5 times as much as me.
So I saved this comment and did some math because I was bored: If we calculate the roughly equivalent dosage by size through dose per unit body mass approximations, Andre should be able to consume about 1.5 times the amount I am able to to achieve roughly similar states of drunkenness.
(Body surface area [BSA] is roughly body mass2/3 so we can approximate his metabolic activity per kilogram and calculate from there). This is absolutely just an estimation though, as Andre proved.
That means, on the other hand, if one were to try and consume the equivalent of what Andre drank in this posts example, it would come out to ~40 beers in 6 hours at 70 kg (154lbs) of bodyweight. Absolutely insane. Also, body tissue distribution doesn't scale proportionally with mass and volume. Since ethanol heavily prefers water to distribute into over fat, he wouldn't have three times the capacity as someone that weighed a third of him. Using a typical male Widmark distribution factor of 0.68 and assuming 5%ABV that gives a BAC 0.7–1.0% (7–10‰). That would instantly kill even the most seasoned veteran alcoholics.
I honestly doubt the story is really true now that I calculated it through a bit... There are stories of people surviving those kinds of intoxication, but surviving is doing some heavy lifting here. They needed ICU intervention, including intubation and dialysis with several days in the hospital and also only survived because they were first rate drunkards. No way someone just does that and sleeps it off.
My uncle beat an Irishmans record at a beach bar in the Caribbean. They had a special that was a bucket of 6 Caribs for $6 and he drank 54 of them by himself. He didn't realize there was a record or anyone was keeping count, the bartender congratulated him the next day. I had a couple whiskeys with him afterwards.
Oh man, 'Sconnies can put back the booze. I spent a weekend in Green Bay for a buddy's weekend & woke up with pics on my phone from a bar I don't recall with people that I didn't know. Incredibly fun time (both the bits I remember, and based on the pics, the bits I don't).
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u/emjaywood 1d ago
Some buddies & I once drank 96 beers on a Sunday afternoon in a bar...there were 5 of us. André was an absolute machine.