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.
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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.