How much drink can you handle?

[Dauphin]

I find its physical volume that defeats me before the alcohol content does. After about seven pints I have to move onto girlie mixer drinks.

The worst I ever got was when I drank a top row (i.e all the available spirits in a single pint glass, and topped off with lager) for my birthday. I so shouldn't have done that.

[Simon Darkshade]

4 to 5 bottles would be my upper limit (it has been as far as I have ever gone)
In terms of individual drinks, about 30-35 whiskies, or a similar amount of schooners of beer. In terms of pints of beer, about 20-25 imperial pints. It is also dependent on what beer - Guinness is more filling than a draught beer, for example.

[Boris Godunov]

If I am on an empty stomach, 3 beers and I'm gone.

If I've eaten reasonably beforehand, I can get in 6-7 before being drunk.

But it is all about pacing. If you do a beer every 15 minutes, you'll get drunk fast. Every 45, won't be nearly as bad.

Now mixed drinks, I tend to drink like they are water, so get very drunk very fast. Try to avoid those...

Then there's scotch on the rocks...mmmm-mmm

[Hurricane]

It all lies in the training. Drink until you drop every day, and you will soon see how you can consume enormous amounts of vodka before even feeling drunk.

The problem is of course that the amount of alcohol in your blood still will increase, too. So, when you today feel pretty drunk at 0.5 promille, a die-hard drunkard will feel sober at 2 promille.

So my suggestion is that you should feel happy to not having to drink so much. It´s cheaper, and your liver will work after you´r 30, too.

[Juggernaut]

I think 12 pints in 6hrs is my record. It was really not healthy. But so did I spend the day after with puking once an hour.

And yes, I went home with an absolutely dreadful chick.

My cab ride home was like taken from the 'Smack My ***** Up' video.

[Richard I]

My record is 2 big bottles of vodka, or 27 pints of beer. But that was when I drank more often. Now I'm loaded after 6-8 pints, and just a few drinks of boose.

[boann]

im such a light weight when it comes to drinking.
a couple of glasses of wine and im toasted just right.
or one large mixed drink via pina colada or swamp thang or a "sex on the beach" shot and that will
take care of me for the evening.
i loath being wasted.... i rarely drink past my 3 drink max. why any one would aspire to is beyond my understanding , unless they love worshiping the
porcelian god.

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by boann
im such a light weight when it comes to drinking.
a couple of glasses of wine and im toasted just right.
or one large mixed drink via pina colada or swamp thang or a "sex on the beach" shot and that will
take care of me for the evening.
i loath being wasted.... i rarely drink past my 3 drink max. why any one would aspire to is beyond my understanding , unless they love worshiping the
porcelian god.

some of us drink to forget... or so one of my frieds always says before he takes his first swig...

[Faboba]

My maximum tends to be around 8 pints but I'm usually smart enough to stop long before then.

[Iskandar Reza]

4 shots of bacardi to get me tipsy. add 3 more and I'm wasted.

[Jaakko]

I once got drunk from a meagre two pints. Granted, one was 6% and the other 9%, and I hadn't eaten anything all day, but it was stilll weird considering I'm a big guy and seldom get anything more than a slight buzz (I'm not into binge drinking).

Edit: Oh yeah, Tuoremehu, you didn't get a DL dance because you're a Finn, and everybody knows already that all Finnish posters are Stefu's DLs.

[Evil Knevil]

Hmmm, well since I used to be in PR, I'm used to getting vast amounts of booze on the company account (the rule was, if you got pissed with a client they'd have some sort of unholy bond with you, forever).

My usual limit is going to be about 10 (ish) pints, and a about 3 whisky's: prehaps a few vodka/coke type things as well, naturally this is from 8/9pm till about 2am, so it's not exactly binge drinking.

Although I've certainly been able to exceed this limit, if I've started early, or had a big meal, such as I used to, again on corporate account

Whats the most that you people have ever had in one session?

My personal best was actually only about a month ago, when I went to a BBQ just before I paid a visit to Saint Hill, I had absolutely fantastic amount of meat, followed by 15 beers, followed by a triple JD, then a trip to the pub with about 5 Coors Light, 3 real whiskys and a trip to the Temple of the Porcelin God. Then we went to my flat, watched Con Air and shared a bong, while finishing off the remaining beers (another 5-6, I don't remember).
I was still drunk 20 hours later when I'd travelled 750 miles to Bristol, to the Scientology compound.

[VetLegion]

for your information folks, 2 big bottles of vodka (I assume liter bottles) can kill a person. twice.

[Anodyne]

Hmm... usually when I drink to get pissed, I take a bottle of (usually red, white is ok, too) wine (~12%), and 1-2 litres of long drink (~4,7%).
When I want to get really wasted I add more long drink (to a total of 4-5 litres maximum)

I've also noticed that if you buy enormous amounts of booze and plan to drink them during a long amount of time (so that you don't drink too fast and pass out), it never works (at least for me). Every time you end up so drunk that you don't realize how pissed you are and just want more and more booze. And then it's lights out. That's why I usually lenghten my intoxication rather with milder drinks, like beer or cider.

[Ramo]

The most I've ever had was 3 bottles of beer...

I can get slightly drunk by 2.