Today at work the topic over break was whether or not it is possible to drink 48 beers in 24 hours. I say anyone who can is an alcoholic. I used my weight on wikipedia's bac chart and came up with my ending bac would be .83% which is beyond legally dead. Anyone think that it is actually possible?
This may sound implausible, but I came damned close one day in college. I'd already had 10 beers before lunch. It was a football Saturday, but it was an away game. After we went to lunch, we came back to the den, where someone had set up a radio so we could listen to the game, and I had about 7 or 8 more beers.
Then we started getting serious. One of the guys bought a keg and put it in the den at about 3. There weren't many guys in the den, maybe only about 8 or 9 and we were all still working on our own beer too, so not much competition for the keg.
We went to supper at about 6, came back and drank more beer from the keg in the den, then decided at about 9 to go out to the bars. By this time, I had begun to drink myself sober. It was dollar night for longnecks at one bar, I had $20 on me and came home with nothing. At this point, I can't remember if it all went for beer, or if we grabbed something to eat sometime during the night too.
We closed the bar, anyway, and came back to the den, where there was still plenty of beer left in the keg. By this time, it was just me and the hard cores, about 3 or 4 other guys. We played cards and drank.
By about 6 a.m. there were just two of us left. I poured my last beer at 9 a.m., when Jimmy Swaggart came on TV. I sang along with his theme song and woke up the only guy left in the den with me, along with about half the house. Guys were getting up to shower and go to church by this time. I finally "called it a night." at about 9:30 and stumbled off to bed.
I started off that Saturday with a case of longnecks, the cheap brand from Hy-Vee that you could get for $3.98 a case. There weren't any left the next day. I didn't drink all of them myself. I probably shared 4 or 5 with some of the guys. But I'd drank all those beers at the bar and all those beers from the keg, plus beers that my friends gave me when I visited their rooms during the day.
I don't know how many I drank for sure that day, but I always guessed it had to be close to 48, maybe even more. The only number I know for sure was the 10 I consumed before lunch. I'd had at least 24 by the time we went to the bar.