Does it take 24 hours for a pint to leave the system?

The Jammy dodger

I was told by someone that it takes 1 pint of alcohol 24hours to completely leave your system. Is that true? If not, how long does it take?

blah

Your liver should process 1 unit of alcohol in an hour, so 2 hours approx is your answer.

Joe10000

Does being awake or asleep make any difference ?

blah

blah wrote: »

Your liver should process 1 unit of alcohol in an hour, so 2 hours approx is your answer.

2 hours for 1 pint of beer I mean. A pint of pure alcohol, I don't know!

I doubt sleep makes a difference.

dr.quirky

I heard, but don't quote me on this, that putting old pennies(have to be old irish money, not enough zinc in new euro coppers) under your tongue while you eat a whole raw cucumber speeds up the bodys ability to process alchohol, something to do with the electrical conductivity or cucumber and the zinc in pennies, does something to your liver and kidneys. A doctor told me this.

Wetai

A pint of what? Water, Beer, Cider, Vodka, Poitín, My Wadyi?

SeaFields

Do you mean the alcohol in the pint OP or all the other sh!te thats in it too?

4leto

I heard 1 hour a pint from the moment you stop drinking, but to be safe if you are driving allow 1 and half hour a pint.

The Jammy dodger

I mean just an ordinary beer or stout like Carlsberg, coors and Guinness.

TouchingVirus

dr.quirky wrote: »

I heard, but don't quote me on this, that putting old pennies(have to be old irish money, not enough zinc in new euro coppers) under your tongue while you eat a whole raw cucumber speeds up the bodys ability to process alchohol, something to do with the electrical conductivity or cucumber and the zinc in pennies, does something to your liver and kidneys. A doctor told me this.

Yeah, I'm not so sure if I'd trust dr.quirky tbh

Gee Bag

Yes, but only if you seal up the system by putting a clothes peg on your todger

TouchingVirus

The Jammy dodger wrote: »

I mean just an ordinary beer or stout like Carlsberg, coors and Guinness.

A pint of draught Guinness is 2.4 units, so roughly 2 hours to process it.

dr.quirky

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Yeah, I'm not so sure if I'd trust dr.quirky tbh

Almost had him... and I would of gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids

blah

4leto wrote: »

I heard 1 hour a pint from the moment you stop drinking, but to be safe if you are driving allow 1 and half hour a pint.

This isn't true, the liver doesn't process the alcohol faster if you have consumed more. If you drink 1 pint, you'll sober up in a couple of hours, but if you drink ten, it's going take many hours to sober up. Don't get in behind the wheel because "I heard you're good to drive an hour and a half after you stop drinking".

Of course this all varies according to weight, gender, etc.

The Jammy dodger

dr.quirky wrote: »

Almost had him... and I would of gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids

*spits cucumber and old pennie in the bin* tut really had my hopes up there.

Micky Dolenz

As said, it's a unit a hour, once you have finished drinking.

How many units were had?

starlit

No, one unit of alcohol or say one alcoholic drinks takes aprox one hour to leave the system. If you drink water/tea/juice/mineral will let it leave the system quicker than 24 hours anyways!

TouchingVirus

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

As said, it's a unit a hour, once you have finished drinking.

How many units were had?

Does the liver not process alcohol during drinking or something?

Micky Dolenz

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Does the liver not process alcohol during drinking or something?

Yes, but only a certain bit at a time. so it will be breaking down your first pint while you have pints 2,3,4 in your stomach and pint 5 in your hand.

starlit

It has to absorb into the system and travel within the blood before it's broken down in the liver and then becomes water - process of elimination from the body.

TouchingVirus

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Yes, but only a certain bit at a time. so it will be breaking down your first pint while you have pints 2,3,4 in your stomach and pint 5 in your hand.

Yeah, I know. But take this scenario:

Start drinking - 8pm
Finish drinking - 4am
Pints consumed - 8 (~16 units).
Time when alcohol is processed - 12pm the following day, 8 hours after finishing drinking. If we go with what you said, 1 unit per hour after drinking stops then that's 16 hours after 4am, or 8pm.

My point being that the processing occurs during drinking time too, because if it didn't then at 2pm the next day the drinker would still be quite merry/drunk (6 units remaining), but that isn't really the case.

GarIT

To be fully correct answering the op, it takes three months for the alcohol to fully leave your system, but it would remain in nearly not existant quantities, like 0.01% of a unit or something like that. I just love to be sceintifical :P

Everyone else is right though, it takes one hour per unit of alcohol to be processed. The whole definition of a unit of alcohol is based on the ammount of alcohol the average liver can process per hour.