How are people able to drink pints?

briany

I mean physically. Like, knock back 6 pints of whatever in a relatively short space of time. I could drink some lager/stout/cider quickly - like possibly a 3rd of the glass if I'm thirsty, and then just sip the rest of it over a longer period of time. I wouldn't even be a fan of beer, but I'd be the same even with a drink I do like, served in the same format. I've heard about beer being more dehydrating and being easier to drink more of, but I've never really found that.

Do people just have to train themselves to do it? Do they force themselves through some pain barrier in order to become a pintman or pintwoman?

CGI_Livia_Soprano

Most alcohol abuse stems from unresolved childhood trauma. People who start drinking excessively basically train themselves into killing themselves with booze.

Snails pace

I find after a hard days work out in the open air particularly at concrete or covering a silage pit. I'd swallow 3 or 4 pints within about half an hour and then I'd slow down. People drink at different rates.

super_furry

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Like Hector here says, just skull them hai!

timmyntc

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Pintman isn't just a name, it's a lifestyle. You have to LIVE it.

Next time you're in the pub, put on some straight cut jeans, brown shoes, and a jumper that's 2 sizes too big - the pints will practically fall down your throat.

sydthebeat

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its a resultant of having a pub closing time

I would slow down fairly rapidly back when i did drink. It is strange though - I could sink 3 pints without the need for a pee but that’s impossible with water, or anything else.

I used to drink copious pints when I was 18, 19, 20. Then the physical act of drinking them, even a little, became unpleasant. I'd feel a hint of a fog in my head after just a few sips of a pint and I didn't like it. My bladder would fill up after just a few minutes and this would continue all through the evening in the pub to the point where it was a total drag. And I'd be in and out to the bathroom all night to pee, so there wasn't much sleep to be had, and then waking up the next morning with a hangover, after just two or three pints.

So I gave up alcohol entirely when I was 22, almost 20 years ago at this stage, and haven't had a drop since then. I'd rather drink p.ss now quite honestly. Have never missed it, either. Totally allergic to it, perhaps literally.

Crocodile Booze

You have go at it awful and very hard ... bastards..

BringingSexyBack

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Drink what you can, at your own pace. Have something to each before hand, doing it on empty stomach is not smart

If you can only drink 3 , drink 3. Some nights you can go on and do 5-8 ............

Never a big fan of pub crawls which leads to be fair bit of chugging bear as fast as possible. I despised 12 pubs of Christmas for similar reason.

The most insufferable people are those who tell everyone that they drank X amount of pints last night, as if it is some sort of achievement. Maybe when we were 16-25 that sounded Cooooolllll ,but after a while its meh

Drink for taste too. When one was younger, and keen to shown their masculinity , one could drink any auld pee.......... Some beers and largers are and always were mank . If you prefer to fruity wine , do it .........

Burt Renaults

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Packet of crips and an auld packet of peanuts. I find that helps.

After that, there's no fúckin' shtoppin' me. I'd take the shirt off any man's back.

Quantum Erasure

can't handle the pints myself, so i just get two half-pints instead, they go down horrid easy though....

cj maxx

I never really took big slaps of pints, 2 or 3 pint man in the local once or twice a week. Not a night club man since my 20's, but to answer ' how do I drink pints?.' HAPPILY

cj maxx

standardg60

I reckon they've been slowly reducing the size of pint glasses over the years without anyone noticing to make us all drink less

The key is Maureen having the fry in the morning.

I have some serious problem with drinking beer, even gluten free beer. I used to think it was just normal that if you had a couple of pints you spent the night throwing up and dry retching. Probably only realised that it was just me when I was about in 2nd year of college or so.

Cider, spirits, wine, anything else has no effect on me but beer... Literally just feel like I'm going to explode with gas and start throwing up.

cj maxx

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I was staying in the Europa Hotel in Belfast, drinking lovely Belgian beers. Heverlee in Heverlee glasses .Took the glass up to the room and then home. Hand a pint can at home (1 pint can not 500mil ). Glass didn't take i at all bastards in the Europa are skimming customers

0ph0rce0

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**** lightweight.

billyhead

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And down a couple of packs of peanuts.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118501885#Comment_118501885

When was this?

Still stihl waters 3

They don't get really nice until the 12th pint

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118502073#Comment_118502073

Ah about 5 years ago now

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118502186#Comment_118502186

Maybe more

Donald Trump

#PintBaby is the fella you are looking for

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2017/0220/854020-pint-baby/

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118502186#Comment_118502186

What was the can?

iamstop

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I was in a swanky bar in Singapore around 2006. There was a drink special where pints were on sale. I ordered a Kronenbourg 1664 and it came in a much smaller glass than a pint but cost the same as the pint deal.

I went to the bartender to ask for a pint and he tried to tell me (an engineer) that that IS a pint for that beer. Facepalm. #weight&measures

thefallingman

I drink a Guinness in four swigs max

Strumms

Guinness is easy on the stomach but lager isn’t so much… if i went out and had six pints of lager I’d be a bit stomach seedy the following day, Guinness not so much. There is quite high carbonation of lager I remember reading and it seems that way when drinking. So about four sups I could take care of a Guinness in comfort but you’d be fairly stomach fûcked on your second Heineken going that way.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118502643#Comment_118502643

That's why you have that username

Ubbquittious

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Everything stems from childhood trauma these days.

saabsaab

It's a fair question OP. When I started drinkong pints at 18 or so 2/3 would do me fine. As I grew up and bigger over a few years I just wanted to keep on drinking and 5 or 6 was only a start no pain or forcing. Some nights I'd spend over 30 Quid when pints were just over a pound in the early 80's and not feel full, really and not much of a hangover the next day. Nowadays depending on the night 5 or six would be it usually and I can get a hangover!

Can't explain it I suppose the body/belly adapts to a large extent.

spakman

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Imagine trying that **** with an engineer! The fcking nerve of him.

standardg60

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I remember (vaguely) being in a Dutch bar one time on holidays and the 'pint' level on the glass was a good inch below the top of the glass to allow for the 'head'.

T'was the night of Keane's interaction with Viera in the tunnel, we were most welcome being Irish!

daithi7

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I'm not a medical doctor but sounds like you should get yourself tested for celiac disease.

"Alcohol is allowed in the celiac diet, as long as you choose the right types of alcohol. Beer and ale are usually made from barley, and are not safe for celiacs to drink. Wines, which are made from grapes, are safe for people with celiac disease. This includes fortified wines, like sherry and port, cider and clear spirits.

https://www.celiacedmonton.ca › alc...

Alcohol in the Celiac Diet

Potential-Monke

Back when I drank, I could do the couple of seconds pint, which surprised most people as I'm smaller than them. Loved beating the bigger lads. All beer btw, cider make me puke instantly and stout, I don't want ateing in me drinkin. Nicest beer I've ever had was Jupiler, which by all accounts is a cheap beer, but myself and the brother figured out it was the smaller bubbles that made it nicer. Same with St. Etienne in Aldi, smaller bubbles. I used to be able to drink upwards of 10 pints and a few shots on a night out, that fizzled down to 4 pints, 6 vodka/rum and cokes and a few shots. Towards the end of my drinking, I used to have to make myself sick after a pint or two to make room for more.

Anyway, now that I've basically given it up, I can't stand the taste of any alcohol, and genuinely believe we all fool ourselves into thinking alcohol can taste nice. It only tastes nice when you completely remove the taste to begin with, ie: some cocktails. All beers, lagers, stouts, ciders, spirits... They're all manky, but we fool ourselves into liking them so we can be part of the social wheel.

Pawwed Rig

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At a time or in total?

CGI_Livia_Soprano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118503062#Comment_118503062

Spend an hour with a drunkard and he will regale you with sob stories from their adolescence, or tell you "hilarious" anecdotes from secondary school. Nobody who drinks to excess is "over" their upbringing.

BaywatchHQ

I have to water down beer just to swallow it.

gmisk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118501885#Comment_118501885

Your accusing them of skimming customers...when you literally stole from them?

saabsaab

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118509120#Comment_118509120

You could say he was doing research?

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118509120#Comment_118509120

I paid them hundreds for a bed for a couple of nights. Fair enough. Still they're skimming customers who come in for a pint and get less

cj maxx

gmisk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118509303#Comment_118509303

It doesn't really matter it doesn't mean you should nick things...bar the little soaps and shower gels...

I also don't think the Europa are looking to swindle you out of a couple of milliliters of beer by using official glasses.

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118509420#Comment_118509420

So it's OK to nick sanitary items but not a glass? The point was they were not serving a pint. I hope you enjoyed your 'free' shower

I love pints. As you get older your ability to horse back a dozen of them might stay the same, but the effects on the mood and the digestive system the next day does change. Beer is a relatively harmless substance though. Its volume lends itself to a long day at it; you can't say that about about the top shelf or the vino.

As my English teacher once told us - you don't drink a gallon because you are thirsty.

Motivator

I remember being in the pub one night after being at the races all day. Went back to the local and had a big heavy dinner down on top of the 6 or 8 I had drank at the races. Switched to cider as its lighter than stout. Had 4 or 5 large bottles and I just remember half way through the last pint I had that i physically couldn’t get any more fluid into me. I tried to take a drink and it just wouldn’t go down my swallow function had stopped working. It was like trying to pour more water into an already full glass and just overflowed.

the Funny thing was I wasn’t even drunk the dinner sobered me up a bit and then I tipped away on cider. It was a mad experience never happened me before or since.

Mecanudo

Where's Pintman' Paddy Losty when you need him?

"And I wouldn't be fond of drinking but when I do go at it, I go at it awful and very hard.

I do have four to five pints in about two hours. I'd have a packet of crisps then, and a maybe an auld packet of peanuts.

And I'd go for probably... I'd have 10 more anyway. And I'd get up the following morning and Maureen would have the fry on.

And I'd go at again. And there'd be no f***ing stopping me. I'd take the shirt off any man's back. B*****ds."

Larbre34

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My childhood trauma was no pints for 18 years.

Oh ok then, 15 years.

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118502585#Comment_118502585

Anyone who would coin the hashtag #weights&measures should probably

1) Log off of the Internet forever

2) gather all their devices in the back yard, douse them in lighter fluid and set them on fire. In case of any temptation. (I was going to say gather all your wife's devices too, but let's not kid ourselves)

3) Unplug the router, take it to the nearest train tracks and lay it carefully on the rail and await its obliteration, kinda like the DeLorean time machine. No going back now Marty.

Man Vs ManUre

Forget pints, when I lived in Germany I drank steins. That is 1 litre glass for those who don’t know.