What's the most alcohol you ever drank in one sitting?

my greatest all day session was a solid 25 pints of Guinness, over 14 hours.
it was the height of mt drinking prowess, i was 30 in good shape, i had 13 years experience behind me, it just happened organically, a full day with my best friends trawling the best pubs Dublin had to offer, no hassle just great craic.

in the years after that age started to catch up with me and while i could still put it away that was the high point.



my other standout moment happened when i was 20. i was working in a pub in London, on my last night we were having a good session after hours. I'd has a right skinful probably only 7/8 pints but i was tired I'd been working all day.
as a going away present the staff bought me a ''dirty pint'' a pint glass full of different brands of whiskey ( i was a whiskey drinker at the time) they handed to me without telling me what it was assuming i would think it was just a pint of larger. the idea was i'd have a big swig and get a shock and choke on it and then they would make me drink it ( a few of them picked on me a small bit, but most were sound, it was a tough place to work and live, most of us lived in the pub).
anyway as soon as it was handed to me i figured out what was going on but i thought **** it I'm not going to lose face and be made a dick of. so as nonchalantly as i could i lifted it up and sank it down in one.

i knew i was probably in a fair amount of trouble and that i didn't have long before it hit me. so i stayed where i was for a couple of minutes talking then got up said my good nights and headed for my room. i had literally only closed the door when i passed out and simply fell face forward onto the floor.
i came to the next morning, i was a very lucky boy i didn't die that night.

The Enbalmer wrote: »

Well if you bought 20 cans and a bottle of spirits and woke up the next day and they were gone it's safe to assume you drank them.


If i have 50 quid in my pocket and a pint is a fiver,when i run out of money i know i've drank ten pints. Take out 2 50s and drink that at a fiver a pint it's 20 pints.


Bottle of whiskey by the bed..drink it and you've drank a bottle of whiskey.


its really not difficult

It's easy to do the maths when you buy twenty cans and there's none left, but it's a different kettle of fish if you are out drinking with other people over the course of a long day, in different pubs, through rounds, people dissapearing, reappearing etc, etc. It's usually not such an exact process of deduction.

As for the argument that if pints cost a fiver, therefore if I have no change from a fifty it stands to reason that I have drunk ten, well I can't argue with that logic. But usually drunkeness has a way of warping all logic, especially when it comes to money. Very few pubs have such a wonderful and precise pricing for pints, usually it's something a little bit over or under. If you're buying rounds too it all gets a bit complicated. I can keep a gimlet eye on my spending up to a point on a night on the beer, but, if it's a big one, the next day I find endless small change and crumpled never to be looked at receipts warring for space in my pockets and me left with only a rough guess, at best, about how much I actually coughed up. And as for how much I actually drank...

Exactly 500 ml of vodka (at 40%) in ~1 hour. Did not pass out and have the vivid memory of having to literally crawl out of the bed to a waste bin to throw up couple of hours later.

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

Alcohol can bring people together in many wonderful ways

"Alcohol - because no great story ever started with someone eating a salad"

Obligatory "username fits" post.

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

I would say embellishment and/or plain old mis-remembering in definitely a lot of cases...a lot of them are definitely not true, or else boards has some of the most hardened wino's the world over!

Personally the most I've ever drank was probably the time I drank a 1L of Captain Morgans, it was over a 12 hour period but I wasn't right for several days afterwards, the hangover was horrific.

Easy to measure how much you're had in that context, or if drinking cans at home, hard when out in the pub drinking pints though. Last weekend I was at a funeral and there was around 12/13 pints had that day. Doubt I've ever had much more than that in one session.

Body weight and frequency of drinking have a lot to play

The Enbalmer wrote: »

Well if you bought 20 cans and a bottle of spirits and woke up the next day and they were gone it's safe to assume you drank them.


If i have 50 quid in my pocket and a pint is a fiver,when i run out of money i know i've drank ten pints. Take out 2 50s and drink that at a fiver a pint it's 20 pints.


Bottle of whiskey by the bed..drink it and you've drank a bottle of whiskey.


its really not difficult

This is true, if you are drinking in a house then you probably can count it easy enough. Friend of mine was the only one drinking Bulmers at a new years eve house party and he counted 17 empty cans of the stuff, he also had a few whiskey's at about 4 in the morning to top it off.

Honestly can't remember, I've been on a good few sessions. A couple of 48hr ones. So good only knows how much I had. All I know is I'd be very very hungover. Thankfully I gave it up, hangovers are awful