Poll: Your alcohol tolerance

[Latinidiot]

I get a lot of beer in, but at a certain point my stomach, or possibly my tastebuds say: Look, buddy we like you, but if you keep giving us this yellow piss we're gonna give everything back. So then I start on the wodka. If it's a party at someones house I usualy start drinking wine well before that point. If we're in a club I a: dance better, and b: start on the spirits.

 

[Latinidiot]

The one and only time I was ever drunk, it was at a friend's 21st birthday party that his girlfriend's parents supplied (odd, I know), and I had the following (never was told the exact names of most of the alcohol):

Two shots of some expensive brand of rum.
Two shots of some expensive brand of whiskey.
A shot of 151.
A flaming doctor pepper.
3/4 bottle of Smirnoff whipped cream vodka mixed with A&W Cream soda.
Half a Yuengling (I don't like beer).

Everyone at the party was trashed, I was willing to keep going. I remember everything that happened that night. I was the last one to fall asleep and the first to wake up. I slept three hours. No hangover. Drove home the next day.

I'm a god. Or at least, that's what my friends are saying. Honestly, I'm calling it beginners luck.

Yeah, the first time is easier somehow. Though I must say that is quite the feat.

 

[liquidsolid]

30+ Thors are scary as hell.

OT: It usually depends on how much I've eaten or how much water I consume along side my alcohol, but once I get past 10 or so drinks I regret it in the morning.

 

[Henkie36]

Well, something I didn't really know, I have a really high alcohol tolerance. When I go out, I can easily beat those 15 units. Hell, when I did that for the first time, I still even remembered everything. And to say ''feeling like death'' was more like ''feeling like you bumped your head against the wll in your sleep''.

 

[putowtin]

I'm fine three bottle of red wine, 16/ 17 beers, vodka and tonics all night as long as I don't mix!

 

[Loner Jo Jo]

I've never been hungover before. Mind you, I don't drink all that much. I've only ever been drunk once, only because it is so god damn hard for me to get drunk. Seriously, it's ridiculous. Of course, I can't drink booze straight; I pretty much have to mix it with something so the amount of liquid I drink and the amount of booze I drink gets thrown off. But I threw back two Long Island Iced Teas, about 8 shots of hard liquor in them combined, in a half hour period on an empty stomach the other night, and I barely got tipsy. I was fucking pissed.

But dark rum gives me a headache for some reason, and I don't mean the next morning. I mean in less than half an hour. One of the main reasons I like clear liquors.

 

[Angry_squirrel]

I'm allergic to alcohol. One sip of an alcopop makes me throw up and I get eczema (wow that's spelled weirdly)

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

The one and only time I was ever drunk, it was at a friend's 21st birthday party that his girlfriend's parents supplied (odd, I know), and I had the following (never was told the exact names of most of the alcohol):

Two shots of some expensive brand of rum.
Two shots of some expensive brand of whiskey.
A shot of 151.
A flaming doctor pepper.
3/4 bottle of Smirnoff whipped cream vodka mixed with A&W Cream soda.
Half a Yuengling (I don't like beer).

Everyone at the party was trashed, I was willing to keep going. I remember everything that happened that night. I was the last one to fall asleep and the first to wake up. I slept three hours. No hangover. Drove home the next day.

I'm a god. Or at least, that's what my friends are saying. Honestly, I'm calling it beginners luck.

Yeah, the first time is easier somehow. Though I must say that is quite the feat.

When I woke up the next morning, I was surprised that I felt so well rested on three hours of sleep and that my head didn't hurt. I'm a bigger guy, so I can handle more naturally I guess.

 

[Callate]

These days, the acidity of significant amounts of wine or beer does in my stomach in before the alcohol catches up with me. I'm not a heavy drinker. The one and only time I've every gotten hangover-level drunk (bachelor party) was in the 15+ range, but I can't say I've done a lot of drinking in the 5-10 range; I tend to stop after one or two beverages.

 

[Heronblade]

I have never been drunk, or hungover, so cannot definitively answer your question.

The most alcohol I've had in one evening was three glasses of red wine, which would be about 6-7 units consumed over the course of about two hours.

 

[Torrasque]

It depends on how much I've had to eat that day/while I am drinking, how much I have drank in what amount of time, and what kind of alcohol I have been drinking. I have finished a case of beer in a night (9pm - 4am) and just had a dry mouth the next day. I've also had several wine-bottle sized bottles of port in a night, and simply been a bit dizzy the next day.
But then I've had several different beers in a night and a couple shots, and felt completely horrible the next day.

For me, my likelihood of having a bad next day, increases for every different type of alcohol I have that night. 5 of the same beer? No problem. 5 different beers? Uh oh... Especially if I mix dark beers with anything else.

 

[Whateveralot]

Crap, mis-voted. I voted the range in which I'll get my hangover, not how much I can drink without getting a hangover. I do notice a hangover quickly. If I drink as much as 3 drinks in a night, I'll feel different (worse) next morning. Mosly a subtle, overall feeling of lameness, probably also caused by the lack of sleep.

Then there's the border where I start having headache and slight nausia, which is around 6-8 alcoholic consumptions on a good day, when there are no limiting circumstances (tireness, lack of food, illness).

After that, I'll usually feel hungover for *exactly* half a day. Why half a day? Food. I eat warm food around 12:30 pm, so after that, the hangover usually decides to go away.

Obviously, we can go beyond this. And I have. If I drink too much (around 15+ drinks), I'd nearly die the upcoming day. That said, I have had nights where I would drink 20+ drinks without intteruption (starting pretty early, at around 6PM, stopping at around 3AM), and feeling FINE the day after. Not sure what causes that.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I used to drink a lot. To the point that some people would have called it a problem. I would also drink by myself most of the time. A 12 pack of empty bottles scattered all over my desk and I'd go to bed not really feeling it. It got to the point that I could out-drink my Husband, but it just wasn't fun anymore. It was down-right depressing. However, when I started losing weight I stopped drinking for quite a long time and now it's just a 'occasion' thing. Weddings, BBQ's, etc.


Perhaps it's the lack of weight, or that I don't drink very often, but two delicious pints of Guinness or Arrogant Bastard can now get me to that special warm feeling before things start getting cloudy and then I stop. I like to come back down from the feeling and have a glass of water or two before I go to sleep. RESPONSIBILITY! *rainbows*

 

[Something Amyss]

I have NEVER drank enough to make me feel bad the next morning. I think I might count as Thor, since there is no option for "I am a thirty ton mega-elephant with bronchial pneumonia."

 

[F'Angus]

Used to be ..alright...but now, well I can't drink much nowadays

 

[SFMB]

I'm a Finn, so hangover is something we celebrate only on 2nd of May. Our culture is based on getting drunk and brooding. Sometimes it's funny to watch foreigners get off their asses after just a couple vodka drinks. It's uncanny, how some people have so weak tolerance for alcohol

 

[Vuavu]

Shit! Revote haha I answered wrong. I didn't know your definition of unit so I answered with about half of what I usually drink. Guess I'm Thor, but in the disguise of a lightweight

 

[Zantos]

Depends more on what I'm drinking than alcohol content. I can get up to about 8 pints of lager before it hits me the next day, so that's about 16 units, whereas a decent dark ale will have me immobile the next day after 2 or 3, or about 6 units. Spirits and wines tend to be somewhere in between (in terms of units that is). That's why although I enjoy other drinks, I'll mostly stick to lager.

Also, depends on how fast I'm drinking, but that's fairly consistent. No more downing.

 

[Guffe]

so a pint (½ litre) is 2 units?
I drink about 5-7 pints during the 3 hours in the bar...
Before that...
I have had a hungover like 4 or 5 times. All the times were some sort of graduation parties starting at 1pm and ending at 5am, and that's due to the lengthy intake of alcohol.
Or the few times when I drank strong beverage like cognaq, vodka etc and fell asleep outside in minus degrees...
I'd say to not have a hangover I go for the 10-15, normally I think I drink the 15+ but that's when it gets risky.

Only thing that has kept me from hangovers is to drink water before I go to bed.

Also as someone said "The alcohol can't be the reason for my hangover, I felt perfectly fine before going to bed".