I'm talking the number of bars visited in one night and the amount of beer consumed in one night. Is there anywhere in the world this could be attempted? And would it be possible that you'd still be alive after 12 pints and a couple random shots?
shareIt's certainly possible. 12 pints is a lot, but if you do it over the course of an entire day/ evening and are a seasoned drinker then sure it's possible.
Where I live they don't serve pints but schooners, which are a lot smaller (425ml) and I've done pub crawls where I've done probably up to 8 pubs, but often have more than one beer at each. Normally at that stage though you're drunk to the point where you stop caring about the pub crawl and just stay where you are.
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I suspect doing it over a 6 to 8 hour period, so that you never drink more than 2 pints per hour, would work OK. Especially if the pubs serve beer with 4% ABV or lower. But aren't most British pubs under a law that requires them to close ("Last call") fairly early? So you could not do it overnight, instead starting in the early afternoon. And the exercise of walking to the next pub would help.
On the flipside (for non-Brits) a British pint is larger, I believe about 18 to 20 U.S.A. ounces. Don't remember exactly.
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The USA equivalent is roughly 16OZ per pint. But I'm thinking that 12 x 16 = 192 oz, and then add a few shots to the mix. That would be quite a bit of beer and alcohol. I've definitely drank that much in one night, but I'm wondering where in the world would have that many bars that you could go to. Of course in America too where we have craft brews that range anywhere from 6.2% (IPAs, lagers) all the way to 21.5% (Barleywines, Belgian style ales), there's no telling how much the average beer has.
sharebut I'm wondering where in the world would have that many bars that you could go to.
halo1k writes, " there's no telling how much the average beer has "
There actually is. Go to this link, it has most beers listed and you'll see the "consumer" beers (Bud, Coors, etc) are usually in the 4% to 5% ABV.
http://www.alcoholcontents.com/beer/
I found a couple of really high ones, 43% and 32%, but those must be more like a whiskey.
I also found this on a beer website, " However, the shocker is that many British lagers are only 3.2 - 3.9% by volume, and British bitters, porters, and stouts are generally 3.5 - 4% by volume. No wonder Britain is noted for its phenominal consumption of beer; at that strength one can consume a good many "pints" in a social atmosphere without being totally inebriated. ".
So it all makes sense!!
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I've done one similar in our town.
England has lots of pubs, although they are sadly on the demise.
Where we live as 12 pubs within relatively close distance to each other, so we start at one which is a bit out of town have a pint, drive to the second and abandon cars. You need to start at around midday to allow time for drinking and walking, plus also consider the pubs which serve food for dinner.
It's very doable but by the end you will be a bit worse for wear.
This is done a lot in the UK and there is a famous town somewhere up north where there are something like 20 pubs on the same street!
"England has lots of pubs, although they are sadly on the demise."
Sad to hear but I suppose inevitable. I am in the USA and many of my fondest UK memories are from my various pub visits. One time, at a pub near Paddington in London, I was drinking pints of Guinness with a former RAF pilot who had flown one of the planes in the movie "Memphis Belle".
I remember in 1995 when I did a train tour of England and Scotland with my 22-yr-old son, every town had an assortment of pubs and every region had their own local beers on tap.
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that'll be Newcastle
shareIt's certainly possible, and something of a rite of passage for British people; almost everyone I know has a story about a 'crawl' and most stag and hen parties are exactly this. Where I live in Leeds the most famous is the 'Otley Run' from Headingley to the city centre which takes in about 15 pubs, and most Leeds students will attempt it at least once, then spend the rest of their lives reminiscing about 'the run'.
sharequite a lot of people sink 12 pints every Saturday night (although might not get in 12 pubs to do it)
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halo1k writes, " there's no telling how much the average beer has "
There actually is. Go to this link, it has most beers listed and you'll see the "consumer" beers (Bud, Coors, etc) are usually in the 4% to 5% ABV.
In the UK the norm is between 4% and 5% as a standard.
Some of the tap beers are slightly higher, but it is unusual.
There are very high percentage beers but they tend to be European and not what they were showing in the film.
It looked like they were drinking Fosters or Spitfire or that sort of thing, so work on around 4% a pint.
The Guinness book of records ranks the Altstadt in Düsseldorf as the worlds longest bar, but its actually bar after bar after bar, 100's in a row. Now that would be a pub crawl of suicidal proportions, especially with their delicious Alt Bier! I'm going! Who's coming with me!
shareThis reply is way late, I know, but in Toronto there are quite a few areas of the city that have 4-5 bars on every block.
shareJust to let you know a change in law means pubs stay open much much later and there are even some with a 24 hour licence. It's not often I roll out of my local any time before 2.00am and that's when they actually close - no 'lock-ins'.
shareNot sure if anyone else has answered your 'Last Call' question.
At the time of the original crawl in 1990, local pubs like we see in the movie would have called last orders at 10.50pm with the bar closing at 11.00 and customers given 20 minutes further 'drinking up time'.
However the licensing Act law which was passed in 2003 allowed a relaxing of the hours pubs could serve for. It effectively allowed locals to open and serve alcohol until 1am on weekends.
In regards to the OP's question, the guys started at about 4.30pm which if we assume the World's End closed at 1am would give them 8 and a half hours to drink 12 pints, so IMO this would be quite feasible. It would only have been feasible in 1990 if they would have started earlier. However a lot of pubs closed in the afternoon back then, although they did only manage 9 so that would still have been feasible but only just!
Yeah, and to be fair The Mermaid looked more like a club than a pub (or a pub that becomes a club, at least) which would stay open until around 3/4am. Interesting comment about 1990, though, as one of the things I noticed is that young Gary and co. stayed out all night and watched the sun come up on their original pub crawl. True, they did bow out early, but they must have been wandering around that park for HOURS...
shareThe Mermaid was a club IIRC. It would've made more sense for them to finish up there and get kicked out at closing time.
shareIf they did it around midsummer (which it looked like it based on clothing etc) then sunrise can be as early as 3am, so its feasible they left the club at closing time and it took them an hour to wander up into the hills.
shareIn Norway, every year in Oslo, there's something called the Tom Waits Run.. It's up to 20 pubs you have to drink a beer in, mostly 0.5 litres.. Last year, in May, it was about 17 pubs, and I had a beer in each.. But, we started early and ended late..
shareGoodness. The last time I was out on the lash in Oslo I had to go to the ATM to get out another NOK 2.000 -- and it was only six in the evening and we'd finish work at three!
Great country, but pricey to go on the pub crawls.
In Norway, every year in Oslo, there's something called the Tom Waits Run.. It's up to 20 pubs you have to drink a beer in, mostly 0.5 litres..
Very possible and on rugby international days my friends and I have exceeded 12 pubs and 12 pints by quite some. More often than not in Cardiff. And honestly if you stick to 4% muck like fosters it is really no problem at all. That said in the UK we do drink far too much and have something of a tolerance. Certainly nothing to boast about though.
shareEasily!
I personally know a few people that drink 6 "Maß" (1 Maß = 1 liter) of Beer on an average day of the Oktoberfest in Munich, some even more. Depending which brand you are drinking, you are somewhere between 5% up to 13% (!) of alcohol (special brews for the Oktoberfest).
The Otley Run in Leeds has 16-20 pubs/bars on the route, depending on personal preferences, 12 is nothing!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otley_Run
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Really? I must visit leeds then.... I even have a mate that's a fan of LUFC...
Gotta get him on it!
Absolutely, though not recently I`ve been on pub crawls where I`ve sank at least 12 pints (568ml) of 4% ABV beer over the course of a day, in different pubs. Most towns in England have at least that many and some such as my home city, Newcastle have hundreds within walking distance. Nowadays I`m more likely even on a big night out to stick to perhaps 4-5 pubs and drink 7-8 pints maximum.
shareWell, a pint of Fosters has 2.2 units , so that's just over 26 for 12 pints. As your body processes about a unit an hour, after 10 hours (drinking from 1.30pm to 11.30pm) you would only have 16 units in your system. You'd be drunk, but only to the same extent as having a bottle and a half of wine.
shareThis is the post that really helps to explain what the thread title is asking.
Your body/liver processes approx. a unit of alcohol per hour. A standard unit, depending where you are, but generally 12oz of 5% beer, 1.5oz of 40% spirits, and 5oz of wine at 12% alcohol.
As mentioned, you will be drunk but 12 imperial pints(20oz pint in Canada and UK) is achievable over several hours.