Indeed. And even among those who do drink, many don't seem to understand very well how widely variable tolerance can be between people. Even someone who only drinks occassionally can still have a much higher tolerance than someone else. Where two drinks might make somebody tipsy or even drunk, to another person they might barely even feel it.
That's quite a bit of alcohol to be drinking, but that alone does not make it a "problem". Ill-advised? Sure. But whether it's a "problem" depends on other factors - for example there's a big difference between drinking a can of <5% ABV beer and >9% ABV beer per inning. Drinking too much alcohol one time does not a problem make.
Anyone who can drink a beer per inning is not doing it as a one time thing. If you drink infrequently, you won't be capable of doing this and remaining in a capacity becoming of public places with children around
To be fair, OP didn't say anything about being at the game. Could be at home.
9x 4% 12.5oz beers in 3 hours is quite a lot, but it's definitely something that could be accomplished without the person necessarily having a problem. I know plenty of people who are not alcoholics but have stories of one-off nights like that with friends.
Definitely don't do this in a public, child-friendly venu though. That would be grossly irresponsible.
A lot of HNers are quite puritanical about alcohol and think it cannot ever be enjoyed responsibly, and that anyone who has ever overdone it a bit has a serious problem.
As you and others have said, this is maybe a bit much to have over 3 hours, but doesn't necessarily mean anything on its own. This is roughly six 500ml beers (plus one half), at a rate of one beer every 30 minutes. The bigger issue would be fetching the beer and going to the toilet - you'd be up and down constantly.
> the term has been described in academic research to mean consuming five or more standard drinks (male), or four or more drinks (female),[12] over a two-hour period.
> Drinking too much alcohol one time does not a problem make
When I was in college, a lot of people would define alcoholism in their heads so that they didn't call themselves alcoholics, when in fact they were exhibiting textbook alcoholism. (Not that I have a perfect past myself.)
Needless to say, "a beer an inning" isn't the kind of behavior that I will publicly glorify; nor will I try to handwave it away as "not a problem."
A single session of binge drinking does not an alcoholic make. An "alcoholic" is defined by their regular abuse of alcohol, not a single instance of binge drinking.
Binge drinking can obviously be a symptom of alcoholism, but IMO it's not appropriate to declare people you don't know are alcoholics based on a comment about an theoretical instance of binge drinking.
Even if you play one-beer-per-inning only 1 in 20 games (5% of the time) and only when watching your team, that’s more than once a month for the six month regular season.
Ok, and if you did it in 20/20 games it would be a huge problem (probably life-threatening) and if you did it in 0/20 games, it wouldn't be a problem at all.
A one time nine beers game would not normally be constructed as “one beer per inning.”
Because one-beer-per-inning is a drinking game that involves an intent to drink nine beers…and because beer sales typically cut off at the seventh inning, one -beer-per-inning requires buying multiple beers at a time, so it is unlikely to happen accidentally.
But to be clear, if you’re young nine beers probably won’t kill you (particularly if you train) and can youthful folly. But at 47 or 55 or 60 it is another story…not one that is usually a happy story.
It's a lot, but not egregiously so especially when you consider it's spread over 3 hours. That's 3 beers an hour for 3 hours...if you're big (like over 200lb) you're going to be drunk but certainly upright. If you're smaller, well, results may vary.
Maybe it is my Wisconsin upbringing, but three beers an hour is not even a notable level of intake. Moving at a good clip, sure, but in no way a record setting kind of ordeal.
There are Power Hours which is a shot of beer every minute. Depending on the cleanliness of the pour, available glasses, you are looking at 5-7 beers in an hour.
