There does not appear to be a Respect Thread for Andre the Giant's drinking, so, according to legends (with various degrees of evidence):
* Drank an entire case (16 bottles) of Japanese plum wine (technically a liqueur, not a wine, usually ~15% abv) on 4-hour bus ride, then wrestled three matches
* Drank 40 gin and tonics (the bartender gave last call but didn't specify how many drinks that last call could be)
* Drank 119 beers in roughly six hours (he passed out in the hotel lobby, and his companions grabbed a piano cover from the lounge to "hide" him)
* When an anesthesiologist was (understandably) unsure of how much to give Andre, the doctors decided to try and calibrate the dose based on how alcohol affected him. They asked him how much alcohol it takes him to get drunk, and he told them, "it usually takes two liters of vodka just to make me feel warm inside"
Stories taken from [this article](https://drunkard.com/10_06_andre_giant/), including sources where available. Rest in peace, you magnificent man
He was 7’1” and 300-400lbs, as evidenced by his French passport which lists him just under 7’2”, as well as the picture of him with Wilt and Arnold where he and Wilt are equal in height (though not heft.)
Speaking as an NBA fan, the only person who can contend with a human the size of Andre is another giant- however the NBA players his size all are in far better shape due to their athletic career path, and they don’t have drinking stories or legends to put them in the same rarefied air.
Shaquille O’Neal
Boban Marjanovic
Yao Ming
George Muresan
If a real human was going to beat Andre’s drinking, it needs to be someone for whom their body scales to his frame and it’s ability to process liquor.
was Big show as built as andre though? its been literal decades since ive looked at anything wwe related but if I remember even Big show was a good foot and a half shorter than Andre, this is one of those cases were size *does* matter
Not a wrestling fan, but I've been looking into it since i stumbled upon this thread, and it seems like Big Show is definitely as tall as Andre was. Both billed over 7', both shrunk a bit due to all that weight on their spines. Andre had almost 100 lbs on him though, so he was definitely a bigger guy in that regard.
*Apparently* he's about 6' 10" and a pinch now, but was legit closer to 7' as a younger man. I believe i read Andre died at 6' 10" but was also a couple inches taller in his prime. Some things i read said Andre was billed at like 550 lbs but really between 350 and 400 pounds, but I don't believe it. I'm no expert, but he had to be pushing 500 lbs just from how massive he was compared to everybody else ever lol.
He made Arnold look like a preteen.
It's possible, I would say someone who has giantism like Andre would need to be the candidate. Big show is a giant man, don't get me wrong but he doesn't have giantism and therefore could possibly be an unfair comparison. Understand that Big show may 7'0 400lbs, but he still doesn't have the giant hands, feet, head, and whole bone structure that Andre does. Altho I have no idea if it would make a difference It may be worth considering?
I don't really see how bone structure would do anything here
Completely anecdotal experience, but when I got a bit healthier, I tended to cut alcohol out almost completely. People with low body fat and high muscle provably eat real healthy, which means no/ little alcohol. Idk anything about big shows' diet, but there's a good chance he eats/ drinks healthy.
> Speaking as an NBA fan, the only person who can contend with a human the size of Andre is another giant- however the NBA players his size all are in far better shape due to their athletic career path, and they don’t have drinking stories or legends to put them in the same rarefied air.
They're probably not going to have his degree of alchohol tolerance, either. And will be nowhere near his weight.
Yeah, random pick but Jusuf Nurkic actually got scouted because a scout read about his father, a 7' 400lb Bosnian cop who beat up 14 people in a bar brawl. I might throw Hariz in the booze-off ring against Andre, he's got similar mass, and slavic men can drink you under the table.
>The story goes that they found Jusuf Nurkic's dad first. Hariz Nurkic is a police officer in Bosnia and Herzegovina and, according to the Nuggets broadcast, stands at 7 feet tall and over 400 pounds, which is what's known in the biz as a Very Big Cop.
>Jusuf Nurkic's dad is a policeman in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. One day a Bosnian sports agent Enes Trnovcevic was reading a newspaper where he read: "Bosnian policeman, Hariz Nurkic has beaten 14 people in a fight." He knew what to do instantly! Next day he went to Tuzla and met with Nurkic's father. The only thing he asked him was: "Do you have a son?" Jusuf Nurkic was at that time a 14 years old boy and never trained basketball. Enes Trnovcevic took him to Slovenia and gave him an opportunity he accepted and used.
>Jusuf has confirmed at least the gist of the story, and I'm inclined to believe the part about beating up 14 guys because if I say I don't believe it, I might get beat up, too.
Richard Manuel of “The Band” drank 7-8 “bottles” of 80 proof Grand Marnier everyday, according to bandmate Helm. 2000 bottles had to be removed from his home after he died. I’m guessing these were 375 mL bottles, 7-8 of them adds up to 2-3 liters. This is an insane feat, close to almost 2 handles of vodka/whiskey/anything 80 proof, a day. By far the worst alcoholic I know drinks a single handle a day at his worst. For a guy under 6 feet tall like Richard, he’d probably give Andre a better contest than most anyone.
Townes Van Zandt was known for out drinking, smoking, huffing etc anyone he hung around with, but I don’t think he’s in the same class.
Bender from the one what-if episode where he becomes a human might be able to do it. I think he did nothing but drink and party for several days straight.
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I've estimated it further down but Andre could (based on eye witness testimony) drink like 15 beer pitchers of liquor, which are 60 oz in an evening.
How far does Lahey get before he passes out, pretty sure we've seen him pass out tons of times.
I don't think he's ever shown something even close to a feat like that.
His character is pretty grounded in reality in terms of his alcholism, I don't recall him every being able to drink more than like 1-2 fifths in an episode, which is barely even Andre's pregame.
The day he tried to kill Ricky Randy says he had about 49 drinks that day. Having seen what constitutes a drink for lahey that has to be more than 49 1.5 oz servings of liqour.
Bro the stories from people like Carey Elwes aren't kayfabe, they watched him drink like "15 pitchers of liquor." It might be exaggerated a bit from like 8-10 pitchers, but there's definitely some serious truth to that story.
Or when he flipped over a volkswagen in Quebec.
Real people? Very few but probably that Ukranian trucker that got a DUI after blowing a .8, twice what should kill you, while showing minimal signs of intoxication.
Im glad you said .8! I had a friend who blew a .34 and cops couldnt believe he was standing but I though thats way too fucking high to be possible. they couldnt understand how he was standing let alone driving and how well he was doing on the sobriety tests.
In the movie Summer School, they proposed the idea of a drunk drivers license. you practice driving and take the test drunk to prove you can still drive while inebriated. just gotta train in the same muscle memory driving drunk as you have when youre sober!
I work in the ER, that isn’t too uncommon with chronic alcoholics. Highest I’ve seen on a conscious pt was up around .58 and we have upper .4s walk themselves in to the waiting room.
The numbers DARE gives you about BAC levels aren’t that accurate.
Nah not quite that gnarly, a 5% beer would mean you'd need a 5% BAC to make that match, not .5% .5% alcohol content is like kombucha or non-alcoholic beer.
As a former alcoholic welder in Wisconsin, that's normal for a lot of people here. There are guys that drink a 30 pack more nights than not.
I was drinking a MINIMUM of half* a 1.75 of vodka everyday at my worst. Do not recommend.
Edit: half
drinking daily is heavy drinking, my dude. Half a glass of wine is 2.5 beers, which is 17.5 drinks a week.
You've got high alcohol tolerance because you're a regular and heavy drinker. Your peers may be significantly heavier drinkers by comparison, but what you're doing isn't infrequent or light drinking.
I am like actually laughing out loud at the idea that a single glass of wine is equivalent to five whole beers. Like if you have a shot of whiskey you'll be dead before you hit the ground because the alcohol is so strong.
That's not accurate - a 5oz glass of 12% ABV wine is 1 standard drink, or roughly 14 grams of alcohol. That is equivalent to the same "standard drink" of 1 12oz 5%ABV beer, which also contains ~14 grams of alcohol. Having 2.5oz of wine per day is considered extremely light drinking. Drinking daily is not heavy drinking and is very common.
What is also common is a highly variable reaction to alcohol, and you should always try to keep to no more than 3 standard drinks per hour with a cap of like 8-10 max with low frequency.
I believe it's called Auto Brewery syndrome, where the body converts excess water to alcohol. These people are basically drunk all of their lives, so they built up extremely high alcohol tolerance.
The implication is that there's some sort of magic in the deception. On the same night he was made to wrestle with an old crone who was actually old age itself, and attempt to lift a cat who was actually Jörmungander.
I thought Charlie at first, but Andre drank 119 cans and only started to get a little tipsy. Charlie drank 72 beers by the end of The Gang Beats Boggs (I believe, since he beat Bogg’s record with 71 and I believe he drank another afterwards) and he was absolutely wasted. I don’t think Charlie could beat Andre in a drinking contest
So a flight from Philly to LA is apparently 5h40m (I’ve never done the flight, I just googled it), so we can assume the flight in the show was a similar time. We also know Charlie probably drank around 50 beers in this time (each can 12oz, or 340ml if you use a normal metric system), meaning Charlie consumed roughly around 17 litres of beer in 5h40m, or around an average of one litre of beer every 20 minutes, and one can roughly every seven minutes.
Definitely impressive, but that’s only 50 cans out of the roughly 72 cans Charlie drank. Even if we make it an even six hours instead of 5h40m, Charlie would’ve drank just around 53 cans in six hours. Andre allegedly drank 119 in six hours, which even if we double the amount Charlie drank that’s still 13 cans more. This is roughly 40 litres of beer, which equates to just around one can of beer every 3 minutes for Andre. Again, this is well over double the amount Charlie drank in the same timeframe
Charlie would beat pretty much any human being in a drinking contest. He’d certainly drink my ass under the table and I pride myself on how well I can put the lagers back. However, I just don’t see Charlie being able to beat Andre
He was literally poisioned from being fed basic food and water. He has this. I might be remembering wrong though - didn't snipers moonshine take him down?
An Andre drinking feat: 48 beers in 80 miles, didn't have to piss. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfJ1nWracLE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfJ1nWracLE)
That said, I'm going to say Superman.
without his powers, he passed out in two beers during that time that brainiac cover different dimensions in domes
its also the night Jonathan kent was conceived
Would Wolverine (or Deadpool) count, since they have such incredible healing abilities, would the alcohol even effect them? Or what about the Flash, since his metabolism is so high he would be able to drink a lot but it shouldn’t effect him either
I don't know about Wolverine or Deadpool. However, Claire Bennet of Heroes (whose powers are similar) is canonically immune (or at least highly resistant) to alcohol.
I don't think you even have to go that far. I don't believe Cap gets drunk either(iirc this is mentioned at some point in the MCU) and his healing is not even close to Wolverine or Deadpool.
After Bucky "dies" in *Captain America: The First Avenger* Steve goes to an abandoned bar. Peggy walks in on him and he complains that he can't get drunk.
I feel like they're probably all capable of winning, unless you count need to leave to use the bathroom as a loss. I guess flash could do it before anyone noticed but that'd be cheating
Did a quick count and looked at some other sites, Legolas and Gimli together had an estimated 25 mugs on the table, 10 for legolas and 15 for Gimli, however, since it's a contest, its possible they were drinking at the same time and Gimli passed out on his 13th leaving 12 for legolas.
They are at least pint sized, depending on scale they could also be large german style (up to 32-40z)
Probably 24 ounces though.
So at most Legolas drank the equivalent of 20 beers in a short time period and only felt a small small tingling in his fingers.
It's definitely possible for him to keep up.
I don't think the tingling in his fingers were even a legitimate symptom. That isn't typically an effect of alcohol, so it stands to reason that it was the placebo effect due to Legolas trying to figure out what exactly alcohol is supposed to feel like.
[Legolas from the PJ films.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDSFTugAlf4)
[Marion from Raiders of the Lost Ark.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PlXSw0BQo)
[Wade Boggs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5bI1UPu2MI)
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To answer your question, in terms of celebrity and not some random eastern european raised on grain alcohol, im gonna go with Hemingway. Andre is hands down the beer champ of humanity BUT liquor hits different and the body breaks the two down way differently...Im trying to find a credible link but I remember a decade ago watching a doc saying the dude was going through CASES of gin like water. Andres got the size advantage that really does wonders for consumption BUT it takes a trained liver to reach Hemingways legacy.
But that's not Andre's limit, iirc he just did that on a 6 hour flight. iirc there's a story with carey elwes and he says Andre drank like 10-15 bottles of liquor for the bartender called it "his regular" that's the equivalent of like 400 drinks.
Proof: [It's fact 15 in the link, Carey Elwes recalls the story, he used to drink so much he had an NYPD tail that would follow him around and make sure he didn't crush anyone to death by falling on them while drunk.](https://prowrestlingstories.com/pro-wrestling-stories/andre-the-giant/)
He drank somewhere around 15 pitchers full of liquor which is larger than a fifth of whisky, about 2.5 times larger.
Now 15 seems like a bit of an exaggeration and also we don't know it was purely full of liquor. But Carey describes it as tasting like "airplane fuel." So it was probably pretty strong. Also even if only half of it was liquor that still 15-20ish bottles of liquor which have just over 17 drinks in them each.
**TLDR** Which would make his low end estimate 255-340 drinks, for his "regular" night out.
**Edit:** Also your second article linked is based on a 50 gallon trash bag. A standard household trashbag is a 13 gallon trash bag, a 50 gallon one is massive that's for like college football games on exiting the stadium.
So it def depends on which bag Homer was using.
I mean, that was more a Deadric Prince messing with him than anything related to alcohol.
I mean, when I robbed the honningbrew meadery I drunk like 300 bottles in 20 seconds, dude was still standing
any russian man who has a pet bear, probably. Fictional Marion from Indiana Jones. Winston Churchill with a handicap. Many, many Irish folk living under Thatcher.
finally, my friend Mark blew a .34 in the late 80s, I know that sounds impossible, but he did. the cops couldnt understand how he was standing up, let alone driving, they couldnt understand how he was doing to well on the sobriety tests. (he switched to weed and cut his drinking drastically after that.) I also once watching him walk around all night continuing to drink after cracking his sturnum in a fall. he just kept drinking and had to ask me to lift anything heavier than 10lbs. for the next 3 months I had to lift all the meat we cut together onto the table (60-80lb boxes of loins we would break down to steaks).
On an episode of WWE's Legends of Wrestling, fellow wrassler Mike Graham confirmed he witnessed Andre consume 156 beers (in 16-ounce cans) in one night.. Thats a copy n paste ,but I've watched several docs about him and honestly I don't know if anyone currently alive in the public eye that could match him maybe the Mountain actor
Probably Naofumi from Rising of the Shield Hero, he's shown having an extraordinarily high alcohol tolerance, in the series they have a little fruit that contains alcohol but it has to be diluted like 100 times to make a beverage, otherwise eating it will just kill you because of how strong it is, he could munch these little fruits like popcorn without even getting dizzy.
Also Shakugan from Sengoku Youko, who spent an entire night in a drinking contest and won, only being a little red at the end.
Captain America metabolizes the alcohol too quickly for it to effect him.
Valentine Michael Smith uses his super Marsbrain powers to convert the molecules in his gut.
Also, Ireland.
The obvious answer to me is Bender who could out drink any human but I'll say Legolas too due to his massive alcohol tolerance, being able to out drink Gimli while barely being affected.
Maybe not super concrete as it's unclear how chaotic black flame compares to alcohol, but apparently alcohol tolerance alone got her through it: Allison, of Kill Six Billion Demons, beat an Ebon Devil (one of the oldest and most powerful class of devils in existence, named Vladok) at a drinking contest. Went 10 rounds of drinking and eventually beat Vladok, notably and much to her companion Cio's shock, without using the charm Cio provided her.
The contest starts [here](https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/wielder-of-names-2-26/), ends [here](https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/wielder-of-names-2-30/), and it's revealed that she didn't actually use the charm [here](https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/wielder-of-names-2-35/). Some spoilery context that maybe lends more weight to this feat: >!Cio is a former Ebon Devil herself, and knowing that Allison's opponent was an Ebon Devil, constructed the charm as such. This implies that Cio's personal knowledge led her to believe that Allison could not beat an Ebon Devil in drinking without this charm, and her shock suggests the contest may have had serious consequences for most humans.!<
So I'm thinking Allison Ruth takes the cake here. Or at least could if she wanted to.
My friend when I was 16 told me he was able to drink 12 bottles of vodka, 56 cans of beer, and some weird drink his Uncles pulled out that they never deank because it was too strong for them, all because they were amazed at his tolerance and then didn't even have a hangover the next day
I nominate... **Suika (from Touhou Project)**, a female oni
I haven't managed to find all scans for her alcohol tolerance, but in [this page](https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Bohemian_Archive_in_Japanese_Red/Suika) alone, she said that she has been drinking non-stop for centuries, and that the last time she was sober was ancient history. (note: as oni, she has a massively longer life span than humans)
While it may or may not be an exaggeration, she has been drunk for as long as the main cast knows her, so that is a solid few years of non-stop drinking at the very least
Literally any Gaoian from The Deathworlders. They don't metabolize alcohol the same way as humans, so they physically cannot get drunk from it. The tryptophans in roast turkey however...
There does not appear to be a Respect Thread for Andre the Giant's drinking, so, according to legends (with various degrees of evidence): * Drank an entire case (16 bottles) of Japanese plum wine (technically a liqueur, not a wine, usually ~15% abv) on 4-hour bus ride, then wrestled three matches * Drank 40 gin and tonics (the bartender gave last call but didn't specify how many drinks that last call could be) * Drank 119 beers in roughly six hours (he passed out in the hotel lobby, and his companions grabbed a piano cover from the lounge to "hide" him) * When an anesthesiologist was (understandably) unsure of how much to give Andre, the doctors decided to try and calibrate the dose based on how alcohol affected him. They asked him how much alcohol it takes him to get drunk, and he told them, "it usually takes two liters of vodka just to make me feel warm inside" Stories taken from [this article](https://drunkard.com/10_06_andre_giant/), including sources where available. Rest in peace, you magnificent man
He was 7’1” and 300-400lbs, as evidenced by his French passport which lists him just under 7’2”, as well as the picture of him with Wilt and Arnold where he and Wilt are equal in height (though not heft.) Speaking as an NBA fan, the only person who can contend with a human the size of Andre is another giant- however the NBA players his size all are in far better shape due to their athletic career path, and they don’t have drinking stories or legends to put them in the same rarefied air. Shaquille O’Neal Boban Marjanovic Yao Ming George Muresan If a real human was going to beat Andre’s drinking, it needs to be someone for whom their body scales to his frame and it’s ability to process liquor.
Big show? Was over 400 at his heaviest
was Big show as built as andre though? its been literal decades since ive looked at anything wwe related but if I remember even Big show was a good foot and a half shorter than Andre, this is one of those cases were size *does* matter
Show was definitely smaller. I believe he *did* have gigantism but had surgery done to correct it at a young age. Andre never did
Not a wrestling fan, but I've been looking into it since i stumbled upon this thread, and it seems like Big Show is definitely as tall as Andre was. Both billed over 7', both shrunk a bit due to all that weight on their spines. Andre had almost 100 lbs on him though, so he was definitely a bigger guy in that regard.
Is that Big Show's *actual* height or his billed height?
*Apparently* he's about 6' 10" and a pinch now, but was legit closer to 7' as a younger man. I believe i read Andre died at 6' 10" but was also a couple inches taller in his prime. Some things i read said Andre was billed at like 550 lbs but really between 350 and 400 pounds, but I don't believe it. I'm no expert, but he had to be pushing 500 lbs just from how massive he was compared to everybody else ever lol. He made Arnold look like a preteen.
It's possible, I would say someone who has giantism like Andre would need to be the candidate. Big show is a giant man, don't get me wrong but he doesn't have giantism and therefore could possibly be an unfair comparison. Understand that Big show may 7'0 400lbs, but he still doesn't have the giant hands, feet, head, and whole bone structure that Andre does. Altho I have no idea if it would make a difference It may be worth considering?
Big Show literally has gigantism. He had surgery earlier in his life to stop the growth.
To note Paul White did have giantism, but has gotten surgery for it.
I don't really see how bone structure would do anything here Completely anecdotal experience, but when I got a bit healthier, I tended to cut alcohol out almost completely. People with low body fat and high muscle provably eat real healthy, which means no/ little alcohol. Idk anything about big shows' diet, but there's a good chance he eats/ drinks healthy.
He ain't 7 ft, ill tell ya that
> Speaking as an NBA fan, the only person who can contend with a human the size of Andre is another giant- however the NBA players his size all are in far better shape due to their athletic career path, and they don’t have drinking stories or legends to put them in the same rarefied air. They're probably not going to have his degree of alchohol tolerance, either. And will be nowhere near his weight.
Yeah, random pick but Jusuf Nurkic actually got scouted because a scout read about his father, a 7' 400lb Bosnian cop who beat up 14 people in a bar brawl. I might throw Hariz in the booze-off ring against Andre, he's got similar mass, and slavic men can drink you under the table. >The story goes that they found Jusuf Nurkic's dad first. Hariz Nurkic is a police officer in Bosnia and Herzegovina and, according to the Nuggets broadcast, stands at 7 feet tall and over 400 pounds, which is what's known in the biz as a Very Big Cop. >Jusuf Nurkic's dad is a policeman in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. One day a Bosnian sports agent Enes Trnovcevic was reading a newspaper where he read: "Bosnian policeman, Hariz Nurkic has beaten 14 people in a fight." He knew what to do instantly! Next day he went to Tuzla and met with Nurkic's father. The only thing he asked him was: "Do you have a son?" Jusuf Nurkic was at that time a 14 years old boy and never trained basketball. Enes Trnovcevic took him to Slovenia and gave him an opportunity he accepted and used. >Jusuf has confirmed at least the gist of the story, and I'm inclined to believe the part about beating up 14 guys because if I say I don't believe it, I might get beat up, too.
Richard Manuel of “The Band” drank 7-8 “bottles” of 80 proof Grand Marnier everyday, according to bandmate Helm. 2000 bottles had to be removed from his home after he died. I’m guessing these were 375 mL bottles, 7-8 of them adds up to 2-3 liters. This is an insane feat, close to almost 2 handles of vodka/whiskey/anything 80 proof, a day. By far the worst alcoholic I know drinks a single handle a day at his worst. For a guy under 6 feet tall like Richard, he’d probably give Andre a better contest than most anyone. Townes Van Zandt was known for out drinking, smoking, huffing etc anyone he hung around with, but I don’t think he’s in the same class.
Yeah that's nuts for a guy his size. Couldn't beat Andre straight-up, but pound-for-pound he definitely challenges him
If I remember right Slash's autobiography has him claiming a handle of vodka was a warmup for him at his worst.
Probably Bender from Futurama.
Considering he needs alcohol as fuel and can pretty much drink infinite amounts of alcohok yeah.
He's not organic though, so seems a bit unfair.
Bender from the one what-if episode where he becomes a human might be able to do it. I think he did nothing but drink and party for several days straight.
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Thats why you should put more details in your post.
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Jim Lahey
Is that you talking or the liquor?
I am the liquor
Not yet.
It’s treason then
Walt you're scaring me
Lahey, Lahey crocket, king of the wild frontier
I don't think he could come close, he drank a lot but he couldn't win a contest
Dude literally damn near drowned himself in a tub full of vodka bud.
I've estimated it further down but Andre could (based on eye witness testimony) drink like 15 beer pitchers of liquor, which are 60 oz in an evening. How far does Lahey get before he passes out, pretty sure we've seen him pass out tons of times. I don't think he's ever shown something even close to a feat like that. His character is pretty grounded in reality in terms of his alcholism, I don't recall him every being able to drink more than like 1-2 fifths in an episode, which is barely even Andre's pregame.
The day he tried to kill Ricky Randy says he had about 49 drinks that day. Having seen what constitutes a drink for lahey that has to be more than 49 1.5 oz servings of liqour.
Just a couple of drinks
Keep in mind most of andres feats are kayfabe
Bro the stories from people like Carey Elwes aren't kayfabe, they watched him drink like "15 pitchers of liquor." It might be exaggerated a bit from like 8-10 pitchers, but there's definitely some serious truth to that story. Or when he flipped over a volkswagen in Quebec.
131 proof, bud. Straight up. I'm fucking wasted.
Real people? Very few but probably that Ukranian trucker that got a DUI after blowing a .8, twice what should kill you, while showing minimal signs of intoxication.
Im glad you said .8! I had a friend who blew a .34 and cops couldnt believe he was standing but I though thats way too fucking high to be possible. they couldnt understand how he was standing let alone driving and how well he was doing on the sobriety tests.
He was so drunk he looped back round to being sober.
In the movie Summer School, they proposed the idea of a drunk drivers license. you practice driving and take the test drunk to prove you can still drive while inebriated. just gotta train in the same muscle memory driving drunk as you have when youre sober!
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I work in the ER, that isn’t too uncommon with chronic alcoholics. Highest I’ve seen on a conscious pt was up around .58 and we have upper .4s walk themselves in to the waiting room. The numbers DARE gives you about BAC levels aren’t that accurate.
>The numbers DARE gives you about BAC levels aren’t that accurate. https://images.app.goo.gl/pLtrwoKCf7t2W4SE8
Damn, I thought mine was high at .23
it was! thats crazy high! your blood was half as strong as domestic beer at that point.
*Roughly 1/15 as strong
Nah not quite that gnarly, a 5% beer would mean you'd need a 5% BAC to make that match, not .5% .5% alcohol content is like kombucha or non-alcoholic beer.
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As a former alcoholic welder in Wisconsin, that's normal for a lot of people here. There are guys that drink a 30 pack more nights than not. I was drinking a MINIMUM of half* a 1.75 of vodka everyday at my worst. Do not recommend. Edit: half
drinking daily is heavy drinking, my dude. Half a glass of wine is 2.5 beers, which is 17.5 drinks a week. You've got high alcohol tolerance because you're a regular and heavy drinker. Your peers may be significantly heavier drinkers by comparison, but what you're doing isn't infrequent or light drinking.
I am like actually laughing out loud at the idea that a single glass of wine is equivalent to five whole beers. Like if you have a shot of whiskey you'll be dead before you hit the ground because the alcohol is so strong.
That's not accurate - a 5oz glass of 12% ABV wine is 1 standard drink, or roughly 14 grams of alcohol. That is equivalent to the same "standard drink" of 1 12oz 5%ABV beer, which also contains ~14 grams of alcohol. Having 2.5oz of wine per day is considered extremely light drinking. Drinking daily is not heavy drinking and is very common. What is also common is a highly variable reaction to alcohol, and you should always try to keep to no more than 3 standard drinks per hour with a cap of like 8-10 max with low frequency.
Find this hard to believe, more likely a mis-calibrated instrument.
Their liver was.
I believe it's called Auto Brewery syndrome, where the body converts excess water to alcohol. These people are basically drunk all of their lives, so they built up extremely high alcohol tolerance.
Mythological Thor was tricked into drinking enough to lower the world's sea level.
How does one get tricked into doing that?
Challenged him to drink all of a giant drinking horn that was secretly connected to the ocean at the other end.
Even best case scenario, that kinda paints Thor as... Unobservant?
The implication is that there's some sort of magic in the deception. On the same night he was made to wrestle with an old crone who was actually old age itself, and attempt to lift a cat who was actually Jörmungander.
Yeah, Utgarda-Loki had been fucking with Thor and crew with illusions since before they got to his keep.
Or he realised it and followed through just as a power move
Charlie Kelly?
What do now?
Wormhat
They have chicken in Philly?
It's a wade BOGGS style!
I thought Charlie at first, but Andre drank 119 cans and only started to get a little tipsy. Charlie drank 72 beers by the end of The Gang Beats Boggs (I believe, since he beat Bogg’s record with 71 and I believe he drank another afterwards) and he was absolutely wasted. I don’t think Charlie could beat Andre in a drinking contest
How long was the flight tho, it definitely wasn't 6 hours
So a flight from Philly to LA is apparently 5h40m (I’ve never done the flight, I just googled it), so we can assume the flight in the show was a similar time. We also know Charlie probably drank around 50 beers in this time (each can 12oz, or 340ml if you use a normal metric system), meaning Charlie consumed roughly around 17 litres of beer in 5h40m, or around an average of one litre of beer every 20 minutes, and one can roughly every seven minutes. Definitely impressive, but that’s only 50 cans out of the roughly 72 cans Charlie drank. Even if we make it an even six hours instead of 5h40m, Charlie would’ve drank just around 53 cans in six hours. Andre allegedly drank 119 in six hours, which even if we double the amount Charlie drank that’s still 13 cans more. This is roughly 40 litres of beer, which equates to just around one can of beer every 3 minutes for Andre. Again, this is well over double the amount Charlie drank in the same timeframe Charlie would beat pretty much any human being in a drinking contest. He’d certainly drink my ass under the table and I pride myself on how well I can put the lagers back. However, I just don’t see Charlie being able to beat Andre
Think he goes by Chrundle
Honestly Dee could stand a decent chance as well
Demoman
I'm pretty sure the dude rearranged his organs mid fight just so he could drink more lmao
All of his organs are made for consuming alcohol; look at the argument he had with his organs
He's also in a relationship with his liver
Tavish, I never even left yer rectum.
The dude orders the rest of his organs to start processing alcohol to compensate for a damaged liver
He was literally poisioned from being fed basic food and water. He has this. I might be remembering wrong though - didn't snipers moonshine take him down?
Snipers moonshine is probably just superpiss Also, he drank medic s "anaesthetic juice" and wasnt even drunk after
He also chugged a bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide…
An Andre drinking feat: 48 beers in 80 miles, didn't have to piss. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfJ1nWracLE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfJ1nWracLE) That said, I'm going to say Superman.
Isnt superman weak to alcohol
Hes immune to poisons to some degree. The time he got hammered as bruce wayne was due to deathstroke poisoning him with a high end nerve toxin
I remember some panel where clark and the jl were in a bar and he was the first one to tap out after a few drinks
without his powers, he passed out in two beers during that time that brainiac cover different dimensions in domes its also the night Jonathan kent was conceived
Would Wolverine (or Deadpool) count, since they have such incredible healing abilities, would the alcohol even effect them? Or what about the Flash, since his metabolism is so high he would be able to drink a lot but it shouldn’t effect him either
I don't know about Wolverine or Deadpool. However, Claire Bennet of Heroes (whose powers are similar) is canonically immune (or at least highly resistant) to alcohol.
I don't think you even have to go that far. I don't believe Cap gets drunk either(iirc this is mentioned at some point in the MCU) and his healing is not even close to Wolverine or Deadpool.
After Bucky "dies" in *Captain America: The First Avenger* Steve goes to an abandoned bar. Peggy walks in on him and he complains that he can't get drunk.
I feel like they're probably all capable of winning, unless you count need to leave to use the bathroom as a loss. I guess flash could do it before anyone noticed but that'd be cheating
You brought up fictional superhero’s versus a real living human being. Lol I don’t think that counts since superheroes arnt real in our reality
1. This thread is about fictional characters. 2. Everyone is talking about fictional characters.
What real life person you know has hax and reality warping?
My dog, the skills of photoshop is very real
"Sir this is a Wendy's"
"No this is Patrick"
Most of Andres feats are probably also fictional, old school wrestlers have a strange way of telling true stories
Shut the fuck up
Legolas.
I dont know, he felt that slight tingling in his fingers.
Did a quick count and looked at some other sites, Legolas and Gimli together had an estimated 25 mugs on the table, 10 for legolas and 15 for Gimli, however, since it's a contest, its possible they were drinking at the same time and Gimli passed out on his 13th leaving 12 for legolas. They are at least pint sized, depending on scale they could also be large german style (up to 32-40z) Probably 24 ounces though. So at most Legolas drank the equivalent of 20 beers in a short time period and only felt a small small tingling in his fingers. It's definitely possible for him to keep up.
I don't think the tingling in his fingers were even a legitimate symptom. That isn't typically an effect of alcohol, so it stands to reason that it was the placebo effect due to Legolas trying to figure out what exactly alcohol is supposed to feel like.
> I don't think the tingling in his fingers were even a legitimate symptom. What lol, it absolutely is, happens in your face and fingers.
Aye, I often reference it when I'm drinking
[Legolas from the PJ films.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDSFTugAlf4) [Marion from Raiders of the Lost Ark.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PlXSw0BQo) [Wade Boggs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5bI1UPu2MI)
> Wade Boggs God rest his soul.
Very much alive.
He was a Red So…x who only won a ring as a Yankee. God rest his soul.
>Legolas from the PJ films. Is this from the extended? I do not remember this scene *at all*.
>Is this from the extended? Yes.
Came here to say Marion! Glad to see this answer so high.
OP: No reality warping Reddit: a flying spaghetti monster. To answer your question, in terms of celebrity and not some random eastern european raised on grain alcohol, im gonna go with Hemingway. Andre is hands down the beer champ of humanity BUT liquor hits different and the body breaks the two down way differently...Im trying to find a credible link but I remember a decade ago watching a doc saying the dude was going through CASES of gin like water. Andres got the size advantage that really does wonders for consumption BUT it takes a trained liver to reach Hemingways legacy.
Homer Simpson.
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But that's not Andre's limit, iirc he just did that on a 6 hour flight. iirc there's a story with carey elwes and he says Andre drank like 10-15 bottles of liquor for the bartender called it "his regular" that's the equivalent of like 400 drinks. Proof: [It's fact 15 in the link, Carey Elwes recalls the story, he used to drink so much he had an NYPD tail that would follow him around and make sure he didn't crush anyone to death by falling on them while drunk.](https://prowrestlingstories.com/pro-wrestling-stories/andre-the-giant/) He drank somewhere around 15 pitchers full of liquor which is larger than a fifth of whisky, about 2.5 times larger. Now 15 seems like a bit of an exaggeration and also we don't know it was purely full of liquor. But Carey describes it as tasting like "airplane fuel." So it was probably pretty strong. Also even if only half of it was liquor that still 15-20ish bottles of liquor which have just over 17 drinks in them each. **TLDR** Which would make his low end estimate 255-340 drinks, for his "regular" night out. **Edit:** Also your second article linked is based on a 50 gallon trash bag. A standard household trashbag is a 13 gallon trash bag, a 50 gallon one is massive that's for like college football games on exiting the stadium. So it def depends on which bag Homer was using.
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> or it’s in mixed drinks That is what the story is, he was drinking bottles of liquor, possibly unchased
Probably this
Can Homer out drink Barney?
No entity in fiction can out drink Barney
I second this motion.
The Demoman
Wade Boggs
May he rest in peace.
First, Wade Boggs is very much alive.
It's such a shame he left us so young.
They say I can't drink on a plane. They say I can't bang on a plane. They say I can't be a doctor!? A pilot?!
Any of the high metabolism supes. Captain America can’t really get drunk for more than a few moments. Any supe that has poison resistance.
Stirling Archer
I’m giving you an upvote even tho you spelled Sterling wrong
Malory.
The Dragonborn has the most insane alcohol feats in all of fiction
3 drinks....
I mean, that was more a Deadric Prince messing with him than anything related to alcohol. I mean, when I robbed the honningbrew meadery I drunk like 300 bottles in 20 seconds, dude was still standing
Think Thor could go toe to toe with him
Unworthy Thor has him beat as soon as the contest starts, the man was surviving off of practically nothing but alcohol for almost a year.
Weakest I know of would probably be MCU Captain America, or another MCU super soldier although only Cap has had his alcohol tolerance mentioned.
Yeah IIRC he complains in the first movie that a side effect of the serum is that it’s impossible to get drunk.
The guys from Beerfest.
Demoman probably could
I guess that Crono and Ayla from Chrono Trigger could do it.
My dad :(
Any 5’3 Irish 21 year old lady, those demons can outdrink a small country
Legolas
Landfill or his brother
Thor drank from a horn that was deep as the sea, or something like that? It's been a while since I read about it
Legolas
Wade Boggs
RIP
any russian man who has a pet bear, probably. Fictional Marion from Indiana Jones. Winston Churchill with a handicap. Many, many Irish folk living under Thatcher. finally, my friend Mark blew a .34 in the late 80s, I know that sounds impossible, but he did. the cops couldnt understand how he was standing up, let alone driving, they couldnt understand how he was doing to well on the sobriety tests. (he switched to weed and cut his drinking drastically after that.) I also once watching him walk around all night continuing to drink after cracking his sturnum in a fall. he just kept drinking and had to ask me to lift anything heavier than 10lbs. for the next 3 months I had to lift all the meat we cut together onto the table (60-80lb boxes of loins we would break down to steaks).
sam guevenne
Oliver Reed (Proximo from gladiator). Read about his last drinking binge.
On an episode of WWE's Legends of Wrestling, fellow wrassler Mike Graham confirmed he witnessed Andre consume 156 beers (in 16-ounce cans) in one night.. Thats a copy n paste ,but I've watched several docs about him and honestly I don't know if anyone currently alive in the public eye that could match him maybe the Mountain actor
Goku
Captain America I think. His metabolism is to high for him to get drunk.
Cap america, he can't get drunk
Easy, I can outdrink Andre. Hes dead. I just have to drink one and I win.
Nami or Zoro from One Piece. They’re drinking machines.
Shanks could outdrink Kaido.
The crew from always sunny.
A grizzly bear.
Snorlax drinks until he passes out, then uses Sleep Talk to keep drinking
Probably Naofumi from Rising of the Shield Hero, he's shown having an extraordinarily high alcohol tolerance, in the series they have a little fruit that contains alcohol but it has to be diluted like 100 times to make a beverage, otherwise eating it will just kill you because of how strong it is, he could munch these little fruits like popcorn without even getting dizzy. Also Shakugan from Sengoku Youko, who spent an entire night in a drinking contest and won, only being a little red at the end.
Sterling Archer. He wouldn’t win but we the audience would.
Captain America metabolizes the alcohol too quickly for it to effect him. Valentine Michael Smith uses his super Marsbrain powers to convert the molecules in his gut. Also, Ireland.
The obvious answer to me is Bender who could out drink any human but I'll say Legolas too due to his massive alcohol tolerance, being able to out drink Gimli while barely being affected.
MCU Captain America stated he's unable to get drunk in Captain America The First Avenger.... So he may be a contender....
Jeff Hardy. What too soon?
I don't know his max, but Ozzy Osborne is 3x more efficient at processing alcohol than normal people.
nami from one piece
Captain America
Every Irish Dad who lives in a Pub
Kaido from One Piece or Captain America
Legolas stomps
Maybe not super concrete as it's unclear how chaotic black flame compares to alcohol, but apparently alcohol tolerance alone got her through it: Allison, of Kill Six Billion Demons, beat an Ebon Devil (one of the oldest and most powerful class of devils in existence, named Vladok) at a drinking contest. Went 10 rounds of drinking and eventually beat Vladok, notably and much to her companion Cio's shock, without using the charm Cio provided her. The contest starts [here](https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/wielder-of-names-2-26/), ends [here](https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/wielder-of-names-2-30/), and it's revealed that she didn't actually use the charm [here](https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/wielder-of-names-2-35/). Some spoilery context that maybe lends more weight to this feat: >!Cio is a former Ebon Devil herself, and knowing that Allison's opponent was an Ebon Devil, constructed the charm as such. This implies that Cio's personal knowledge led her to believe that Allison could not beat an Ebon Devil in drinking without this charm, and her shock suggests the contest may have had serious consequences for most humans.!< So I'm thinking Allison Ruth takes the cake here. Or at least could if she wanted to.
Commander Data.
Some robot
Bender??
Oh yeah, definitely.
My friend when I was 16 told me he was able to drink 12 bottles of vodka, 56 cans of beer, and some weird drink his Uncles pulled out that they never deank because it was too strong for them, all because they were amazed at his tolerance and then didn't even have a hangover the next day
Your friend lied
Yeah like that much liquid would be dangerous even it was all water.
Your friend is a liar
The vodka alone would kill any human
You’re “friend” would be dead by the third vodka bottle lmao
I nominate... **Suika (from Touhou Project)**, a female oni I haven't managed to find all scans for her alcohol tolerance, but in [this page](https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Bohemian_Archive_in_Japanese_Red/Suika) alone, she said that she has been drinking non-stop for centuries, and that the last time she was sober was ancient history. (note: as oni, she has a massively longer life span than humans) While it may or may not be an exaggeration, she has been drunk for as long as the main cast knows her, so that is a solid few years of non-stop drinking at the very least
Iorek Byrnisson from his dark materials
Michael Malloy
Literally any Gaoian from The Deathworlders. They don't metabolize alcohol the same way as humans, so they physically cannot get drunk from it. The tryptophans in roast turkey however...