So I figure I drink 1100 bottles of beer a year

[homebrewer_99]

Well, I have about 11 cornies and 100 bottles of meads and ciders in my pipeline...and I bottle in 1/2 liter bottles...

I brew about 200 gals a year...almost every year...

Truth is I only feel bad about it when I have to lie to my cardiologist twice a year about my alcohol consumption...

 

[EoinMag]

You said

I have 3 beers a day (not counting when we have keg killing parties) , good FRESH food, lots of veggies along with exercise and you can't dispute my blood test >every 6 months and the numbers all are better than great, incl. blood sugar.

Next 1 is late aug. after vacation(lots rich food/gallons of beer) and I'll be smoking like a dope fiend while in Amsterdam. I expect Cholesterol 120-140.

So I would bet it was alot more than 3/day Hows your weight?

My weight is not so bad, I'm a bit overweight but not morbidly obese or anything.
Well the thing is, recommendations presently stand at 21 units a week for men, 3 pints a day works out already at twice that, not counting the ramp up at the weekend to possibly 10 units a day.

I'm talking real imperial 20oz pints, not 16oz US pints. Somedays it's two pints, some days it's four and the weekend then more...

Different livers deal with different amounts of alcohol differently, so there is no safe cut off point really and what's good for you is not necessarily good for someone else, but I was definitely twice what would be recommended as a healthy alcohol intake and cutting down was the way to go.

 

[Chudz]

Okay, so if we translated 12oz beers into miles, and I took off from say . . . Los Angeles, then I'd land in the ocean just short of London, England.

 

[azscoob]

Okay, so if we translated 12oz beers into miles, and I took off from say . . . Los Angeles, then I'd land in the ocean just short of London, England.

that is a good distance! superb consumption my good man!

 

[billvon]

And anybody who gives away 3 times what they drink is obviously getting drunk off the one beer a day they drink...

Or, to them, getting drunk is not as important as brewing beer.

 

[northernlad]

Or, to them, getting drunk is not as important as brewing beer.

It doesn't have to be one end of the stick or the other.

Perhaps one day I will find the joy in spending 5-6 hours of my time on a hobby mainly for the enjoyment of others, but it won't be anytime soon.