So how many beers before you:
Or hard alcohol drinks.
I’m 1/2 Asian (don’t want to go into all the ways this affects my tolerance but it has to do with alcohol dehydrogenase) - so I get tipsy off of about…1 beer, drunk as a skunk on 2 or more. If I ever drank more than that, I’d get ill. To top it off, I don’t really like the taste of alcohol so I rarely drink at all.
Tibs
It really depends on the day but I usually have an 8-Pack before heading out to the bar. So lets say that I can feel it working somewhere in the 2 to 4 range. After 6 I’m pretty much on a comfortable cruise control. When things do take a turn for the less coherent it happens at the bar so that’s probably at 12 beer or so. I wish I could add my liquor quotas but I’m a firm believer that non-swimmers should stay out of the deep end.
I can feel tipsy at one beer, and am too drunk to drive at 2 to 2.5 beers. I will get sick at 3 to 4 beers. This assumes this all is within about an hour or so.
I can’t take much at all.
Alcohol makes my jaw nerves twang, like hitting your funny bone.
I just drink enough to keep from looking stupid, then go to the bar for a refill of O’Douls non-beer.
Just kidding! I drink you under the table. 
It takes about four to get my scrotum to descend after a day at work.
Eight to get niiiiice and relaxed.
12-16 to get pretty wasted.
20 to puke.
The time frame is a little bit tougher… I can nurse one by myself for an hour, or unthinkingly drink a sixer in 45 minutes if I’m in a good mood.
4-5 buzzed
6-10 really buzzed
10-15 buzzed and very suave with the ladies
16-24 dangerous at darts
Being a former dancer, I had a chance to find out.
I had never drank before I was hired, and I don’t enjoy it, but my record (a measly one at that) is 13 shots in 2 hours.
That would be either Kahlua or tequila. I mixed it up.
As for wine, yuk. It takes probably 16 oz. for me to get tipsy.
8 beers- buzzed(.08)
12 beers- drunk
Within a 2 hour period.
When drinking only beer, I require approximately seven before feeling buzzed. Stinking drunk usually takes ten. But I rarely drink just beer. Usually I mix in a few shots, but the overall result is the same: 10 measures of alcohol spread over four hours or so and I’m a happy alkie.
Depends on how tired I am, if I’ve eaten, how strong the beer is, how much I’m moving around, how much water I’ve had beforehand–and yes, the time of the month.
So it varies wildly. Rested, fed, watered, and pacing them out, I can put away a lot. I’ve put away a couple of pitchers before and not been more than happily buzzed. (No, I don’t drive then, so don’t purse your lips.)
Other times, especially right at the beginning of a period, 2 beers will make me dizzy and headachy.
I really love the taste of beer, but it’s hard for me to get drunk on it usually. I get full first. It really is liquid bread.
Veb
Dammit Veb we need to go drinking again…maybe Front Street?
With the way work and family life has been lately…I’d prefer sooner rather than later…
Three beers, or one bottle of champagne. If I don’t fall asleep first.
Pansies. :rolleyes: 
I am, indeed, a pansy. My excuse was pregnancy and extended nursing. I couldn’t drink (or only rarely) for two years. When I could finally take it up again, I was not only outta practice, I was also sleep deprived. 1 beer has me tipsy and looking for the closest sofabed. Two beers? Comatose. I guess that makes me a cheap date but not a FUN one.
At 3-4 beers, I will start to feel something.
At 6-7, I will have a solid buzz.
After that, I stop counting.
Hmm, based on an in-depth self-study of the last several months…and these numbers are spread out over about 4-5 hours.
1 beer - nothing - but, hey, good beer is good.
4 beers - feeling tipsy, a little happy
6 beers - getting drunk sometimes, ask someone else to drive if i feel the need
9 beers - still in a great mood, shouldn’t be driving
12 beers - time to call it a night
Well, since I’ve only ever had the beginnings of drunkeness once (with dopers no less), here’s how it went for me.
These were all mixed drinks on an empty stomach.
4-5 drinks i was feeling nice and relaxed
6-7 starting to lose balance, definately felt slowed. At the 7th drink it felt like my eyes wouldn’t focus right.
But by the 8th felt like I could trip and fall over something, but i managed the stairwell in Oldscratch’s bar well without falling.
Now, i’m not sure how strong the drinks were. We barhopped a few times. The second bar i did a couple of shots (a purple hooter and a tootsie roll…yeah, sissy girl drinks, but I dont really like beer). Although, by the 8th drink, Omni’s guiness tasted pretty damn good.
I don’t know. I never got there. I’m like Veb. I’m too full to drink anything more after two. Now, I can get a buzz on 2 or 3 mixed drinks if I drink them fast. Or one, if I haven’t eaten all day (Did that once–only once–and it sucked.)
Next time you’re drinking, try this test:
After each drink (beer, wine, or booze), sign your name or a simple sentence on a piece of paper. (Try to do this where no one can see you, as you may look like a loser at the bar with a notepad.) The next day, check out how impaired you were after each drink by the way your handwriting changed.