Leaving out the possibility of addiction and ruining your life down the road, how much beer would impact your health enough to significantly reduce your quality of life?
The last one.
Other. An amount that interferes with your enjoyment of life. For me, that’s 37.
More than 8 per day would get to me.
I spent seven years drinking an average of eleven beers a day.
Damnedest stupidest thing I ever did in my whole damned life. Hades, just think of the money I wasted! (I had a good job at the time; now, unemployed, I can only rue the bucks I should have put into savings.)
(Worse, it wasn’t even good beer! I’d start with Fosters and finish up with Miller Lite.)
Now, I just get high on life, and America…
1-3 beers a day is good for you
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/1088441583.html
I’ll say… 3 per day.
That number may have something to do with the 2nd 16-oz beer that I’m finishing right now. Obviously, “too much” is more than that.
I’m glad you had the self-control to not open that 12th one. 
I think it really depends on your size/weight and age. I think 3 is the danger zone but 4 is right out. So I voted for 4, with the caveat that 3 beers every single day for day after day is NOT a good idea.
More than six is neck and neck with three.
I won’t be able to sleep tonight!
One thing with beer is that even if you’re not drinking enough to have serious health problems from the alcohol alone (yet), that’s a hell of a lot of extra calories. I suppose it’s up to you whether the resulting damage to one’s physique would count as a “serious” reduction in quality of life.
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You left out us binge drinkers Lakai.
I only drink once a week. When I do, it’s a 12pack.
If I were to do a per day thing, 3 or 4 tops. (Problem is, I can’t stop at 3 or 4)
According to a glance at this site, most non-light beers are around 150 calories per 12oz bottle. Six beers a day would net 900 calories.
A slice of pizza is about 250 calories. So drinking six beers a day is like having 3.6 slices of pizza per day.
Does not compute.
Since drinking beer enhances life I started to say “the one that makes you pass out,” but then I changed it.
It’s the one that makes you puke before you pass out.
Six 12 ounce bottles is only 3.6 UK pints. When I go to the pub (maybe 4 or 5 times per week) a normal session is 4 - 6 pints.
When I was in my late 20’s-30 or so I was drinking a sixpack almost every night, and it had no appreciable effect on me in any way- didn’t gain any weight and didn’t feel any sort of hangover the next day. Then in my mid-late 30’s I became less interested in beer and replaced it with wine and most recently, vodka. More importantly, I reduced my weekly alcohol intake and limited myself to just drinking on weekends. I also began a fairly regular workout routine and as I approached middle age, my metabolism slowed to the point where I can really see the (unpleasant) effects of eating or drinking things I shouldn’t.
My workout routine is pretty consistent these days but I’ve fine-tuned my diet pretty well, so I figure if I consume 3-4 beers a day the extra calories alone would start to have an impact pretty quickly.
One sip. Because then I’d be tasting beer.
none!