Huh. Ignorance fought. I would be a little taken aback by a fee for that. But, then again, I live it what is still culturally a small town (even if we’re really a city @ ~200k pop., ~400k metro area).
Since it sounds similar to Pensacola, there are some restaurants that appear to charge corkage fees. It should be noted that many restaurants don’t publicize it, so it’s always a good idea to ask in advance if you’re allowed to BYOB and what the charge is and it really needs to be something that you can’t get at the restaurant, if you want to not offend.
I’m sure there are others, but again, it’s usually pretty hidden.
This doesn’t sound so very simple at all.
You are My Hero.
Our favorite sushi restaurant doesn’t have a liquor license and doesn’t charge a corkage fee. We would bring a bottle or two and they supply glasses.
Once we had two of my nephews with us. I’d brought two bottles of wine because I didn’t know which my gf would prefer (we all met after work).
Our Chinese waiter looked at my nephews and asked, “are you both over 18?”. My nephews were 17 and 19 at the time. Drinking age was 21, but our waiter apparently didn’t know or need to know that. They both said yes and he gave them each a wine glass.
It also depends on the scale of the event.
I’m bringing 2 couples in for a birthday? I’d be surprised at a charge. 15 people in a small private room and we’re wanting a buffet table set up with 15 dessert setups and a staffer to cut and serve? I’d be surprised not to be charged.
Also in general the farther up the price ladder you go the more that’s true. Mom & Pop family eateries will happily throw in extras. At Ruth’s Chris they charge for glasses of tap water (figuratively speaking). They’re not going out of their way very far without collecting a fee. Unless you’re a regular there who drops serious money often. There certainly are such folks although I’m certainly not one of them.
Hmm. A shot is 1.5 ounces, right? So that’s 90 ounces in an hour. 90 ounces in terms of 12 ounce beers is 7.5.
So 7.5 beers in an hour. Doesn’t seem like that much to me. I’ve definitely drank more than that and I’m not an especially skilled drinker or anything. That’s not meant to be a brag. Bragging about how much drugs you can do is boring, and I’m guessing any random 18-30 year old dude who’s had some experience binge drinking could beat that challenge easily.
Is there something I’m missing?
From how I understand it, drinking 1.5 ounces a minute allows for maximal absorption of alcohol. I tried to find a cite, but my returns are cluttered with bio sense about responsible drinking.
We used to call it joining the “century club”. 7 1/2 beers isn’t all that much but even back in the day, that was a pretty quick pace to pound it down.
FWIW, I remember Century Club as a shot of beer every minute for 100 (Century) minutes. A shot a minute for an hour was called “Power Hour”.
I don’t think people quite get the pace. I can drink 7 beers no problem. I can down a beer in twenty minutes. Downing a beer every ten minutes for an hour and a half is quite a lot. Lol.
It’s a lot of liquid, alcohol notwithstanding. I don’t think I could drink a shot of diet root beer, Gatorade, or plain water every minute for an hour. Unless I started out very seriously dehydrated. Even then, I’m not sure.
When I used to ride a bike everywhere, even during very hot summers, and carried a lot of Gatorade and water, that still sounds like a lot to drink. I might bike without stopping for a couple of hours in 90°F weather, and need to drink a lot afterwards, but I probably drank a pint before a ride, and 2 pints an hour.
2 pints is about what an average-sized woman sweats during heavy exercise, and equals about 20 shots, if you figure that a shot is between 2 & 3 tablespoons.
On those hot days, I needed a little extra after a long ride, but not all at once. That just gave me a stomachache, and then 20 minutes later, I’d have to pee a lot. I was better off sipping. I might sip a couple more pints over the next hour, but that worked best.
My point is that 60 shots would be about 6 pints in an hour, with nothing special to get out extra fluid.
I’d be peeing like a racehorse, and probably still throw up if I could choke down that much.
That doesn’t mean some really large man couldn’t train to do it, particularly if he knew to dehydrate himself beforehand. The law of very large numbers suggests that someone, somewhere, has done this. But an average-sized person who had already had a bit to drink? I have strong doubts.
Right on cue…
Last night I was watching Tin Star (great series - Tim Roth!). The protagonist stumbles into bar, the bartender sets down a shot glass and fills it, turns to leave and Tin Star says, “leave it”. Which, being TV, he did - no questions.
Everybody’s different. When I was a self-medicating drinker, I would usually take 2-4 beers one after another to calm my nerves. That would take about 5-10 minutes. I eventually moved to two Mike’s Hard Lemonade (24 oz each at 5%) because it wasn’t carbonated and I could finish it in like 4-5 minutes for the same amount of liquid and alcohol.
Back when we could drink in bars, a friend of mine would catch-up drink. He’d come in, see me, and ask how many I’d already had. Then he’d catch-up.
So, if I had my second beer in front of me, he’d order a beer, chug it, order another and drain it to match what was left in mine.