- In short: A woman has lost her liquor licence after a patron was served 22 beers and a shot in a Hunter pub in 2021, the NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority says.
- Tracey Keegan was the licensee of the Gladstone Hotel at Stockton when the man was served the beverages over the course of about six hours, the authority found.
- What’s next? Ms Keegan will not be able to hold a liquor licence or associate with a licensee for two years.
You know how the rough guideline for men is “2 standards in the first hour, 1 standard each hour after that” if you want to stay under the limit to drive?
That’s roughly the amount you can drink and stay at a constant level of intoxication. 1 drink per hour. Every drink above 1 you have per hour is making you more and more drunk. (edit: and that’s 1 standard. A schooner is usually more like 1.2 or 1.6 depending on if it’s mid-strength or full-strength.) 3 or 4 standards per hour for 2 hours? Entirely reasonable. Nearly 6 standards per hour for 6 hours? Not longer reasonable.
Don’t know the guy’s weight, but I assumed a rather heavy 100 kg and plugged that along with the known figures into this calculator. It estimates his BAC may have been as high as 0.449, which it describes as “a dangerous level of intoxication that can lead to coma and even death”. The article says he was stumbling and fell over multiple times. I’ve seen patrons get thrown out of venues far busier and harder for staff to keep track of patrons for far, far less obviously dangerous behaviour than that.
All people are different, numbers you provide are averages. I can’t see these level of consumption be a problem for a person who accustomed to drinking and have suitable genetic background. Did you ever try to drink with Russians or with guys from Moldova? IMHO problem not in amount of alcohol served, it is serving to a person who already seriously drunk.