Muss Arrested

[Bricklayer]

can anyone with firsthand experience shed some light on general BAC levels? brick is following 5 drinks an hour as .08, through the state of colorado. but i dont agree with that, and for the CA dmv, 1-2 drinks an hour is about .08, so which is it? i know it varies a lot, so where does the range fall into? the discrepancy is annoying me.

5 drinks in an hour gets you to .11 if you are about a 180lb man.

http://www.colostate.edu/Dept/CFDAE/bachart.shtml

2 drinks wouldn't get you to .08 unless you weighed 100lbs sopping wet.

Its a reasonably straightforward mathematical equation.

The 1 drink an hour being processed by your body, and so needing to consume 1 an hour to maintain that blood alcohol level after you reach that level is me working from memory. Believe its correct though.

 

[KingKong]

When people say "drinks" what are they generally talking about? There's a hell of a lot of difference between 5 whiskeys and 5 beers.

 

[Bricklayer]

When people say "drinks" what are they generally talking about? There's a hell of a lot of difference between 5 whiskeys and 5 beers.

1 drink equals roughly 1 shot, 1 12oz. beer, or 1 5oz. glass wine.

Full glasses of whiskey on the rocks or whatnot would get you there faster. Then again, you have to be a pretty serious drinker to be drinking those.

So at 180lbs you could either do a round of shots. Then another. Then another. Then another. Then another. Or you can chug 5 beers in an hour (which would probably leave you feeling pretty bloated). Either way, its far more than you could just do without knowing you had been out drinking.

 

[jrahn]

one, "shot" of whisky is supposed to be equivalent to one."beer," or even one glass of wine. I am actually about the same size as muss and i have a relatively high tolerance for beer and wine. But im sure i drink more often than he does. If he failed the sobriety tests then he probably was a lil tipsy.

 

[KingKong]

1 drink equals roughly 1 shot, 1 12oz. beer, or 1 5oz. glass wine.

Thanks for the clarification.

Full glasses of whiskey on the rocks or whatnot would get you there faster. Then again, you have to be a pretty serious drinker to be drinking those.

Guilty. Although I have to say it's generally what most people drink over here.

Edit: oops I meant a shot of whiskey... not a full glass.

 

[rhythmless]

5 drinks in an hour gets you to .11 if you are about a 180lb man.

http://www.colostate.edu/Dept/CFDAE/bachart.shtml

2 drinks wouldn't get you to .08 unless you weighed 100lbs sopping wet.

Its a reasonably straightforward mathematical equation.

The 1 drink an hour being processed by your body, and so needing to consume 1 an hour to maintain that blood alcohol level after you reach that level is me working from memory. Believe its correct though.

brick, did you even see my last post? i found this on the dmv's web site:
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/hdbk/pgs72duichart.htm

according to this, 3 drinks would have put him in the .11 BAC range in an hour, not 5.

THIS is what i am confused about. i can read your chart just fine