How Many Beers does it take to get a Buzz?

Answer 1

depends on lots of things.. weight, what you have eaten, your tolerance level...

but my advice stop before you become like me.. started with beer and ended with brandy, I am now in AA trying to overcome withdrawal it is NO fun..

Answer 2

How many beers to get "you" buzzed is different for everybody. Several different factors play into the equation also. Age, weight, recent food, consumption. When I used to drink a 12 pack had very little effect on me.
Here is a Blood Alcohol Calculator to play around with.
http://www.ou.edu/oupd/bac.htm

Be smart, safe and healthy with alcohol
By Vaishali Patel
Columnist
11/20/2006

I’m cool. I can drink beer and not walk straight, ‘cause my parents aren’t around.

Did I mention I’m cool?

Very logical reasoning, from very logical beings, aka anyone in college.

Plain and simple, this Brown and White semester has been flooded with articles about the high incidence of citations for underage drinking, crackdowns on campus parties and public drunkenness in general.

Students who drink the most as reported by a 2005 study are males, whites, members of sororities and fraternities, athletes and freshmen; should they just have said Lehigh students and left it at that?

And though many of us drink it, not many actually know what’s going on.

The alcohol we drink is ethanol, C2H5OH. It passes into the stomach, where about 20 percent is absorbed.

Eating before a night out can slow the rate of absorption because the majority of alcohol is absorbed through the small intestine (70 to 85 percent).

By delaying the time it takes for alcohol to reach there, food essentially delays the time it takes a person to reach the point of greatest intoxication or blood alcohol concentration peak.

Food also causes a delay because alcohol elimination is inversely proportional to alcohol concentration in the blood.

Basically, the lower the level of alcohol the faster it is eliminated.

Alcohol is a central nervous system depressor, which means it affects the brain the most.

The degree to which the brain is affected is related to the amount of alcohol in the blood.

Small amounts of alcohol lower inhibitions, and as BAC increases, slurred speech and trouble walking are hallmarks of intoxication.

BAC is measured in grams per 100 milliliters of blood. The American Medical Association has drawn the line between coherence and impairment at .04.

There are seven typical stages of intoxication, the least affected state having no observable changes and the most severe being comatose or death.

In general, men have a higher percent of water per pound (58 percent) than women (49 percent).

Because alcohol is water soluble, this fact explains the oft-stated claim by most men that they can handle more.

Physically speaking (and obviously very generally) it’s true: Men require more alcohol than women to achieve the same BAC level.

Also, muscular people are less affected by the same amount of alcohol than a person with more fatty tissue, because fat tissue has low water content.

Therefore it does not absorb much alcohol.

Ninety-five percent of ingested alcohol is metabolized in the liver — the rest is eliminated through sweat, saliva and breathing.

A healthy liver will metabolize half an ounce of alcohol every hour. Varying states of intoxication occur when more alcohol is ingested than eliminated.

This can vary from person to person, and the rate diminishes with age.

Also, alcoholics metabolize alcohol at significantly higher rates (72 percent faster) than the average person.

Lehigh was voted the No. 3 party school in the country in 2005, a fact many are proud of. Alcohol is readily available, and really, this is the only time it will be normal to hold your best friend’s hair while she’s throwing up after a night out, cursing herself for drinking too much. But, at the same time, she’ll be thinking about how she can’t wait to do it again.

We can, however, be smart about it and safe.

So remember: lots of water, always be with friends, buddy systems and cell phones. With these in mind, here’s to the nights we’ll never remember with the friends we’ll never forget.
http://www.bw.lehigh.edu/story.asp?ID=20221

Answer 3

Depends on your weight and of course your overall tolerance to booze. Not eating prior can cause you to get a buzz quicker. Im going to say on average about 3.

Answer 4

Depends on YOUR threshold. After each beer, see how you fell when you feel buzzed, that is your limit. But try it when you don't have anywhere to go that day or night

Answer 5

About 3 Coors Light.

Answer 6

Sometimes 10, sometimes 2. It all depends on a lot of things. What/how much have I had to eat? Am I dehydrated, have I been getting enough sleep? Did I drink the previous day?

Answer 7

depends, i can pound 6 bud lights before i get a buzz, but maybe 4 darker beers....

Answer 8

It depends on your weight. The more you weigh, the more it takes, and vice versa.

Answer 9

That depends on the person and if they have eaten.

Answer 10

Do a taste test and find out.