Regular drinking exercises your liver and keeps it at peak performance.

(I am not a doctor.)

(Also not a doctor.)

Your liver is pretty unique here, as most other organs don't grow back (they get covered in scar tissue if they grow back at all). You can donate your liver, they'll remove about half, and it'll be back to normal in about 2 months.

Makes you smarter too. Your brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells, and alcohol tends to kill the weakest brain cells first. It's like culling the herd, you speed everything up.

(.../s)

It's all about tolerance. Half a pint gets me quite tipsy now because I drink maybe once a month at best, a pint will get me past the sweet spot already. A few years back I could have half a bottle of wine and be in the same perceived state

Is it also age? As I got old (50s) I could feel it hitting more. It’s stronger now (60s)

Depends on the timeframe and body weight. For a 280lb guy 4 beers over 4 hours isn’t particularly noticeable.

As a 270lb guy who is also tall, with a healthy mix of muscle and fat... Two beers 12oz beers will get me a really nice buzz, if not quite tipsy.

I drink maybe once a month, though- it's pretty wild to notice how much more affected you are once you lose your tolerance.

Sure, knock back 2 12oz beers back to back on an empty stomach and that’s noticeable. But, I’m at the it’s warmed to room temperature long before I’ve finished side of things.

>> but 4 beers is into ‘drunk’ levels for me.

Bro 4 beers in I would be actually sick, I definitely can't drive after 1 beer(nor would I want to). I literally don't understand how some people can chug 10-12 beers in an evening, like even ignoring the alcohol where does all of this liquid go?? I'll have two beers and the third one is literally a struggle to drink, it's just too much.

For most people, it's just tolerance. The more regularly you drink, the less effect it has.

> like even ignoring the alcohol where does all of this liquid go?

Into pee. You know how starting around the third or fourth round, everybody is getting up to pee every round or two?

Some of those people probably feel less from those 12 beers than you did from your one.

The volume part is trivial. Average human stomach is about half a gallon and it is not hard to drink a gallon over a few hours