How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk

Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by atwebb on Friday April 25, 2014 @08:06AM (#7645883)

Since it's a pretty audacious headline especially heading into the weekend, here's a /r/homebrewing thread discussing the article:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Homebrewing/comments/23wbeo/jim_koch...

It may also be that he just paces better and has a higher tolerance than most. There can also be other "side effects" of downing 1 serving of yeast + yogurt per beer you plan to have so perhaps that helps limit his intake as well (if he sticks to the pre-plan), heck pre-planning probably helps more than anything.

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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by yread on Friday April 25, 2014 @08:21AM (#7645939)

TLDR; of the thread:

- people who know him personally say he's wasted ALL the time

- mechanism of action is supposed to be ADH that is added to the bakers' yeast

- microbiologists and chemists doubt it's going to work

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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by ch4s3 on Friday April 25, 2014 @08:42AM (#7646028)

Not only that, but ingesting large amounts of live yeast can (does)cause explosive gastrointestinal results. A problem familiar to any home brewer that has consumed especially yeasty young beer.

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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by AUmrysh on Friday April 25, 2014 @10:06AM (#7646508)

If you get yeast in your intestines and you're taking antibiotics, you can get what's called Auto-Brewery Syndrome. The yeast in your intestines starts to ferment sugars and you get drunk all the time.

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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by pavel_lishin on Friday April 25, 2014 @10:31AM (#7646678)

How do antibiotics cause this? Do they kill off some of the intestinal flora that would normally digest the sugars?

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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by ch4s3 on Friday April 25, 2014 @10:31AM (#7646687)

Funny that you mention that. I sit 1 desk over from a doctor who brought that up as I was writing my earlier comment. We all had a good laugh.

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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by polarix on Friday April 25, 2014 @10:32AM (#7646697)

Why is taking antibiotics relevant to this effect?

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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by WalterSear on Friday April 25, 2014 @11:11AM (#7646993)

Kill off competitive gut flora, making ecological room.

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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by INTPenis on Friday April 25, 2014 @09:49AM (#7646410)

From what I've read ADH is something yeast has evolved with. It's not added to yeast.

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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by joshstrange on Friday April 25, 2014 @09:41AM (#7646342)

"This one weird trick"

"Bartenders hate him"

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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by lakerz16 on Friday April 25, 2014 @09:48AM (#7646398)

"Weighs 165 lbs, out drinks the 275 lbers"

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Re:How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk by lumpypua on Friday April 25, 2014 @08:32AM (#7645976)

Another guy interviewed him on reddit in 2011: http://www.reddit.com/r/beer/comments/m6kpl/so_i_went_out_an...

"To be honest, I think when we were talking to him, he was already few drinks in. But yes he is a very nice man, he was joking with us and stuff."

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