Guinness world record.

[TripleH68]

Beer is good for you. Anybody want to give it a shot?

The night of June 22, 1977 the Guinness World Record for beer consumption was established at the Gingerbreadman bar in Carlisle Pennsylvania (near Dickinson University and the Carlisle War College) where Steve Petrosino was working as a bartender while attending post-graduate school at Penn State University. Petrosino was 25 years old at the time. Time Keepers used three digital watches which had just become commercially available in the United States in early 1977 and cost over $125 each. The time keepers were: Michael A. Barber, Joseph Casserta, and Leo Sweeney. Leo was a representative for Guinness, Ltd. Times of the three timekeepers were averaged to arrive at the official time reported to Guinness.

The record was established for 1/4 liter (0.137 seconds), 1/2 liter (0.4 seconds), and 1 liter of beer (1.3 seconds), but only the 1 liter record was published by Guinness.

The record remained undefeated, and was retired as an undefeated record when Guinness removed all alcohol consumption records from their record book in 1991.

Steve today.

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Steve today.

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hilarious.

[Barrett's Last Privateer]

An earlier holder of a world record for drinking beer fast was Bob Hawke, who set his record in 1955, and later went on to be the Prime Minister of Australia for 9 years.


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This is awesome.

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Dr. Petrosino is a member of Mensa of America, an Attack Helicopter Commander (Cobras) and Lieutennant Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve who served as Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff G-3 (IMA Det) at Marine Forces Atlantic

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- a Professional Member and Charter Member of the American Heart Association Scientific Council on Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease;

- a Professional Member and Charter Member of the American Heart Association Scientific Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism;

- a Professional Member of the American Heart Association Interdisciplinary Working Group on Functional Genomics and Translational Biology;

- an Allied Health Care Practitioner member of the American Preventive Medical Association (APMA), and a member of the Executive Board of Directors of the American Heart Association (Ohio Council), and of the American Arthritis Foundation (Franklin County, Ohio).

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My new personal hero, by far.