Flour Power

132 will mark the next milestone in my Guinness counter. Why? I’ll explain.

As you might remember, I previously mentioned that 1 pint is not equal to half a liter. In fact, it’s something like:

1 Imperial pint = 0.568261485 liters

Now considering that my body weight is approximately 75Kg and that the density of Guinness is the density of water (which I know it isn’t, each beer has a different density based on a variety of factors, but the variation is too small to be relevant for the case at hand) – 1g/cm³ - let us make the following calculation:

75 / 0.568261485 = 131.98

What this means is, by the time I finish my Guinness pint number 132, I’ll have drunk my own body weight in Guinness! When presented this way, it sounds a little bit overwhelming.

Anyway, judging from last weekend, I guess I’ll get to that number quite soon… And then I’ll probably stop counting. Or I’ll just remove the counter, so that people don’t think of me the drunk-bastard-that-likes-to-show-it-off-on-his-crappy-blog.

I just hope I can get the milestone glass this time.

2 months, 18 days, 5 hours and some minutes after I arrived in Galway, I drank my one hundreth pint of Guinness!

What? Don’t give me that look! It’s not like I was binge drinking a lot to get to that number. It’s just that Guinness goes down so easily that most of the nights out I get to number 4 without even noticing it. For me, it’s much easier to drink than the lager I always had before coming here, which is much more common in Portugal.

And the big One Oh Oh was drank on the 2nd of April, which is also my birthday. Makes it a historic pint, doesn’t it? Well, maybe not, but whatever. Here’s the (very artistic) photo of Pint Number 100:

I only regret not being able to keep Glass Number 100 (it was gone from the poor hiding place by the time I was on the way back home). It would go right next to Glass Number 50 and Glass Number 69 (yeah, I know… typical… but I had to keep it…).

Next milestone will happen in roughly 30 pints, but I’ll have to do some math to get the exact number

Shouldn’t be too hard getting to 100…

… you’re wrong.

1 Imperial pint = 0.568261485 liters

The reason for it to be this absurd number is explained in the Wikipedia page. I seems like the pint is defined as 1 eight of a gallon. And the imperial gallon (mind the “imperial” part, it defined by the British parliament in 1824) is based on ten pounds of distilled water at 62º F.

WTF?! This whole imperial system confuses me so much! Why did they define a unit to measure liquids in terms of the weight of some liquid at a designated temperature. And why that temperature and not any other?

I would really like to know the reason behind all this crazy system…