With the onset of hot summers, more and more people are tempted to drink a glass or two of an ice-cold foamy drink that so quenches thirst in sultry noon. But on the other hand, beer, even being a low-alcohol drink, has one serious drawback. Its specific smell is able to immediately make it clear to others that you recently consumed alcohol. But if you can still get rid of the smell as such, then hiding the degrees is much more difficult. Therefore, the question becomes very relevant for lovers of this drink - how long does beer disappear?
This issue becomes even more significant in the light of the complete ban on the use of even a minimal amount of alcohol by drivers. But a rare person on vacation or on a day off refuses to enjoy a couple of glasses in the company of friends. But what if you then need to drive? For motorists, as for no one else, it is important to know exactly how much beer is weathering.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to answer this question with mathematical precision, since it depends on many factors. Significant for how much beer is weathered, are the snack, and taking medications before that, and the weight of the person, as well as his age.
But, despite this, some average figures can still be called.
In a young man weighing 75-80 kg, a half-liter bottle of beer will disappear in two hours. To calculate how much beer is weathered in people from other weight categories, you can use the coefficients. So, for people weighing from 45 to 60 kg, a figure of two hours should be multiplied by 0.53 to get their “weathering threshold”. For the weight category from 60 to 85, the coefficient will be 0.77. Since all these data are designed for the male body, women should add at least half an hour to these figures.
But it’s worth mentioning right away that these are not the final results of how much beer is weathered. For the greater part, this period will move if alcohol, even in a small amount, is drunk on an empty stomach, and also if immediately before taking it or immediately after thirst it makes you drink carbonated water. Bubbles in it will increase the absorption area in the stomach several times and you no longer have to count on rapid weathering.
It is worth mentioning right away that the figures given do not refer to the possibility of driving again. Even if only a bottle of beer was drunk and 3 hours have passed, sufficiently sensitive breathalyzers are able to catch the remains of alcohol in the blood, and problems in case of meeting with the valiant representatives of the traffic police can not be avoided in this case.
Therefore, even by accurately calculating how much beer is eliminated in your body, you should not drive even after a liter of foamy drink, if at least 15 hours have not passed since the libation. Indeed, according to medical research, even such an insignificant concentration of alcohol in the body significantly reduces the driver’s ability to see what is happening around him, since the viewing angle decreases in direct proportion to the amount of alcohol consumed. And the volume of beer drunk, exceeding 2.5 liters, completely deprives a person of the ability to drive not only a car, but even a scooter or bicycle.
Of course, you can accelerate the weathering of the beer with the help of special preparations, for example, glycine or succinic acid. The latter accelerates the metabolism, and alcohol begins to be processed faster. Even simple activated carbon, as well as any other absorbents that can quickly remove toxins that came to us along with the drunk beer, will help.
But in any case, talking about the complete disappearance of traces of alcohol from the blood can be done no earlier than after 5-6 hours.