This guy John keeps
stats on his beer consumption. His monthly consumption
chart is impressive. I recall my buddy Jon in undergrad calculating his
university years' consumption in terms of the imaginary filling the volume of
his room in the dorm. If we understand a six-pack to be two litres and a litre
to have a volume of 61 cublic inches or 0.0353 cubic feet, you can all figure
how deep your room would be in good sweet ale if you try to harken back and
estimate. 10 two-fours would equal a column of ale one
foot by one foot by 6.7 feet high. The fluid would
also weigh 20 80 kilograms. John the record keeper has consumed
15,904.5 pints which equals 7525.63 litres or 265.65 cubic feet or a space 10
feet wide by 10 feet long by 2.65 feet deep.
All initially via the good services of Ale-fan.

Comments
Arthur - March 16, 2004 6:58 PM
The fluid would also weigh 20 kilograms. John the record keeper has consumed 15,904.5 pints which equals 7525.63 litres or 265.65 cubic feet or a space 10 feet wide by 10 feet long by 2.65 feet deep.
<p>2 liters = 0.002 m<sup>3</sup>. If we assume that the density of water equals the density of beer (it isn't, standardized it's 1.008 g/m<sup>3</sup>), then we carefully may say that 2 liter of beer weighs 2 kg. But to get back to the topic:
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<p>7525.63 liters equals the same amount of kilos (mind the 1.008 factor), which is the weight of four to five average cars (think Japanese, Korean cars). 7525.63 liters equals 7.525 m<sup>3</sup>, which equals a room the size of 2.5 x 2.5 x 1.2 meters. That's approx. the length/width of my kitchen and the beer would be up to my belt.
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Alan - March 16, 2004 8:08 PM
My weight calculation was based on 3 north american standard beers equal one litre. Two litres a six pack. Eight a two-four. Eighty in ten. I made a mental error in halving a fourty rather than doubling it. My continuing failures in basic mathematics is laid bare for all.
Ale Fan - March 17, 2004 5:31 AM
I have this picture of some bloke standing in a small room, trouser legs rolled up, drinking from a can as the liquid level in the room slowly rises.