I'm doing a beer mile this weekend and I need some help with a few things.
Warm beer or cold beer?
What's the best beer for a good race time?
Hammer them down or take my time with each one?
Is puking a forgone conclusion?
I'm doing a beer mile this weekend and I need some help with a few things.
Warm beer or cold beer?
What's the best beer for a good race time?
Hammer them down or take my time with each one?
Is puking a forgone conclusion?
Ah, a beer mile neophyte. Just have fun with it and get someone to take lots of pictures. Practice chugging water or something carbonated (like soda) over the next few days to get used to hammering them down, because that's what you have to do in the race.
Yes, a rookie. I can drink and I can run but I'm guessing that has limited bearing on beer mile success.
chikin wrote:
I'm doing a beer mile this weekend and I need some help with a few things.
Warm beer or cold beer?
What's the best beer for a good race time?
Hammer them down or take my time with each one?
Is puking a forgone conclusion?
Warm
PBR
Drink as fast as you can.
No, burp as much as possible while drinking/running.
PBR?!?
OP said Beer Mile, not hipster/emo/fixed gear rider mile
Ohia wrote:
PBR?!?
OP said Beer Mile, not hipster/emo/fixed gear rider mile
I did my first beer mile on PBR, and I'm in no way a hipster.
You want the beer warm, but not too warm. Take it out of the fridge an hour or so before the race.
to do it right, follow kingston rules.
I did mine on natty
Ohia wrote:
PBR?!?
OP said Beer Mile, not hipster/emo/fixed gear rider mile
PBR is only a hipster beer in some places. It is a middle class beer in much of the country (which is why Clint Eastwood drinks it in Gran Torino- that would be typical for someone like him, a middle class old guy in the Midwest).
chikin wrote:
I'm doing a beer mile this weekend and I need some help with a few things.
Warm beer or cold beer?
What's the best beer for a good race time?
Hammer them down or take my time with each one?
Is puking a forgone conclusion?
Warm, for sure.
Natty Light, particularly since it is (relatively) better warm than a lot of beers. Or you can go with Beer 30.
Hammer if you want to do well. No question.
No. But a good number of people do.
So could we technically classify Clint Eastwood as a hipster?
Theory of Gran Torino:
Clint Eastwood = hipster
Clint Eastwood = racist
hipsters = racist???!?
There you have it. The transitive theory of gran torino.
Surprise! wrote:
to do it right, follow kingston rules.
http://www.beermile.com/faq.beer
According to this guy's rules, PBR wouldn't even count b/c it is under 5% ABV.
All light beers are under 5%, so that rules out Bud Light, Natty Light, Miller Light, etc.
So i guess you either use Budweiser or a craft brew?
Surprise!, what do you use?
Those rules are BS. Natty is fine for competition use. I don't think .8% alc will make a difference. That's just splitting hairs.
Correct Answers:
- Warm Beer
- Guiness Stout
- Hammer them Down
- Only wimps puke.
aegad wrote:
Natty Light, particularly since it is (relatively) better warm than a lot of beers. Or you can go with Beer 30.
Natty Light is only 4.2% ABV, and is therefore not a legal beer for the Beer Mile.
Only if you follow Kingston Rules. Which isn't really necessary unless you think you are going to set a record.
Pretty sure for the guy running his first beer mile it won't matter.
Ohia wrote:
So could we technically classify Clint Eastwood as a hipster?
Theory of Gran Torino:
Clint Eastwood = hipster
Clint Eastwood = racist
hipsters = racist???!?
There you have it. The transitive theory of gran torino.
Cannot argue with this logic.
Ohia wrote:
Those rules are BS. Natty is fine for competition use. I don't think .8% alc will make a difference. That's just splitting hairs.
Yes, so is running inside the rail - who cares if you aren't going to set a world record.
If beer mile times are to be meaningful in any way, if there is to be consistency in sport, if the common man is to understand the gulf between himself and the true heros of the beer mile, the kingston rules must be strictly followed - if we cannot conduct ourselves with order and rules, what separates us from mere animals?
These are the rules we're using (modified kingston, I think) and the approved beer list.
http://www.beermile.com/faq.beer#rules
http://www.beermile.com/beer_abv.beer
I think I'm going with warm High Life. Legal and I drink it regularly.
Has anyone run a fast time and if so, how'd you do it? I'm hoping to surprise some of the faster people in the club and I'm going to need something to shave some time.
We host an annual beer mile after track season. A repeat winner uses the technique of exhale>drink>inhale. says it wastes less time breathing during the beer drinking. Also try sucking the beer our of the can instead of letting it flow.