New Beer Mile World Record

Talk Talk wrote:

This is a good rule.

That said, I think he deserves the record. There's things to nitpick with both athlete's attempts and I think at the end of the day, they chugged four beers and burned four laps. An ounce or two here, the can/bottle angle, position of starting/finishing... come on. They did what matters. Run fast and consume four bee-ahs!

If he had shattered the record you may have a point. He ran less than 1 second faster. It matters.

It also wasn't just foam that he missed. A little bit of foam won't create that much of a splash. Beers 1 and 2 looked fine, but the 3rd and 4th had too much splash. Maybe the bottle should be placed back onto the table so the camera can show how much foam is left.

if you watch you can clearly see more than foam coming out the bottle after the 3rd beer.

And there looks to be a good amount of beer still in the 4th bottle.

This was the article from RW. This race is getting some scrutiny. Really curious to see the rationale of why it is, or isn't determined to be a record. Here's the article.

http://www.runnersworld.com/fun/watch-it-looks-like-theres-a-new-beer-mile-world-record

This RW article links to beermile.com's chart that has unofficial results. It looks like Hansen had 4:54 in 2013 that wasn't ratified. Here's that link.

http://www.beermile.com/records/ref_all

don't they run around the track in the opposite direction in Australia?

The beers should be poured into see through plastic cups beforehand. This would ensure no foaming issues. Simples!

elmore345 wrote:

The beers should be poured into see through plastic cups beforehand. This would ensure no foaming issues. Simples!

Drinking out of a plastic cup is significantly easier than drinking from a can or bottle. Cups allow faster drinking of beer and less swallowing of air.

Yes a glass is faster and easier. It is also the only possible way to assure competitors drink all the beer. Beers must be emptied into glasses before the race and the foam head must have disappeared. Competitors will drink the beer, and upon completion, raise the glass upside down away from their open mouths, showing an empty glass.

This is the only way to make it completely legit. You also need to standardize the beer. As much as Bud sucks, it is 5% and available to everybody. Start a marketing campaign with Budweiser and pay to fly these guys around to compete with each other.

Finally, ALL rules must be enforced. Nobody has mentioned that Hansen would have been DQ'd on at least three of his laps for stepping over the finish line while still holding the beer. Until a set of concrete rules which are stringently enforced are put into place, there is no beer mile world record.

road rashed wrote:

This looks legit, but enough with the solo beer mile attempts. Must be more than one competitor, or your just Kim Jong Un playing a around of golf.

Except for the part where these beer mile records are actually being FILMED. Video evidence is enough for me.

The style of video that this Aussie guy and Nielsen have done is, for me, perfectly in line with the true spirit of the beer mile: a jokes thing to do with a couple of friends to cheer you on, run at the local track and filmed with a handy-cam type setup. Any sort of officiating as if the beer mile were an IAAF event is not in the spirit of the beer mile. Guy's like Corey whats-his-face who pick apart beer mile world record videos just because they weren't there are pretentious pricks who need to relax and stop taking themselves so seriously.

Regardless of details, I am still getting over a 60-second last lap with four beers on board. Dannnggg

No and no.

1. The plastic cups thing only helps verify in the case of a race recorded on video. At an actual race with competitors, someone can just check the empties to make sure they are indeed empty. There is also another solution: have one guy stand on the infield with an empty bucket. When the runner finishes a beer, have them place the empty in the bucket. After the race, the camera can check to make sure there is no beer in the empties and no beer in the bottom of the bucket.

2. I'm not sure that it's easy to get Bud outside of America. If I am wrong, someone correct me.

The race rules shouldn't bend to accommodate video record attempts. They should be the most practical for people that want to run a race. Having to bring cups is an extra hassle, therefore straight from the container is better.

Don't see the fascination w/ a beer mile...but to each his/her own!

OMG, you took a few great ideas and slammed it back Into the Stone Age. Have a dude stand around with a bucket? Are you F'ing kidding me? Go pull a Hall and Oates 8 Track and get back to me.

You're the same bozo that isn't sure Bud is available outside the U.S. Bud is probably available in 98% of the countries that sell beer. It isn't owned by an American company any longer, but I'm sure you did t know that as you're so busy being a F'ing idiot.

Finally, your big finish was the claim that bringing four red solo cups was too big a hassle. I'd really love to have you on my team for an important project. You seem to be a big problem solver and extremely motivated.

Wejo is an idiot wrote:

You're the same bozo that isn't sure Bud is available outside the U.S. Bud is probably available in 98% of the countries that sell beer.

I live in Spain. Never seen a single budweiser for sale here. I've lived in Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Brasil also. Never seen budweiser for sale in those places either.

Have you ever actually left Mississippi?

Sorry. I've been to a couple of those places you mention and have consumed Budweiser there.

A quick google search says Budweiser is sold in 82 countries. Not as widely distributed as the OP claims, but good enough for these purposes. I think an official beer is a good idea. If you happen to live outside of those 82 countries and have a shot at a record then exceptions can be made. I also like the idea of the glass in order to eliminate the petty bickering. You either drank the beer or you didn't, no falling back on excess foam as an excuse.

In my opinion the 5% alcohol rule is good enough a standard. Budweiser is absolutely disgusting and I am by no means any sort of beer snob. I don't run fast enough to be a contender here, but if I did, the horrible taste of Budweiser would be an added hinderance to my ability to get the beers down quickly. I think a Bud-only rule would tilt the scale in favour of those who enjoy drinking Bud. If you choose your own beer you're not fighting against the sheep-piss taste of Budweiser going into your mouth unless you really enjoy that particular taste. Sure it might only be good for an extra half-second or so, but as we see in the case under present scrutiny, many times that makes the difference.

I do agree with those suggesting some standardisation of the "drink it all" rule. The "tip the can / bottle over your head" thing obviously doesn't seem to be worth a damn. I watched the video of the australian kid and couldn't even see the point of the bottle-over-the-head rule the way he was doing it.

Perhaps to preserve the spirit of the event there could be an elite bracket to the beer mile, which is heavily regulated and subject to scrutiny before a time or record is ratified, but otherwise non-elites and plebes can run the thing just for yuks or whatever, sloppy, no scrutiny, leaving half the beer behind in foam, etc.

Wejo is an idiot wrote:

OMG, you took a few great ideas and slammed it back Into the Stone Age. Have a dude stand around with a bucket? Are you F'ing kidding me? Go pull a Hall and Oates 8 Track and get back to me.

You're the same bozo that isn't sure Bud is available outside the U.S. Bud is probably available in 98% of the countries that sell beer. It isn't owned by an American company any longer, but I'm sure you did t know that as you're so busy being a F'ing idiot.

Finally, your big finish was the claim that bringing four red solo cups was too big a hassle. I'd really love to have you on my team for an important project. You seem to be a big problem solver and extremely motivated.

You completely missed the point of my post. My point was the rules should be designed for beer mile RACES, not video recorded one man time trials. If you wanted to have everyone drink out of cups, you would need 4 cups per each person. It's just another thing to have to take care of.

The bucket idea would be for video time trials. I don't see what is wrong with it, it would work well.

I actually did know that InBev, the company that now owns Bud, isn't an American company. That doesn't mean they market Budweiser all over the world. Given how much sh*t euros talk about American beer I would guess it isn't so popular over there.

I think the 5% standard is fine, no need to pick an official beer. Think of baseball - they can use a bat by any manufacturer they want as long as it meets the required specifications - length, weight, material, etc. It would be a huge handicap for some people if they were required to drink a beer they absolutely hated while that same beer might be a favorite of others.

If we were to switch to cups then all the old records would be obsolete. Drinking fast from a bottle while minimizing swallowing air is like an art. It is easy to chug beer from a cup without swallowing air.

I don't think the old record book needs to be a huge consideration. Priority one should be developing a system that eliminates the variables. The only one I've seen on this thread is drinking from a glass, and everybody dismisses it. What am I missing? Yes the times would be faster. Would it be a crime if the beer mile world record somehow got down to 4:45? I also don't buy the argument that carrying four solo cups to a track adds hassle to one's life.