How to Chug a Beer

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Do your friends make disparaging remarks about your masculinity whenever you fail to chug a beer? Do you feel the need to prove your virility by downing beers faster than any of your buddies? Well read on, and discover secret techniques to humiliate your friends and reclaim your manhood.

Steps

1. Buy some beer. Only do this if you're of legal age (21 in America, 20 in Japan and Iceland, 18 or 19 in Canada depending on province, 16 in most of Europe and around 18 most everywhere else). Don't bother with good (expensive) beer. If you're drinking it this way, you probably don't care about taste. If you care about taste, this article may not be for you. Read How to Drink Beer.
   
2. Practice with water. Your "training" will be more effective if you have your wits about you.
   
3. Let the beer warm up a little. It helps if the beer is not ice-cold (talk about brain freeze) but don't drink warm beer, either, or you'll end up with a stomach full of foam.[1]
   
4. Let the beer build up bubble if you pour it. Then wait for the bubbles to subside. You want to get rid of as many bubbles as possible because that'll make the beer easier to drink quickly. While you're waiting, the beer will warm up a bit (see previous step).
   
5. Right before drinking, hit the bottom of the glass on the table. This releases more carbon dioxide.
   
6. Lean your head back slightly. Open your throat, take a half breath right before drinking, and then swing the glass or can quickly so the beer rushes to the back of your throat. Swallow right before the beer actually hits your throat (see video below). Then let gravity take over; the beer should essentially pour down your throat. Try to keep your tongue low and out of the way. Alternatively, you can take a big breath and breathe all your oxygen out of your lungs. Once your throat is clear, tilt back.
   
7. Crush the can. If you're chugging from a can, crush it from back to front, as if you're squeezing a tube of toothpaste. This should help you push the beer out of the can and into your mouth faster than it would normally flow. If you squeeze too early or too close to your mouth, you'll trap some beer in the can. Twist the beer can as you crush it.[2]
   
8. Slam the empty container down, letting your friends know that you drank a beer faster than they did.
   

Video

Shotgunning Method

1. Use a knife, screwdriver, spike or other small sharp implement to make a puncture wound in the base of the can when it is on its side so that it doesn't spray at you. Basically, the hole equalizes the pressure in the can when beer is being poured out. This allows a smooth and fast rate of flow.
   
2. Bend over and place the hole to your mouth.
   
3. Stand up quickly and open the ring pull, or whatever fastening mechanism is on top. The beer will be downed quickly, and you can slam the can down in exuberance (this method is often called "shotgunning" or "Cannonballing").
   

Carburetor Method

1. Instead of punching the hole in the bottom of the can; place it in the back top section directly across from the opening.
   
2. Place your finger over the hole (carburetor).
   
3. Open the beer and begin to drink normally.
   
4. Open your throat and remove your finger from the hole in back of the can. Using this method, a beer can be drunk in less than 4 seconds.
   

"Strawpedo" Method

1. Open the bottle in the usual fashion.
   
2. Insert bendy straw bent at 90 degrees with the shorter side on the outside and the longer side in the bottle.
   
3. Put mouth over opening in usual fashion holding the straw in place with hand
   
4. Lean head back.
   
5. Keep swallowing till all the beer's gone. The straw allows air into the bottle. using this method there will be no spillage and the beer can be finished in less than 10 seconds (330ml bottle).
   

Tips

• Don't chug a beer if you are too full or you may throw up. Too many in succession also have the same effect.
  

Warnings

• Remember, you could be putting your life at risk by doing this in excess.
  
• Always have a friend on hand so he or she can call 9-1-1 if necessary. Inform your friends that they are never to let you "sleep it off", and never put someone to bed yourself if they look really drunk.
  
• Do not drive your car if you have been drinking. Call a cab or get a designated driver to bring you home.
  
• Understand that drinking while pregnant can cause serious birth defects to the baby, and should never be done.
  
• Always drink responsibly.
  

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Sources and Citations

1. ↑ http://www.ehow.com/how_2065801_chug-beer-under-4-seconds.html


2. ↑ http://www.blogsweatandbeers.com/how-to-chug-a-beer

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