Whole-life Port consumption ÷ body mass

[jdaw1]

I have just made a rough-and-ready estimate of my lifetime’s consumption of Port, as a multiple of my body mass. Slightly disappointingly, it’s only 8.4×. About three-quarters of it in the last ten years.

Is drinking Port totalling eight times one’s weight a lot? It feels like a small number. Twenty would have felt like a decent job done.

Have any of us drunk more than 1 body mass of pre-WW2 Port? Not I.

[djewesbury]

As you drink more port, paradoxically, the ratio may go down...

[LGTrotter]

As your body is supposed to replace all cells every seven years perhaps you should reset the calculation. Why twenty?

I sometimes like to think of my port in gallons; it can be quite daunting when you think about planning to drink forty gallons of port.

[LGTrotter]

Have any of us drunk more than 1 body mass of pre-WW2 Port? Not I.

Not even an arm's worth, more like a set of toes.

[jdaw1]

Why twenty?

Twenty body masses feels like it fills a large lift. Or a mini-bus. Eight felt diminutive.

Maybe it was all relative to ill-judged expectation.

[jdaw1]

I sometimes like to think of my port in gallons; it can be quite daunting when you think about planning to drink forty gallons of port.

Pre-metric the bottle size was set at the two-gallon dozen, so 1⅓ pints per bottle. Hence “forty gallons” is 20 dozen is 120 bottles. Is that a lot?

[LGTrotter]

Is that a lot?

Well, yes I think so. Particularly if I can relate it to some familiar object. A forty gallon oil drum is a really big awkward thing when it is full. And now drink it. I worry about my youthful good looks.

[jdaw1]

I worry about my youthful good looks.

Count your blessings: you are one of the few to be so worried.

[Alex Bridgeman]

I sometimes like to think of my port in gallons; it can be quite daunting when you think about planning to drink forty gallons of port.

Pre-metric the bottle size was set at the two-gallon dozen, so 1⅓ pints per bottle. Hence “forty gallons” is 20 dozen is 120 bottles. Is that a lot?

Have you been drinking or something?

[jdaw1]

I sometimes like to think of my port in gallons; it can be quite daunting when you think about planning to drink forty gallons of port.

Pre-metric the bottle size was set at the two-gallon dozen, so 1⅓ pints per bottle. Hence “forty gallons” is 20 dozen is 120 bottles. Is that a lot?

Have you been drinking or something?

Oh, humiliation and sackcloth and ashes and penance and self-flagellation. And the same again, twice-fold and four-fold and eight-fold.

[LGTrotter]

I sometimes like to think of my port in gallons; it can be quite daunting when you think about planning to drink forty gallons of port.

Pre-metric the bottle size was set at the two-gallon dozen, so 1⅓ pints per bottle. Hence “forty gallons” is 20 dozen is 120 bottles. Is that a lot?

Have you been drinking or something?

Oh, humiliation and sackcloth and ashes and penance and self-flagellation. And the same again, twice-fold and four-fold and eight-fold.

A craven withdrawal, you were of course thinking about magnums. As all right thinking port drinkers do.

[jdaw1]

Have you been drinking or something?

Oh, humiliation and sackcloth and ashes and penance and self-flagellation. And the same again, twice-fold and four-fold and eight-fold.

A craven withdrawal, you were of course thinking about magnums. As all right thinking port drinkers do.

The contribution of non-standard bottle sizes was, perhaps, dominated by half-bottles of Madeira. The withdrawal was craven because the error was egregious and woefully sub-standard.

[Alex Bridgeman]

I sometimes like to think of my port in gallons; it can be quite daunting when you think about planning to drink forty gallons of port.

Pre-metric the bottle size was set at the two-gallon dozen, so 1⅓ pints per bottle. Hence “forty gallons” is 20 dozen is 120 bottles. Is that a lot?

Have you been drinking or something?

Oh, humiliation and sackcloth and ashes and penance and self-flagellation. And the same again, twice-fold and four-fold and eight-fold.

I would worry about the accuracy of the calculation of exactly how many strokes were required to achieve eight-fold. Perhaps a calculator would help?

[WS1]

I sometimes like to think of my port in gallons; it can be quite daunting when you think about planning to drink forty gallons of port.

Pre-metric the bottle size was set at the two-gallon dozen, so 1⅓ pints per bottle. Hence “forty gallons” is 20 dozen is 120 bottles. Is that a lot?

Have you been drinking or something?

Oh, humiliation and sackcloth and ashes and penance and self-flagellation. And the same again, twice-fold and four-fold and eight-fold.

I would worry about the accuracy of the calculation of exactly how many strokes were required to achieve eight-fold. Perhaps a calculator would help?

I am leaving work now to head to the airport to make the Croft tasting in Germany tonight. This thread was the perfect sending off....