Guinness lover spends £344 downing 81 pints in weekend 'without hangover'
A Guinness lover has hit back by saying he didn't even have a hangover after being blasted online for drinking 81 pints in a weekend.
Sean Bryan, from Kilkenny, Ireland, admitted that he didn't see himself as a role model and said that he had downed the pints for a bit of fun with his pals. His Facebook post about racking up 81 pints of Guinness received almost 10,000 likes and shares but he was also widely criticised in comments.
The 33-year-old says he began drinking at 1pm on Friday, December 29 at his local boozer and continued over the next two days finishing his 81st pint at 9pm on New Year's Eve - before heading to bed before midnight. Sean said he spent a whopping 400 euros, - equivalent to £344, on beer across the three days and says Guinness is his favourite.
But after the 6ft 4in drinker shared his achievements online, many social media users were unimpressed by his stunt due to the health risks and there were claims he was "stupid" to boast about it.
According to the NHS men and women are not advised to drink more than 14 units of alcohol a week on a regular basis. This is the equivalent to six pints of average-strength beer or 10 small glasses of lower-strength wine and long-term alcohol misuse can result in a weakened immune system, high blood pressure, liver disease, and increase the chances of a stroke.
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Sean said that he didn't have a hangover (Kennedy News and Media)A pint of Guinness contains 210 calories and carries an alcohol unit count of 2.3 per pint. In Sean's case, he was seen to guzzle down more than 17,000 liquid calories in three days, resulting in 186.3 alcohol units - more than 13 times the weekly maximum units recommendation.
Despite others raising health concerns about the security shift worker's drinking, he believes his drinking session wasn't dangerous as it was a one-off. Sean said: "I don't think it's dangerous to do on the odd occasion but if you were doing it week by week it would be.
"But as it was a one-off and because it was Christmas, [it was okay] and I don't really ever count calories. I started drinking on Friday, December 29 and I had my first Guinness at about 1pm in the local pub. I went home every night but [returned every day and] stayed in the pub over the weekend drinking.
"I managed to drink 81 pints of Guinness and this beat my last record of 78. It was not really a challenge I set myself, it just became a kick between friends. [Over the 81-pint Guinness weekend], I was just at the pub drinking with friends. I had my 81st pint on Sunday December 31st at 9pm and then I went home [from the pub] at 10pm, so I did not carry on drinking into the New Year.
"I didn't have a hangover but I was quite tired [after the weekend of drinking]. An average pint of Guinness in a pub in Europe is about five euros and in total, I spent about four hundred euros on pints of Guinness [over the three days]." Sean said after completing his 81 pints stunt, his friends have now challenged him to drink 100 Guinnesses in three days but thankfully he is not about to try it as he believes this challenge might be impossible to complete.
Sean said: "People in the comments were saying I would be dead before I was 40 and I was very unhealthy looking and I did take this a bit to heart. [Drinking the 81 Guinnesses] is over and done with now but I wouldn't want any young people reading this and thinking of me as a role model or anything like that.
Comments that he received online (Kennedy News and Media)"I just did it for a bit of craic. It was enjoyable to do at the time though and I think as a one-off it's okay to do. On social media, everyone has an opinion. That's the generation we're growing up in now and that's the way it is."
After revealing his antics on social media, his post was inundated with more than 3,900 comments - many from those either criticising him for "boasting" about it or raising concerns for his health. One user said: "Impressive…not." A second said: "It's a stupid thing to be boasting about, whatever you may say about it."
One person wrote: "Stupidity at its finest boasting that they can drink themselves to death. I would have more respect for the chap if he had told everyone he has been sober for 81 days. Far more of an achievement." A fourth commented: "Savage amount of stout - wouldn't even drink that much in a month."
A fifth said: "Mind his liver more than anything else." Another added: "Enjoy it while you can mate, you can’t have long left at this rate… Don't worry tho, it'll have been worth it for the approval of your moronic peers."
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But some too appeared to be impressed by his claims. One person said: "What a unit. Absolute legend, that one. Bravo." Another added: "Keep going! 100 pints is right there for the taking!" Sean followed up his original post a few days later, announcing that following the amount of "abuse and health advice" he received in reaction to his claims, he was enjoying a shandy on his birthday instead.
Sean said: "Considering the abuse and health advice I received from the many wonderful people and doctors and psychiatrists in this group on New Year's Eve I celebrated my birthday with a rock shandy but insisted on a Guinness glass."
Alcohol Change UK said they would not comment on the specific incident, but issued the following guidance: "The UK's Chief Medical Officer low-risk drinking guidelines recommend staying under 14 units a week (that's about six pints of normal strength beer or a bottle and a half of wine), and spreading your intake over three days or more with a few alcohol-free days too. Regularly drinking above the recommended low-risk guidelines can be harmful to our health."
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