BAC). Guidelines say that each drink (for some reason considered to be half a pint of lager), works out to be roughly 20mg for the average male, and between 20mg and 30mg for a woman.A man’s liver will break down approximately 20mg in an hour. So I work that out to be that 2 pints of ale (as long as you don’t go for the really powerful stuff) should be fairly safe as long as you don’t just ‘neck’ them and head off. Apparently if you’re drinking on a full stomach, it slows the rate of absorption, but this doesn’t really help as it just means it will be in your system for longer.
Anyway, I’m not going to advocate drinking & driving, but it’s nice to know where you stand legally.
