The rate of which each person's liver metabolizes liquor is a bit different. Healthy livers will metabolize alcohol at different rates. There are also other factors at play.
Factors that affect how quickly booze is cleared from the body include your:
- Age
- Body fat content
- Ethnicity
- Health, especially the medications you're taking
The rate of which you knock down the beers, and the amount of food you've eaten before or during drinking will also have an effect. If you've eaten food, the fat content of the food will also factor into the equation.
While your liver will get rid of the liquor at a constant rate, the process and rate of metabolism changes if you drink more alcohol than your liver can metabolize. If your blood alcohol level rises above 0.055, your blood and fatty tissues will absorb the extra liquor. This causes your body to store the alcohol for a much period of time.
If you consume too much alcohol in one sitting, there’s a good chance you’ll get alcohol poisoning. This can lead to seizures, vomiting, slurred speech and loss of consciousness.
In worst-case scenarios, alcohol poisoning can lead to fatal complications like cardiac arrests, brain damage and seizures.