If you kept drinking beer non-stop...

[quellren]

Unless the process has changed drastically since I made my own beer last, beer is mostly water, so, no. You cannot die of dehydration. I served in Iraq with a soldier that 90% of his liquid was diet coke, he didn't die of dehydration.

You *MIGHT* end up in a moderately dehydrated state as it takes alot of water to process that alcohol, but you'd end up with alcohol poisoning and lapse into a coma and die before that. Assuming you were, in fact drinking non-stop.

Fun Fact: Many years ago in college, a friend and I held a contest to see who could hold out the longest on a Guiness-only diet. You could eat food as long as it was washed down with that beer. After 6 days I had learned 2 things:
1:A bowl of Guiness and coco-crispies is AWESOME
and 2: being perpetually buzzed/drunk will make you stupid and feel like shit, but not lethal or seemingly even harmful long term.

[Spud]

I thought of this the other weekend when I was visiting my old college friends and we were basically on a 3 day bender.

How could I wake up feeling thirsty and dehydrated, start drinking beer and then feel totally fine an hour later? It was what made me thirsty and dehydrated in the first place.

I think since light beer is 99% water it would in fact keep you de-hydrated if you kept drinking. You would only get hydrated when you STOP drinking because your body uses up water to detoxify. However you would eventually drink yourself into a stupor and kill all your brain cells.

What's funny about going on multi-day benders is that I only really get hungover the first morning then im just kind of in a semi-drunken haze the rest of the time. My brain is like mush afterwards though.

I have to try the Guiness and coco-puffs. BRILLIANT!