Skip the first part.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ROdLMrWUeY

Tho I haven't done it in a while, I know that if I tilt my head back as far as possible, I can "pour" a 12 ounce beer down my throat and feel it hit my stomach without swallowing.

How fast I can drink a beer depends...

-on what mood I'm in.
-on what time of day it is.
-who I'm trying to impress.
-what kind of beer it is.

In the early 70's when distances were measured by 6 packs it was generally given that a 6 pack was about 2 1/2 hours at 70 mph. At 20-30 mph over gravel logging roads it could be as few as 2 hours.

If you need to drink beer that fast you should switch to whiskey.

Friend of mine was able to do a six pack in the time it took to go 2 miles on the interstate, so less than 20 seconds per beer including opening them.

FAST

It’s not how fast that I can drink them but how many that I can drink.

Good european or microbrew beer, I'll put a nipple on it. Light beer in the heat of summer, damn fast, especially after yard work. Skunk water, give it to my neighbor's dog......

Not fast enough if it is free.

we used to open them on the bottom,turn it over on your lips and pop the top.I think my fastest was 3 seconds.

When I was at college at Rice, we had a school event called the Beer-Bike race,. It happened at the end of the school year where each of the eight residential colleges would compete. It was a relay race of teams of 20. The first chugger would chug a tallboy followed by the first rider biking around a quarter mile track and then the second chugger, etc.

This was serious stuff. 3000 kids would show up to watch, riders ran on $3000 bikes and were a few seconds off olympic times and chugging became a practiced art. The chugging team had bi-weekly practices and try-outs for 7 months.

The technique was to open up the top of the can to about a two inch hole that you could put your mouth around and punch two holes in the bottom for air to get in. Warm flat beer was much faster. A competitive time was about 2.2 seconds.