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A can of normal American beer is 12oz. A 0.5l beer is equal to about 16oz so he actually drank more than 17 American beers. I assume the newspapers asked him h

• jonas21 6y ago
  I dunno... 17 is kind of an odd number to say in response to a question (unless he always drank exactly 17 beers a day, which would seem equally odd). But 17 x 12oz = 204 oz = 6033 ml, which is almost exactly 12 x 0.5 liter beers. Which seems more like the sort of thing you'd say, i.e. Q: "How many beers do you drink a day?" A: "About a dozen"
  • rconti 6y ago
    Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking maybe 17 * 0.33, but that's an equally-confusing 5.6L
• mcv 6y ago
  The kind of beer also matters. I was never much of a beer drinker, but during my university days, there was one beer that I really liked: Het Kanon, a heavy beer with 11.6% alcohol, sold in .45l bottles. That is really not comparable to drinking a regular beer. Later they reduced the bottle size to the more common 0.33l. Probably for safety reasons.