The day I tried to match Churchill drink for drink 

Oh i get it, this guy does it and he’s matching Churchill but i do it and i’m an alcoholic

I was reading an autobiography by someone who had dinner with him once and he said it was just extraordinary. He would have a sip port, then a mouthful of food, then a sip of champagne, a puff on his cigar, more food, then more champagne, he never seemed to stop. But what he also noted was that Churchill never seemed to stop talking as well. He was baffled how he managed to achieve it.

Churchill after the third whiskey and ginger ale: “This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. But it is I think, perhaps, the end of the beginning”

And he lived to be 90. In awe of that lad's liver, the absolute unit.

it was Churchill who declared: “Remember gentleman, it’s not just France we’re fighting for, it’s champagne!”

“I’ve taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.” -Sir Winston Churchill

He started sounding more and more like Churchill as the video went on.

Pretty impressive. Now you need to go up a level and do hunter S Thompson’s daily drink and drug regime

Churchill was a sly alcy. Those "little" eye-openers in the morning we're probably to stave off withdrawal, but seemed innocent enough because they were just a tipple. Progressively drank more throughout the day, nap mid day because you know you can't drink the whole day and stay up until midnight without other substances or a nap. Definitely a functional alcoholic. That he lived as long as he did wasn't because he didn't drink a lot. Just lucky. For every Churchill there's a Christopher Hitchens who actually does get the cancer or liver damage or heart attack/stroke.

He drank all morning, took a nap, and drank the rest of the day but still got work done. Sounds like *functional* drunk history.

We shall drink on the beaches, we shall drink on the landing grounds, we shall drink champagne in the fields and in the streets, we shall drink whiskey in the hills; we shall never surrender our sobriety!

1:28 "We must work, and we must drink." Pretty much sums up human history there.

Everyone: "Never mix grape and grain." Winston: "We shall drink Johnnie Walker, we shall drink Paul Roger, we shall NEVER surrender."

"It's not easy being drunk all the time. Everyone would do it, if it were easy." - Tyrion Lannister

Add to this the constant smoke of those infernal cigars the size of tree branches, and the diet, which I imagine consisted entirely of soft-boiled eggs, caviar, oysters, and steak prepared rare, or maybe a roast goose. Lived to be 90. My man.

I understand you were matching him drink for drink; but imagine implementing his cigar smoking with this.

The fact that I'm not impressed by the amount of alcohol at all makes me realize i need to get my shit together drinking-wise, thank you.

Reading about these great men from history always left me with the same feeling. These guys were all alcoholics. Amazing what they could accomplish despite the obvious serious stress.

Considering he was obese for most of his life it’s astonishing he lived to 90. I feel like if I drank like him I’d die at 65-70.

He only had the weight of the world on his shoulders

Everyone: Has to drink water to survive. Churchill: Has to consume an entire liquor store each day to survive.

1:02 - that definitely fizzed over the edge didn’t it 😂

"I have taken more out of alcohol, than alcohol has taken out of me" Winston Churchill

Interestingly , there is a non alcoholic drink served in Turkish cafes named after Churchill . Its’ made by adding a bit of lemon juice and salt to mineral water . Appearantly it was what he had ordered when he visited Turkey .

This video is incredible. More people need to be seeing this.

winston churchhill was also a lot bigger and had more mass than you to be able to take that much alcohol. The man was not a thin man...

Love that Churchill take took little doses through the day but once night hits it’s time to get after it. Dude was an absolute Unit of a man

Your forgetting one thing: Churchill was MASSIVELY obese and ate insane amounts of food, allowing the drastic absorption of the alcohol.

so basically he was an alcoholic

i used to be a heavy drinker and can not stress what tolerance does, i could drink a six pack while hiking like it was water a year later and i cant do more then two doing nothing lol

"If I were your wife I would poison your tea!" "If I were your husband I would drink it."

I imagine he drank as much as he did as a result of Gallipoli and then joining the fight first hand in the Western front in WW1. I'm guessing after that is when it got to this habitual level

I don't know if the story is apocryphal, but I read somewhere that one pint champagne bottles were made exclusively for the British market, but French producers continued bottling some of their output in this size throughout the occupation as a sign of defiance (and presumably as a vote of confidence that the market would return in due course). Churchill expressed his preference for one pint bottles based on his judgement that a standard 70 cl bottle is too much for one person to have with lunch, but not enough for two (which is a good call IMO).

An alcoholic and a chain smoker and yet, lives longer than many many people.

One can’t start at Sir Winston’s level. It takes a lifetime of steady drinking.

He was a big dude, paced himself and usually drank while eating. Absolutely do-able.

With his job and responsebility i would be a heavy drinker too.

Do wolf of Wall Street daily drug routine

Working class drinking the same amount: Alcoholic idiots Aristocrats drinking the same amounts: Misunderstood sigma genius

Oh no, officer - I'm not drunk. I'm Churchilled.

360p? Did you film this with Churchhill?

“My afternoon nap was, uh, very, un, very restorstarative.” Yeah, it was really kicking in there.

defeated by glasses of whiskey? wheres that churchill spirit? We will drink them on the beaches and on the ocean and in the air. We will never surrender

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." - Winston Churchill

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy." Pope Gregory the 9th

Impressive. Very nice. Let's see Hunter S. Thompson daily routine.

It's funny how his day progressed, he started slurring the same way that Churchill did. 😂

Really makes you understand why Churchill was constantly slurring in his speeches

This dude was micro-dosing whiskey

“We must work. We must work and we must drink.” Words to live by, my friend

Good to see the Telegraph doing great journalism as always.

It makes Mr.Churchill's "We will fight them on the beaches..." speech that much more impressive when you realize he was likely thoroughly hammered when he gave it. If I drank half of that, I'd be fucked up as a football bat.

Remember, 'If you wanna run cool, you've got to run on heavy, heavy fuel' - Mark Knopfler

The fact that this man led Britain through a world war hammered and Boris Johnson cant even lead it sober is quite something

2:34 me after my first beer

So Churchill used to micro dose whiskey... hmm

I love the fact as he continues with this, he starts sounding like Churchill.

you can’t drink like Churchill unless you eat like him too. You’re besotted by lunch - but to a trained alcoholic on a 4kcal+ daily diet, this is a light day of drinking. Essentially like… what, 8-10 drinks? Usually bad if done everyday like Churchy, but in general, 8-10 drinks over 14 hours should be an almost imperceptible level of intoxication. Church probably just rode a steady low buzz for his entire life, and that’s how he stayed comparatively/relatively stress free and lived to 90.

When someone says a weak drink they don't mean 0.01oz of whiskey

Churchill was fighting a war, Churchills liver was fighting Churchill…

1:30-1:47 Now I'm beginning to understand why Sir Churchill talked like that.

If Churchill had challenged Hitler to a drinking game, WW2 would’ve been over in a month.

I'm still baffled that Winston managed to live into his 90s, IMPRESSIVE!!! 😳

"10 30 in the morning, my third whiskey and soda" Normal routine for me

Only a total sociopath or psychopath would endure leading a country through WW2 while being sober.

“ if you were my husband I would poison your tea” “ madam if I was your husband I would drink the tea”

Lightweight...

At least we now know the reason for him always sounding drunk...

He was so big it probably gave him nothing more than a moderate buzz throughout the day. If you drink with a large meal, which I assume he did you barely feel the affects of alcohol

Anyone else worried by the fact that this looks doable, if not downright easy? 😳 I honestly think the only problem would be sticking to only one drink per hour etc. and then burning out too quickly.

Not going to try and discover what it is, but something about this video keeps pulling me back and puts a smile on my face every time.

If I had his pressure and responsibility during the war, I would probably drink too. But he still came out victorious!

Doesn't seem too bad (I say that as an Irishman), but doing it every day for an extended period of time would be the killer.

His favourite wine was Melnik 55 from a small village in bulgaria, i stumbled across the village by chance whilst backpacking and bought a bottle from the original winery that sold to churchill, hasnt changed much in 80 years

Ah, maybe thats why he thought the Black and Tans were a good idea.

'The day i tries to match Churchill drink by drink' ... Is also the day I died.

I hear people say all the time that “Champagne goes right to my head”. I’m not a raging alcoholic or anything but I could always put champagne down like water.

Low expectations for this random video but I loved it hahaha, so genuine.

The time you realize when one of the greatest leaders of the Free World was practically drunk the mosr of the time.

Marlin, this was an amazing show of your dedication to historical accuracy

Honestly if every decision I was making ended with men dying, no matter whether it was the right or wrong choice, I would probably drink that heavily as well

If I had to guess, all of the drinking of champagne and soda water was a method to treat indigestion that he probably had for being overweight. He probably suffered from Gerd or acid reflux and back then they didn’t know what it was but he had found out as I did years ago that drinking something like a Coke or a Pepsi or in his case just soda water helps the digestion tremendously. He just like to put a little bit of scotch in there because it made it like a cocktail rather than just bland soda water is my guess. And Champagne is probably a lot more enjoyable to drink with dinner then plain soda water. It was very common back then to have an apéritif before dinner and a cognac afterward so that doesn’t surprise me that he would follow those traditions nor would it have surprised me that he would have a glass of wine or whatever during meals. He was also a noted cigar smoker which also gives you bad indigestion in a lot of cases. I used to work for two different people that smoked a lot who both ate baking soda right from the box with a spoon to treat their indigestion and heartburn. So again he may not have realized exactly why this diet of soda water was helping him but I do think he was using it because it made him feel better. These are the explanations that best make sense to me anyway.

As the great man once said: Underidoderidoderiododeriodoo!!

This guy can't drink can he?

When your first is at 9am you know it’s going to be a wild day

Red Label is so rough maybe drinking it with majority soda makes sense. Hitchens drank Black label. Much better stuff.

Since covid started and I started working from home, I get Winston's vibe. I was doing 4 fingers of Johnny black label and sprite ever hour. Would go through the big bottle every 2 days

I wish at the end of the video he would've recited some of Churchill's famous quotes, because he probably would've totally nailed em

Churchill was much much heavier than this guy, and his scotches weren't consistently light

I had a coworker who would drink a 60 Oz of vodka on 12 hour shift must have been a distant relative. Never seemed drunk no sleared words. No unsteady steps. A few times went out after work I seen him drink 10 double jack and cokes. Walk home no problem. Was older man said he didn't start drinking until he got home from Vietnam. Was married two kids. But wow

I am so old, I remember seeing a newsreel at the movie theater about Churchill's death.

you should have adjusted the drinking for several biases A) different mass and thus different speed of alcohol metabolism B) Churchill was so used to drinking much, that again he might've had very fast alcohol metabolism C) Because Churchill also ate a lot, that would make the alcohol more dilute in his stomach and thus it wouldn't affect him as much

Now do Boris Yeltsin

The working in bed, the napping, the constant dosing of alcohol, the cigars, all helped to offset the enormous stress he was under 24 hours of every day of the war years.

For the very small amount of drinks in the morning, the body should be able to more than easily process that if you keep it at a drink per hour. Afterwards the other bigger drinks might be a bit of a problem but tolerance does get built up over time. I will say, he probably was not acting sloshed like this guy is by 6pm.

Who wouldn’t drink & smoke & do all the things when you are literally saving the entire Europe and democracy

This guys liver was the real MVP of the Second World War.

I don't know about the rest of it, but I think I could effectively polish off an imperial pint sized champagne with lunch, and then one again with dinner. Especially if it was a nice drop like Pol Roger. Maybe not every single day, but definitely a few times a week. Champagne is my kind of drink, and Churchill was my kind of drinker...

Hunters S Thompson daily routine, 3:00 p.m. rise 3:05 Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills 3:45 cocaine 3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill 4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill 4:15 cocaine 4:16 orange juice, Dunhill 4:30 cocaine 4:54 cocaine 5:05 cocaine 5:11 coffee, Dunhills 5:30 more ice in the Chivas 5:45 cocaine, etc., etc. 6:00 grass to take the edge off the day 7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jig­gers of Chivas.) 9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously 10:00 drops acid 11:00 Chartreuse, cocaine, grass 11:30 cocaine, etc, etc. 12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write 12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies. 6:00 the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo 8:00 Halcyon 8:20 sleep

I watched this and was immediately reminded of the Mitchell and Webb sketch 'The Inebriati'. Basically it's about a secret society that believes that every human is at their peak when very slightly tipsy - specifically, 1 and a half glasses deep. The reasoning is that you're drunk enough to be more self-confident, relaxed, and friendly, but not drunk enough that you're starting to fuck shit up.