Newcastle

You know how the rough guideline for men is "2 standards in the first hour, 1 standard each hour after that" if you want to stay under the limit to drive?

That's roughly the amount you can drink and stay at a constant level of intoxication. 1 drink per hour. Every drink above 1 you have per hour is making you more and more drunk. (edit: and that's 1 standard. A schooner is usually more like 1.2 or 1.6 depending on if it's mid-strength or full-strength.) 3 or 4 standards per hour for 2 hours? Entirely reasonable. Nearly 6 standards per hour for 6 hours? Not longer reasonable.

Don't know the guy's weight, but I assumed a rather heavy 100 kg and plugged that along with the known figures into this calculator. It estimates his BAC may have been as high as 0.449, which it describes as "a dangerous level of intoxication that can lead to coma and even death". The article says he was stumbling and fell over multiple times. I've seen patrons get thrown out of venues far busier and harder for staff to keep track of patrons for far, far less obviously dangerous behaviour than that.