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Depends on how fast he drinks the beer. The liver takes approximately one hour to metabolize one ounce of alcohol (about 28 grams). The average 12-ounce beer contains 14 grams of alcohol so about 1/2 ounce. This would take the liver roughly a half hour to metabolize.

So if he spaces out a glass of beer every two hours or so, it will be plenty of time for the liver to metabolize the alcohol and get about a hour and a half of rest.

Or he could choose to have two beers every four hours. This would give the liver three hours of rest for each one hour of work.

I assume eight hours of sleep a day so during sleeptime, the liver will get an extra long rest.

So this could be safely done. Maybe a schedule could go something like this:

7AM (Breakfast) - Two beers
11AM (Lunch) - Two beers
3PM (Snack) - One beer
7PM (Dinner) - Two beers

11PM (Bedtime) - One beer

That would be eight 12-oz beers per day. Caloric level will average around 1,200 per day. Definitely enough calories to survive for 40 days but the man will be hungry!