Meet Gareth Murphy who visited 56 pubs within 24 hours; holds Guinness World Record

New Delhi: Most people like to party and drink in pubs, while some like to sit at one pub while others like to explore all pubs around. But what’s more amazing is visiting as many pubs in 24 hours as possible and cracking the Guinness World Record. The case has happened with a 29-year-old IT worker from Wales, who drank at 56 different pubs in just 24 hours,  holding the Guinness World Record for most pubs visited within that time.

Gareth Murphy visited a total of 56 different pubs in Cardiff within 24 hours. There he at least had one beverage at each one of the pubs to attempt the Guinness World Record on February 5.

“For the purposes of this record, a pub is defined as an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic beverages on the premises, although the challenger is not required to consume any alcohol,” states Guinness World Records.

Murphy had a considerable amount of beer throughout the day. However, his other beverages included orange juice, apple juice, lemonade, Coca-Cola, and Diet Pepsi. As per the official website, he consumed:

• 4,915 ml (8.6 pints) of orange juice
• 2,845 ml (5 pints) of apple juice
• 1,023 ml (1.8 pints) of beer
• 500 ml (0.8 pints) of lemonade
• 284 ml (0.5 pints) of Diet Pepsi®
• 250 ml (0.4 pints) of Tango®
• 189 ml (0.33 pints) of blackcurrant cordial
• 125 ml (0.2 pints) of Coca-Cola®
• 125 ml (0.2 pints) of Guinness®
• 125 ml (0.2 pints) of cranberry juice

“I lost count of how many toilet breaks I took. At the beginning it was minimal, once every 10 pubs say, but by the end, I think I was going once every two or three pubs,” he said recalling his experience. He has been trying to achieve a Guinness World Records title for several years. “I knew the best place to do this was in the centre of Cardiff,” he said. This is because Cardiff’s city centre has the highest number of pubs, bars and clubs in the entire UK.

“It was a long, tiring day. The hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” he said. He stated that he took his first drink, lemonade in a Wetherspoons at 10 AM. Talking about his strategy, he said that he had no tactic regarding what he would drink “just whichever went down the easier.”

“I knew I had to stay off the Guinness as it’s quite a heavy drink. I did have a beer in a few select pubs, but I knew I couldn’t overdo it as I knew the fizz would immediately make me bloated,” he said.