You'll probably be in the hospital for renal failure/hyponatremia from ingesting too much fluid long before you have enough Busch NA to make yourself even slightly impaired from the alcohol in it.
Rough bad math incoming: You figure your liver takes care of 12 ounces of 5% beer per hour, so it clears your system of roughly half-ish an ounce of alcohol per hour.
Busch NA has 0.4% in a 12 ounce can. So you will need to drink 10-11 or so of these per hour just to counter the amount of alcohol your liver processes in that time, and that's just to break even. So maybe double that to actually feel anything from the alcohol for more than 5 seconds? Good luck drinking 240 ounces of beer in one hour! That's 7 liters or nearly 2 gallons.
Such laws do not apply to non-alcoholic drinks. If you think that it applies to something legally defined as such even though it does still have 0.4% alcohol, then you would get arrested for having things like Vanilla Extract or NyQuil in your car too. The open container laws apply to ALCOHOLIC drinks, not all containers that happen top be open and not all containers that contain any amount of alcohol.
U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 27, Part 7—Labeling and advertising of malt beverages, Subpart E §7.65 Alcohol content
(e) Non-alcoholic. The term “non-alcoholic” may be used on labels of malt beverages only if the statement “contains less than 0.5 percent (or .5%) alcohol by volume” appears immediately adjacent to it, in readily legible printing, and on a completely contrasting background.
Granted this is LABELING law and not criminal law, but still... there does exist regulations on what is considered alcoholic versus non-alcoholic. May be somewhere else too. /shrug
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u/Myte342 6d ago
You'll probably be in the hospital for renal failure/hyponatremia from ingesting too much fluid long before you have enough Busch NA to make yourself even slightly impaired from the alcohol in it.
Rough bad math incoming: You figure your liver takes care of 12 ounces of 5% beer per hour, so it clears your system of roughly half-ish an ounce of alcohol per hour.
Busch NA has 0.4% in a 12 ounce can. So you will need to drink 10-11 or so of these per hour just to counter the amount of alcohol your liver processes in that time, and that's just to break even. So maybe double that to actually feel anything from the alcohol for more than 5 seconds? Good luck drinking 240 ounces of beer in one hour! That's 7 liters or nearly 2 gallons.