Official Rules

Here are the official rules for the Beer Mile and its most popular variations. These rules must be followed in order to be considered for a record attempt or to appear on the leaderboard.

Official Beer Mile Rules

Beer Mile

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This is the one that started it all. The Kingston Rules were written in 1993 to formalize the Beer Mile. Every Beer Mile since then has been raced under this legendary ruleset — four beers, four laps, no shortcuts, no excuses.

Other Variations

Chunder Mile
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Beer 2-Mile
12 results
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NA Beer Mile
189 results
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Chocolate Milk Mile
401 results
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Soda Pop Mile
56 results
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Egg Nog Mile
5 results
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Other Athletic Feats

These are the other crazy digestive athletic feats that we have come across. Want to feature yours? Email us at info@beermile.com

The Racing Wheelchair Beer Mile

Best known effort: 8:04

Clydesdale Division (standard beer mile, 35 or older and 200 lbs+)

Best known effort: 8:01

The T-Shirt Run (put on a t-shirt and run a quarter under 2 minutes)

Best known efforts: 57 laps/t-shirts

The Joggling Beer Mile (run a beermile while juggling)

Best known effort: 7:41

The Rubik's Cube Mile (solve a cube, quarter, cube, quarter, cube, quarter, cube, quarter)

Best known effort: 5:26

The Shotgun/Cup Mile (standard beer mile, drink from any container)

Best known effort: 5:08.7

The Beer Half-Marathon (13 beers, 13 miles)

Best known effort: 1:28, Strava

The 24 and 24 in 24 (24 beers, 24 miles, in 24 hours or less)

Best known effort: 6:24

The Bicentennial (100 beers, 100 miles, any order)

Best known effort: rumored to be 104 hours, 151 hours

4 x Beer Relay

(4 team members - 1 12 oz. beer, 1 quarter each) Best known effort: 3:46.6

4 x 40 Beer Relay (4 team members - 1 40 oz. beer, 1 quarter each)

Best known effort: 13:24

The 3000m Vodka Steeplechase (7 shots, standard 3k steeplechase)

Best known effort: 10:16.0

The Vodka 2-Mile (8 shots, 8 quarters)

Best known effort: 13:01.5

The 4-Lap Beer Steeplechase (4 beers, 4 quarters, 16 barriers, 4 water pits)

Best known effort: 8:52.0

The Ben and Jerry's 4x4 (4 pints of Ben and Jerry's ice cream - 300+ calories/serving, 4 miles)

Best known effort: 47:16

The Egg and Milk Mile (3 eggs, 500ml milk per lap)

Best known effort: 5:49