Morning After

You wake up rested and feel completely normal — and still have alcohol in your blood. Here is how to work out how long alcohol stays in your system after a night out, why neither coffee nor sleep speeds it up, and what the law says the morning after.

How much alcohol is actually in your blood after three beers, and how long does it stay there? Get an estimate from the calculator, then read on for Sweden’s 0.2 ‰ limit, how fast the body burns off alcohol, and why morning-after alcohol catches more people out than they expect.