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"real people with a drinking problem", indeed.
Where I live, the standard beer is 5% lager and these people were usually talking about 0.5l bottles. It just sounds like anyone who is not already a hardcore alcoholic should be fall-down, barf-everywhere drunk after drinking that much alcohol, even if its over a 12 hour period. Frankly, I would have huge trouble drinking half that much even if it was just carbonated water (I'm fine with carbonated water, just not that much).
The conclusion remains: ASK
Sure, 5% is standard, but a .333L bottle is far more likely if they come in a "box" of 24. That's a difference between 12L of beer and 8L for 24 bottles. Both are a lot, but one is A LOT a lot. Personally, I would struggle to get though 4 liters of yellow lite beer in an evening, but it's also weird to ask "hey, do we have any functional alcoholics coming? If so I should buy 100 beers."
Conclusion is based on bad data. Estimate 1 beer per person for 45 minutes of time and you'll be lucky to have 2 left over afterwards.
My conclusion is not based on bad data, since my conclusion, ASK, is to get more data.