Did you know that Merle Haggard once set the Guinness World Record for buying the largest round of drinks?
He bought 5,095 C.C. waterbacks for the crowd at the world famous Billy Bob’s honky-tonk in Texas back in 1982. If you don’t know, a C.C. waterback is a shot of Canadian Club whiskey with some water to chase it down.
He did this in honor of his 28th hit song, “C.C. Waterback“…and his tab was $12,737.50. Which in today’s money is over $40,000.
His record stood for an impressive 34 more years, until 2016, when it was broken at a brewery in England celebrating the Queen’s 90th birthday.
They bought a round of 412 beers, which was over 42 gallons. Merle’s round of shots was around 40 gallons, so he got beat out.
It was an impressive run, though. It takes a lot of little shots to equal 42 gallons and they just barely beat it and let’s always remember, Merle is goddamn legend y’all.