If vampires were real, how much blood would they need to drink to live?

Just curious how much nutrition is in blood and how much would be needed to sustain life, or better yet, undead life...

8 glasses a day bro.

according to my swmbo, they survive on glitter and sparkles.

Wouldn't it depend on when the victim last ate?

Vampires aren't real???

headbanger said:

Vampires aren't real???

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of course they are, they just get all their food from the blood bank now, none of those messy dead bodies laying around

That's what the red cross does with my blood!?! I guess it is a good cause, ya know, keeping the vampires at bay rather than making them hunt for food. Hmmmm. Guess I'll keep giving.

Are there any obese vampires? They are always thin in the movies.

More importantly how tempted would you be to become one? I mean heck you live forever, are in great shape no matter how much brew you drink, and there seem to always be hot chicks around and you have centuries to perfect your game.

m_c_zero said:

Just curious how much nutrition is in blood and how much would be needed to sustain life, or better yet, undead life...

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15 mililiters a day for the not so undead ones.

We're in the middle of our Beer Week here in town and we had a local brewery do a pint for a pint. Basically, if you came down and gave a pint of blood, you'd get a free pint of beer.

McBrewskie said:

More importantly how tempted would you be to become one? I mean heck you live forever, are in great shape no matter how much brew you drink, and there seem to always be hot chicks around and you have centuries to perfect your game.

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I thought about this a lot... I think the major drawback would be not being able to attend barbeques.

kh54s10 said:

Are there any obese vampires? They are always thin in the movies.

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Guess you don't remember Pearl from Blade


Or Eddie from True Blood

m_c_zero said:

We're in the middle of our Beer Week here in town and we had a local brewery do a pint for a pint. Basically, if you came down and gave a pint of blood, you'd get a free pint of beer.

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Is it just me or does this sound like a recipe for a REALLY high blood alcohol level?

Take away a tenth of your supply you have around 9 pints (genorus I know) left 90% then add 5% of 16 oz .05*16oz=0.8oz Abv (almost a shot) raise that by 10% 0.8*0.1=.08+.8oz = 8.8oz taken into account 10% blood loss naw youd be good to walk after one. But in two pints in already what do I know?

My ex wife drained me dry before she left

More importantly, how much blood do you need to brew a 5 gallon batch?

captianoats said:

More importantly, how much blood do you need to brew a 5 gallon batch?

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Like a klingon blood wine?

Narrow down the canon we're drawing from.

Which Vampire?