Merle Haggard once set the Guinness World Record for buying the largest round of drinks.<\/p>\n
He bought 5,095 C.C. waterbacks for the crowd at Billy Bob’s honky-tonk in Texas back in 1982.<\/p>\n
A C.C. waterback is a shot of Canadian Club whiskey with some water to chase it down.<\/p>\n
He did this in honour of his 28th hit song, “C.C. Waterback” and his tab was $12,737.50, which in today’s money is over $40,000.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
It was an impressive run, though. Merle was a legend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merle Haggard once set the Guinness World Record for buying the largest round of drinks.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":41161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5720,5719,5657,5721,134,5718],"class_list":["post-41160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-billy-bobs","tag-cc-waterback","tag-merle-haggard","tag-round-of-drinks","tag-texas","tag-world-record"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 14:45:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/10\/merle-haggard-once-held-the-world-record-for-buying-the-largest-round-of-drinks\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41162,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41160\/revisions\/41162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}