My Viking ancestors undoubtedly introduced, aided, abetted and generally contributed to this rich trove of alcoholic lore. The American modifications on many of these British, Irish and Scottish originals are also quite colorful.

Shit-faced (or, for the more pious, shifazzed)
Tighter'n Dick's hatband
Tighter than a tick
Blinded by who-hit-John?
Loaded to the gills
Embalmed
Ossified
"Gloriously and symmetrically drunk - drunk in all particulars" (Mark
    Twain)
Alcoholically transcendant
corpus in spiritus fermenti
In articulo mortis
Dipsomanic
Stiff as a board
Marinated
Blasted
Stiff as a dead salmon
Drunk as Hogan's goat
So drunk you could remove his liver and use it for a doorstop