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In essence, each alcoholic drink is .02 on your BAC...and takes just over an hour or so for that alcohol to leave your system. 6 drinks in a 2 hour period (.12 - .04 = .08) Meaning if you get caught, you're up DUI creek without a paddle.
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Not exactly. While they give you a sobreity test and deal with other issues, you're metabolising alcohol. The BAC test that's admissable in court is not the road side one because of the many flaws in it, it's the blood test. While I've heard of the road test having a bearing on the court, it's not the one they use for the solid number.
Also, another interesting fact. They can give you DUI for .06, .04, .02, .01. Whatever they want they can give you a DUI, .08 is simply a "suggested" barometer of drunkeness, not a hard law. Most of the time cops won't bother you until you're at least .08, but not to say it could be done.
All of the information comes from Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program, which apparently if you get caught with possession of alcohol by a minor they put you in drunk driving courses, for whatever reason.