Police spotted a Ford Mondeo without a tax disc, spoke to the driver and found he was over the drink-drive limit.
Donatas Soblevicius (30), of Galway Close, Spalding, had 55 microgrammes of alcohol in breath – 30 over the legal limit – when he was arrested in the town’s Winsover Road on April 21.
Jim Clare, prosecuting, said police stopped the driver at about 7pm.
Spalding magistrates on Thursday banned Soblevicius from driving for 16 months and imposed a £200 fine with £85 costs and a £20 victim surcharge.
The court will allow him to cut four months off the ban if he completes a drink-drive rehabilitation course.
Solicitor Carrie Simson, mitigating, said Soblevicius had been to a party celebrating with friends.
She said: “He tells me he drank only two cans of beer and a certain amount of time had elapsed, in hindsight not long enough but he felt perfectly fine to drive.”