What is a drink?!
What is a drink?
I know they say a drink is a 12 oz beer, 5 oz of wine or a 1.5 oz shot of hard liquor, but the problem with this is that they don't specify the alcohol by volume. If I drink a 40oz (which is like 3 and 1/4 beers) that's 8.1% (Steel Reserve) how many beers would I actually be drinking? Assuming that the average beer is 5% I would have to adjust my calculation based on the fact the 40 oz is 8.1% abv. Also what's the average abv in wine? When they say that 1.5 oz of hard liquor is a drink do they mean 60 proof or 80 proof? Thanks
Answers:
In a chemistry lab (Madison Area Techinical College) I did an analysis on the alcohol content of wine. We tested a few types of white wine and most were around 12% to 13%
As far as your steel reserve goes, you will sort of need to do an equivalency calculation which you started. There is a nice equation that will help here, remember it as C1V1=C2V2
Concentration1 X Volume1 = Concentration2 X Volume 2
With steel reserve 40oz * .089 = Y oz * .05
This tells us that there are 3.56 oz of alcohol in that 40oz (this comes for the left of the equation.
so we have 3.56 = Yoz * .05
This second part tells us that we will have Y oz of 5% abv beer is equal to your 40oz. In this case it is 71.2 oz.
so 71.2oz of 5% abv beer is the same dose as your 40oz steel reserve
By the time you are on your fourth drink - it really wouldn't matter!
first of all the amount of alcohol in "a drink" is the same and that's why the volume is different for each type. Lets start with beer... 12 oz of beer is the same as 1 1/4 shot of alcohol (80 proof) and 6 oz of wine which is about 12% average, beer is about 5-8 % so you say 6 for average. That is the standard. Forget about converting or worrying about changing. if you have a mixed drink, it still has the same pour (1 1/4 oz) of hard liquor no matter how much mixer they add. BTW, if you have to count, you are not enjoying yourself, or if doing it for someone else, you need to be more in tuned of how they are reacting.. everyone is different. don't get caught up in the numbers in my opinion. Hope that helps.