{"id":5208,"date":"2018-01-24T07:48:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T14:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2018-01-24T07:48:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T14:48:42","slug":"alcohol-facts-statistics-what-is-a-standard-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/alcohol-facts-statistics-what-is-a-standard-drink.html","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol Facts &#038; Statistics &#8211; What Is A Standard Drink?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people are surprised to learn what counts as a drink. \u00a0The amount of liquid in your glass, can, or bottle does not necessarily match up to how much alcohol is actually in your drink.\u00a0 Different types of beer, wine, or malt liquor can have very different amounts of alcohol content. For example, many light beers have almost as much alcohol as regular beer \u2013 about 85% as much.\u00a0\u00a0 Here\u2019s another way to put it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Regular beer: 5% alcohol content<\/li>\n<li>Some light beers: 4.2% alcohol content<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That\u2019s why it\u2019s important to know how much alcohol your drink contains.\u00a0 In the United States, one &#8220;standard&#8221; drink contains roughly 14 grams of pure alcohol, which is found in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12 ounces of regular beer, which is usually about 5% alcohol<\/li>\n<li>5 ounces of wine, which is typically about 12% alcohol<\/li>\n<li>1.5 ounces of distilled spirits, which is about 40% alcohol<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How do you know how much alcohol is in your drink?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even though they come in different sizes, the drinks below are each examples of\u00a0<strong><em>one standard drink<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.niaaa.nih.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/introduction-standard-drink-sidebar.png\" alt=\"The same amount of alcohol is contained in 12 fluid ounces of regular beer, 8 to 9 fluid ounces of malt liquor, 5 fluid ounces of table wine, or a 1.5 fluid ounce shot of 80-proof spirits (\u201chard liquor\u201d such as whiskey, gin, etc.) The percent of \u2018pure\u2019 alcohol varies by beverage.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each beverage portrayed above represents one standard drink of &#8220;pure&#8221; alcohol, defined in the United States as 0.6 fl oz or 14 grams. The percent of pure alcohol, expressed here as alcohol by volume (alc\/vol), varies within and across beverage types. Although the standard drink amounts are helpful for following health guidelines, they may not reflect customary serving sizes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0 <\/strong>National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people are surprised to learn what counts as a drink. \u00a0The amount of liquid in your glass, can, or bottle does not necessarily match up to how much alcohol is actually in your drink.\u00a0 Different types of beer, wine, or malt liquor can have very different amounts of alcohol content. For example, many light &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/alcohol-facts-statistics-what-is-a-standard-drink.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alcohol Facts &#038; Statistics &#8211; What Is A Standard Drink?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drinks","category-miscellaneous-information"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5209,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}