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[fatbjork]

Hi, does drinking 1 pint of 7% cider equal 2 pints of 3.5% bitter?

[kempie]

As these are 'by volume' measures the answer is yes.

By drinking twice the volume of the half strength bitter you would indeed ingest the same quantity of alcohol.

[dmsjps]

And that's why I get drunk on my cider faster than my husband gets drunk on his lager! That's not true actually; he gets drunk quicker, but he swigs his cans of lager down in minutes and a large bottle of cider lasts me all night, so if you take into account the total volume each we've had, then he has tons more than I do.

[andyswann]

So does that mean that 1 and a half pints of 50/50 cider/lager will be the same as 1 pint of cider or two bitter?