Alcohol consumption

[Sweet G]

Does a person drink more alcohol in a 568ml pint of lager @ 4% strength or in a 35ml gin @ 40% strength with a 125ml tonic? Thanks

[LazyGun]

at 4% alcohol by volume, 568ml of lager contains approx 22ml of alcohol.

at 40% alcohol by volume, the 35ml of Gin plus 125ml of tonic would contain approx 14 ml of alcohol.

The 568ml pint of lager ought to contain more alcohol I would have thought, based upon the calculations.

[Loosehead]

well it's simple arithmetic 4% of 568 or 40% of 35....

22.72 v 14 the pint has most.

[mibn2cweus]

The gin has ten times the alcohol per volume so you would need to have only ten times as much lager (350ml) or one-tenth as much the gin (56.8ml) to consume an equal quantity of alcohol . . . I'll have two of each, please!

[Gef]

To agree with the other answers and (hopefully) put it more simply.

Volume in litres x % alcohol = units of alcohol.

So, as others have said.

Lager: 0.568 x 4.0 = 2.272
Gin: 0.035 x 40 = 1.4

The tonic is irrelevant.

[dawkins]

the tonic is not irrelevant as neat gin would taste horrible.

[dawkins]

by the way, roughly speaking a single spirit is equivalent to half a pint of beer/larger i.e. they are each 1 unit.