Drinking too much alcohol can cause serious effect to your health.
However, it has been a part of daily lives.
Therefore, it will be better for you to recognize the standards of this drinking.
The following is presented some standards for several types of hard beverages.
In Australia, the standard drink is containing alcohol of 10 trams or around 12.
5 ml.
it would be different in some other countries.
In Canada, the standard drink at least contains alcohol of at least 13.
5 grams or 17 ml.
meanwhile, in the UK, it contains of at least 8 grams or 10 ml.
In other words, the level of standard above is used for calculating of a legal BAC limit of 0.
05% applies.
It means that if your body contains more than those standard above, you are restricted to drive since it is considered to be risky.
In order to recognize how much alcohol certain beverages contain, they are usually labeled with the level of alcohol by the volume (5%) so that you can calculate it by yourself.
To find out the level of alcohol, you can multiply it by the size of the serving and divide it by 12.
5 ml.
The result will represent the standard drinks it represents.
Take as the example for your ease.
If the beverage is labeled 4.
8% of alcohol with the volume of 285 ml, you can know the standard drink by multiplying 285 ml by 0.
048.
You will get 13.
68ml alcohol.
Then, divide it by 12.
50ml.
The final result will show 1.
09 standard drinks.
It usually belongs to heavy alcohol beer.
For further information, the light level beer is labeled 2.
7%.
The mid strength is labeled 3.
5% and the full strength is labeled by 4.
8%.
The wine has different label.
For white wine, it is labeled 11.
5% and the red wine is labeled 13.
5%.