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In the UK we use "units of alcohol".

One unit of alcohol is defined as 10 ml of pure alcohol.

That's about 8 gm (I think).

In the UK the strength of an alcoholic drink is given as Alcohol by Volume, as a percentage.

Beer is typically about 5%.

To work out the unit you multiply the serving size in liters by the ABV number.

A 330 ml bottle of beer at 5% = 0.33 * 5 = 1.65 units. (The bottle would probably say 1.7 units.)

The US uses a different amount of alcohol for their standard drink. I think they use 12 gm of pure alcohol.

(EDIT: I didn't downvote you. I upvoted you. I don't understand the downvotes.)



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_drink#Definitions_in_... The standard varies by countries. The UK unit is 8g, the australian and french units are 10g, the american and german units are 14g.




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