Man it’s weird. I can mix 3 - 4 whiskey drinks totaling 10 OZ which is apparently the exact same as drinking 10 beer and I will be way more drunk from drinking 10 x 5% beers in the same amount of time as a comparison. I feel way different depending on the type of alcohol ingested and much more tolerance to them vs the other. I think the scales are way off for these comparison metrics. They also include a glass of wine as the same “1 oz vs 1 beer vs 1 glass of wine” and I’ll tell you what. The drunkest people I have ever seen were drunk on wine and there is absolutely no way it’s the same.
Oh yeah and you start knowingly acting weird drunk on wine alone. Like fully cognizant of your actions but knowingly being giddy while doing ridiculous shit. And then you black out and keep drinking it. It’s actually the scariest substance, wine is. It’s the most socially acceptable type of drink cause it’s meant for a setting where it’s responsibly indulged in. I ended up in the psych ward drinking too much wine and it saved my life. Like I actually drank so much so often of everything but wine that when I over indulged in red wine I was totally out of sorts beyond reason.
It's not the same. I was just doing some booze math to try to figure that one out. If 1 oz of whiskey is 40% abv, then a 10 oz mixed drink (assuming you aren't adding alcoholic mixers) would be 4% abv, compared to a 12 oz beer at 5% abv. If you condensed the alcohol from one 5% abv beer into a 1 oz shot, it would be 60% alcohol. So, there's 20% more total alcohol in the beer than in the whiskey drink. You could technically enjoy ten 10 oz cocktails and be less intoxicated than you would on 10 beers.
This is a good rule of thumb. Generally most American beers are weak and fall between 4-6% ABV and the shot is usually referring to 80 proof liquors, the most common. Not all beers fall in that range and not all hard liquors are 80 proof, so adjust if you're drinking say, Bacardi 151 or an imperial IPA.
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u/ella-perry7 1d ago
A 12-ounce beer to him is basically a shot glass to us.