So, I’ve been told since Junior High that 12 oz. of beer has the same alcholic value as 8 oz. of wine and the same as a shot of…choose your poison. These also happen to, AFAIK, be the standard serving sizes for their respective drinks (OK, maybe pints for beer being 16 oz IIRC). My question is: is the fact that these standard serving sizes have essentially the same alcoholic content a coiincidence, or was this somehow planned (much to the delight of Drivers’ ed instructors everywhere)? Perhaps its a generalization that just happens to work nicely.
Of course, we know that not all the drinks are absorbed/affect people in the same ways, so no need to get into that necessarily. Also, obviously different brands in the same class will have different levels (i.e. the Polish vodka that evaporates if you leave the cap off will be more alcholic than Johnny Walker Red, etc.).