after half the bottle, these complex mathematics elude me.
Well, Bud is, what, 5% alcohol? Drinking 375 milliliters of 42% alcohol (shit yeah) is then the equivalent of drinking a little over 3,000 milliliters of Budweiser.
Nevermind that the thought of drinking THREE milliliters of Bud disgusts me… pick up some Corona, or Newcastle… nevermind.
ANYWAY, just figure out how many milliliters are in a bottle of Bud, and VOILA! slightly less difficult mathematics for your inebriated mind.
(By the way… what booze are you drinking that is 42%? Most bottles 'round my parts round it off to a simple 80-proof…)
Well, U.S. Budweiser is 4.9% ABV. And you have consumed 375 ml * 42% ABV = 157.5ml of ethanol.
157.5ml = X * 0.049
X = 157.5ml / 0.049
X = 3214ml = 3.214 L = 91.1 oz or
7.59 Budweisers
(I always thought a fifth of whiskey had more than 15 beer’s worth of booze, but I guess not…)
My calculations put it at 18 Budweisers.
A fifth of whisky is 25.7 ounces. 42% of that is 10.794 ounces.
A 12 ounce can of Budweiser at 4.9% Alcohol has 0.588 ounces of alcohol.
Divide 10.794 by 0.588 and you get the equivalent 18.35 cans of Budweiser
Hmm… your numbers seem to make sense, but at the moment I can’t tell what I did wrong in the last post.
Under Australian law, we have ABV printed on the label, but also the number of “standard drinks”. This makes it a bit easier.
One “Standard Drink” equals = one 30ml nip of whisky or other basic spirit, 60ml fortified wine, 150ml table wine, 250ml beer, 425ml low alcohol beer. These are rough, but basically they work out. A 750ml bottle of whisky tends to have about 25 - 28 standard drinks in it. A can of Bud (not sure of US can sizes) is about probably 1.3 standard drinks.
You messed up the conversion from oz to ml.
3.214L is 108.7 fluid ounces, not the 91.1 ounces you used in your calculation.
If you use the 108.7 ounce figure, and divide by 12, you get 9.1, which is a bit over half of Blalron’s figure (which is to be expected, because he converted a fifth and you converted 375 ml–note that a 1/5 of a gallon is actually slightly more then 750 ml).