A few days ago I wrote about being dismayed to discover a wine bottle only contains 2 1/2 long-neck beers. And I think a few readers construed that as justification to get sloshed. Yah! It’s only 2 1/2 beers! Hand me another bottle of Fetzer!
Not so fast. Wine contains double the amount of alcohol as beer.
The amount of alcohol in a 12-ounce serving of beer is roughly 6 percent. The amount of alcohol in wine is typically between 10 to 20 percent, depending on the type—which is why the standard pour of wine is less than half that of beer, somewhere around 4 to 5 ounces.
(The real question is, why I am only learning this stuff now…at my age?)
So drinking an entire bottle of wine by yourself is not like drinking 2 1/2 beers, in terms of one’s drunkitude, but like 5 to 6. Which veers into Tara Reid-gettin’-sloppy-on-Spring-Break territory. No judgements, of course. I’m on my third bottle of Fetzer right now.
I kid! I kid!
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Now you tell me…ouch that was loud.
It wasn’t just you! Me swears.