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Want to know if your drinking is okay? Or are you considering making some changes to your drinking but want to know more? Do you know exactly how big a standard drink is?
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Guide to Standard Drinks
If you drink a 330ml can of beer or a 100ml glass of table wine or a 30ml glass of straight spirits, you are drinking approximately 10 grams of alcohol, depending on the alcohol percentage. 10 grams of alcohol equals one standard drinkA drink containing 10 grams of alcohol..
To drink responsibly, you need to know just how much alcohol is in a drink.
All alcohol packaging and containers now have to state the number of standard drinks they contains.
To find out more about how much you are drinking, use the interactive tool to quickly find out how much alcohol is in that drink.
Download our Straight Up Guide to Standard Drinks (pdf 163KB).
Click here to download our Standard Drinks Measure Chart (pdf 188KB)
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