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Standard drinks and grams of alcohol

An Australian standard drink contains 10 g of alcohol. Enter a drink, and how often it is drunk, to get standard drinks and grams per day and per week.

The drink

Can of beer 375, glass of wine 150, bottle of wine 750, spirit nip 30.

Full-strength beer about 4.8, wine about 13, spirits about 40.

How much is drunk (optional)
Sex (for MetALD thresholds)

Enter the values above.

How it is worked out

Grams of alcohol = volume (mL) × alcohol by volume (%) ÷ 100 × 0.789, the density of ethanol. One Australian standard drink is 10 g.

References

National Health and Medical Research Council. Australian guidelines to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol. Canberra: NHMRC; 2020.

Rinella ME, Lazarus JV, Ratziu V, et al. A multisociety Delphi consensus statement on new fatty liver disease nomenclature. J Hepatol. 2023;79(6):1542-1556.