"You are what you eat" and this extends to what you drink - more than mere calories and nutrients. Unlike most foods, what you drink may also well contain...
Hi Simon, I'm a bit confused about the Standard Drink (US) and UK Unit. The US std. drink contains 14 g. of alcohol, while the UK Unit contains 8 g. Then if 30 mL @ 40% = 14 g of pure alcohol and is one US Drink, then the same volume and concentration in UK Units would be 14/8 g of pure alcohol or 1.75 UK Units, rather than 1.2 units as indicated. Or is my math(s) erroneous?
Thanks for pointing out, Paul. The wine calculation is correct, but 30ml (1oz) of 40% spirit = 0.7 standard drink (not 1 standard drink as previously). Now corrected.
Hi Simon. Do you have an article explaining your booziness and sweet/dry/sour ratings? are these ratings based on a qualitative or quantitative assessment or perhaps both?
Not something I thought to write about. Both sales are literally my own assessment when sipping after making each cocktail. Those cocktails that don't yet show this scale are ones that I'm yet to re-make since introducing the scales some 5 years ago.
You say that in the USA “proof” is equal to twice the ABV. I take it then that “proof” as was usually used in the U.K. (but now ABV is used) was different because I’m sure that 70° proof was equal to 40% ABV.
An excellent idea, well done for adding this feature. I don’t suppose you could figure out the (non-alcohol) carbohydrate content as well, for those of us wanting to monitor our sugar uptake? I guess this would be very difficult though as sugar content isn’t routinely listed on bottles.
I'd like to see all drinks products required to declare grams of sugar per litre and I'm sure this will be the case in the not too distant future. And when they do, well be sure to add this to our cocktail recipes. In the meantime, for the few brands that do tell us how much sugar they contain, we show 'grams of sugar per litre' on our product pages.