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This is in a different measurement from a casual understanding of 6 drinks. It’s 6 daily alcohol units. UK’s NHS alcohol calculator says 2 pints of 5.2% beer is

• OJFord 4y ago
  > UK’s NHS alcohol calculator says 2 pints of 5.2% beer is 6 units. It's actually quite easy to calculate fwiw, a 'unit' is 10ml ethanol: 2pints * 0.052 / 10 = 2(568ml) * 0.052 / 10 = 5.9072 units ... I'm not sure if that made my 'easy' point well enough, obviously pints mess it up a bit (and you have to know a pint is 568ml - I've remembered ever since I went to study at Imperial, where the student bars include the well-named 'Metric' & '568') but 10ml is nice and round so it's fairly easy to get a rough idea or with rounder numbers - e.g. a whole 75cl bottle of wine at 12% is 3/4 * 12 = 9 units.