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| TIPS & ADVICE |
Wine, Spirits or Beer?
- by Paul Harrington |
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spirits - it all has the same effect. Basic math shows that a typical cocktail like the Aviation has the same amount of alcohol in it as a glass of wine or a bottle of beer.
In the Aviation II, 4 cl of the liquid is gin, which is 40 percent alcohol, and 1 cl is maraschino liqueur, which is 30 percent alcohol. Lemon juice and water make up the remainder, or 56 percent of this drink. The entire concentration of alcohol in a cocktail is typically about 17 percent. With any drink, if you multiply the concentration of alcohol by the volume of a typical serving, you'll come up with a potency factor that shows cocktails to be nearly dead even with wine and beer in their standard serving sizes.
15 cl x .17% = 2.55 for a cocktail
18 cl x .14% = 2.52 for a glass of wine
36 cl x .06% = 2.16 for a bottle of beer
Most likely, the reason people naïvely assume that cocktails have more alcohol is because they enjoy drinking them more, and the smooth taste of cocktails lets the imbibers sip them more briskly than other drinks. In general, only one or two cocktails should be enjoyed at any one sitting.
It's a fallacy that drinking a variety of cocktails will lower your alchahol intake. The fact is, if you drink five Manhattans as opposed to two Aviations II, one Sidecar, and a Rob Roy, your intake of alchahol is just as high.
One must be careful serving and enjoying these tasty treats. When mixing drinks, never disguise the taste of alcohol for your guests (especially the rookies). |
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