what is more potent?

[pitstopbunny]

2 bottles of wine @ 13% or half a bottle of vodka @ 37.5% & how does the % thingy work?

[Fitzer]

18 units of alcohol in the wine (assuming 75 cl bottles) and 13.125 units in the vodka (assuming 35 cl for a half bottle) the ABV is just what percentage by volume is alcohol. To calculate units multiply the amount in ml by the abv and divide by 1000.

[Buenchico]

Fitzer needs to check his/her sums! The wine has 19.5 units.

An easy way to look at it is that the '%abv' figure tells you how many units there are in 1 litre of the drink. 2 bottles of wine comes to 1� litres. So that's 1� lots of 13 units = 19� units.

Similarly, a full litre of vodka would contain 37.5 units. A half bottle holds just over a third of a litre, so that's just a bit more than a 12� units. (Fitzer has done the accurate sum for you).

Chris

[Fitzer]

For some reason I entered 12% for the wine, no idea why, I hadn't even been drinking :-)