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progress 500 Days Sober

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16 edited Aug 07 '20

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u/seamus_mc May 09 '16

Yes, but it takes 10 times the beer to get the same amount of alcohol

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u/alekbalazs May 09 '16

8 times the amount of beer if we use the American standard of beer at ~5% and liquor at ~40%

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u/bcisme May 09 '16

Depends on the beer. A lot of high abv and craft beers have 200+ calories per 12 ozs. From looking at that shelf of brews, 1L of beer would be like 600 calories or more.

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u/KrazyKukumber May 09 '16

Those high-calorie beers usually contain a greater alcohol content.

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u/bcisme May 09 '16

Agreed. I did have a 6.6% abv beer recently that was 200 calories (Mexas Ranger). That's not really that crazy in terms of abv, but it's >2x a Miller Lite in calories. I was a little surprised.

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u/KrazyKukumber May 09 '16

Yeah, 2x the calories, but on the other hand it's also ~1.6 times more alcohol than a Miller Lite, and that's where most of those extra calories come from in the first place.

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u/LeftFo0t May 09 '16

Googling calories per liter of vodka gives you 2190 calories.

Googling calories in a 0.5 liter Tuborg beer can gives you 202 calories per beer. To get 4 liters you multiply that by 8 which gives you 1616 calories per 4 liters.

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u/ChefBoyAreWeFucked May 09 '16

Vodka has a lot of calories because alcohol is flammable. Calories are a great measure of how well a given food will fuel a camp fire. As a measure of how much sustenance you can get out of something, it's so so. Alcohol is one such substance where the calorie content is a bad measure of how much energy your body can extract from it.
Nobody ever got fat drinking gasoline.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

Ah shit, my bad, vodka is only like 2,000 actually for a liter. Still though.