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BEER

According to WHO statistics just over 34% of alcohol is drunk as beer .

The earliest brewery was discovered in 2018 near Haifa in Israel and dates from 13,000 years ago. It shows that beer drinking has a long history part of which records that some pyramid builders were given a daily ration of 4/5 litres of beer a day as added ‘nutrition and refreshment’.

As water in middle ages often contained harmful bacteria, some Nuns were allocated a daily allowance of some 6 pints of ale a day. The brewing process killed the bacteria and made beer drinking much safer than water. This weak mixture was only about 1% proof, so a pint was roughly 0.5 units, six pints was therefore 3 units a day. This adds up to 21 units a week and well above the recommended UK limit.

BEER / THE NUMBERS

Beer usually ranges from 3% - 7% ABV.

A pint is 473 ml, so the same 6% brew works out at 2.84 units. 10 pints of a weaker 3% a beer is marginally above the 14 weekly limit at 14.19 units.