# Indicating drink strength on drink menus

**URL:** https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/indicating-drink-strength-on-drink-menus/458
**Category:** Bars & Bartenders
**Created:** [January 27, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/indicating-drink-strength-on-drink-menus/458 "2022-01-27T15:15:58Z")
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### Author: ![martin](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/user_avatar/spiritsandcocktails.community/martin/32/777_2.png) [@martin](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/martin)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2026, 11:28am UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/indicating-drink-strength-on-drink-menus/458/8 "2026-07-09T11:28:29Z")

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A [comment](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/calculating-alcohol-content/1274/6) from @JRCX in a related thread pointed up a weakness in the historical thinking behind the standard drink. This illustration (again from [the wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_drink)) summarizes the cute reductive thinking at work:

 ![2026-07-09 at 7.15 AM](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b94f074f328458f91a3b2d1521a972ab553a21a8.jpeg)

So, as long as your drinking is limited to what you see 1 == 1 == 1 == 1. Count ’em up. Of course, that’s just not how a lot of us drink, today.

Hell, a couple craft beers from the ubiquitous tall boys could easily be 3 standard drinks.

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