Recent years have seen a huge increase in the availability of non-alcoholic beers. Not only are they easier to find now, but there's also a decent range and the overall quality has significantly improved. However, whatever your reason for choosing a non-alcoholic drink , it's good to have some idea how they stack up against their alcoholic counterparts.
It's not possible to give a single answer on how many non-alcoholic beers would equal a single alcoholic beer — simply because the amount of alcohol in different beers varies so wildly. That being said, the National Institute on Alcohol and Alcoholism Abuse defines a "regular beer" as having 5% alcohol content. So, while some will have much more alcohol (or a little less), 5% is a good average to assume.
The amount of alcohol that is in a non-alcoholic beer, while very small, still varies. Legally, anything between 0.0% and 0.
5% can be labeled as "non-alcoholic" (as opposed to "alcohol-free"). Taking the upper end of that and some simple math, drinking 10 non-alcoholic beers could be equitable to drinking a single alcoholic beer. Is there any risk of getting drunk on non-alcoholic beer? The short answer to whether you can get drunk on non-alcoholic beer is "no.
" It's hard to define at what point someone becomes "drunk;" everybody metabolizes alcohol at different rates, and the effects of that alcohol will vary from person to person. In the United States, the legal limit for driving is a blood alcohol level of 0.08%, which is.