 All you need is a little bit of math and you can learn a whole lot about how you drink and how to do it better. Hey there, njroute22.com here and today's episode is math nerds and drinking or whatever you want to call it. With a little bit of math you can you can figure out how to drink better or at least be in control of your drinking and understand why you might not feel so good one day or another. So here's the deal. You know there's a lot of different ways you can consume alcohol. You can consume beer and just buying a six pack of any beer is not the same. Unless you drink Budweiser every single day the alcohol content varies between all sorts of drinks. You got beer. Just a six pack of beer doesn't necessarily mean that one six pack is going to feel the same as the next. If you drink a higher alcohol beer then six of those is going to make you feel worse than six lower alcohol beers because there's more alcohol in your body to process. Same thing with wine. There's 12% alcohol wines and then there's 16 or 16% wines. So the same bottle of two different wines or I'm sorry two bottles of wine two different bottles of wine you're gonna have different results because one will get you more buzz than the other. And then of course you have things like vodka that that all have about around the same proof you know and you have 80 proof which is 40% alcohol. And then you have seltzers. I drink these these Smirnov seltzers. You know they're pretty good. I think it's focusing. I hope it's focusing. Yeah I think I don't know. I can't tell anymore if this this camera rig I have is following me enough. But anyway the whole point is the first thing you should do is establish a baseline of what is okay for you to consume on an ongoing basis every night. You know it's gonna take some self experimentation to do this. And I did that. So I figured out you know for a long while I could drink two bottles of red wine and that was my baseline and that's how I could tell if a wine was good or bad because it didn't with the wine situation it didn't matter the alcohol. Sometimes I drank two bottles of a 15% wine or two bottles of a 13 and a half percent wine and I would feel differently. And I realized over time that it was the sulfites and the long several years of drinking so much red wine that that it was whatever was in there. That's my that's my opinion it's not proven. I didn't do any studies. I really I can prove it to myself and that's why I don't drink red wine anymore. But in the beginning I established a baseline and my baseline was two bottles of wine is the make or break whether it's good or bad for me. And I also said that I could drink one bottle of any wine and feel fine the next day. Well something's changed. I switched over these seltzers and I picked one brand that's the best. It's the Smirnoff Spike Sparkling Seltzer and my baseline now has changed. I've you know lost some weight and I drink less so I've actually lowered my tolerance for alcohol which is fine with me because it's less money less hangover less less all that. But my baseline is six cans of Smirnoff Spike Sparkling Seltzer over a period of time. It's not six cans in an hour because I'm probably not going to be tired and I'll probably drink more. I water my drinks down 50-50 with the Smirnoff. I water it down with a can of seltzer so it's like 12 ounces of seltzer 12 ounces of alcohol seltzer and 12 ounces of non alcohol seltzer. That's my baseline. It takes me you know it depends on the the night but I usually stop at no more than six. It's very rare I have more than six. Sometimes I only need two or three and I just do my business and it could sometimes take me an hour to drink a quart. This is one of these mason jars. I put ice in it melts it compensates and it gives me most often you know 20 a minimum of 24 if I suck it down and God knows sometimes I'm left with no ice so I get an extra 12 ounces of not 12 ounces of 10 ounces I'll do the math 20 to 30 32 12 times 24 so I get like an extra 8 ounces of water and it's refreshing. Anyway so I just established that the baseline for me was six drinks a night and of these 4.5 percent alcohol drinks so you gotta do a little math now let's do some math together. So I figured out and forget 12 ounces we're gonna deal with milliliters here because you know why not it's it's a little bit easier to deal with milliliters they're smaller numbers really and instead of saying 12 ounces or 11.6 ounces and decimals I'll just say 355 milliliters of this can of seltzer at 4.5 percent alcohol equals about 16 milliliters of 100 proof alcohol I'm sorry 200 like 100% alcohol 100% alcohol so that's 16 milliliters of alcohol pure alcohol per drink per drink per serving it takes me a long time so like I wanted to figure out what am I what's my what how much vodka do I need to drink a lot of times they sell these things and in the beginning I said I'll just drink six of these little airline bottles okay these airline bottles are 50 milliliters oh my god that sounds about right I drank six of these one night and I felt a little bit worse than drinking six cans of seltzer so the math you have to do the math so here's some math for you so if this can has 16 milliliters of 100% alcohol and by the way if you go to a 5% for instance instead of having 16 milliliters of 100% alcohol per can it has about a little under 18 so that's like over a 10% more alcohol but anyway this is math nerd talk here so basically what you have to do is like how much vodka do I need to drink to equal the alcohol in here that's the problem with alcohol you just make a drink you pour it by eye most of the time people drink way too much vodka and this is a very very very very bad thing about vodka it's very easy to over drink very easy to over drink unless you have a control mechanism in place so anyway you gotta do the math so 16 milliliters of 100% alcohol equals what how many milliliters of 80 proof or 40% alcohol so you do the math 16 over 1 equals question mark over 0.4 and the math is simple you just take 16 divided by 0.4 and that equals 40 okay so now I know I to equal the alcohol in this can of Smirnoff I have to drink 40 milliliters of this 80 proof vodka now how do you do that how exactly like most people don't know how to do this like well so they'll end up drinking way too much because drinking vodka is a lot of fun so hang on a second I'm gonna get my scale set up and we'll do some some measuring I'll show you how it's done okay so the first thing you need to do is get one of these bad boys this is just a simple little kitchen scale buy my name is not like under 10 bucks okay now these things are great they're called auto tar or whatever you just stick your I have this glass here set up it has ginger capsule in it some ice cubes and a squirt of lemon already in it so what you do is you stick it on your scale okay and you turn it on you turn your scale on and it tars out to zero so there's zero it thinks there's nothing on there so what you do is you pour make sure it's in milliliters so you change the setting to milliliters and you pour it until it says 40 and you got to drizzle it in because if you go over your screwed you can't go over with a can of that 42 shit okay so I went over 42 which is which is not good I put 42 now I'm gonna put stick two cans of this polar seltzer in and don't worry about what it measures up to at that point we're done with this let me turn off my secondary camera so that's the way you can I went over by 5% which is what happens almost every time I rarely get it at 40 on the diet it's so frustrating now there's a way you could do this you can pre-measure out 240 that's six times 40s 240 milliliters of booze and that'll be your inventory for the night how you drink it if you drink five stronger ones that's that's do that at your own power so now here here's my new my new drink this has pretty much the same amount of alcohol as my my Smirnov spiked sparkling seltzer you understand that now I'll tell you one thing about doing the vodka version I feel pretty good the next day when I can control the the amount of vodka and that's extremely important it's very important to have a control and you and self-control is not easy when you drink alcohol it truly is not it's it's easier with these cans I mean the only way I could break myself control is to have more than six cans I'll have a seven eight doesn't usually happen but it's very easy for this this booze here like I just showed you I went over I went to 42 milliliters and that's nothing but over five drinks six drinks you've already added another can if you drink six and that's that's a real a real problem with drinking vodka I mean these things aren't so bad because you can control these as well if you I see a lot of people who aren't doing so great they buy a handful of these and they have a limited amount they can drink that's one way of doing it if you want to just stick to these things and portion them out I'll buy five for instance five of these equals more than six of these at 46 is to 45 is 250 I don't know it's that's one of the things that I like to challenge myself with it's staying within the control and using these tools that that they're very easily accessible to anybody with ten bucks in their pocket you can control it but I'm telling you there's been times where I I drank I did my little experiment and I think almost all almost every single time I drank more six drinks of six vodka drinks was more alcohol than six of my smirnoffs and man it's self-control is not easy it's really not easy but if you really want to stick to the guns or stick to your plan just try and pour it carefully and like I said preportion out 240 milliliters in a separate little jug somewhere and put your bottle away and then stop stop drinking it at your six drink limit whatever self-imposed we call it baseline that you've established and this way you can control your drinking otherwise you're gonna end up drinking way way more than you set out to and you're gonna feel like pretty pretty crappy the next day so that's that's how we do it and I just gave you some tools on how you can do it but you got to do some math if a six pack of seven percent alcohol beers that you're fine with then you got to change your numbers around or if you only like you know half a bottle of wine at 13 percent your your equal number of vodka drinks is gonna be different as well so you got to do a little math polish up on your fractions and your cross multiplying and all this other crap whatever it's called I I forget but I'm surprised I still remember how to do these things but that's how you do it so are you gonna do some math are you just gonna drink because it's easy and silly have a good week ahead