My partner is a therapist and strongly advocates having a glass of wine with dinner most nights.
Current recommendation from the Netherlands Nutrition Centre:
> It is advisable to refrain from drinking alcohol, or to consume at most one glass a day. This advice applies equally to men and women.
> Moderate consumption of alcohol at one glass a day may reduce the chance of getting certain chronic diseases, but also raises the chances of getting breast cancer for women. Drinking more than one glass a day, is not beneficial at all, and has negative effects on health. It increases the risks of having a stroke; and getting breast, intestinal, or long cancer.
> The potential benefits of alcohol do not outweigh the negative effects on your health.¹
(Personally, I drink only in the weekends; usually one glass, occasionally two. It prevents making a habit out of it.)
2 bottles of 5% abv beer has a little less alcohol than 1 normal sized glass of 13% abv red wine.
330×5% < 150×13%A standard size bottle of wine (750ml) serves five or six glasses, but the hospitality industry usually goes for five out of a bottle. 150ml (or 5oz) is what you can reasonably expect in restaurants and bars for the average glass of wine.
Do you honestly pour a third of a bottle at a time for wine?
175ml and 125ml are also UK standards but in a lot of places if you order wine by the glass you'll get 250ml.
For the UK this is all not that relevant, because there the concept of the 'alcohol unit' is much more ingrained and used in public health campaigns, so you would work with those. E.g., with the recommended upper limit of 14 alcohol units, you could drink a standard glass of wine (175ml) six days of the week (12.6 units), or have a bottle of lager six days of the week and a pint of Guinness on Saturday (13.2 units).
1: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-support/calculating-alc...