💧 Standard Drink Calculator

A simple, bilingual (English/Español) web app to calculate the amount of an alcoholic beverage needed to reach a desired number of US standard drinks, with optional dilution calculation. Features excellent decimal precision.

👉 Website Link. 🇬🇧/🇪🇸

FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY

Features

• Calculate required beverage volume for a given ABV and number of US standard drinks.
• Dilution calculator: Find the final ABV after adding a mixer (e.g., juice).
• Bilingual UI: Switch between English and Spanish instantly.
• Python CLI scripts: The two original scripts, one in English and one in Spanish.

What is an US Standard Drink?

A US standard drink contains approximately 17.74 mL of pure ethanol (about the amount in a typical can of beer).

Usage

Web App

1. Open index.html in your browser.
2. Enter the ABV (%) of your beverage and the number of standard drinks you want (aka how many "beers" of it).
3. Click Calculate.
4. (Optional) Add a diluting agent and calculate the total ABV of your mix.

📚 Switch language using the buttons at the top right.

Project Structure

index.html/
    index.css
js/
    index.js
img/
    screenshot.png
    vodka.png
docs/
    abv.py
    abv-es.py

Python Scripts

• English: docs/abv.py
• Spanish: docs/abv-es.py

Run in your terminal:

python abv.py
# or
python abv-es.py

Responsible Drinking

To reduce the risk of harm from alcohol-related disease or injury, healthy men and women should drink no more than 10 standard drinks a week and no more than 4 standard drinks on any one day.

For more information, visit the Australian Health Department's website.