Units and Calories

These tools turn a drink into numbers: UK units, standard drinks, grams of pure alcohol and calories. Each one shows its formula and its sources. Use them for questions such as how many units or standard drinks a drink contains, how many calories are in beer, wine or spirits, and how to convert one measure into another.

Tools in this group

• Alcohol Calorie Calculator — Enter a drink's size and strength to see its calories, split between alcohol and carbohydrate, and what a planned cut-back leaves undrunk.
• Alcohol Conversion Calculator — Enter an amount of pure alcohol in one measure to see it in grams, millilitres, ounces, UK units, standard drinks and calories.
• Alcohol Unit Calculator — Add the drinks you have in a typical week and see the total in UK units, set against the 14-unit weekly guidance.
• Alcohol Units Chart — See the UK units in 19 common drinks, from a half pint to a bottle of spirits, and change a strength to match the label.
• Burn Off Alcohol Calories — Enter a drink and your body weight to see how many minutes of walking, running or cycling use the calories in it.
• Calories in a Glass of Wine — Choose a wine style and a glass size to see the calories in a glass and in a whole bottle, split into alcohol and carbohydrate.
• Calories in Alcohol — Look up the calories in beer, wine and spirits by serving, and see how many come from the alcohol and how many from carbohydrate.
• Drink Equivalent Calculator — Enter any drink to see how many cans of beer, glasses of wine or shots hold the same amount of alcohol.
• Standard Drink Calculator — Enter the size and strength of a drink to see how many standard drinks it is, and what that drink is in every other country's standard.