When the month of December approaches with everything from snow, Advent and Christmas celebrations, it is not entirely unusual to treat yourself to a cup of hot mulled wine.
The classic feature is sold both as an alcoholic drink and as a non-alcoholic drink. And although you can easily believe that non-alcoholic mulled wine is exactly what it sounds like, in many cases it is far from the truth. According to Swedish alcohol laws, such a drink may contain up to 0.5 percent alcohol.
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That’s how much alcohol-free mulled wine you can drink
If you were to drink non-alcoholic mulled wine and then get behind the wheel, you might wonder how much it takes to get caught for drunk driving.
Namely, you can drink non-alcoholic mulled wine and risk going there. So, how much does it take before you risk a breathalyzer test?
In fact, you need to consume a lot. An average man can drink as much as 2.82 liters of non-alcoholic mulled wine before it shows up and an average woman can drink 1.86 liters, according to a survey conducted by alcohol meter company Alcosense.
The grass is at 0.2 per thousand according to Swedish law.
The calculation is based on the Widmark formula, which calculates blood alcohol content based on alcohol content and amount divided by body weight based on an average for the sexes.
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