How Many Standard Shots Are In A Bottle Of 1800 The Ultimate Margarita?

For shoppers who like to hunt down a good deal, taking a trip to the liquor store can involve an unexpected amount of math. Alcoholic beverages come in a variety of different sizes, and figuring out the cost per ounce can be a bit tricky, especially because these bottles are typically labeled in liters. With certain products as well, such as 1800 The Ultimate Margarita, a good assessment of cost per drink also involves factoring in the strength of the beverage. Don't worry, though; we're here to save you all that math and just lay out the numbers.

For starters, we'll just break down the size of the bottle into standard shots. Across the industry, 1.5 ounces is considered to be a standard shot of liquor. The size of shot glasses can vary widely, but an ounce and a half of 80-proof (40% alcohol by volume, or ABV) liquor is considered one shot. 1800 The Ultimate Margarita is typically sold in 1.75-liter bottles, which total out to just over 59 ounces. That means that each of those Ultimate Margarita bottles contains about 39 shots, with a little more than half an ounce leftover.

1800 The Ultimate Margarita, though, is not standard liquor, but rather a line of premixed margaritas in flavors like Original, Passionfruit, Pineapple, and Black Cherry. As such, while those bottles do contain over 39 shots, they contain far fewer actual drinks. To do that math, we'll need to factor in the lower alcohol content of the beverage.

When determining what actually qualifies as a drink, there are a few different guidelines that we can follow, but in the United States, we typically default to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According to these guidelines, one standard drink is 12 ounces of 5% ABV beer, 5 ounces of 12% ABV wine, or 1.5 ounces of 40% ABV liquor. Each of these measurements comes out to 0.6 ounces, or 14 grams, of ethanol.

Factoring that in, for a standard 80-proof bottle of liquor, like 1800 Silver Tequila, the number of drinks would be very different from what it is for these premixed margaritas, which are only about 10% ABV. At that strength, one standard drink would be about 6 ounces, meaning that each bottle of 1800 The Ultimate Margarita contains 39-plus shots, but just under 10 actual drinks. Looking at things that way, the number of margaritas in one bottle of standard tequila starts to look a bit more appealing — you can get about 15 drinks out of one of those.

Of course, taking that route, there's then the price of the bottle of tequila as well as the other ingredients like margarita mix or lime juice and orange liqueur, and those costs can add up quickly. The best margarita recipes often don't come cheap, while these simple premixed bottles, frankly, do. At roughly $16 per bottle, depending on where you buy it, that's only about $1.60 per drink — not bad at all.