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  2. Alcohol in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Heavy binge drinking is well established in Britain and the country consistently ranks highest for binge drinking culture in health reports. [1] [2] [11] The percentage of people binge drinking varies slightly from constituent country to country, In England in 2019 this was 15%, Wales; 14% and Scotland 18%. [13]

  3. Drinking culture - Wikipedia

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    Drinking culture is a subset of alcohol use situated within the larger scope of drug culture. Drinking culture encompasses the traditions, rituals, and social behaviors associated with consumption of alcoholic beverages as a recreational drug and social lubricant .

  4. Round of drinks - Wikipedia

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    Greaves' Rules is a set of etiquette guidelines common in the UK for buying rounds of drinks in English public houses.The rules were first defined by William Greaves (April 1938 - November 2017), a London journalist of the defunct Today newspaper as a Saturday morning essay in the paper, based upon his long experience of pubs and rounds.

  5. Beer in England - Wikipedia

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    [85] [86] Drinking a yard glass full of beer as quickly as possible is a traditional pub game; the bulb at the bottom of the glass makes it likely that the contestant will be splashed with a sudden rush of beer towards the end of the feat. The fastest drinking of a yard of ale (1.42 litres) in the Guinness Book of Records is five

  6. Tea in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The rise in popularity of tea between the 17th and 19th centuries had major social, political, and economic implications for the Kingdom of Great Britain.Tea defined respectability and domestic rituals, supported the rise of the British Empire, and contributed to the rise of the Industrial Revolution by supplying both the capital for factories and calories for labourers. [5]

  7. Booze Britain - Wikipedia

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    Booze Britain is a fly-on-the-wall documentary television series produced by Granada [1] that aired on British satellite TV channel Bravo [1] in half-hour episodes which document the binge drinking culture of various towns and cities in the United Kingdom. [2]

  8. Alcoholic beverage - Wikipedia

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    A standard drink is a notional drink that contains a specified amount of pure alcohol. The standard drink is used in many countries to quantify alcohol intake. It is usually expressed as a measure of beer, wine, or spirits. One standard drink always contains the same amount of alcohol regardless of serving size or the type of alcoholic beverage.

  9. Pub - Wikipedia

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    1899 map showing number of public houses in a district of central London. Ale was a native British drink before the arrival of the Roman Empire in the first century, but it was with the construction of the Roman road network that the first pubs, called tabernae (the origin of modern English "tavern"), began to appear.