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Most cider is 4–6% ABV, with some styles running 2–12% depending on how it’s made.

Healthy alcohol intake means keeping to low-risk limits, and many people are safest with no alcohol at all.

Alcohol is excessive when it raises health or safety risk for you, often above low-risk daily or weekly limits.

Heavy drinking is alcohol use that regularly goes past common daily or weekly limits, raising the odds of injury and long-term harm.

Excessive alcohol use starts when drinking goes past low-risk limits used by health agencies for binge patterns, weekly totals, age, and pregnancy.

How much alcohol is considered alcoholic varies by rule, but 0.5% ABV is the common U.S. cutoff for “non-alcoholic” labels.

In the U.S., one drink is 14 g of pure alcohol—often 12 oz beer (5% ABV), 5 oz wine (12%), or 1.5 oz 80-proof spirits.

Alcohol is “bad for your liver” once drinking is frequent or heavy enough to drive fat buildup, inflammation, or scarring in the liver.

Alcohol starts raising health risk as intake rises; staying at or under standard low-risk limits lowers harm for most adults.

The stomach absorbs about 20% of alcohol, with most absorption in the small intestine and shaped by food and timing.