By weight or volumn?
Lord Flasheart to Nursie: I like it firm and fruity. Am I glad to see you
or did I just put a canoe in my pocket?
Lord Flasheart: She’s got a tongue like an electric eel and she likes the
taste of a man’s tonsils.
What substance?
Woof woof
Beer.
Lord Flasheart to Nursie: I like it firm and fruity. Am I glad to see you
or did I just put a canoe in my pocket?
Lord Flasheart: She’s got a tongue like an electric eel and she likes the
taste of a man’s tonsils.
Volume.
(I think)
CF
Alcohol is not as dense as water, so that means your beer marked with 10% alcohol by volume contains less alcohol then one marked 10% by weight.
Zor is correct. “Alcohol content = X by weight” will kick your ass a bit quicker than will “alcohol content = X by volume.”
The rest of the contents of most libations are water, or some other things with specific gravities near to water’s.
Trouble is, I don’t recall ever seeing alcohol content reported on a label in terms of weight. Anyone seen this? Examples?
I don’t know why fortune smiles on some and lets the rest go free…
T
I don’t know of any liquids sold by weight. They are by fluid oz. So, ten oz of beer at 1% alcohol = 1 oz alcohol.
Volume.
Know those new ICE beers? What they do is freeze the beer (which kind of makes it taste a bit crappy) so the water content turns into slush. The alcohol will not. Then they pull out a bunch of the slush, which increases the alcohol concentration in the remaining beer because they’ve pulled out some of the water. Then it is allowed to defrost, is bottled and sold to you – the potential drunk seeking a better kick without getting ‘too full.’
Many of those cheap wines – you know, the ones brewed yesterday, marketed mainly to minorities and low income families, have alcohol added to make up for the short aging process and to give the drinker more bang for his buck. (They run about 12 to 14% per volume.)
That is not entirely correct, Handy. American beers do have their strength measured by %alcohol by weight (abw), whilst Canadian and European beers have their strength measured by %alcohol by volume(abv), causing them to appear more potent. British beers, I believe, used to have an “estimated strength” that showed the wort’s original gravity (OG), but now are measured (and taxed) on %abv.
It is often said that “anything is possible”. In fact, very few things are possible, and most of them have already happened.
As long as you get drunk, who cares?
Lysol! 100% alcohol content right there…so now you can get drunk and smell good, too!
((Note to readers: Catch22 was not drunk when he wrote this post))
“Don’t take life too seriously: you’ll never get out alive”
In the state of Kansas, two types of beer are sold…3.2 beer, which is labeled “3.2% alcohol by weight”, and strong beer, which can be more than 3.2% alcohol by weight. I have been told that strong beer is really not that much stronger than 3.2 beer–among other people, by a tour guide at the Coors plant in Golden, CO. She said that strong beer is maybe 3.6% alcohol by weight, though around 5.0% by volume. You may ask why the difference exists. In Kansas, before 1986, 18-year-olds could drink only 3.2 beer and people over 21 could drink anything. Now the law says that strong beer and other alcoholic drinks can be sold only in licensed liquor stores, while 3.2 beer can be sold in supermarkets, convenience stores, and virtually anywhere else. As far as bars go, there are bars called taverns where only 3.2 beer is sold which shut down at 12 PM and which have cheap licenses. To have a bar that serves strong beer and other alcoholic drinks, you have to pay a much higher license fee but you can close at 2 AM. Also, taverns are legal everywhere in the state, but bars that serve strong beer are only legal in “wet” counties. Most Kansas counties are not wet, but the counties where most of the people live are wet. Colorado at one time also had similar laws, though whether they still do I don’t know.
After this digression on idiotic Kansas liquor laws, I guess my point is that as far as beer is concerned there isn’t too much difference between alcohol by weight and by volume.