How much alcohol is in beer ?
How much alcohol IS in beer is generally what it says on the label. This may sound stoopid but is not as straightforward as you would think. In some countries there is no obligation to state the alcohol content while in others it does not need to be stated unless it goes above a certain level. Then again, if you have a beer that continues to mature or ferment in the bottle because it has live yeast in there, the rules vary again. Some countries say you can quote the alcoholic strength at the time of bottling while others (such as most of the US) insist that you quote the highest attainable strength if it continues to ferment right through to the bitter end, so to speak. So a beer that gets legally labelled at 8.2% in Belgium may get labelled 9.2% when it is exported to the US but may typically be 8.5% when consumed, wherever that is. Most countries have the convention of measuring alcoholic strength as the %age of alcohol volume by total volume of liquid (ABV). A few are said to have t
