Beer Vs Liquor Alcohol Content
3.2% compared to regular beer beer?
I just bought a 3.2% beer here in Denver because liquor stores are closed on Sundays here. However, you can buy "3.2%" beer here at grocery stores and some service stations. I realized that the can says "3.2% of alcohol by weight "instead of" volume. "If a beer is 3.2% alcohol by volume and over is 3.2% by weight, which has a higher content alcohol?
I live in Boulder, and wondered the same thing myself. From what I could find online, 3.2% by weight beer is almost the same as 4.0% by volume of beer. If you are buying light beer is not going to make a big difference, but if you are buying something more general, is an alcoholic will. Thus, a 3.2 beer has more alcohol by weight than one that is 3.2 by volume. I found this information on howstuffworks.com. This website says: "In Colorado beer sold in grocery stores has to be low in alcohol "3.2" beer. It can contain no more than 3.2 percent alcohol by volume. But the beer sold in liquor stores is the volume label, and most beer is about 5 percent alcohol by volume. But when converting from weight to volume da realize that the "3.2" beer is actually 4 percent alcohol by volume. However, a rather large difference, but perhaps not as big as you might thinking. "There's a lot more in depth explanation on the website, but it is not important. And to the guy asnwer question of the SC, no matter what type of buy beer here is 3.2 in all gas stations and convenience stores. Even Bud ice would be 3.2. The breweries that in this way precisely to it can be sold in Colorado and other places with similar laws.
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