Date: 23/04/2019 10:59:30
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1378678
Subject: Alcohol in beer

Could I determine the alcohol content of beer by simply weighing a beer can full and empty, and dividing by the volume on the label?

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Date: 23/04/2019 11:02:35
From: roughbarked
ID: 1378681
Subject: re: Alcohol in beer

mollwollfumble said:


Could I determine the alcohol content of beer by simply weighing a beer can full and empty, and dividing by the volume on the label?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_proof

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Date: 23/04/2019 11:19:16
From: dv
ID: 1378689
Subject: re: Alcohol in beer

sure

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Date: 23/04/2019 19:01:58
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1378858
Subject: re: Alcohol in beer

mollwollfumble said:


Could I determine the alcohol content of beer by simply weighing a beer can full and empty, and dividing by the volume on the label?

If you trust the volume on the label, why don’t you trust the alcohol content on the label?

Why not measure the volume, as well as the weight?

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Date: 23/04/2019 19:04:33
From: sibeen
ID: 1378860
Subject: re: Alcohol in beer

The Rev Dodgson said:


mollwollfumble said:

Could I determine the alcohol content of beer by simply weighing a beer can full and empty, and dividing by the volume on the label?

If you trust the volume on the label, why don’t you trust the alcohol content on the label?

Why not measure the volume, as well as the weight?

That would require that you open the bottle/can.

Beer would then get drunk.

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Date: 23/04/2019 19:05:59
From: party_pants
ID: 1378862
Subject: re: Alcohol in beer

When I was making homebrew the method was to use a hyrdometer, take a reading start and another immediately before bottling. There was a formula to use whereby you work out the alc/vol percentage based on those two numbers, but it is too long ago for me to remember what the formula was.

I guess you probably could do it from measuring the volume and weight, but I wouldn’t know how.

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