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It is highly variable from time and place but tends to be about 5%.
There is a lot of alcohol in a keg of beer. If it is a ½ barrel it will have 15.5 gallons of beer of which about 3 quarts, is pure alcohol. That is equal to 60 shots in 1 ½ oz glasses, of 200 proof pure grain alcohol.
divide the proof by 2..that's the % by volume of alcohol content.
Depending on the alcohol content....here is a guideline: 1 beer (12 ounces) = 6 ounces of wine = 1 ounce of hard liquer (rum, vodka, etc). Like I said, your mileage may vary. 100 proof (50% alcohol) is stronger than 80 proof (40% alcohol). They have some rums that are 151 proof (75.5% alcohol)
It all depends on which has a higher alcohol prof. The proof tells you how much alcohol per serving youre actually consuming. The higher the proof the higher the concentration of alcohol.
The alcohol content of wine and beer varies widely. Beer is typically 5% alcohol, and wine is typically 13% alcohol. Thus, 12 oz of a typical beer would contain 0.60 oz of alcohol, and 5 oz of a typical wine would contain 0.65 oz of alcohol. So, yes, as a general rule of thumb, 12 oz of beer is roughly equivalent to 5 oz of wine.
Depends on what you define a drink as. Most beer will run from 4 to 7 percent, with a few more expensive beers going into the teens.
It means it's 40% alcohol. The proof number is twice the percentage of alcohol. Proof is a system of measuring the alcohol percentage where 200 is 100% alcohol. So 80 proof is 40% pure alcohol by volume.
In general, beer has the lowest proof or percentage of alcohol per quantity of beverage. However, non-alcoholic beer contains up to one-half of one percent alcohol by volume.Standard drinks of alcohol in the US all contain about .6 ounce of alcohol. A standard drink is:A 12-ounce can or bottle of regular beerA 5-ounce glass of dinner wineA shot (one and one-half ounces) of 80 proof liquor or spirits such as vodka, tequila, or rum either straight or in a mixed drink.
Depends on where you go - it generally goes by ABV or "proof". ABV is pretty much understood everywhere since it gives a general measure of how much alcohol is in the beverage by volume. e.g. a pint of beer in the US at 5% ABV will yield about 0.6 US fluid ounces of alcohol.
the proof is used to tell you how much alcohol is in it. 100 proof is about 50% alcohol so jsut divide the proof by 2 the higer the proof the more alcohol
about 5% to 7% some European dark beers are stronger - maybe up to 10%