Alcohol by volume - Citizendia

Alcohol by volume (ABV) is a measure of how much alcohol (expressed as a percentage of total volume) is included in an alcoholic beverage. Volume percent is a common expression of a Solution 's Concentration. This measurement is assumed as the world standard.

In some countries, alcohol by volume is referred to as degrees Gay-Lussac (after the French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac). Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (also Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac, December 6, 1778 – May 9, 1850) was a French chemist

Typical examples

fruit juice (naturally occurring): < 0. JUICE is a widely used non-commercial Software package for editing and analysing phytosociological data 1%
Beer: 3–12%
alcopops: 4–17. Beer is the world's oldest and most widely consumed Alcoholic beverage and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea Alcopop is a term describing certain flavored alcoholic beverages including Malt beverages to which various fruit juices or other flavorings have been added 5%
cider: 4–8%
barley wine: 10–15%
wine: 6–15%
port wine: 20%
liqueur: 15–55%
Spirits (including liquors): typically 35-45% and above
- vodka: 32-60%, usually around 40%
- "cask strength" whisky or rum: 60%
- absinthe 55–89. For the non-alcoholic beverage commonly known in the US as "cider" see Apple cider. Barley wine or Barleywine is a style of strong Ale originating in England in the nineteenth century (derived from the March or October beers Wine is an Alcoholic beverage made from the fermentation of Grape juice Port wine (also known as Vinho do Porto, Oporto, Porto, and often simply Port) is a Portuguese, Fortified A liqueur is a sweet Alcoholic beverage, often flavored with Fruits, Herbs Spices Flowers Seeds Roots Plants Vodka is one of the world's most popular Distilled beverages It is a clear liquid which consists of mostly Water and Ethanol purified by Distillation A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container traditionally made of Wood Staves and bound with Iron Hoops The Whisky (uisge-beatha or whiskey (uisce beatha or fuisce) refers to a broad category of Alcoholic beverages that are distilled from fermented Rum is a Distilled beverage made from Sugarcane by-products such as Molasses and sugarcane Juice by a process of fermentation Absinthe is traditionally a distilled, highly alcoholic (45%-75% ABV) beverage 5%
- neutral grain spirit: 95%
rectified spirit: 96%
absolute alcohol: 100%

Other measurements

Another way of specifying the amount of alcohol is alcoholic proof. Neutral grain spirit (aka grain neutral spirit ( GNS) pure grain alcohol, or corn liquor) is a clear colorless flammable liquid that A rectified spirit or rectified alcohol is highly concentrated Ethanol (drinking alcohol which has been purified by means of rectification (repeated distillation An "alcoholic proof" is roughly twice the alcohol by volume (although this does vary in some countries).

In the United States, many states legally regulate and tax alcoholic beverages according to alcohol by weight (abw) (expressed as a percentage of total mass). In Chemistry, concentration is the measure of how much of a given substance there is mixed with another substance In some localities, brewers print the abw (rather than abv) on beverage containers, particularly on low-point versions of popular domestic beer brands. REDIRECT Low-alcohol beer#Low-point beer Because alcohol is less dense than the water component of the beverage, alcohol percentage by weight is only 4/5 of the alcohol percentage by volume (e. g. , 3. 2% abw = 4. 0% abv), which has caused confusion among consumers more familiar with the worldwide standard abv.

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Other measurements

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