{"id":856,"date":"2009-01-24T07:39:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T14:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=856"},"modified":"2009-01-24T07:39:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T14:39:04","slug":"how-strong-is-a-standard-beer-not-8-abv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/how-strong-is-a-standard-beer-not-8-abv\/","title":{"rendered":"How strong is a standard beer? Not 8% abv"},"content":{"rendered":"

In some of the many discussions about Session Beers (like here<\/a> and here<\/a>) the fact that Utah brewers make a range of great beers containing less than 4 percent alcohol by volume usually comes up.<\/p>\n

So it’s nice to see them get a little credit in Sunday’s New York Times:<\/em> “Brew Pubs Gain an Unlikely Following in Utah.”<\/a> But — whoa! &#151 when I read this paragraph I don’t know if somebody got confused converting alcohol by volume to alcohol by weight (4% abv equals 3.2% abw) or perhaps had a few beers first.<\/p>\n

Utah still has quirky alcohol laws, including one that sets a limit of 3.2 percent alcohol \u2014 a little more than half the amount standard in most beers around the world \u2014 for beer sold on tap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Does this mean that Vanessa Chang figures a standard beer contains almost 8% abv?<\/p>\n

And how strong would a Session Beer be? Six percent? Lew, there’s work to be done.<\/a><\/p>\n

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In some of the many discussions about Session Beers (like here and here) the fact that Utah brewers make a range of great beers containing less than 4 percent alcohol by volume usually comes up. So it’s nice to see them get a little credit in Sunday’s New York Times: “Brew Pubs Gain an Unlikely … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-dO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}