For your safety is good to know how much alcohol you drink is beer. While we like to enjoy the taste of beer alcohol content is responsible for the atmosphere.
Each type of beer that countries fall between limits called fortification. We will not talk about cocktails or some kind experimete beer with artificial flavors or strengthened by the addition of alcohol, but the amount of alcohol resulting from the process of fermentation . [Ad]
Alcohol content of beer varies between 3% by volume to values of 12%. Let's not forget and low alcohol beer containing less than 1% alcohol by volume. These beers are known as non-alcoholic beers.
Below are listed the main types of beer and alcohol volume content:
- Lager 4-5% alcohol
- Pilsner Lager 3-6% alcohol
- Wheat ( Weissbier ) 4-5% alcohol
- Porter 4-5% alcohol
- Bitter (ESB) 3-7% alcohol
- IPA (India Pale Ale ) 5-7% alcohol
- Stout 5 to 10% alcohol
- Double ( DUBBEL ) 6.5 - 9% alcohol
- Tripel (Trippel, Triple) 7.5 - 9.5% alcohol
- Barleywine 8-12% alcohol
Knowing the above from now on will be easier to figure out in a pub, just by the type of beer, the alcoholic content without having to read the label.










I find it interesting to note that in the U.S., many manufacturers do not mention on the label as that beer contains alcohol. I do not remember if there was ever a law, or if an ethical rather, it says that if they would print the concentration of alcohol, people would tend to drink stronger beers, causing the production of beers with increasingly more alcohol. Tend to think not so, especially as, more recently, the concentration of alcohol appears on some bottles . (Do not forget that I was referring to State)
And now that I boasted (not conceit, rather eager to share with you): this summer I drank a bottle of "120 min IPA" Dogfish Head from which has 20% alcohol. I'm almost sure it is not an artificial addition of alcohol, but I bet that people from the factory beer in Delaware have played around with carbohydrates.
Also, those of Samuel Adams would have made a limited edition (Samuel Adams Utopias MMII), which contains 24% alcohol. This is considered also the strongest beer in the world. That's why I drink. The latter could reach a price of several hundred dollars a bottle , given how ... was limited edition.