Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 12:27 am
you mean I'm not the most important person in your life 

duckskiff wrote:For my sake, try a Leinenkugel's Creamy Dark!Doc wrote: for Pete's sake. Life's too short to drink shitty beer.
Doc *cringing at the thought of "Miller-anything"*
Pete
Uh, unless it's barley wine, ale doesn't get that strong. What is confusing to most Americans is that in europe, for ale and beer, what is usually labeled is not the alcoholic content, but the starting specific gravity, or how dense the malt is when put into the fermentation tank. It's epressed in degrees, with the little superscript zero. Starting gravity of 1.010º is just about right for a moderate ale which ends up at about the same 4 to 5 % alcohol volume. It tastes heavier than that because of the toasted barley, different hops, and the grain is mashed at a slightly different temperature to get some non-fermentable sugars as well as maltose in order to give it body.Captain Sousie wrote:How about some of this stuff to round it out. It's only about 10.5% alc./vol. but it is an amazing abbey style brown.
Well, they do list on the website as 10.5%.Captain Sousie wrote:I don't claim any sort of expertise about beer aside from a fairly refined palate for tasting it so I can't argue. All the info I have comes from here http://www.unibroue.com/products/terrible.cfm
No matter the classification, it is a darn good beer.