Lets put aside light beers or strong beers for a minute.

Are standard Canadian Beers for example Molson Export and Labatt Blue stronger than standard American beers for example Budweiser or Coors?

Does a standard Canuck beer have more alchohol than a standard Yankee beer?
Or is it the same?

I have had a shift in my beliefs based on some information I saw recently.

what we have in US for candian beer, they are about the same. molson export and bud. but in canada you guys have some much strong molson. i don't know if you get a different Bud up their. ours is about 5%abv. coors doesn't even tast like beer, just water so i wouldn't include coors. not that bud with its beachwood aging BS is anything special.

if i remember correclty your molson XXX ( or whatever you call them in canada) is over 7% and a little fuller flavored. now i wouldn't say better flavored but fuller.

in general the US has pretty weak beers (compared to rest of world) thanks to early mass production of Bud and then Miller. (I blame them for the sorry state of american beers.) thankfully we've finally come around and over the past 20 years devloped some wonderful craft/micro beers. even larger beers like Sam, Sierra etc have done a good job with mass producing better beer here...which is fuller in flavor and abv.

How is alcohol content stated?
In the USA?
In Canada?
Percent alcohol by volume?
Percent alcohol by weight?

Alcohol is 80% as dense as water.

So 5% alcohol by volume is the same as 4% alcohol by weight.

I'm not talking about American beers sold in Canada or Canadian beers sold in the USA.
I am not talking about 10% content specialty strong beer. Nor about lights nor near beer.

STANDARD beers sold in each country.

I'm talking about the perhaps misconception that Canadian beer has more alcohol than American beer.

%ABV.

they are pretty much the same then. But there is a PERCEPTION that canadian beers are stronger because they do have some stronger beers, whereas 5%abv if pretty much the upper range for all american beers.

and if you want to keep it to the majors
bud 5% abv
coors 5% abv
mgd 4.66 abv

molson export 5% abv
labatt blue 5% abv

There it is. Yanks always do differently than the the rest of the world.

They spell grey, neighbour & centre incorrectly.
They drive in miles, use gas in small gallons and they are 6 feet tall and weigh 250 pounds. Then again 36 24 36 sounds better than than 914.4 609.6 914.4, eh?

They measure beer alcohol in % by weight while everyone else measure in % by volume.
So a 4% beer in the USA is the same as a 5% in Canada.
Bombardier is on the ball.

Yankee beer and Canuck beer are equal strength.


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Now what weighs more.
An ounce of gold or an ounce of feathers?

For the most part canadian beer is 5% or 5.5% some is 6. Even most microbrew stuff is 5%

Sure Dre.

And the trend is to sell common 5% cheap beers in huge cheap bottles. We wouldn't want the indigent alckies cluttering up their alleys with cases of two-four.

Then of course a couple of six pack of Kingsbury and a couple of bottles of rubbing alcohol never hurt anyone.

What are you talking about??
Im not refering to cheep beer im refering to most beer in general is 5%-6% acl by volume

Dre, Dre, Dre.

"Sure Dre" meant I agreed with u. Most beer is indeed 5% abv. Even microbrew.


The rest of my post was just a comment on an ongoing beer thread.

Dre, QM...don't go starting any civil wars, now...I know both Quebec and the West want to secede from Ontario, um, I mean, Canada...but, if you do, you know we Yankees will just take you over on some false pretext...like Canadian beers are stronger than Budweiser and are therefore a threat to our national sobriety...

quote:

Originally posted by QM:
Dre, Dre, Dre.

"Sure Dre" meant I agreed with u. Most beer is indeed 5% abv. Even microbrew.


The rest of my post was just a comment on an ongoing beer thread.

oh..... I just didnt understand your posting at all

quote:

Originally posted by QM:
There it is. Yanks always do differently than the the rest of the world.

They spell grey, neighbour & centre incorrectly.
They drive in miles, use gas in small gallons and they are 6 feet tall and weigh 250 pounds. Then again 36 24 36 sounds better than than 914.4 609.6 914.4, eh?

They measure beer alcohol in % by weight while everyone else measure in % by volume.
So a 4% beer in the USA is the same as a 5% in Canada.
Bombardier is on the ball.

Yankee beer and Canuck beer are equal strength.


Beer FAQ


Now what weighs more.
An ounce of gold or an ounce of feathers?

True, we do in fact do a lot of things differently than the rest of the world. But we are alone over here with the Atlantic and Pacific seperating us from the rest of the world. Most other countries have the benefit of sharing their continent with other influential countries and therefore they develop similar systems of measure etc. If only the US had other influential contries here in North America. but alas, we are alone.

There are other countries in North America? Mexico? Thought that was South America.

And just us snow N's up here.

i'm just bustin' your ballz QM.

i should be up in montreal this summer for a bachelor party, (which i'm sure Canadians love nothing more than drunk americans on a visit)and i'll be sure to use the metric system and pay your women with Canadian dollars. I would never insult them with a greenback.

When you up here we can connect with the Montreal crew.

You see. I think you have some redeeming value, somewhere in there. Deep down, under that crust, I think, maybe, perhaps, if I force myself.

We'll hook up.

I knew you believed in me!!! It would be interesting to meet some Canadain smokers. sounds exotic.

so what's up with the train? are you in the industry or a hobby?