Alcohol question:Is ABV the same as the %?

[lynx]

Jimbob asked for the difference between % of alcohol and ABV.
He didn't mention degrees proof, which is a completely different beast.

Pessimists say a glass is half empty.
Optimists say a glass is half full.
Pragmatists drain the glass and get a full one.

[Barbarossa]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_%28alcohol%29

Clear as a Bell(s) then.


By the way, I say the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

[Chip Monk]

He never even mentioned ABW.

Like I said the question was pishly worded. ABV is a % measure already so it didn't make any sense. Anywhere other than the US the normal measurements are % proof and ABV, so I assumed that's what he wanted to compare. lynx took it as meaning a comparison with ABW. Both are reasonable assumptions given the circumstances. Mine being the better one though.

[jimbo12345]

i went with abv. The whole ABW, as interesting as it was, confused me a little. Like celsius/farhenheit conversions.

i was talking about a bottle of biajiu, a nasty chinese liquor. The one in question had 65 ABV written on the bottle, so needed to figure out what it meant (for a project).

For those of you who've never tried baijiu, don't. It's the sweat of the devil, and the hangover is something no one should ever experience. The Scots might like it.

[Sextent]

65 ABV That's fucking mental.

[jimbo12345]

And they don´t mix it. it burns all the way until you piss it out.

[jimbo12345]

and costs about 70p a litre. That´s just madness.