Why do beer and wwine have an alcohol concentration of ~8%? why doesnt the alcohol concentration get higher?!
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They don't.
Most US beer has an alcohol content of about 4%, while the average alcohol content of wine is around 12-13%.
The concentration doesn't get higher because the companies that make the stuff don't want it to be. Carlsberg and Heineken on continental Europe are rated as premium lagers, with 5% alcohol. When they first marketed their stuff in the UK, the English drinkers - used to beer with an average alcohol content of 3.5-4.5% alcohol - got hammered on Carlsberg and Heineken very quickly. Much to their own distaste, Carlsberg and Heineken, who had proud brewing traditions, were obliged by the market to water down their beer to the level at which I am enjoying one right now.
American beer is usually even weaker because Americans tend to want to drink lots of whatever they're drinking, and so Budweiser (for example) is unacceptably watery to the discerning beer drinker.
I have tasted a Samuel Adams Triple Bock ale that was around 18% alcohol. It was a little like good sherry or madeira, rich and fascinating and heady. But you wouldn't want to kick back with one after a long day.
I'm not sure what wine you are drinking; wine in Canada tends to be about 14-16% alcohol I believe... Beer is usually 3.5-6.5% alcohol... Hard liquor is 40%...
I have never heard of a wine having less than 10-11% ever... It just doesn't exist in this country... and a beer with 8%+ is usually an import Irish or Scottish lager...
Too much alcohol kills the very yeast that makes the alcohol in the first place.
Special yeasts can be used to bump it up higher (like champagne yeasts) but beer yeasts always yield about the same %.
Doesn't ferment in the bottle.
However Sam Adams makes Utopia beer, 25% Alcohol, but not allowed to sell it in Ohio. Plus its like $120 a bottle. Look for it around Xmas next year.
8% on beer is based on the Tax Collector wanting to tax you more if you exceed that and make Malt Liquor.
While most beer has an alcohol content less than 8% most wine has a content in excess of 10%, infact I find that recently red wines are reaching an average of around 14%. However most wine over 15% comes off hot to me, except for the red zins which tend to benefit from this. Keep in mind though, if this question was intended to be a reference to their apparent weakness, beer and wine are not mixed or weakened by ice, unless you are a redneck, so you get the same amount of bang!
The concentration of beer is usually 4-5.5%. This is because it is intented to be drunkin pints. Men on a night out will drink around 10-12 pints. So if the concentration was higher people couldnt handle it.