Please explain what "Proof" means in liquor? Does it decrease effects?!
If you live in the four "weenie" states, then Everclear is 151proof. The other states sell it as 190 proof, not 180. And if you have a guy as dumb as one of my co-workers, laugh at him when he says his room mate was drinking something that was 210proof.
Answers: While all of these answers are (mostly) right, they leave out one thing. The percentage that they speak of is the percentage of alcohol by volume in the bottle. If you buy a bottle of something, and 40 percent of the bottle by volume (as apposed to weight) is alcohol, it is 80 proof. Increase the amount of alcohol in the bottle, and the percentage goes up. 151 proof rum is 75.5percent alcohol.
If you live in the four "weenie" states, then Everclear is 151proof. The other states sell it as 190 proof, not 180. And if you have a guy as dumb as one of my co-workers, laugh at him when he says his room mate was drinking something that was 210proof.
proof is the percentage of alcohol times two. 80 proof liquor is 40% alcohol. You can figure out the answer to your second question.
how strong it is
each "proof" point is one-half percent alcohol.
"200 proof" is pure ethanol (190 is about the practical limit) so the higher the "proof" the more alcohol it has.
I don't know the history behind it but the proof number is double the percentage of alcohol.
60 proof=30%
90 proof=45%
and 151 proof Rum is 75% alcohol and feels like it trust me.
way back use to be stills and it made liquior 200 proo it was detyermined how many beads would float and it was strong stufff even it was use as gasoline the goverment soon sold gasohall now in stores im not sure if 200 proof is sold moonshine look it up on web it decreases by amount 100 proof is 100 proof 200 is best
How strong the alcohol is....you got some great explanations above!!!
As above, proof equals half the percentage of alcohol - i.e. 80 proof is 40% alcholol (ethanol, EtOH). 180 proof is the strongest alcohol you can get - realistically, trying to distill greater than 180 proof isnt worth the effort - its hard to get all the water out of alcohol - so Evercleer (grain alcohol) is 180 proof - or the purest alcohol you can get.
the term "proof" indicates the percentage of ethyl alcohol contained within each alcoholic beverage. the US uses a scale of 1/2 % alcohol for each degree of proof. liquor containing 50% alcohol is 100 proof. proof is a way to measure the alcohol content, it therefore can't possibly decrease effects.