Eeyore wrote:

dave hillstrom wrote:


bottom line; english beers are LESS alcoholic per unit volume than
american beers. period.


Absurd nonsense.

Only to someone clueless about beer and alcohol content. English beers
are often around 4.0% alcohol by volume, which is equivalent to 3.2%
alcohol by weight. Many English beers have even less alcohol content;
it's not uncommon to see ales at 3.8% abv, and mild ales go even lower.
Mass-produced lagers brewed in England aren't terribly high in alcohol,
with the exception of junk like "Kestrel Super Strength" and "Carlsberg
Special Export" - high-alcohol high-adjunct liquid junk for people who
might as well be drinking cheap wine or mixed drinks by the bucket.

Typical American mass-produced beers range from 4.0% abv to 5.0% abv,
and there are numerous American-made beers considerably stronger than
this. The fabled "three two" beer sold in some parts of the USA is
3.2% alcohol by WEIGHT - the same as 4.0% alcohol by volume.

Get your facts straight before your tedious pronouncement of "absurd
nonsense."