Comments on: Beer Week Recap: Sierra Nevada, New Glarus, Port Brewing, Abita

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:31:27 +0000

and that around 13% is most likely before it’s iced.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:16:37 +0000

Yeah i would expect a 28.5 degree plato beer to be around 12.5-13% before the icing process…not sure how far it can go up with that

By: brian

brian — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:17:39 +0000

Agreed. The New Glarus site mentions it is plato, not abv. If it gets down to around 1.025, it’d be around roughly 13.5% abv.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:57:16 +0000

Unless I am missing something it looks like the New Glarus Iced Barleywine started at 28.5 P (OG ~1.114), it does not say what the ABV is.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:46:46 +0000

Unless I am missing something, the NG iced barleywine is 28.5 degrees plato OG, not ABV. If I am missing something, and it is 28.5% alcohol, then that would be crazy.

By: brewdogmrb

brewdogmrb — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:10:59 +0000

Hey beersage – the New Glarus Iced Barleywine is 28.5 degrees plato, not 28.5% ABV. Degrees plato is a scale similar to Specific Gravity, which most homebrewers and Americans in general are more used to. 28.5 degrees plato is around 1.12 in specific gravity. If the final specific gravity of the barleywine is around 1.02, then the Barleywine will turn out to be around 13% ABV. Not too shabby, but not 28.5% either! Keep up the awesome work — NYC is hooked on your blog.

By: MDA

MDA — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:57:54 +0000

The NG Iced Barleywine is 28.6 degrees Plato, which will tell you the Original Gravity. Subtracting the Final Gravity from the Original Gravity will then give you the ABV, as I understand it.

The beer is not 28% ABV!!