Charch0le

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Question: Is there a visual indicator of alcohol content when viewing finished, straight from the bottle beer in a glass? Like bubbles? Lace? I'm drinking my first batch of beer and it tastes great, but I keep second guessing the flavor and alcohol content.

thadass

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For stronger alcohol content drinks they get "legs", but most normal ABV beers wouldn't have any visual indication. Next brew you can use a hydrometer during and after brewing to you can actually determine the alcohol content of what you've created

second guessing flavor though, that's all up to you!

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kh54s10

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There are no visual clues to alcohol content in a glass of beer. You might get an idea from the taste... or the headache in the morning. The only way to know the alcohol level in a homebrew, besides sending a sample to a lab, it to take an original gravity reading and a final gravity reading using a hydrometer or refractometer with corrections then plugging the numbers into a calculator.

beergolf

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huh?

Often big beers like barley wines or big Belgians they have no. head or lacing.

The only way to determine the alcohol content is to take a gravity reading at the beginning(OG) and taking a gravity reading when it is finished (FG)
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Then ( OG - FG ). X 131.25= ABV