Proof

That it's 40% alchol.

Then what does this mean - Jack Daniels - 43% (86 proof)?

How did you get 40% alcohol from "80 proof"?

You divide the proof by two.

Won't that be too difficult? Give him a table! :-) Anders

BTW, once upon a time there was a sort of ignition test for spirits - if th spirit burned correctly it was termed 100 proof. That happened to correspond to 50% abv. I've been told. Maybe someone here knows the full story?

Hello, Von.

Discussions like this one crop up in the group from time to time. Here's a link to a thread of a dozen or so posts in which the subject was done justice, IMO. It includes some history, some speculation, some confusion, some humour, some good information -- everything you need in a good whisky thread.

Or, simply put:

cheers.

bill

There is a Website with a Calculator to randomize Proof to %. Look at

Insert the value, mark the radiobuttom (mandomize to ...) and click to "Umrechen". Thats it. Good luck, Christian

Thats incorrect.

80 Proof are conform to 45.71 %. With kind regards, Christian Gaier

No, it is not incorrect: US proof is simply twice the % ABV, whereas British proof is a more complicated relationship. Presumably, you are talking about British proof when you say 80 proof is 45.71% ABV. In US proof, 45.71% ABV is

91.42 proof.

There are actually two different ways to measure proof... the US way and the right way (just kidding .... )

Yeah right...

ANYWAY the in the US 80 Proof is 40% (and a Quart is about the same size as a Liter and through is spelled thru ... but I digress.)

an excellent explanation can be found here...

Sorry Christian. In US, it's correct, 40%, in the UK it's incorrect...

Andreas

ROUGHLY. there isn't an actual exact correspondence, at least not in the UK where Scotch is made. I understand that the US definition IS 2:1

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This newschanal is calling alt.drinks.scotch.whisky. I've never heard about american Scotch. Scotch is Scotch, when its destilled, matured (min 3 years) and bottled in Scotland. Amerikan Proof are so not interesting. Chers, Christian Gaier

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynahan

Hardly. Just accept gentle correction and move on. Cheers, Ed BTW, it's "American" not "Amerikan".

This is a nice, informative link that explains the different proof systems fairly well:

Cheers, Ed

What an excellent page. Details I didn't know. Thanks.

Bart

Depends on how much you've had to drink. At some point "American" could be spelled "AMNwoicN". At least if you believe me IM logs.

No argument! ;-)