You should do, it's brewers yeast. There are places in Belgium and Holland, that they buy and sell the yeast after the brewing process, and serve it in shot glasses, mmmmmmmmm!! Very good source of vitamin B I believe, although theres a good chance it could give you the trots as well, haha!!

I rarely get the same six pack as I just like to try anything new....but if I'm getting drinks in for a Pats game or the like, I usually get Heineken or that german larger they have at Trader Joes, cheap and cheerful and better than folks brining in coors/bud/millers.

I do really like that Canadian beer, the name escapes me but it's got a slight apple taste to it and no it ain't a cider.

And if up in Maine, often get a Gritty's selection - http://www.grittys.com/beers.html

I like Rogue and their range of beers, but a little out of my price range at the moment.

Just got a sixpack of Anderson Valley Hop Ottin' IPA at Trader Joe's. This is one of the best IPAs I've had in a long time.

It's in a lot of nutritional supplements and sport nutrition stuff here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Prolly a stupid question, but what's ABV?

Alcohol By Volume.

Thanks.

Don't you just love Bob. He gives an answer which immediately raises a new question. LOL

which leads me to my question, why do some boozers go by weight over here rather than by volume?

Glad to be of help.

BTW, the article on IPAs is informative, and explains why they are so strong: the alcohol acted as a preservative on the way to India, and the paleness is a side effect of the bitterness from the hops, plus the fact that reducing the amount of sugars also made them long-lived beers.

I love IPAs, me!

They do? Are you talking about OG? I've never seen an alcohol-by-weight measure anywhere, thought I've not -- yet -- visited all the boozers in the US.

The reason ABV is chosen is that it is very easily determined physically, and is a more-or-less linear measure. By weight, though, tends to be used for piss-weak (i.e., American) beers, AIUI...

"In the United States, a few states regulate and tax alcoholic beverages according to alcohol by weight (ABW), expressed as a percentage of total mass. Some brewers print the ABW (rather than the ABV) on beer containers, particularly on low-point versions of popular domestic beer brands."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_by_volume

I don't see it all that much, but by weight usually in booze sold at petrol stations and grocery stores...usually the not very good stuff.

Volume does make sense, suppose it helps make the booze seem even weaker than piss so it can be sold in those places.

You can get tons of ale-stuff from the liquor stores here. However I am quite happy to drink a case of domestic. 18 bottles of Budweiser for $12 suits me fine. 5%, easy to drink - does the job nicely thank you very much...

Cider though - this is a different matter. Strongbow was a crap cider back in England and is still a crap cider here. I do sometimes buy it just cos there is nothing else but now I've discovered that a local liquor has a couple of good ciders for sale:

Samuel Smith's Organic Cider (5%) & JK's Scrumpy Hard Cider (A USA brand) (6%).

Both are way better than the most common USA brand, Woodchuck.

If you like cider, Trader Joes usually has a few that are half decent for cheap and I found a nice one in Wholefoods, though I can't remember what it was, don't go to the wholefoods that sells booze around here all that often as it's a bit out of the way.

I love the unfiltered, unpasteurized Normandy ciders. They come in around 5.5% and sell for around $11 a litre. Very expensive, but very nice.