On a tour of the cavernous and gleaming BrewDog plant in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, Dickie happily batted around terminology – IBU, ABV, pH, haze, present gravity, headspace oxygen – with PhD-level microbiologists working in the lab. 2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
U.S. law considers alcohol proof to be twice the ABV percentage. 2021 June 7, “Understanding Alcohol Proof: How Is Alcohol Proof Measured?”, in MasterClass:
Divide in half to relate proof to ABV: whiskey that is 80 proof is 40% ABV.
If you’re choosing between two beers of the same size, for instance, and one is 4 percent A.B.V. and the other is 8 percent, the 4 percent beer will expose you to half as much ethanol. […] Some strong beers, for instance, have A.B.V.s that are higher than some wines (or even some liquors, on the extreme end). 2025 May 20, Caroline Hopkins Legaspi, “Is There a Least Bad Alcohol?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 May 2025:
At only 2% ABV, this brand of beer won't get you drunk cheaply.
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of American-born Vietnamese.