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t seems my favorite brewery has pulled the rug out from under me... they have changed the ABV on almost all their beers, according to the "Beers" page on their website. Some went up in ABV, while most went down. Unfortunatly, most of their highest rated beers went down in ABV. Do you see this as a good thing, a bad thing, or no thing at all? Opinions?
Beer
IPA Up to 6.9%ABV from 6.5%ABV
Phin and Matts down to 5.4% from 5.6%
Porter up to 5.6% from 5.2%
Raspberry Wheat up to 4.6% from 4.5%
422 Wheat up to 5.6% from 4.5%
Hop Sun up to 4.9% from 4.6%
Harvest Ale up to 6.4% from 5.7%
Old Man Winter down to 7.2% from 8%
UnEarthly down to 10% from 11%
Big Red up to 9.5% from 9%
Iniquity down to 8.9% from 9%
Gemini down to 9% from 10.5%
Oakaged Unearth down to 9.5% from 11% !!!
Back Burner down to 9.1% from 10%
Uber Sun up to 8.3% from 8%
Cherry Saison up to 10.1% from 8%
Heavy Weizen down to 7.3% from 8%
Pumpking down to 7.9% from 9%
Choklat down to 9.1% from 11% !!!
Jahvah down to 10.4% from 11%
Mokah down to 9.2% from 11%
Creme Brulee down to 9.2% from 10%
Oat down to 9.6% from 11% !!!
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Maybe they finally got some actual lab testing done rather than just guessing 
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That’s a possibility, but if that were true, it was quite irresponsible on their part to release the ABV on just guess work.
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It’s not guesswork... it’s the difference between OG/FG readings and actual lab testing.
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My guess is that this is probably the case. There was an issue with one of their double IPAs clocking in way under the stated ABV when it was shipped into Ontario. Perhaps that convinced them to get things professionally measured?
-rudy
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Higher alcohol masks flavor and subtlety, among other things, so I only see this as a positive thing. I’ll take a lower-gravity Imperial Stout, any day, over one that is ridiculously brutish and over the top.
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Why is it unfortunate? Were you drinking their beers to get hammered or because you like their taste? Put me in the latter category, and so this is nothing more than a curiosity (and as others have noted, almost certainly because they got the beers lab tested).
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Yea, it definitely has to be just that they got them lab tested. No one would just up and make haphazard recipe changes on all of their beers at the same time. There would be no reason for that.
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Well, yeah. Anything higher gravity though going from og/fg is pretty much a good guess, and can be off a few % points.
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Both.
But the combination of the two factors is more important than either one on it’s own.
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I guess that I was always under the impression that the ABV listed on the bottle was the actual ABV and lab tested before it was released. Why wouldn’t it be? Wouldn’t it be false advertising if it was not what was listed on the bottle? Wouldn’t there be possible legal implications in certain situations?
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