Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 14, 2004 02:22 PM
Staropramen is prety decent beer. I personaly prefer Krusovicky Lezak, or Kozel, or Pilsener Urquel, bu it has to be on tap, the stuff in the small green bottles is catpiss.
believe that the 10 and 12 refers to the Plato or Balling degrees, which measure the contents of sugars in the original wort. It should be labeled as degrees, not percents, even though lately they often mislabel it as %.
The sugar is what turns into alcohol, so in general higher degree = more alcohol. But the amount of alcohol also depends on other things (yeast, fermentation process etc) so there is no formula you could use the get the exact amount of alcohol from the degrees. In general 8 degree beer is very light, with very little alcohol content. 10 degree has more alcohol and more "body", 12 even more, you can even find 14 degrees, even though it's not very common. Also, the more degrees, the more expensive the beer usually is (I guess it needs more malt to produce, and also ferments longer).
If I only new how to get Staropramen around here... (that is, Michigan)
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 14, 2004 02:22 PMbelieve that the 10 and 12 refers to the Plato or Balling degrees, which measure the contents of sugars in the original wort. It should be labeled as degrees, not percents, even though lately they often mislabel it as %.
The sugar is what turns into alcohol, so in general higher degree = more alcohol. But the amount of alcohol also depends on other things (yeast, fermentation process etc) so there is no formula you could use the get the exact amount of alcohol from the degrees. In general 8 degree beer is very light, with very little alcohol content. 10 degree has more alcohol and more "body", 12 even more, you can even find 14 degrees, even though it's not very common. Also, the more degrees, the more expensive the beer usually is (I guess it needs more malt to produce, and also ferments longer).
If I only new how to get Staropramen around here... (that is, Michigan)
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