ABV - Which Way Have You Gone?

Depends on the season I suppose, Fall/Winter I like big ass beers just less of them, Spring/Summer I tend to drink lower alc% in bigger volume.

 

As they say, "Up, up and awaaaayyy.."

 

All situational and mood based, but majority are higher abv, just less of them unless I want a massive hangover.

 

I prefer medium to high ABV beers except on the golf course..I'd much rather drink something really good and drink less than pound low alcohol stuff..not about quantity for me..all about quality and taste..not that lower ABV beers aren't quality stuff..they are..but I tend to favor more complex beers.

 

I wanted to drink high ABV beers when I got into craft. I've definitely gotten away from that and now I rarely go over 8%. I've gotten into lagers and session beers. A 14% BA stout is just *not* appetizing to me anymore. It took me about 7 years to really figure out the styles that I prefer and heavy styles aren't for me.

 

Lower abv% beers are just as complex as higher abv% beers. Subtlety is a wonderful thing.

 

Sometimes high sometimes low.

 

Neither way for me i drink brews for taste and variety it could be a 4% Hefe or a 12% Stout both are what a seek to drink and i enjoy both would prefer to drink lower ABV beers

 

Usually 7-9% is ideal for me if I'm drinking an IPA/IIPA, which is what I tend to drink most. Of course, I can still dig a nice 5% kölsch or pale ale any day. Now, if we're talking stouts, bring on the ABV.

..yeah, I guess it depends on what type of beer it is.

 

What day is it, today is a lower abv to a higher abv day.

 

drinking a 5% sour oak aged saison with super flavor, square root 225. beers like this are really hitting me lately, and the goses, summer wheat beers. maybe it's just that time of beer...I mean year

 

Well, when your chasing DIPA's, BA Impy Stouts, and/or barleywines, I guess the ABV is going to rise...

 

Where's "stayed the same"?

I mean, I fluctuate from beer to beer, but my overall average abv has stayed pretty consistent. I do like the "big" beers, and I don't drink many "sessionable" beers, and my average over the years has always been about 8-9%.

 

I'm sure it sort of evens out, but I tend too really Jones for the bigger beers. My lower ones stem mostly from Sours/Wilds

 

Lately it's been mostly higher ABV beers for me.

 

Lower abv ipas and pale ales. Milds, Pilsner etc. The big beer don't interest me anymore. To much hype, bullshit and can't drink the large format by my self or with a buddy for that matter. Fuck black tuesday in a 750! If it's a big beer give me a 12 oz cellarable deal!

 

I try to stay somewhere between 4 and 11 percent for the most part. Really ABV's are not the focus of my choice in beers for the most part, but I can handle more than 1 or 2 higher ABV beers at a time.

 

Not significant to me, it is what it is. I'd love to have bcbs at 10 % , but it's not, and it wouldn't be bcbs.