Your ABV sweet spot

3-5 Lagers
7-9 IPAs
9-12 Stouts/Barleywines

 

I need more low ABV Berliner's in my life tbh.

 

I like drinking beer. I do not like falling over or walking into posts.So a low ABV is mandatory.
I've had all sorts of beers of different strengths and found out a few things. One is that the palate adjusts to flavours just as eyes adjust to light levels.So an 8% beer won't be twice as tasty as a 4% one by a long way and a "watery" beer comes to life half way down the glass and all the subtle nuances start dancing on the tongue.
Palate fatigue soon arrives. One of the tricks played when we didn't know any better was to wait till someone had drunk 3 or 4 pints of session beer and give him one with a double Scotch added.It always went undetected.

 

9%-12% is definitely my sweet spot...I unfortunately inherited a high tolerance from my dad, so if I'm drinking session stuff I might never see a buzz. In addition to that, imperial stouts are my favorite style, so my choice would be 9-12 regardless.

 

I enjoy beer as more of a dessert than a huge drinking experience. I'd prefer something in the 12-20% range. I would much rather have 8 oz of something at 19% than 3 pints of something in the 4% range.

 

Not so much a sweet spot but i enjoy beer and find i can have 2-3 in the 5-7 % range without being wasted. Now i do like 11-15 % brews also but 1 of those is it for me.

 

Ideally I like 4.5% - 6.5%. That covers everything from alt and dunkel through export stouts and most IPA's.

 

3-5%

 

5-7%, of the options available. Ideally I would like to start at around 4% though. Cap it at 7%.

And Ayinger Celebrator is at 6.7%, not 7.6%, so it's all good.

 

I would have chosen 4-6%, I chose 5-7% instead.

 

I don't tend to drink many at a time so I like to error on the high side of content. Plus I enjoy a brew that can mask a high ABV.

 

I would say 8-10% which encompasses many of the stouts, barleywines, and quads that I like.

 

4-12%

 

5-7%. I'm a runner who enjoys beer. Lots of beer. Mostly IPAs but I also enjoy pretty much everything else.

I like 5-7% range for a number of reasons:

1. Calories. When you get above 5-7% and you're looking at 300+ calories per beer and that gets difficult.

2. Drunk. I drink beer because I like beer - not to get drunk. I'm not a teenager anymore.

3. Most excellent, or at least decent, beers can be found in this range. The exception being the great Trappist beers - but as a Lutheran pastor myself - I make an exception for the monkish beers.

4. 5-7% allows for more than one beer. When you're drinking a 10%+ stout or Quad that's gets difficult to put away more than a couple without getting stupid.

 

3-5% for me. For some reason I get a better buzz on lower ABV and can wake up feeling absolutely fine even after all day drinking.

 

Most of what I drink regularly is closer to the 5%-7% range.

 

I find myself consistently brewing in the 4.5%-5.5% range. But most often I brew 4.8% beers.

 

4.5% and i have to TRY to catch a buzz which i dont really like to be wasted so thats good for me. 4.5-5.5%