| Comment | Likely more not used to the volume of drinking as opposed the actual strength of the beer. People drink a lot more here than they do in America in general. You walk down Sauchiehall on a weekend there will be vomit everywhere and the like and you really don't get that in the US. Canadian beers like Molson, Labatt, Moosehead, all have the exact same ABV as Budweiser so I am not sure where you are getting this idea that US beer is so weak from?
Popular British beer is objectively weaker ABV than most other countries including America, this is a pretty well known and well documented in beer communities. The three highest selling lagers in the UK are Carling, Carlsberg, and Fosters and they are all 3.8%. You would have to go out of your way to find any beer in America that has an abv that low and it would be sold as a session beer or a low alcohol content beer. Even light beers in the US have a higher ABV than that. Even cask ales are usually around 4% which is objectively weak beer in an international context. This is not to say British beer is bad it is designed to be sipped in the pub for hours on end which is why it is weaker. I think if the Americans you know were telling you it was because the beer is stronger here they were pulling your leg a bit. |
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