beer points?

[Arte]

One more time: I'm trying to learn about beer points? Someone asked me about points in a microbrew. I was clueless......

Anyone know about this?

[steveh]

Hmm - do you suppose they were looking for qualities? Descriptions of the flavors or body, a description of the style? The inquiring person didn't (couldn't?) elaborate?

S.

[Arte]

Steveh: Thanks for replying. There was no elaboration, just the question. I wonder if he was talking about alcohol content and just called it points?

I have heard of Plato, but I have forgotten what it means. Is there a link here that gives that kind of information? I need to bone up!!

[steveh]

Plato is another form of measure of specific gravity - thereby a source of figuring the potential alcohol in a beer (or other fermented liquid), but most beer geeks would just ask if you knew the original gravity of the beer. You'll see O.G.s posted in the descriptions of a beer at many brewery web sites.

You might want to pose this question in the Homebrewing section of this forum.

S.

[steveh]

I did a search in Realbeer.com's beer.edu section (see links above) for points and came up with links to drinking games. Still dunno. However, here's a good answer on Plato - better than I could give:

http://www.realbeer.com/edu/ask_realbeer/ask000143.php

You might want to pose the "points" question to the answer man.

S.

[Arte]

Steveh: thanks for the link. Who is the "answer man"?

[cyanide]

http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter3-4.html

These yield values are referred to as Points per Pound per Gallon. If someone tells you that a certain extract or malt's yield is 36 points, it means that when 1 pound is dissolved into 1 gallon of water, the gravity is 1.036. If that 1 pound is dissolved into 3 gallons, its gravity would be 36/3 = 12 or 1.012. The gravity is how the strength of a beer is described. Most commercial beers have an Original Gravity (OG) of 1.035 - 1.050.

:)

[steveh]

Cyanide, I've been home-brewing for 13 years and, while I've seen the formula you quote, I can't recall ever hearing the term "points" before. I guess I could have disregarded the term as I just referred to an O.G. or a F.G. Interesting though.

Do you suppose this is really the term Arte's drinking partners were referring to? Most beer geeks I know would have just asked what the O.G. of the beer was - elitist geeks I guess! ;)

S.

[steveh]

Originally posted by Arte
Who is the "answer man"?

Follow that link and you'll see that "Dave" is Realbeer.com's "Answer Man." But, don't ask me who Dave is...

S.

[beer editor]

Beer Dave is Dave Gausepohl

www.realbeer.com/edu/memories/beer_dave.php (http://www.realbeer.com/edu/memories/beer_dave.php)

Prosit,
Stan

[steveh]

Originally posted by beer editor
Beer Dave is Dave Gausepohl

Thanks! But what the heck are "beer points" Stan?

S.