If one beer had 25 percent alcohol would that equal 5 regular beers?

Matt Gerdeman: Yes, good question. When I turned 18, I lived in Ohio. If you were between 18 and 20, you could order what they called "3.2 beer" and this was, as the name suggests, beer with only 3.2% alcohol. The problem was that nobody liked it and the only ones who drank it were people from 18-20 because we couldn't (legally) get anything else. Regular beer has between 6-7% alcohol. Fast forward to the time when America got "health consious" about food. The beer companies decided to do away with 3.2 beer after the Ohio state laws passed a law that 19 and 20 year olds could drink regular beer and 18 year olds could not drink anything with alcoholo. (Big Bummer for new students going to College. Glad I was already 19). Miller developed Lite Beer which was marked as a more healthy beer with "great taste - less filling." 3.2 beer was the same product as Lite Beer simply morphing the marketing to fit the times. Later, the Federal government decided that only 21 year olds sh! ould drink and imposed the law that if the individual states did not raise their drinking ages to 21, then federal funding for highway repair would be discontinued. Hence all states are now, I believe, 21 and over only. Added: This paragraph must be incorrect because I noted that another post stated that Oklahoma only had 3.5 beer and someone else noted that other states may also have 3.5 only. Sorry for the error Interesting issue....Show more

Jeremy Donohue: If they all has the same volume of liquid in and the 5 were drunk one after the other then yes.

Cristopher Gavalis: can you get over 20% alcohol without distillation but sounds right

Brice Greczkowski: Well it would be the same alcohol wise as drinking 5 5% alcohol beers. Keep in mind that many quality beers actually have a higher alcohol content than 5%, and some have as high as 12% so you would have to adjust for the content of your favorite brew.