Athletic Brewing Company is a U.S. manufacturer of non-alcoholic craft beer . Based in Milford, Connecticut , the company was founded in 2017 by Bill Shufelt and John Walker. In 2022, the company's sales represented nearly half of all non-alcoholic craft beer sold in the US. Athletic Brewing Company also manufactures sparkling water under the brand name "Daypack."
51-415: Bill Shufelt was trader at a hedge fund and an ultramarathon runner who stopped drinking alcohol in 2013. Finding non-alcoholic drinks to be unsatisfactory, he sought out John Walker, a head brewer from Santa Fe to produce better tasting non-alcohol beers. They developed a brewing method which fully ferments the beers, but only to less than 0.5% ABV , the limit at which a beer can be considered non-alcoholic in
102-723: A percentage of total mass . The alc/vol value of a beverage is always higher than the ABW. Because ABW measures the proportion of the drink's mass which is alcohol, while alc/vol is the proportion of the drink's volume which is alcohol, the two values are in the same proportion as the drink's density is with the density of alcohol. Therefore, one can use the following equation to convert between ABV and ABW: ABV = ABW × density of beverage density of alcohol {\displaystyle {\text{ABV}}={\text{ABW}}\times {\frac {\text{density of beverage}}{\text{density of alcohol}}}} At relatively low alc/vol,
153-473: A 50% v/v ethanol solution, 50 mL of ethanol and 50 mL of water could be mixed but the resulting volume of solution will measure less than 100 mL due to the change of volume on mixing, and will contain a higher concentration of ethanol. The difference is not large, with the maximum difference being less than 2.5%, and less than 0.5% difference for concentrations under 20%. Some drinks have requirements of alcoholic content in order to be certified as
204-415: A certain alcohol brand or label. Low-alcohol beers (<0.5) are considered in some countries such as Iran as permitted (or "halal" under Muslim vocabulary) despite alcohol being banned. However, the level of alcohol-free beers is typically the lowest commercially sold 0.05. It is near impossible for a healthy person to become intoxicated drinking low-alcohol drinks. The low concentration severely limits
255-924: A further 63 as Corresponding (non-voting) Members including all the G20 , EU and BRICS countries. Between them, the OIML Members cover 86 % of the world's population and 96 % of its economy. The Headquarters of the OIML is located in Paris, France. The definition of "legal metrology" varies amongst jurisdictions , reflecting the extent to which metrology is bound into the jurisdiction's own legal and regulatory code. The OIML, in their publication International Vocabulary of Terms in Legal Metrology defined "legal metrology" as ... concerns regulatory requirements of measurements and measuring instruments for
306-457: A halt as the alcohol produced becomes too concentrated for the yeast to tolerate, defining an upper limit of alc/vol for non-distilled alcoholic drinks. The typical tolerance for beer yeasts is at 8–12%, while wine yeasts typically range from 14–18%, with speciality ones reaching 20% alc/vol. Any higher would require distillation, producing liquor . Details about typical amounts of alcohol contained in various beverages can be found in
357-456: A manner that they can be adopted "as is" by countries that wish to do so, or countries can select those parts that they wish to include in their own legislation. As of March 2022 104 Recommendations have been published, usually in both English and French . Recommendations may be downloaded free of charge from the OIML website . International Documents (prefixed by the letter "D"), which are informative in nature and intended to improve
408-450: A non-salaried President for a six-year term of office from amongst its Members. The Committee meets annually under the chairmanship of its President. Secretarial services, day-to-day running and financial management of the OIML are provided by the BIML ( French : Bureau International de Métrologie légale ). The BIML is the OIML headquarters, located in the 9th Arrondissement of Paris and
459-568: A number of publications, including: Vocabularies (prefixed by the letter "V") that provide standardised terminology in the field of metrology. The OIML has produced two principal works: In addition, the OIML was a partner in the JCGM which produced the International vocabulary of metrology - Basic and general concepts and associated terms (VIM) , a document published by the BIPM on behalf of
510-451: A trial basis, which then expanded to all the states in the US, and then other countries around the world. Athletic's sales grew from $ 2.5 million in 2019 to about $ 15 million in 2020, increasing by about 500% and achieved a 61% market share of the non-alcoholic craft beer market in the U.S. It achieved sales of nearly $ 37 million from over 100,000 barrels of beer in 2021 (up from 37,500 in 2020). It
561-420: Is 0.78945 g/mL (0.82353 oz/US fl oz; 0.79122 oz/imp fl oz; 0.45633 oz/cu in). The alc/vol standard is used worldwide. The International Organization of Legal Metrology has tables of density of water–ethanol mixtures at different concentrations and temperatures. In some countries, e.g. France , alcohol by volume is often referred to as degrees Gay-Lussac (after
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#1732791604298612-441: Is 1.05 times that of water, it has a specific gravity of 1.05. In UK brewing usage, it is customary to regard the reference value for water to be 1000, so the specific gravity of the same example beer would be quoted as 1050. The formulas here assume that the former definition is used for specific gravity. During ethanol fermentation the yeast converts one mole of sugar into two moles of alcohol. A general formula for calculating
663-457: Is a standard measure of the volume of alcohol contained in a given volume of an alcoholic beverage , expressed as a volume percent . It is defined as the number of millilitres (mL) of pure ethanol present in 100 mL (3.5 imp fl oz; 3.4 US fl oz) of solution at 20 °C (68 °F). The number of millilitres of pure ethanol is the mass of the ethanol divided by its density at 20 °C (68 °F), which
714-670: Is an intergovernmental organisation that was created in 1955 to promote the global harmonisation of the legal metrology procedures that underpin and facilitate international trade. Such harmonisation ensures that certification of measuring devices in one country is compatible with certification in another, thereby facilitating trade in the measuring devices and in products that rely on the measuring devices. Such products include weighing devices , taxi meters , speedometers , agricultural measuring devices such as cereal moisture meters , health related devices such as exhaust measurements and alcohol content of drinks . Since its establishment,
765-475: Is capable of producing 6 million cases annually. Keurig Dr Pepper took a $ 50 million minority stake in Athletic Brewing in 2022. The company was the first non-alcoholic beer maker to make the list of top 50 craft brewing companies by sales volume in the US in 2022, placing at No. 27, and it rose further to No. 13 in 2023. It was the second biggest non-alcoholic beer in the US in 2023, and it became
816-584: Is headed by a salaried director who is, ex-officio, secretary to both the International Conference and the International Committee. CIML Presidents BIML Directors The OIML has two categories of membership; "Member State" and "Corresponding Member". The Member State category is for countries or economies that are prepared to finance and actively participate in the work of the OIML and which have acceded to
867-706: Is organised around a three-layer model: The overall direction of the OIML is vested in the International Conference ( French : Conférence internationale de Métrologie légale ) which meets every four years. The Conference is attended by delegations from Member States and [non-voting] Corresponding Members of the Organisation. The management of the OIML is vested in the International Committee ( French : Comité international de Métrologie légale - CIML). The Committee consists of one member from each Member State. These members normally have active official functions in legal metrology in their country. The Committee elects
918-642: Is sugar by weight and SG is relative density. SG can be measured using an hydrometer and Brix can be calculated from SG. One of the accurate formulas for calculating Brix from SG is: By substituting Brix in the SBV formula above, we get a formula for calculating SBV from SG only: The general calculation steps involves calculation of SBV at the start and the end of fermentation: Advanced formula derived from Carl Balling empirical formulas. The formula compensates for changes in SG with changes in alcohol concentration and for
969-1225: Is the specific gravity when fermentation ends, Plato start is the sugar by weight when fermentation begins, Plato final is the sugar by weight when fermentation ends. Brix can be used insted of Plato as they are nearly identical. The simplest method for wine has been described by English author Cyril Berry : ABV ≈ 136 × ( Starting SG − Final SG ) {\displaystyle {\text{ABV}}\approx 136\times \left({\text{Starting SG}}-{\text{Final SG}}\right)} One calculation for beer is: ABV ≈ 131 × ( Starting SG − Final SG ) {\displaystyle {\text{ABV}}\approx 131\times \left({\text{Starting SG}}-{\text{Final SG}}\right)} For higher ABV above 6% many brewers use this formula: alc/vol ≈ 105 0.79 × ( Starting SG − Final SG Final SG ) {\displaystyle {\text{alc/vol}}\approx {\frac {105}{0.79}}\times \left({\frac {{\text{Starting SG}}-{\text{Final SG}}}{\text{Final SG}}}\right)} Another way of specifying
1020-400: Is used to measure the change in specific gravity (SG) of the solution before and after fermentation. The volume of alcohol in the solution can then be estimated. There are a number of empirical formulae which brewers and winemakers use to estimate the alcohol content of the liquor made. Specific gravity is the density of a liquid relative to that of water, i.e., if the density of the liquid
1071-486: Is usually found in non-polar mixtures. Thus, alc/vol is not the same as volume fraction expressed as a percentage. Volume fraction, which is widely used in chemistry (commonly denoted as v/v), is defined as the volume of a particular component divided by the sum of all components in the mixture when they are measured separately. For example, to make 100 mL of 50% alc/vol ethanol solution, water would be added to 50 mL of ethanol to make up exactly 100 mL. Whereas to make
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#17327916042981122-484: The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to ensure compatibility between each organisation's work. The OIML has no legal authority to impose solutions on its Members, but its Recommendations are often used by Member States as part of their own national legislation. As of May 2024 , 64 countries had signed up as Member States and
1173-682: The United Kingdom , proof is 1.75 times the number (expressed as a percentage). For example, 40% alc/vol is 80 proof in the US and 70 proof in the UK. However, since 1980, alcohol proof in the UK has been replaced by alc/vol as a measure of alcohol content, avoiding confusion between the UK and US proof standards. In the United States, Arkansas , Kansas , Mississippi , South Carolina , and Tennessee regulate and tax alcoholic beverages according to alcohol by weight ( ABW ), expressed as
1224-608: The French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac ), although there is a slight difference since the Gay-Lussac convention uses the International Standard Atmosphere value for temperature, 15 °C (59 °F). Mixing two solutions of alcohol of different strengths usually causes a change in volume. Mixing pure water with a solution less than 24% by mass causes a slight increase in total volume, whereas
1275-601: The International Beer Challenge, the first non-alcoholic beer to win the award, beating over 500 other entries. The beer also took the title for Best No & Low Alcohol Beer, and Athletic itself was declared Brewer of the Year for North America. Its beers have won at the World Beer Awards, US Open Beer Championship, Great American Beer Festival, and Best of Craft Beer Awards. Its Run Wild IPA
1326-673: The JCGM Recommendations (prefixed by the letter "R") which are model regulations that establish the metrological characteristics required of certain measuring instruments and which specify methods and equipment for checking their conformity. Most of the Recommendations have a similar structure. The four main topics covered in the reports are metrological requirements, technical requirements, methods and equipment for testing and verifying conformity to requirements and test report format. Recommendations are written in such
1377-530: The No. 1 non-alcoholic beer brand by sales in U.S. grocery stores by early 2024, overtaking Heineken and Budweiser. Athletic's investors include a number of athletes and celebrities, including pro football players J. J. Watt and Justin Tuck , Momofuku founder David Chang , cyclist Lance Armstrong , and Toms Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie . In 2020, Athletic's Free Wave IPA won the award as Supreme Champion Beer at
1428-5083: The OIML Convention. The Corresponding Member category is for countries or economies that want to be informed of OIML activities, but cannot, or prefer not to, be a Member State . As of May 2024 , a total of 64 states are Member States and 63 are Corresponding Members. Member States [REDACTED] Albania [REDACTED] Algeria [REDACTED] Australia [REDACTED] Austria [REDACTED] Belarus [REDACTED] Belgium [REDACTED] Brazil [REDACTED] Bulgaria [REDACTED] Cambodia [REDACTED] Canada [REDACTED] Colombia [REDACTED] China [REDACTED] Croatia [REDACTED] Cuba [REDACTED] Cyprus [REDACTED] Czech Republic [REDACTED] Denmark [REDACTED] Egypt [REDACTED] Ethiopia [REDACTED] Finland [REDACTED] France [REDACTED] Germany [REDACTED] Greece [REDACTED] Hungary [REDACTED] India [REDACTED] Indonesia [REDACTED] Iran [REDACTED] Ireland [REDACTED] Israel [REDACTED] Italy [REDACTED] Japan [REDACTED] Kazakhstan [REDACTED] Kenya [REDACTED] Korea [REDACTED] Monaco [REDACTED] Montenegro [REDACTED] Morocco [REDACTED] Netherlands [REDACTED] New Zealand [REDACTED] North Macedonia [REDACTED] Norway [REDACTED] Pakistan [REDACTED] Poland [REDACTED] Portugal [REDACTED] Romania [REDACTED] Russia [REDACTED] Saudi Arabia [REDACTED] Serbia [REDACTED] Slovakia [REDACTED] Slovenia [REDACTED] South Africa [REDACTED] Spain [REDACTED] Sri Lanka [REDACTED] Sweden [REDACTED] Switzerland [REDACTED] Tanzania [REDACTED] Thailand [REDACTED] Tunisia [REDACTED] Turkey [REDACTED] Ukraine [REDACTED] United Kingdom [REDACTED] United States [REDACTED] Vietnam [REDACTED] Zambia Corresponding Members [REDACTED] Angola [REDACTED] Argentina [REDACTED] Azerbaijan [REDACTED] Bahrain [REDACTED] Bangladesh [REDACTED] Barbados [REDACTED] Benin [REDACTED] Bolivia [REDACTED] Bosnia and Herzegovina [REDACTED] Botswana [REDACTED] Burkina Faso [REDACTED] Chinese Taipei [REDACTED] Costa Rica [REDACTED] Djibouti [REDACTED] Dominican Republic [REDACTED] Ecuador [REDACTED] Estonia [REDACTED] Fiji [REDACTED] Gabon [REDACTED] Georgia [REDACTED] Ghana [REDACTED] Guatemala [REDACTED] Guinea [REDACTED] Guyana [REDACTED] Hong Kong [REDACTED] Iceland [REDACTED] Iraq [REDACTED] Jordan [REDACTED] Kiribati [REDACTED] Kuwait [REDACTED] Kyrgyzstan [REDACTED] Latvia [REDACTED] Lithuania [REDACTED] Luxembourg [REDACTED] Madagascar [REDACTED] Malawi [REDACTED] Malaysia [REDACTED] Mali [REDACTED] Malta [REDACTED] Mauritius [REDACTED] Mexico [REDACTED] Moldova [REDACTED] Mongolia [REDACTED] Mozambique [REDACTED] Namibia [REDACTED] Nepal [REDACTED] Nigeria [REDACTED] Oman [REDACTED] Panama [REDACTED] Papua New Guinea [REDACTED] Paraguay [REDACTED] Peru [REDACTED] Philippines [REDACTED] Qatar [REDACTED] Rwanda [REDACTED] Saint Lucia [REDACTED] Seychelles [REDACTED] Sierra Leone [REDACTED] Singapore [REDACTED] Sudan [REDACTED] Trinidad and Tobago [REDACTED] Uganda [REDACTED] United Arab Emirates [REDACTED] Uruguay [REDACTED] Uzbekistan The technical work of
1479-435: The OIML has developed a number of guidelines to assist its Members, particularly developing nations, to draw up appropriate legislation concerning metrology across all facets of society and guidelines on certification and calibration requirements of new products, particularly where such calibration has a legal impact such as in trade, health care and taxation. The OIML works closely with other international organisations such as
1530-604: The OIML is carried out by Technical Committees (TC), each committee having responsibility for a different aspect of legal metrology. In some cases the Technical Committee is broken up into one or more Subcommittees (SC). Within each TC or SC the actual technical work is carried out by Project Groups led by conveners. TCs, SCs and Project Groups are led by volunteer experts from OIML Member States. As of March 2022 there are 18 Technical Committees and 46 Subcommittees. The Technical Committees are: The OIML produces
1581-567: The OIML updated its mission to read: The mission of the OIML is to enable economies to put in place effective legal metrology infrastructures that are mutually compatible and internationally recognised, for all areas for which governments take responsibility, such as those which facilitate trade, establish mutual confidence and harmonise the level of consumer protection worldwide. At the same meeting, its objectives were then stated as follows: The OIML, which has an annual operating budget of about two million euros that comes from Member subscriptions
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1632-626: The United States. Shufelt has stated that no alcohol is removed after brewing nor is any other ingredient added, unlike other non-alcoholic beers. After devising this brewing method, they founded Athletic Brewing in 2017 and established the first brewing facility dedicated to non-alcoholic beer in Stratford, Connecticut , which opened in May 2018. Athletic Brewing was launched with two beers, and initially began selling in seven stores in New England on
1683-436: The alcohol percentage by weight is about 4/5 of the alc/vol (e.g., 3.2% ABW is about 4% alc/vol). However, because of the miscibility of alcohol and water, the conversion factor is not constant but rather depends upon the concentration of alcohol. International Organization of Legal Metrology The International Organization of Legal Metrology ( French : Organisation Internationale de Métrologie Légale - OIML ),
1734-536: The amount of alcohol content is alcohol proof , which in the United States is twice the alcohol-by-volume (alc/vol) number. This may lead to confusion over similar products bought in varying regions that have different names on country-specific labels. For example, Stroh rum that is 80% ABV is advertised and labeled as Stroh 80 when sold in Europe, but is named Stroh 160 when sold in the United States. In
1785-547: The articles about them. (most juices do not have alcohol but orange or grape [the highest here] may have some from early fermentation) Under 2.5% in Finland, and 2.25% in Sweden, however. During the production of wine and beer, yeast is added to a sugary solution. During fermentation, the yeasts consume the sugars and produce alcohol. The density of sugar in water is greater than the density of alcohol in water. A hydrometer
1836-507: The basis of “self-declaration” with additional supporting evidence. However, for participation in Scheme A, compliance shall be demonstrated by peer evaluation on the basis of accreditation or peer assessment. The work of the OIML overlaps with the work of a number of other international organisations. In order to minimise the impact of this overlap and also to ensure that the work of the OIML and other organisations can intermesh with each other,
1887-412: The certificates pertaining to these operations are filed in a manner that enables third parties to assess them should the need arise. The OIML has identified four main activities that fulfil the purposes of legal metrology: The International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML), an intergovernmental organisation , was established under a diplomatic treaty signed in Paris on 12 October 1955 to promote
1938-584: The fact that not all sugar is converted into alcohol. All values are measured at 20 degree C. A B V = − 118772 × SG final × ( Plato start − Plato final ) ( Plato start − 193.765 ) × ( Plato start + 1220 ) {\displaystyle ABV={\frac {-118772\times {\text{SG final}}\times ({\text{Plato start}}-{\text{Plato final}})}{({\text{Plato start}}-193.765)\times ({\text{Plato start}}+1220)}}} where SG final
1989-453: The global harmonisation of legal metrology procedures that underpin and facilitate international trade. Under French law, its principal body, the International Conference on Legal Metrology, is accorded diplomatic status. The Convention that set up the OIML listed eight objectives behind its establishment. At the 2011 meeting in Prague of the International Committee of Legal Metrology (CIML),
2040-427: The global harmonisation, uniform interpretation and implementation of legal metrological requirements for measuring instruments and/or modules, b) to avoid unnecessary re-testing when obtaining national type evaluations and approvals, and to support the recognition of measuring instruments and/or modules under legal metrological control, while achieving and maintaining confidence in the results in support of facilitating
2091-488: The global trade of individual instruments, and c) to establish rules and procedures for fostering mutual confidence among participating OIML Member States and Corresponding Members in the results of type evaluations that indicate conformity of measuring instruments and/or modules, under legal metrological control, to the metrological and technical requirements established in the applicable OIML Recommendation(s). There are three categories of participants: The requirements for
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2142-441: The mixing of two solutions above 24% causes a decrease in volume. The phenomenon of volume changes due to mixing dissimilar solutions is called " partial molar volume ". Water and ethanol are both polar solvents. When water is added to ethanol, the smaller water molecules are attracted to the ethanol's hydroxyl group, and each molecule alters the polarity field of the other. The attraction allows closer spacing between molecules than
2193-420: The participation of OIML Issuing Authorities and their associated Test Laboratories in Scheme A or Scheme B are the same, but the method of demonstrating compliance is different. OIML Issuing Authorities are required to demonstrate compliance with ISO/IEC 17065 and Test Laboratories are required to demonstrate compliance with ISO/IEC 17025. For participation in Scheme B, it is sufficient to demonstrate compliance on
2244-448: The protection of health , public safety , the environment , enabling taxation , protection of consumers and fair trade . In the glossary of their book Metrology - in short Howarth and Redgrave state that "legal metrology" Ensures accuracy and reliability of measurement where measured values can affect health, safety, or the transparency of financial transactions e.g. weights and measures. These two statements are held together by
2295-438: The rate of intake, which is easily dispatched by human metabolism. Quickly drinking 1.5 L of 0.4% alc/vol beer in an hour resulted in a maximum of 0.0056% BAC in a study of German volunteers. Healthy human kidneys can only excrete 0.8–1.0 L of water per hour, making water intoxication likely to set in before any alcoholic intoxication. The process of ethanol fermentation will slow down and eventually come to
2346-423: The resulting alcohol concentration by volume can be written: where SBV fermented is sugar by volume (g/dL) converted to alcohol during fermentation and GECF is the glucose-ethanol conversion factor: where 46.069 is the molar mass of ethanol and 180.156 is the molar mass of glucose and fructose . Sugar by volume is calculated at the beginning (start) and at the end (final) of the fermentation: where Brix
2397-419: The words "regulatory", "accuracy" and "reliability". The word "regulatory" encompasses the "legal" aspects of the term – the role played by governments , national metrology institutes and standards organisations in creating a framework to ensure confidence in the accuracy and reliability of a measurement . This framework requires that the specified test and conformance operations are carried out, and that
2448-463: The work of the metrological services. As of March 2022 31 OIML Documents had been published in this series. Documents may be downloaded free of charge from the OIML website . The OIML also published Basic Publications , Guides , Seminar Reports , Expert Reports and the OIML Bulletin . The OIML-CS is a single Certification System comprising two Schemes: Scheme A and Scheme B. It
2499-634: Was launched on 1 January 2018, replacing the OIML Basic Certificate System and the OIML Mutual Acceptance Arrangement (MAA). The aim of the OIML-CS is to facilitate, accelerate and harmonise the work of national and regional bodies that are responsible for type evaluation and approval of measuring instruments subject to legal metrological control. The objectives of the OIML-CS are a) to promote
2550-556: Was named the Best Non-Alcoholic Beer in the inaugural Tasting Alliance World Beer Competition. The company was included in 2024 list of influential companies, the list is compiled by Time. Athletic Brewing also sells sparkling water infused with hops under the brand name "Daypack." The company began selling the product in 2021 as an "alternative to soda or other sugary beverages." Alcohol by volume Alcohol by volume (abbreviated as alc/vol or ABV )
2601-558: Was ranked the second-fastest growing food and beverage company (and 26th overall) in the U.S. in 2022 by Inc. , as well as one of the 100 most influential companies of 2022 by Time magazine. In 2020, Athletic added a second manufacturing location when it purchased a brewing facility in San Diego, California from Ballast Point Brewing Company . In 2022, it opened a 150,000 square foot brewing facility in Milford, Connecticut , that
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