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Because from a consumer’s point of view, the absolute amount isn’t useful when the serving size and the packaging size isn’t fixed. It is straightforward for a 1.75l bottle of whiskey to be the same % alcohol as the 750ml bottle when the absolute volume of alcohol would be different.
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