Cider Digest #0043

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Subject: Cider Digest #43 Fri Oct 4 18:00:05 EDT 1991 
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 91 18:00:06 EDT 
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Cider Digest #43          Fri Oct 4 18:00:05 EDT 1991 
Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues 
Jay Hersh, Digest Coordinator 

Contents: 
  re sweet, sparkling (Chip Hitchcock) 

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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 91 10:27:26 EDT 
From: cjh@vallance.hq.ileaf.com (Chip Hitchcock) 
Subject: re sweet, sparkling 

   I would prefer not to be in the same building with anyone pasteurizing 
a liquid that was carbonated to taste at room temperature. As has been 
pointed out several times recently in HBD, gas solubility is inversely 
related to solution temperature. 
   The pressure in an uncarbonated liquid being pasteurized will also go up 
(~20% for the gas in the headspace, plus maybe 3-6 psi for the increased vapor 
pressure of the liquid), but that's not much compared to forcing 12-24 
fluid ounces of CO2 into headspace of 1/2-ounce or so (figures for std. 
beer bottles; adjust according to how full you fill soda bottles). Yes, you 
wouldn't actually get a 24x jump in pressure because not all the CO2 could 
come out of solution with that much counterpressure, but it would still be 
enough to be dangerous. 
   I don't know how beer factories pasteurize their beer, but I'm pretty sure 
they don't do it in the bottle/can. 

PS---I suspect you won't want cider nearly as carbonated as soda anyway, 
but that's a matter of taste. 

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