Cider Digest #0258

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 · 7 months ago

Subject: re potential alcohol 
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 11:28:04 EST 
From: leafusa!diaspar.HQ.Ileaf.COM!cjh@eddie.mit.edu 

>                     Be aware that a dry cider will often have a 
> finishing gravity under 1.000, that is completely dry with no residual 
> sugar 

This is not strictly accurate. Pure ethanol has a gravity somewhere in the 
.800's, so a strong dry cider could read under 1.000 and still have some 
residual sugar (cf long meads, which can taste sweet even after finishing 
at .990 or below). 

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