Questions tagged [alcohol-content]
The amount of alcohol that is present in an alcoholic drink. Usually expressed as percent ABV (by volume) or percent ABW (by weight).
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My mead has a lower ABV than I hoped
I'm brewing a solera mead experiment at home. It's on a six month rotation, so every six months I make a new batch, let that sit for a month, and them go down the line bottling the oldest and ...
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Calculating ABV after adding sugar solution
Will it be possible to calculate the ABV of some sloe wine that I've brewed, if I measured the gravity, needed to add a known amount of sugar solution, and then measured the gravity at the end of ...
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Guess Alcohol By Weight With ACTUAL Weight
This has been bothering me for years. I'm sure it can be done but every time I do a search it's always original gravity this and final gravity that. All I want to do is have a rough estimate of how ...
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What abv can you get with wild yeast?
I've been doing research about making alcohol, and I can't find much involving how much alcohol wild yeast can produce before stopping. I'm just wanting to make pure alcohol and vinegar for chemistry ...
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Is removing alcohol to create low/non alcoholic wine/beer feasible for the home brewer?
Low/non alcohol beverages are probably more popular than ever before with most major brands and many craft brewers now selling products in this category.
I know there are ways to make low-ABV ...
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Why do we use 95% alcohol in Liqueurs?
Not exactly a beer homebrew question but...
I heard from many people that drinking 70-96% alcohol (not rubbing alcohol but distilling grapes).
For example Cyprus traditional drink zivania is made by ...
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How to calculate liqueur alcohol percentage and final volume
I'm planning to make an homemade liqueur, like Limoncello, but with oranges.
To begin, I've added orange zests to 500 grams of 96% alcohol.
Now, I'm puzzled about the sugar syrup.
In the beginning I ...
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Toxic compounds, weirder situation then usual, much weirder
Ok so I'm making some hard alcohol from a sugar-wash. I used too little yeast and fermentation ended up halting at like 7% ABV, it then stood around for like a week and a half till I got the new yeast....
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Is one volume of Co2 one point of ABV?
So, I'm bottle conditioning. Went back to my high school days to compute the grams of sugar I need to add to get a specific volume of CO2 per gallon (because I do such small batches).
What I'm ...
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How can I ascertain ABV and/or Brix of a mixed fermentation using only specific gravity measurements?
I recently bought an inexpensive little hydrometer in the goal of roughly measuring the alcohol and sugar content of my home-brewed kombucha. I didn't think too hard about the methodology of this ...
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Impact of different gravities for the same ABV
We can have the same ABV with diferents gravities. My reading for watermelon wine is:
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However I found some recipes with readings like this to the same type of wine.
1.090
1.023
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Why is vodka 40%?
I'm wondering who decided vodka should be 40% and why? (Have to include a little filler to make the question long enough to pass quality standards. )
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Alcohol Percentage Estimate
About 4-5 days ago I crushed up 2lbs of grapes and added a cup of sugar and a couple sliced oranges and lemons and a thick slice of bread to a glass jug.
Covered the lid over the top with a towel ...
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How to know if kombucha is alcoholic?
So I am into making kombucha at home: I made a SCOBY, grew it, and I have successful kombuchas. My normal recipe makes a "ginger kombucha", pretty much kombucha with sugar and ginger. It disappears ...
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How to calculate ABV% with step feeding
I would like to make a high ABV mead, and plan to divide the honey into 3 or 4 increments for the yeast. This has to be done so that the yeast are not under stress from osmotic pressure. However, I ...
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