Adding sugar for carbonation...

[BreadMurderer]

... does this not then mean that the alcohol level changes a wee bit from your FG?

This may be a stupid question and I can't see it on the forum from a search... Yeast eats sugar = alcohol (roughly) - Obviously it's creating co2 as well (as part of the process and the intended outcome). Can someone go all science on this or am I just talking mince? Is it so minimal its not worth noting?

Cheers,
Dan
Beer Scientist

 

[fermentall]

Yep it's so minimal it's not worth considering it,just use it to carbonate & forget it is there. :

 

[pittsy]

yep something like 0.2% on average so not worth thinking about

 

[morethanworts]

Yep, what he said.

18g of white sugar in 1 litre apparently yields roughly 1% ABV, so (say) 80g in 23L is as near as dammit to 0.2%.

 

[BreadMurderer]

Cool - pretty much as I suspected and thanks for the replies folks! :thumb: