Adding sugar to cider kit - or not?

[lhooq]

So, I make cider (from kits and/or juice) mainly for my wife, who likes it. I've made a couple of times the Ciderworks Superior Apple Cider kit, which goes down well, and I'll be brewing it again shortly. But it ends up north of 6% abv and I've been asked if it can be brewed to a lower alcohol level. Now, this kit comes with 1kg of glucose to add, and I wondered what would be the effect of just leaving out some or all of this - obviously it would be significantly less alcoholic but would it have much other impact? I know with beer recipes sugar tends to make drier / thinner beer, but would this be very noticable in reverse in cider? It's always going to ferment pretty dry, right?

Thanks for any thoughts!

 

[Richie_asg1]

I would try the kit with 500g white sugar and see where it gets you. I made a very pleasant saison kit like this and ended up at 3.4% before carbonation which was perfect for summer drinking.
With most cider kits there is some flavouring going on anyway so the sugar may just boost the ABV.
Try it with half and see.

 

[AXW123]

I made a cider kit and reduced the sugar by half - it was fine.