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Cider Digest #0258
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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