In article >, "john reves" > wrote:
>Novice just started making ginger beer. The receipe calls for one cup of
>sugar ( 200gm or 0.44 lbs )approx to every 2 litres (3.5 UK pints [4.2 USA
>pints] of water.
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>Would anyone be able to give the *approximate* alcoholic strength by volume
>resulting from such a receipe? Thanks.

Complete conversion of 200g of table sugar yields 51g of ethanol. The density
of ethanol is 0.789g/ml, so 200g sugar per liter will yield approximately 65
ml ethanol per liter, or about 6.5% v/v.
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