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.

Would anyone be able to give the *approximate* alcoholic strength by volume
resulting from such a receipe? Thanks.

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.
>
>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.
>

Doug Miller > wrote:
> > 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.
>>
>>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.

I get an OG of 1.037 and an expected ABV of 5.17%