Accounting for Gravity When Brewing with Fruit

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IL1kebeer

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How do you account for the added sugar from fruit (oranges) when you add them to primary? My starting gravity was 1.05 but I know that the oranges that I added should bump that up and increase my abv at the end.
 

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