ABV and residual sugar in a sweet stout.

[EmGeeTee]

I just bottled a chocolate milk stout that looks like it attenuated pretty well. OG 1.054/FG 1.022. It's a little high for a FG, but there's a lot of residual sugar in there and so it's not surprising. But I was wondering how I tell what the ABV is given that the FG is high on the basis of unfermentable sugars that are still in the beer.

I'm trying to practice good record keeping here.

 

[Legin]

What? Confused. You would use the same method to determine the ABV by using the O.G. and F.G. that you gave, regardless of unfermentable sugars in beer. Unless I'm missing something. ABV: 4.17

 

[EmGeeTee]

Oh, I guess I was thinking that all the unfermentable sugar would throw off the meaning of the hydrometer reading. But, as you're pointing out, since we get ABV from just a relative measurement that shouldn't matter. Makes sense. Thanks for being patient with me, I'm still learning