Apple Juice on Beersmith

[vicratlhead51]

I was kind of monkeying around with beersmith and had wanted to make cider recipes but there isn't really an option for substituting water with juice. So I checked the label of the juice bottle to see how much sugar was in a serving of Meijer brand apple juice and it was 21g per 8oz serving. I multiplied that by 16 to get 336gm/gallon. then just converted the gm to pounds which was .74lb/gal. I multiplied that by 5 to get 3.7lb. of sugar per 5gal batch. Now that I have that I just plugged it into my recipe as table sugar. I know the gravities aren't going to be perfect but it will at least give me a good idea of the fermentables that will be in my recipe.

I was kind of curious as to whether anyone saw any mistakes in my process. Would a different sugar be a more appropriate sugar?

I did a search and read through a few threads and never really came across any good infor for plugging juice into Beersmith, any better suggestions than just doing what I did?

 

[DeNomad]

I plugged apple juice into beersmith as an extract. I measured the OG of a known volume then adjusted the potential yield of the extract until it matched the OG I measured. This way is nice because you will end up with the correct volume if you use beersmith to calculate volumes.

 

[sidboswell]

Uhhhh. Put apple juice in testing tube ... Insert hydrometer ... Take reading ...

Might also want to correct for temp, but just a thought

 

[dignifiedb]

What Beersmith category would it be best to add "Apple Juice" to? Misc? Extract?