Force Carbonating Kegs

[Wrighty2]

Hi all, im new at kegging and was wondering if force carbonating your kegs with co2 will slightly bump up the alcohol percentage by .5% as does with using carbonation drops etc??

 

[beertroll]

It will not. The carb drops increase the ABV because they provide additional sugars, which the yeast convert to alcohol and CO2. When force-carbing, you're just adding CO2 directly.

 

[uatuba]

Umm...bottle conditioning will not increase the abv by an entire half percent...that's way too much of an increase. Your abv won't change by any amount that you could measure with a hydrometer.

 

[gdbrewer]

Umm...bottle conditioning will not increase the abv by an entire half percent...that's way too much of an increase. Your abv won't change by any amount that you could measure with a hydrometer.

Completely agree. I'm no pro or anything, but I'm fairly certain the ABV is determined at the end of fermentation.

 

[chickypad]

The bottling sugar will give you about 2 to 2.5 gravity pts, so if completely fermented a max increase about 0.25-0.33% ABV.