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Drews_Brew

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Hi,
I need a little help figuring ABV for this recipe...

I brewed 4 gallons of Pumpkin beer OG = 1.077
I let it ferment down to 1.016.
Then, I added a gallon of apple juice with a gravity of 1.046 to the carboy.
The new gravity took it up to 1.032.
This concoction fermented down to 1.012.

What is my ABV?

It tastes really good. I actually brewed a 7g batch and split it into a 4g and 3g bucket. I added 1 gallon of apple juice to the 4g batch and 2g of apple juice to the 3g batch.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Cheers
 
As it turns out, that gallon of 1.046 apple juice is the equivalent of a pound of corn sugar.

Back-calculating the 4 gallons of 1.077 says you had ~8.6 pounds of malt (& pumpkin, presumably), and adding a gallon of 1.046 would bring that to 5 gallons of 1.087 wort.

Presuming average yeast performance, you would end up with an ABV of ~8.4%...

Cheers!
 

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