7.3% cider?

[admin]

Got some 2L glass bottles of Old Rosie in Tesco in Norn Irn yesterday. 7.3% scrumpy. Not my favourite style cider I have to admit.

Anyway, I'm sure someone knows... I am doubting that this reached 7.3% without additional sugar of some sort? Do any apples give a starting gravity high enough to reach that sort of abv?

[Eoin]

I love that stuff, although it is 7.8 originally, I've noticed it dropped recently. I don't think they add stuff, Will is surely gonna know.


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[Eoin]

I suspect it's dropped because of a change in the law in the UK. Cider of 7.5% and above now incurs a higher excise rate, with 8.5% being the legal max.

I suspected tax reasons alright. I think WJK's have it on tap.

TT

[Eoin]

The website claims it's very traditional and 8% was not uncommon for the style. I suspect that the scrumpy apple varieties are simply high in sugar.

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[CARA]

Yeah it's one of our rotational ciders-one of the bag in boxes is currently expanding in the cellar-I'm pretty sure its re-fermenting in the bag!!

[Will_D]

Interesting

To get a 7.3% abv you would need juice at about 1.056. This is certainly at the very upper end of apple sugar content.

If then all the sugars turn to alcohol there will then be a 7.3% alcohol water mix.

Note that there is very little else in AJ to give any body to the solution.(Unlike in beers)

The density of a 7.3% A/W mix is 0.988

Can you get a gravity reading of this cider?

Would be interesting

[Will_D]

Elementary dear Watson!