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<blockquote data-quote="Squire Fulwood" data-source="post: 1644772" data-attributes="member: 44622"><p>Beer and wine are made by yeast turning the sugar into carbon dioxide and alcohol. The process stops usually when the alcohol is sufficiently strong to overcome the yeast or the brew runs out of sugar.</p><p></p><p>The specific gravity is taken to see how much sugar is in the liquid and a typical wine can be anything from 1.005 (dry) to 1.020 (sweet ....very sweet). As you can see dry wines are better for sugar control and it doesn't matter what colour they are. Wine makers just say 5 or 20 or whatever leaving off the 1.0 bit.</p><p></p><p>Beer is much heavier and deliberately sold with more sugar in it in the summer. People like sweet beer in the summer I am told. I have never made beer but I have made industrial quantities of wine so know a bit more about that. I once heard someone say that a particular summer beer was 70. What with the fact that absolutely no-one only has one pint (in England) I think I understand what Dr. Malhotra meant by liquid toast.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: whoever told me about that beer may have got his original gravity and his final gravity mixed up. That is incredibly high for a final gravity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Squire Fulwood, post: 1644772, member: 44622"] Beer and wine are made by yeast turning the sugar into carbon dioxide and alcohol. The process stops usually when the alcohol is sufficiently strong to overcome the yeast or the brew runs out of sugar. The specific gravity is taken to see how much sugar is in the liquid and a typical wine can be anything from 1.005 (dry) to 1.020 (sweet ....very sweet). As you can see dry wines are better for sugar control and it doesn't matter what colour they are. Wine makers just say 5 or 20 or whatever leaving off the 1.0 bit. Beer is much heavier and deliberately sold with more sugar in it in the summer. People like sweet beer in the summer I am told. I have never made beer but I have made industrial quantities of wine so know a bit more about that. I once heard someone say that a particular summer beer was 70. What with the fact that absolutely no-one only has one pint (in England) I think I understand what Dr. Malhotra meant by liquid toast. EDIT: whoever told me about that beer may have got his original gravity and his final gravity mixed up. That is incredibly high for a final gravity [/QUOTE]
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