Malt And Alcohol %

[wiggins]

I recently bought a 500 gram bag of coopers light dry malt and started reading the info on the side panel.Under the heading of alcohol produced it claims to ferment out to .8%.Could this be a typo or is that ralistic figure for 500 grams of malt?I was always under the impression that 1.5 kilos of malt would give same amount of alcohol as 1 kilo of sugar,according to this,apparently not. <_<

 

[shmick]

I recently bought a 500 gram bag of coopers light dry malt and started reading the info on the side panel.Under the heading of alcohol produced it claims to ferment out to .8%.Could this be a typo or is that ralistic figure for 500 grams of malt?I was always under the impression that 1.5 kilos of malt would give same amount of alcohol as 1 kilo of sugar,according to this,apparently not. <_<

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There isn't a lot of difference between Sucrose and light dry malt Wiggins.
Sucrose only has about 5% higher potential.
You may be thinking of liquid malt extract (tin) where 20 - 30% of the weight is water.

% ABV depends on batch size. For a 22litre batch, 500g light dry malt will give approx 0.8% ABV (Beersmith) depending on yeast attenuation etc. Higher ABV for smaller batch. :chug:

 

[lucas]

what alcohol % would the can by itself ferment out to? does the can + 1kg of light dry malt end up somewhere around the 4-5% mark?

 

[Stuster]

It should be around the 1042 mark, giving something like 4.5%. The Brewcraft calculator is an easy way to find out what to expect, at this site.