At 5 percent alcohol, one of our ciders will come in at about 129 calories.
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In other words, the calories in a dry cider contain the calories from alcohol plus about 8 calories of other stuff. Malic acid (the most common in apple juice) has about 2.4 calories per gram, so the acids in cider will add a little less than 5 more calories to the finished cider. A typical 12 oz bottle of cider will contain about 2 grams of acids. Cider also has naturally occurring acids which have a few calories as well. Sorbitol has less calories than sugar, and at 0.4 percent of the juice, it will add about 3 calories to a 12 oz bottle. The most significant non-fermentable carbohydrate of cider is sorbitol, which averages 0.4 percent of the juice. Very few additional calories are left behind after fermentation. In the case of cider, nearly all of the carbohydrates are fermentable, and close to 100 percent of the sugars are turned into alcohol. They do this by using more vigorous yeast strains and by carefully choosing their grains to ensure a more complete fermentation that doesn’t leave many non-fermented carbohydrates. To get a lighter, lower calorie beer, breweries will take steps to get their beer yeasts to ferment a higher proportion of the carbohydrates. Wisconsin’s favorite beer, Spotted Cow, measures in at 150 calories and 4.8 percent alcohol.
The initial carbohydrates will have about 1.16 times as much caloric energy as the converted alcohol, so in our initial example of a beverage at 5 percent alcohol with 121 alcohol-based calories, a typical beer will contain an additional 47 calories of unfermented carbohydrates putting it at 168 calories total in a 12 oz bottle. In a beer, it is typical for about three quarters of the carbohydrates to get fermented, and the unfermented carbohydrates will remain in the beer as additional calories. They often leave some non-fermentable carbohydrates behind. In fermented beverages (like beer, wine, and cider) yeast eat all the sugars they can and convert them into alcohol, but they can’t always get them all. Aside from alcohol, of course there typically are other calories that come with alcoholic beverages.
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