Malt Beverages and Brewing Materials: Calculation of Carbohydrate Content and Caloric Content
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The Real
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Abstract The American Society of Brewing Chemists (ASBS) has released one new procedure and one change in a present procedure. A new method for calculating the carbohydrate content of malt beverages, after determining the specific gravity, real extract, protein, and ash contents by AOAC methods, is presented. The method is applicable to either weight or volume amounts of malt beverages. Two changes are presented in method 10.027, caloric content of malt beverages: (1) the calorie factor for grams of ethanol is changed from 7.0 to 6.9, and (2) the ash content of the malt beverage is subtracted from the real extract before calculating the calories of the extract. The 2 changes are needed to make the caloric calculation more precise.