Carbonation

[Libertytree]

Nope, no CO2.

When the beer is finished with fermentation there's still active yeast in it, its converted the sugar into alcohol. By adding sugar at the time of bottling the yeast has more sugar to feed on and those gases produced are the carbonation.

I don't understand the alcohol content question. As far as adding distilled fruit juice to up the alc % I'd have to defer to BT.

[BrewTech]

Gotta go to work right now, but I would be interested in responding to this thread when I get home...