By gravity I assume you mean alcohol content... is this named after the measuring instrument I remember by dad using to control alcohol mixture when I was a kid? He ran a farm, and he used industrial 96% for some disinfectant stuff. I remember him pouring the mix into this test tube looking thing where this widget would sink further down the stronger the mix was.

Also, I drank a 20something% beer once. It was strong enough to not resemble the beer in taste, and insanely pricey. I remember it being very brown and very thick. Any idea what they most likely did to achieve this ABV?

As I also enjoy a whiskey now and then I am not fundamentally opposed to high alcohol content... but I prefer that my beer actually tastes like beer and not an IG Farben byproduct.

[–] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

Nah gravity is the amount of sugar in wort before fermentation, which translates to higher ABV, but also higher gravities can also make the beer sweeter depending on the attenuation of the yeast.