Beer Starting Gravity
Americans. Your beer is poor. Why accept it ?
This came from an American beer website:
American Lager – This is basically the main style of beer in America. It is a mass produced, inexpensive product that’s aimed at the broadest possible demographic. Since it is very watery and has little flavor characteristics, it is the least likely to offend a large number of consumers. In the health craze of the 70’s brewers started offering Light Beer. Light Beer is simply an American Lager with an even lower gravity. American Lagers achieve a low gravity by adding corn or rice syrup which is highly fermentable. This means that a higher percentage of sugars ferment into alcohol leaving behind less flavor.
I agree with you that the major brands of beer is of very poor quality, Budweiser, miller, Coors etc. but in the past 10 to 15 years their has been a renaissance in the micro breweries and the U.S. now boast 100´s of high quality micro breweries. Some examples are blue moon, sierra Nevada pale ale, voodoo ale, Pete’s wicked ale, Samuel Adams. It seems you obviously aren’t up to date on your facts.
Homebrew beer, Specific gravity reading with hydrometer