probably only about 10% MAX of all the beers ive made have had OGs of 1.065 or higher (not counting meads and sakes of course) and maybe only two with OGs over 1.08
I love commercial strong beers of many different types, but im thinking about cutting out homebrewing strong beers even further.
i made a 7.8% ABV beer recently that tastes fine. ideal mash, fermentation etc. its just that i feel it takes relatively more careful planning, effort to get that high gravity wort and deal with it and has a higher chance of having problems (too high FG, unbalanced, too many yeast attributes, etc).
even this ideal strong beer i made is as i said. "fine"
the best beers ive made have all been between 1.04 and 1.055 gravities. the ones that were really memorable and i was sad to see them go.
does anyone really make an effort or find it worthwhile to make higher gravity beers? any tips? any specific styles (i do still want to make a strong stout)? i admit i don't have pure 02 yet because i don't make high-grav beers often.