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Originally Posted by Marcellus
Guinness is one of the lowest calorie, low alcohol, non light beers on the planet.
But there is truth that most (not all) dark beers have more body to them than lighter colored beers.
A double IPA is likely going to be lighter on mouth feel than a Guinness. An oatmeal stout even more so, as that's the whole reason for oats in a stout, to add body and creaminess.
Light on alcohol and light in body are 2 very different things.
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Negative, ghost rider. Body or heaviness in beer is derived from its final gravity and final gravity doesn't have any specific link to whether you use light or dark malt (which determines how light or how dark the beer is). The amount of residual sugar in a beer has zero to do with the malt bill and more to do with what yeast is used, what the initial gravity was and how much sugar the yeast was able to ferment out.
Oats or nitro are used to soften the mouthfeel of a beer, not to make it thicker.
I'm not trying to be particularly argumentative, as "heaviness" in beer is totally subjective, but after explaining this a lot to people, I almost have my response memorized.