Higher gravity beers, like imperial stouts, whiskey ales, and barrel-aged beer, will almost always have a higher ABV in the end because there is more fuel for the yeast to convert into alcohol.

Switchback joins Zero Gravity Craft Brewery, another South End beer maker, in the non-alcoholic beer category. Zero Gravity began selling its non-alcoholic offshoot, Rescue Club, in 2021.

Zero Gravity had been talking for a while about making a non-alcoholic beer. Nelson, co-founder of Citizen Cider — the hard-cider company on Pine Street nearing its 10th anniversary — joined ...