Originally Posted by Tophat665

Now, the only time I ever use the metric system in practice is, when I am brewing, I weigh my hops in grams. The only reason for this is that my scale will measure to eighths of an ouce in English, but to the gram in metric. With 28 grams to the ounce, it's just more sensitive. I really can't envision every having to weight more than about 4 oz of hops at once, so the precision is nice. The way I am using it amounts to making the gram another English unit with a typically oddball conversion ratio.