Among beer geeks/snobs there’s an unspoken presumption that high gravity beer is also high alcohol, and thereby through the science of brewing makes it a high calorie beverage. Likewise, light beer drinkers assume full-bodied taste comes with a steep caloric price.
What you may be surprised to learn is that many beers with strong tastes don’t share high calorie counts; for instance Guinness draught has about the same calorie count as Bud Light. And though light beers rank among the leanest beverages, the difference between their contemporaries is often less than 50 calories, or about the same as the handful of beer nuts your Michelob Ultra swilling friend just tossed back…
Worse yet, we know that light beer drinkers also drink a higher volume of beer for a decreased amount of alcohol, subsequently increasing their caloric intake in order to reach the same level of intoxication (which probably shouldn’t be their goal anyway). And besides, if alcohol consumption can lower your metabolic rate anyway, so how would calorie count from wine and spirts significantly differ your diet’s outcome?
(H/T @ToothpickSwords)
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brewnoob reblogged this from toothpickswords and added:
Among beer geeks/snobs there’s an unspoken presumption that high gravity beer is also high alcohol, and thereby through...
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sarahluz reblogged this from toothpickswords and added:
I always assumed liquor was fairly low-calorie? Not really the case. A mixed drink is calorically similar to having a...
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