Low Calorie Beer

William Gates

What's the lowest calorie beer available in Ireland? (Full alcohol percentage not light beer).

irish_goat

Widely available, Guinness.

Mellor

William Gates wrote: »

What's the lowest calorie beer available in Ireland? (Full alcohol percentage not light beer).

Alcohol has calories, so full strength alcohol can't be low calorie. Guiness or light (colour) lagers would be the lowest.

And light beers (coors light, bud light etc) refer to the style of beer not the strength. They aren't lower than other beers

William Gates

I don't think so goat.......i did a bit of digging.........calories per pint......

Guinness - 210

Heiniken - 227

Bud - 227

Carling - 187

Carlsberg Lager - 182

Stella - 256

Becks - 204


So for me it looks like Carlsberg might be the way to go.

Although there is a beer called Skol that is only 153 calories a pint which I think is available in some supermarkets.

tHE vAGGABOND

are you sure thats per pint, and not per 330 can or something? Seems low across board?

Mellor

They look about right
All beer isn't that high in calories really, when compared to soft drinks and such.
The problem is the volume, 220 or so per pint isn't much, but a 10 pint session adds up

RoboRat

what is the calorie level in Cider? I cant take beer so i drink cider but i have a feeling that its loaded with calories..

irish_goat

Done more digging and it seems that there is no definitive calorie count for Guinness but 170-220 seems to be most common.

Guinness is lower strength than most beers though so that would suggest fewer calories.

im invisible

William Gates wrote: »

(Full alcohol percentage not light beer).

on this^ 'light' beers (bud light, coors light, bulmers light, etc.) have the same alcohol percentage as the normal beer, just fewer calories

RoboRat wrote: »

what is the calorie level in Cider? I cant take beer so i drink cider but i have a feeling that its loaded with calories..

bulmers

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233 calories/pint
bulmers light --160 calories/pint

Bulmers Light Contains 7% less calories than the leading light beer on the Irish market.
from here

VonLuck

You might find this interesting: http://cdn2.mademan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/get-drunk-not-fat2.jpg

Although its americanised, it basically gives a list of drinks by least calories per unit of alcohol.

So if you're looking for the beer with the best calorie to alcohol ratio (i.e. lowest calories) it would appear to be Miller Light as its the only one that I recognise that is available here. (Unless you know of a place to get 'Natural Ice'?)

Really the light beers appear to be your best bet.