Low carb stouts

Cliona2012

Hi
I know guinness is low in carbs but can anyone recommend any other low carb stouts?

Cliona2012

Cliona2012 wrote: »

Hi
I know guinness is low in carbs but can anyone recommend any other low carb stouts?

Anyone?

lk67

Cliona2012 wrote: »

Anyone?

Unfortunately I think most of us here don't watch our carbs, or calories for that matter. Or maybe that's just me...

Personally I didn't think the carbs in beer would be a major issue, so there you go.

It goes to show that there should be more info on beer bottles.

You could try contacting some of the brewers maybe? They should have this info.

Is it ANY other stouts or some of the microbrew ones?

listermint

Counter the Carbs with a top up in exercise

slayerking

I honestly read this tread title thinking you wanted low carbonation stouts.

If you are on a low carb diet, you are best to simply drink less. It's difficult to say carb wise what's in most beers as its usually not disclosed but you'd be fairly safe in assuming that any dry Irish stout of a similar abv to Guinness shouldn't be to far from it carb wise.

mcbobbyb

Coors light and bud light are low carb and lower calorie than most.

irish_goat

I had a look online and it seems you can find sources saying stout is high in carbs and sources that say it is lower (compared to lager). The lack of proper labelling requirements in Ireland makes it hard to know for certain. Guinness would have less body than a lot of craft stouts so that could hint there's less carbs in it but I'm only guessing really. Beamish and Murphys are probably similar anyway.

Ravelleman

mcbobbyb wrote: »

Coors light and bud light are low carb and lower calorie than most.

It's hard to know what the 'light' ('lite') element actually refers to here. Bud Light might indeed have lower calories per can or bottle but it also has a lower ABV than regular Budweiser. Light beers emerged on a mass scale in the 1970s when there was a wave of interest in healthier products than those previously available. Now it's difficult to say if the lightness part means calories, flavour, carbonation, mouthfeel, colour or anything else.

This article is worth a look: Light Beer: You Don't Have to Like It, but Respect It.

"[Peter] Kraemer [a fifth-generation brewmaster and head of brewing for Anheuser-Busch InBev in St. Louis] believes that "light beer" has lost all meaning over the years. Budweiser and Bud Light are both lagers, which require an extended fermentation cycle called lagering, during which inactive yeasts are removed to allow still-active yeasts to do their job. Since Budweiser and Bud Light consist of the same ingredients (carbon-filtered water, barley malt, rice, hops, lager yeast) and require around 27 days of fermentation, Kraemer considers them both light beers."

mcbobbyb

Agree its hard to know. I know theres not much between lagers and the "light" beers. Coors light for a bottle is just under 100 calories and only 5 g of carbs according to calorie websites.

runawaybishop

Alcohol calories are not processed the same as food calories. There is no point looking for lower calories beers/stouts etc, the difference is negligible. White spirits and diet mixers have the lowest calories, if you really think that will help.

Typically its the takeaway after a skip of pints or the junk food the next day that does the damage, not the booze itself.

rubadub

slayerking wrote: »

It's difficult to say carb wise what's in most beers as its usually not disclosed

Guinness used to give a breakdown on Irish cans I know 500ml 4.2% was 170kcal. Not sure of carbs but they stood out as low to me. Of course the recipe may have changed since.

irish_goat wrote: »

The lack of proper labelling requirements in Ireland makes it hard to know for certain.

This minimum pricing nonsnese is also meant to bring in calorie counts, and I think only calorie counts not nutritional breakdown which I would like to know more than calories. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks this request for labelling is possibly a sneaky way to stop off licences easily importing from the EU -so breweries and distributors can raise prices in line with minimum pricing.

Ravelleman wrote: »

Bud Light might indeed have lower calories per can or bottle but it also has a lower ABV than regular Budweiser.

I think coors & coors light are the same %. With some light beers they are meant to add enzymes to convert non fermentable carbs into fermentable ones. So less residual carbs lowers the calories per unit alcohol.

mcbobbyb wrote: »

Coors light for a bottle is just under 100 calories and only 5 g of carbs according to calorie websites.

recipies, %, bottle sizes, shot sizes etc all vary around the world. I would trust very few sites.

runawaybishop wrote: »

Alcohol calories are not processed the same as food calories. There is no point looking for lower calories beers/stouts etc, the difference is negligible.

It can depend on how much you drink. Heinekens site says it is 3.5g sugar per 100ml. Coke is 10.6g. So 12x500ml cans of heineken would be the same sugar as ~2L of coke. I know people who would drink 12 cans who would think 2L of coke is an obscene amount to drink in a day due to the sugar!

I agree the calories from alcohol itself are not processed the same, and are meant to have negligible effect on very heavy drinkers. I have found this to be true anecdotally myself.

I would guess some beers would be half the sugar content of heineken, the calorie counts might not be very different, but it you excluded the alcohol and just looked at the calorie difference of the carbs it might be worth looking for lower ones.

Ageyev

Cliona2012

thanks guys