Beer/Wine/Booze Nutritional Info
After the success of The Drink Beer, Get Thin Diet: A Low Carbohydrate Approach (May 2003) and The Low Carb Bartender: Carb Counts For Beer, Wine, Mixed Drinks, And More (2004), both out-of-print, it became obvious to me that a growing number of carb-watching beer, wine and spirit drinkers would like to have the same nutritional information provided to them with their adult drinks of choice, just as the concerned parent who watches at the breakfast table as their kids wolf down their favorite cold cereal. It might not be the ideal way to start the morning, but by being able to see how many calories, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, fat, etc. the kids are consuming, the parent can balance out the meal with the addition of some fruit and protein. The nutritional information provided on the cereal box helps make parents informed ones.
We’re not kids. We make our own choices. But with alcoholic beverages, we’re at a disadvantage. For instance, how much fat is in beer? Are there sugars in liquor? It might appear to be an oxymoron, but a growing number of imbibers want to “drink healthy.” Look at the industry move towards organic and gluten-free beers. As I pointed out in two earlier publications, the information needed to enjoy an alcoholic beverage and know its nutritional value, however, is lac
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But no longer. In anticipation of my newest upcoming book—available this fall—The Low-Carb Bartender Returns (Gotta work on this title), I’ll be posting nutritional information of various beers, wines, and boozes on this blog.
Sure, you can go to Calorie-King and all those other sites that give you 50, 75, and in one case, 200 beers with their nutritional values. Of course, they’re padded with beers long gone and devoid of beers from the U.K., Australia, Belgium, and scores and scores of brewpubs and U.S. craft breweries.
NEW TTB Labeling and Advertising of Wines, Distilled Spirits and Malt Beverages; Proposed Rule (PDF)In the next few months, I’ll be adding more of my own low-carb/calorie video recipes, along with the self-made smattering that’s now posted at http://drinkz-n-eatz-tv.com/
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July 14, 2007 at 10:05 am
Thanks for stopping by! Couldn’t agree with you more. Hardcore runners and bicyclists have known about the extra carbs in beer for a long time and even through all the bad rap the “perfect food” has taken, you will still find many a triathlete or marathoner lined up at the bar after the race is done, even the winners! I may give up my pizza and even cut back on the steak and taters… but they will pry my last beer out of my cold, dead hands…! Ever tried Genesee? http://www.geneseebeer.com
Their Cream Ale is legendary… just wish you could find it in Missouri…!
March 18, 2008 at 4:08 am
Oops. Sorry. All dark beer does indeed have antioxidants. However, red wine is higher in antioxidants, so I can still argue muleheadedly that my whole comment about it not having the [same] antioxidants was correct.
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March 18, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Right. I shall tell all oenophiles to loosen up (NOT lighten up) and have a beer.
Some studies have even suggested that antioxidants in white wines (which often contain as much of them as dark beers) are more effective than those in red wines. In this case it may literally be a question of size mattering, as white wine’s antioxidant molecules are smaller and might be more easily absorbed. More research is needed.
However, beer is clearly moving up the charts, and which one ends up as number one (which I’m NOT using as a term for urine) remains to be seen.
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