Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Beer
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
=== Nutrition === Beers vary in their nutritional content.<ref name="Sugar">{{cite web |first=Jenny |last=Sugar |url=http://www.fitsugar.com/Calories-Popular-Beers-1504697 |title=Calories in Popular Beers |publisher=Fitsugar.com |date=25 October 2013 |access-date=10 October 2013 |archive-date=20 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820153709/http://www.fitsugar.com/Calories-Popular-Beers-1504697 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The ingredients used to make beer, including the [[Yeast#Beer|yeast]], provide a rich source of nutrients; therefore beer may contain nutrients including [[magnesium]], [[selenium]], [[potassium]], [[phosphorus]], [[biotin]], [[chromium]] and [[B vitamins]]. Beer is sometimes referred to as "liquid [[bread]]",<ref>{{cite conference |first=Charles W. |last=Bamforth |title=Beer as liquid bread: Overlapping science. |book-title=World Grains Summit 2006: Foods and Beverages |date=17β20 September 2006 |location=San Francisco, California |url=http://www.aaccnet.org/meetings/Documents/Pre2009Abstracts/2006Abstracts/O-76.htm |access-date=6 November 2006 |archive-date=17 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217052902/http://www.aaccnet.org/meetings/Documents/Pre2009Abstracts/2006Abstracts/O-76.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref> though beer is not a meal in itself.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eHArQOTf_WQC&pg=PA137 |page=137 |title=Beer: Health and Nutrition |first=Charles W. |last=Bamforth |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |date=15 April 2008 |isbn=978-1405147972}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |+ '''Nutrition from different beers<br/>(serving size: 12 oz./355 ml)''' |- ! Beer Brand !! Carbohydrate <br/> (g) !! Alcohol <br/> (%) !! Energy <br/> (kcal) |- | [[Anheuser-Busch brands#Budweiser Select 55|Budweiser Select 55]] || 1.8 || 2.4 || 55 |- | [[Coors Light]] || 5 || 4.2 || 102 |- | [[Guinness]] Draught || 10 || 4.0 || 126 |- | [[Sierra Nevada Brewing Company|Sierra Nevada]] Bigfoot || 30.3 || 9.6 || 330 |}
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)