What is "light" beer? Less calories? Less carbs? Lower alcohol content? Help! You'd think I'd know this - but I don't?

Help! You'd think I'd know this - but I don't! The more info, the better.

I want to be an informed consumer. :-) Asked by Goodbye!16 months ago Similar questions: light beer calories carbs Lower alcohol content Help Food & Drink > Drink.

Similar questions: light beer calories carbs Lower alcohol content Help.

There are two ways to make Lite beer, water it down or reduce the carbs. Some companies use both methods. Some breweries simply dilute their beer with water, which reduces not just the calories but also the taste and alcohol content.

Others add an enzyme, which converts most of the dextrins (which are carbohydrates responsible for much of the beer's aroma and flavor) to alcohol, allowing you to use a lower-carb mash and make a beer with less carbohydrates but the same amount of alcohol. Or they will add glucose in the place of some of the barley malt (glucose is more easily fully converted to alcohol than the malt), which also bumps up the alcohol content while letting you use less carbs.

Fewer calories. They just use less of the ingredients and use more water which results in a tad less alcohol. Some people with high tolerance say they can't get drunk off of light beer.

Well, I have high tolerance too but, I still get tipsy when I'm tappin' 'The Rockies' with a case of Coors Light brewed with 100% Rocky Mountain spring water! .

The original "light" beer was pilsener, rather than the darker beer which was sold up until then. In basic layman's terms, it was made with a lighter malt, and so was lighter in color, and had less "body" than the darker brews, as well as having a somewhat lower alcohol content. The goal in this, (everything goes back to money) was to create a market for a beer that people would drink more of, at the same price, and increase brewery profits.

Remember the old "tastes great - less filling" ad campaign? .

Regular beer contains 146 calories and 13.13 grams of carbsLite beer has 99 calories and 4.60 carbs. Neither has any fat. www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/HealthIssues/1... .

More info to read:straightdope.com/columns/read/1809/is-li... .

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