Low Carb Beer

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Low carb beer is taking over shelf space in your local grocery and liquor stores. With the popularity of low carb eating, many food and drink manufacturers are trying to cash in and have created wonderful and great tasting low carb products - even beer! Hoping to appeal to the huge market of overweight and “health conscious” people, almost everyone is jumping on the wagon.

It makes sense, the $56 billion domestic beer market has been dominated by lite products for quite some time now so introducing a beer low in carbs is the next logical step for appeal to the weight obsessed masses.

This is good news for those of us who want to drink low carb beer! There is stiff competition in the market which will produce better tasting beers with lower carb counts. There’s already several on the market - see how they stack up below:

Low Carb Beer

Beer	Carbs
Thin Ice	1g
Mike's Light Lemonade	2g
Accel	2.4
Rhinebecker Extra	2.5g
Michelob Ultra	2.6g
Rock Green Light	2.6g
I.C. Light	2.9g
Miller Lite	3.2g
Amstel Light	5g
Keystone Light	5g
Corona Light	5g
Coors Light	5g
Edison Light	6.5g
Bud Light	6.6g

But Does It Taste Good?

While Low carb beer is similar in taste to it’s high carb parent, it is actually just watered down or fermented longer to remove more sugars. The result is, predicably, a more watery tasting beer. Some products actually have a fruity taste, like Thin Ice which has a nice lemony zing and I find those to be preferable since it’s not just watery beer. Mikes Light Lemonade is another that gets good reviews as is Rock Green Light, Corona Light and Amstel Light. If you’ve gotta have that beer taste and can’t stand the light beers - a regular beer has only about 11 grams carbs so depending on your tolerable level you may even be able to slip in a regular beer every so often!


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