Is home brew fattening?
Is home brew fattening?
Someone told me that home brewed beer has more calories than normal beer due to it having more sugar than normal beer. Is this true? My stomach doesnt need the extra calories
It would depend on how fermentable the ingredients are that you add to your beer. Left over fermentables, add to flavor and mouth feel but dont produce alcohol, so just add to the kilojule content that you consume with each sip.
So if you are brewing beer has good mouth feel and is of thick consistancy then chances are you have left over fermentables that are not adding to the alcohol content, and producing a higher energy content beer. Compared to something like VB its probably more fattening but at least it tastes better!
So if you are brewing beer has good mouth feel and is of thick consistancy then chances are you have left over fermentables that are not adding to the alcohol content, and producing a higher energy content beer. Compared to something like VB its probably more fattening but at least it tastes better!
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You can't simply make the comparison between "homebrew" and "commercial brew".
To expand on a point made already: If you make a homebrew kit stout with 1.5kg of malt, it will have heaps more kilojoules than the equivalent amount of commercial light beer or a Victoria Bitter, as they're lighter-bodied beer. The stout will have lots more residual sugars, and possibly more alcohol.
But if you take the homebrew stout and compare it with, say, a Cooper's Best Extra Stout, the difference won't be great.
Likewise, if you brew a "lager" kit with 1kg of highly fermentable sugars (such as dextrose), it and a VB will be similar in kilojoules.
Cheers,
Oliver
To expand on a point made already: If you make a homebrew kit stout with 1.5kg of malt, it will have heaps more kilojoules than the equivalent amount of commercial light beer or a Victoria Bitter, as they're lighter-bodied beer. The stout will have lots more residual sugars, and possibly more alcohol.
But if you take the homebrew stout and compare it with, say, a Cooper's Best Extra Stout, the difference won't be great.
Likewise, if you brew a "lager" kit with 1kg of highly fermentable sugars (such as dextrose), it and a VB will be similar in kilojoules.
Cheers,
Oliver
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Dogger Dan
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Here's a novel approach: go for a run, play footy, walk the dog, go to gym, do some gardening, have vigorous sex that lasts longer than the ad break between the first and second quarter, etc.... and your homebrew is all the more enjoyable afterwards, and you're still burning calories, gentleman!
Did i just log on to Mens Health mag forum????
I agree, who cares! We get enough shit in other foods/drinks, at least we control the homewbrew.
You dont want to a fat gut, then exercise. You're worried what the girls think- exercise.
Here endeth the sermon....
Did i just log on to Mens Health mag forum????
I agree, who cares! We get enough shit in other foods/drinks, at least we control the homewbrew.
You dont want to a fat gut, then exercise. You're worried what the girls think- exercise.
Here endeth the sermon....
Wife says all I care about is beer and footy... she's right!
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Nothing but trouble they are,
Worlds shortest Fairy Tale
A man asked a women to marry him
She said No
The man lived happily ever after,
Drank Beer and Played Golf
Dogger
Worlds shortest Fairy Tale
A man asked a women to marry him
She said No
The man lived happily ever after,
Drank Beer and Played Golf
Dogger
"Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religous fanatic talk about the day he saw the light" Ross Murray, Montreal Gazette
