Diabetes And Home Brew

[Snails]

Hello all can anybody tell me if there is a benefit to drinking home brew if you are a diabetic or is it all bad news on the beer front. The way Im thinking is the sugar gets fermented and becomes alcohol so there is a small amount inserted into the bottle at the end and this small amount shouldnt be of great consern in moderation. ?

[rwh]

In... fermentation, almost all simple sugars are converted by the yeast into alcohol and carbon dioxide. The amount of carbohydrate in the final beer does vary but in most beers it is largely the complex carbohydrate which the yeast cannot use (approximately 2 grams per 100mL) and a smaller amount of simple sugars (generally less than 1gram per 100mL).

Fosters website - Beer and Diabetes

I think in regards to Diabetes, homebrew will be much the same as commercial beer. There are some low carbohydrate beers around (which in the hombrew world would be brewed with dry enzyme), but these may in fact be worse than normal beers as alcohol consumption can lead to hypoglycemia; the carbohydrate in all-malt beers can partially mitigate this risk. I think one piece of advice is sound: consult your doctor (though they have the tendency to just tell you to drink less in general ).