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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

they probably ment to say frosties breakfast cereal instead of homebrew...

It wont help you loose wieght, however it's the inevitable sitting around and not moving (due to inebriation) that will pack on the pounds.

Okay but does 6 stubbies of home brew pack more calories than 6 stubbies of normal beer., all other things being equal?

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!

They are the same for all intents and purposes

Dogger

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

Thanks Oliver

You have a way with words

Dogger

I have an alternative response to this question: who bloody cares!

peterd wrote:I have an alternative response to this question: who bloody cares!

I have a pertinent answer: Women

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....

work hard
play hard.

Forget the interior bullshit and go bush once in a while.
Pale, Frail, Male.....

No Ta.

NTRabbit wrote:

peterd wrote:I have an alternative response to this question: who bloody cares!

I have a pertinent answer: Women

I think its time for a new woman...

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

Wayto go dogger, but I hope he got a little on the side