Any New Opinions on the New Low Carb Beers?

HI all, Any New Opinions on New Low Carb Beers? I've had to all but give up beer to get down to my 200 lbs and now I hear about all the new low carb beers out there... including the Coors Aspen label, which is not even available here in Colorado. Are they worth whetting ones whistle on?

Thanks.

HC

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highcastle
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Tasteless, bland crap. Save your money (and your tastebuds). Savor your beer in moderate quantities, and enjoy life instead. The new low-carb beers aren't that different from the boring, watery "light" beers that litter the supermarket shelves.

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Oh, Guess

The low carb and the low calorie (aka. Lite beers) are not worth drinking in an effort to lose weight. They DO have fewer carbs, BUT....simply switching the brand of beer you drink won't help you lose wieght. It's simply a marketing ploy to get the millions of us that are overwieght to buy their product.

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Derek Taylor

Oh no, you are very wrong. The cutting carb diet really works. I've come down from 275 to my current 222 in a little over a year and I don't even know it. We've cut out breads and potatoes, rice and other hi carb foods and eaten well too. But beer was one that I had to eliminate to a couple a week (bottles that is) and I'd like to find a good low carb beer for the summer. But it sounds like there are too few out there and they are diamond in the rough. Too bad. I don't know that carbs are needed to make a beer taste good, but I don't really know. Thanks though. hc

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highcastle

No one suggested anything different -- pay attention.

There is no such thing as a "good low carb beer" unless your regular beer is Miller Lite.

But it sounds like

Cut out the carbs if you want, no problem, but the only way to drink beer and keep from gaining weight is to increase your exercise and/or cut down on beer. Even a fairly rigorous adherence to a low carb diet doesn't mean zero ever none carbs (at least after the initial stage) but you'll have to keep track of what you're taking in, and any beer is loaded with carbs. So why not limit the numbers of beers you drink, instead of the number of carbs in the beer?

Or take up kyaking.

--Jeff Frane

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Jeff Frane

My post made no point about the effectiveness of the low-carb diet.

Well, of course. THIS is the only way to really lose weight...to cut beer out all together. Simply switching brands isn't going to do squat!

Derek Taylor

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Derek Taylor

We've pretty much tried them all in an effort to tone down our calories as well. The best I've had so far is Yeungling Lite.

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Groofle Gambini

BTW, he didn't make any comments about the efficacy of low-carb diets, just the value of low-carb beers (which still aren't all that low-carb if you're on a very limited carb intake).

As for the question of whether carbs are necessary for good-tasting beer, consider that the stuff's made from a grain, and the whole brewing and fermentation process involves converting starches into sugars, and then having them fermented. Consider further that all beers have unfermented sugars, and the more malty a beer is the more unfermented sugar there is, and you start to see where a lot of the flavorfulness of a good beer comes from. So, yes, it's pretty hard to make a good-tasting beer that lacks carbs. It's pretty to make even sucky ones that lack carbs.

-Steve

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Steve Jackson

Thanks, guess I was just getting on my high horse about the value of low carbs and jumped the gun a bit. I see about the carbs and good tasting beer, but then why is it OK to drink vodka on this diet? It's made of grains too. But of course it could be apples and oranges I'm sure. Certain grains ARE ok on this diet, including rye. Are there any rye beers? (probably a pretty dumb question.) I don't know and admit to not knowing a thing about what goes in to making beers. But I do know what I like and just about any brew pub beer is what I like. And they are all hi carb. I like the idea of just cutting down a bit, but at a bbq or hot summer day, well.... HC

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highcastle

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