Any sugar in regular beer? How much?!
Answers: .......just wunderin.....
NO! there is no sugar (sucrose) in most beers. I suppose you could find a oddball out there but the normal beers don't have added sugar. The sugar in the form of glucose and other hexoses that is fermented by the yeast comes from the barley and other grains that are used to make beer.
PhD Food Chemistry and Nutrition
yup...that is why it is soooooo good!!!!
Most beers are full of naturally occurring sugars that are created during the brewing process. There are rumors that Bud, Miller and the like add high fructose corn syrup since their beer is brewed with rice and not traditional material. Any "real" beer (those not brewed by the mega-large crap factories) will not add any such thing, but may have high sugar content do to the types of hops and malted barleys used.
Unfermentable sugars are highly caramelized sugars, like those in caramel malts, and long chain sugars referred to as dextrins. Dextrin malt and malto-dextrin powder have been previously mentioned in the ingredients chapters. Dextrins are tasteless carbohydrates that hang around, adding some weight and viscosity to the beer.
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