What makes a beer "light"? Calories or alcohol content?!
What makes a beer "light"? Calories or alcohol content?
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This will blow your mind, but it is both. The origional is waterered down a little bit. Because of the dilution, there is less calories and less % alcohol by volume. Regular beers are 5% alcohol, light is about 4 %. 1 can of Coors has 142 Calories, Coors light has 102 Calories. Not much of a difference just a matter of how you like it.
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i would be very weary of this one as with any food or drink that says it is light.it can be referring to the colour of the item not the sugar or calorie content
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Before this carb craze, light beer was supposed to be light on the stomach and going down. A lighter flavor and texture to it.
It always had less calories than regular beer, but since the whole carb craze started years ago, most beers have made a "lighter" beer which is lighter in taste and calories.
Most light beers have the same amount or close to the same amount of alcohol content.
I wouldn't doubt that there are some light beers out there that are just diluted forms of their brewery's regular product. A brewery could produce 50 percent more beer without any increase in equipment or facilities by just making a beer concentrate, then add SOME water to get their regular beer, MORE water to get a light beer, and a LITTLE LESS water to get a super premium beer.
In one sense, this is literally a method of turning water into gold. If the price of the light beer is equal to, or greater than the price of the regular beer, then the water used in a dilution process is pouring money straight into somebody's pocket!
A typical 12-ounce beer has about 160 calories, a typical light beer, 120. The difference is equivalent to just about six potato chips. Very few of us drink beer alone, without any accompaniment. Personally, I'd rather have more flavor and eat six fewer chips per bottle.
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