150 calories in a beer
beer 7 calories/gram
21 grams of alcohol in a standard beer????? really?????
lets take a pint glass of beer drink it
OK take another pint glass, this time a hypothetical one...
a Pint is about 700 mL +/-...
average beer alcohol concentration is 5%
that's 35 mL of Alcohol.
now for water 1 mL = 1 gram, but alcohol is lighter than water; even applying an 0.8 conversion factor that would give us equivalent of 28 grams of alcohol, or ~200 calories.
Then, there is sugar in beer too, also yeast etc.
Courtenay, where do you get those Calorie reduced beers of yours?
Anyways the point is, an article in the latest Scientific American recommends moderate consumption (less than 2 beer equivalents per day or approximately one pint) as beneficial for most adults. Yum!
The effects of horsecock on the circulatory system, and recommended intake of same, has not yet been addressed