Calories in beer

One of the nations favourite drinks, the calories in beer is often overlooked when considering a diet or losing a few pounds. Do you know how many calories in beer there actually are? You may be surprised by the beer calorie values per pint below.

Beer refers to any alcoholic beverage that has been brewed by fermenting different types of cereal to make them alcoholic.

Although taste and flavour vary greatly depending on the starch source used and the method of brewing, the principle characteristics of beer is that it is not based on fermenting sugar and has not been distilled after fermentation.

The most popular and oldest form of alcoholic beverage, beer is unfortunately not lacking in calorie content. The term beer gut is popular slang for the stomachs of those who have taking their love of beer too far! As a rough guide to beer, the darker the brew the greater the calories.

The same is true of the alcohol content, higher tends to mean more calories. A half pint of beer on average contains approximately one hundred calories though it varies considerably depending on the type of beer. Non-alcoholic beer doesn't necessarily contain less calories though 'light' beers generally do.