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> There's no real disadvantage to drinking beer instead of whisky like there is with weed. Lower ABV products generally have more calories per unit of alcohol.
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y ago
> There's no real disadvantage to drinking beer instead of whisky like there is with weed.
Lower ABV products generally have more calories per unit of alcohol. Getting drunk off of beer every day will give you a beer gut. Whisky might not.
Seltzers change this equation somewhat, as most of them are essentially vodka sodas with some flavor and artificial sweetener.
- scythe 4y ago500 mL of Guinness (for example) has an ABV of 4.2% and offers 177 calories. 500*0.042 = 21 mL of ethanol with a density of 0.789 which is 16.57 grams at 7 calories per gram or about 115 calories, which is around 65% of the total calorie content. So yes, you can save about a third of the calories by cutting out other components, but the major caloric component in the typical alcoholic beverage is alcohol. In practice, I'd wager most liquor is consumed with added sugar.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y agoPerhaps surprisingly, Guinness is actually one of the most efficient beers. I only know this because I built a stupid android app one afternoon in college that let you look up different drinks to see how to get drunk without getting fat. (It was named "ThinWasted," which I thought was very clever.)