Calorie count to be required on beer?

We already know good beer is high calorie. I don't need to know exactly how many. Another added expense for the brewer that will be passed on to us.

 

I support any efforts to disseminate information about ingredients, calories and other nutritional information. I'd like to live in a world where the ingredients and nutritional information for all food and drink that available for purchase is accessible to everyone. While having access to the information in and of itself will not stop our various health issues related to obesity, it is a step in the right direction. I don't think that the ingredients and nutritional info need to be in bold right on the label, obscuring all art or interesting generating images, but it should be somewhere. At restaurants, or breweries, the information and should be in the kitchen, available to be requested. That is the world I'd like to live in and I think this is one step closer to it.

With all that said, I don't read many nutritional labels, though I am picky about some, so I'm not going to be checking it and I'm certainly not requesting it when I'm at a restaurant (as, when I go out to eat, I do it partly because I am specifically not concerned with what I'm about to consume). A number of folks have already (and I suspect there will be many more) suggested that this another way to "idiot proof" our society. I wonder why putting the info out there is considered tailoring our society to idiots, while not putting the info out there isn't considered tailoring our society to people who wish to remain ignorant? Taking the cost to breweries out of the discussion (which is obviously a huge factor that I am not trying to overlook, I am merely trying to ask, when all things are equal, who cares if nutritional info is there?)... If there is a beer bottle that lists calories doesn't that satisfy both the person who wants to know and can choose to read the label as well as the person who doesn't want to know and can choose not to read the label? It's not like you're going to have to study the label, then take a quiz on what you just read, so that you can purchase the beer in the first place. If you don't care, just don't read it. Bottles without labels allow only the person who doesn't want to know to be satisfied.

 

I am 100% okay with that.

 

If you are worried about calories, you probably shouldn't be drinking craft beer

If you still want to drink beer, I'm sure you could find some solace in light beer (gag)

 

I'm looking to get swole. I need to know how many calories I drink on my weekend benders.

 

I'd like to see some of those studies. I'm particularly interested in the methodology and sampling of each.

 

I'm not sure it's all that easy for the average consumer to know how many calories are in anything they aren't making themselves. It's certainly not easier than it is for the producer of the product. I'm one who subscribes to the theory that 1% of ABV is roughly 30 calories, but that isn't based on anything than a small sampling of beers that have provided calorie info. If the argument is that it's hard for brewers to get the information, I get that. But if the argument is that it's super easy for drinkers to get the information then doesn't it stand to reason it's even easier for the brewery?

 

And also let's keep in mind the rule isn't even saying that brewers need to label their beers, only that a restaurant offering a beer has to say how many an "average" beer has. Not sure if they have to dive into various styles or not.

 

Absurd. Honestly, if calories are your concern, don't drink craft beer.