Beer and Nutrients?

I'd assume fruit beers.

 

Looks like someone is trying to rationalize their beer consumption. I would be interested as well but I'm not too hopeful that I can claim I get my vitamins and minerals from beer. Lots of carbs yeah, but I am doubtful about vitamins and minerals.

 

beer is basically water, alcohol and carbohydrate. there are no meaningful amounts of nutrients in beer. vitamin B from the yeast is just about all, and even then is fairly low.

in other words, unless you intend to prepare a chart making comparisons between styles, beer is not a good source for essential nutrients. the differences between styles is certainly minimal.

there are other healthful benefits to beer though.

Cheers.

edit- though Guinness is good for the ill and nursing mothers. of course everyone knows that already.

 

Something tells me you'll have to find another meaning than vitamins & minerals. But don't forget - American troops were given beer as rations during the Revolutionary War - sometimes instead of food. Find out what style they were given and voila! you have it - beer consumed for nutritional purposes.

 

It may not be a good source of essential nutrients, but it certainly is a source. From what I can tell, 12 ounces of an average beer will provide you with 5 to 10% of your daily values of riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, folate, magnesium, and phosphorus, which is about the same for these nutrients as an 8 ounce serving of vitamin water (obviously ignoring that vitamin water contains significant sources of other vitamins, mostly C and E). Actually, for most nutrients, an equivalent serving of cooked barley (assuming 100g barley per 12oz beer) is nearly the same. It looks like it provides more nutrients than coffee or a 5 ounce serving of Merlot, for example.

 

The differences in nutrients between styles are negligible.

That being said, in order to be healthiest, remember that the greater the ABV, the greater the nutrients. So if you're going to have two, be sure to put away two 12%+ RIS or BWs.

 

Beer may feel like food and remind you of bread but it is really not food. If there is a reason to drink beer it's not vitamin or mineral content it's . . . the spirit. Culture, folly, gaiety, the table, the meal, the time before the meal. It's friends and friendliness, the toast, the drink, the drunk and the way it makes you fall off to sleep sated and content and with that smile on your face.

Drink beer because it's a happy occasion to do it.

 

What is your source on this, I'm skeptical.

Ethanol actually prevents the absorption or denatures various nutrients in the body, particularly the B vitamins and calcium. While there may be the presence of some B vitamins and calcium in beer, I recall the ethanol-related loss of vitamins in the bloodstream being significantly higher than whatever vitamin amounts were ingested by consuming beer. I can look for the papers, if anyone is interested in reading the studies.

 

Beer can be a great source of lactobacillius! I get most of my probiotics from gueuze.

 

mmmmm dregs pour

 

Don't tell that to (northern) Europeans. Likewise, don't tell those in the south that their wine isn't food either.

 

There is not much nutrients in beer, maybe some B-vitamins. Most calories come from alcohol rather than carbohydrates. I wonder... whats the amount of carbohydrate in ST Creme Brulée though

 

Maybe the Doppelbock has the most...

http://www.vnews.com/home/4464252-95/doppelbock-beer-pages-pageset

 

Beer can be a good source of nutrition. In reality it was the first antibiotic and prevented a lot of illnesses being an alternative to contaminated water.

Then again this was the case 100’s of years ago. Today I don’t see why you couldn’t make a vitamin enriched beer but why would you when you could buy vitamin water cheaper with fewer taxes.

 

I'm going to brew the first protein beer. A chocolate protein coffee breakfast stout. Hopefully it'll come out to around 8g of protein/beer.

 

Had a friend who used to drink heavy every weekend and never eat a thing.He claimed there was a pork chop in every bottle.

 

Everyone knows that beer is the healthiest substance on earth, so there is no need to print the nutritional information on the package. Here's to health!