Calories

[Tom]

OK since I never count calories I have a question.

Lets say you have a pale ale with low IBU's and another Pale ale with a high IBU. Will they have the same calories?

 

[Julie]

Don't know, are there calories in hops? But I do know that alcohol has calories in it and a higher alcohol dry wine could carry more calories than a lower alcohol sweet wine.

 

[joea132]

http://www.fitday.com/webfit/calories/calories_93.html

Doesn't really show different beers but it puts into perspective other types of alcohol and caloric content.

 

[Airplanedoc]

Don't know, are there calories in hops?

There are calories in everything digestible.

I would think the calories are more likely to come from the alcohol, and sugar than the hops

 

[Wiz]

If anyone needs to know how many calories are in the wine they make do you think that you really need or want to know this info?

 

[Malkore]

Hops wouldn't add an important amount of calories.

It'd matter more about the OG/FG of the two IPA's, how many calories they'd have.

Sugar is 4 calories per gram, Alcohol is 7 calories per gram.

 

[Julie]

Hops wouldn't add an important amount of calories.

It'd matter more about the OG/FG of the two IPA's, how many calories they'd have.

Sugar is 4 calories per gram, Alcohol is 7 calories per gram.

Maklore thanks for that info. Tom this is turning out to be a good post!

 

[Tom]

Julie,
It's something I always wanted to know. Then again with all the homebrew and wine I drink do I really need food??::

 

[Julie]

Julie,
It's something I always wanted to know. Then again with all the homebrew and wine I drink do I really need food??::

aaaaaaaaaaah.............................. I doubt it,

 

[Malkore]

I use beertools.com online for my recipe creation of some beers.
it DOES tell me how many calories my finished beer has, and I can tell you an IPA is no where close to those 'Ultra' low carb beers out there like Michelobe and whatever those other BMC guys put out.