HELP on Brewing!!!

[BostonJ]

Looking to brew a flavorful low calorie beer like around 125 calories without it being a bud light

 

[mredge73]

What do you mean by "flavorful"?
You can brew a golden ale with lots of hop bite (flavor) in that calorie range.
You can brew Kolsh beers in that calorie range that have good body and flavor.

or

Brew whatever you like.
Then water it down like the big boys do.

 

[Haputanlas]

Check out this recipe. It's a session beer from TheMadFermentationist.com (OldSock on these forums). It's an IPA that I plan on brewing soon and sounds very good so far.

I calculate that the calories per 12oz beer is about 125 with only 13ish carbs.

http://www.themadfermentationist.com/2012/01/vienna-malt-session-ipa-recipe.html

 

[Haputanlas]

By the way, I used the following calculator with an OG of 1.038 and an FG of 1.010 (as stated in the recipe and Michael's brew day)


http://www.mrgoodbeer.com/carb-cal.shtml

 

[Jayhem]

Or....brew a strong beer that has 250 calories but has as much alcohol as 2 pansy beers. This way you won't drink as much and therefor consume the same calories.

 

[Haputanlas]

Or....brew a strong beer that has 250 calories but has as much alcohol as 2 pansy beers. This way you won't drink as much and therefor consume the same calories.

A lot of the strong beers I brew are in the 400+ calorie range

Needless to say, I drink a lot of those and need to work out a lot to help keep the pounds off (not so successfully thus far ).

 

[BostonJ]

Thanks for the help