Calorie content - Weight Watchers

[Liberty97045]

One of the penalties for enjoying good beer (and getting older) is the beer gut.

The Weight Watchers book shows that a light beer is 4 points and a "regular" is 5 points.

I assume that by regular they mean Bud, Miller and the like but I suspect that the dark ales, IPAs, etc that I prefer have more than that.

Has anyone out there taken the time to figure out the points value of a micro/home brew?

 

[HibsMax]

I don't know if this helps or not but alcohol is 7 calories per gram.

 

[BrewChem]

I use an app on my iPhone for formulating recipes that calculates an approximate calorie content... I have recipes ranging from about 150 to over 400 calories per bottle so, the point spread will probably vary quite a bit for different styles of homebrew... for anyone interested in counting.

 

[jderm]

check out this blog, has an interesting calorie "cheat-sheet"
http://beercritic.wordpress.com/beer-calorie-cheatsheet/

 

[cyclogenesis]

I use myplate on livestrong..
http://www.livestrong.com/myplate/

Nice app, I can add all kinds of foods and exercise.. really helping me work out how much I have to exercise and what foods to cut to keep up my drinking habit

Down 12 pounds this year.. still got more to shed...