Homebrew Lite Beer?

[BluesNBrews]

Greetings All!

I'm very new to home brewing and looking for advice and recipes for something very close to a Lite beer. I brewed my first time with a friend who is diabetic who can only enjoy this style. We hoped the pils we selected would be okay but it had too much sugar in it. Any help anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated.

 

[midfielder5]

Sugars in beer are generally correlated to the percentage of alcohol... i.e. "lite" beer has less calories because it has less ABV.

So just add some water to your pils. LOL. I am actually serious (I add water when my OG is too high).

just found this chart re: calories in beer
http://www.beer100.com/beercalories.htm

anyways, here is a miller lite clone:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f62/miller-lite-really-triple-hopped-123937/

 

[Malticulous]

Alcohol is not sugar but it does have calories.

 

[CannibalAJ]

Alcohol is not sugar but it does have calories.

I'm not sure on the specifics, but I have a few friends that are diabetic and they would disagree. The alcohol is metabilized like sugar and spikes the blood sugar right after it is ingested. One of my friends loves my home brew but can only have a few sips with out sending his sugar levels all out of whack.

 

[watergod]

I have a friend that makes non alcoholic beer by heating the beer up again after fermentation. The alcohol will evaporate in the hearing process and you will still have a great tasting homebrew.

 

[Malticulous]

I don't know a lot about diabetes, so a read a little. Alcohol is counted as fat. It's certainly not fat either. Any brewer should know it's not a sugar. Anyway that's beside the point and not a big deal.

I made a Ordinary bitter recently, OG was 1.031 and the FG was 1.017. It's only about 2% abv, but I wonder if the carbs left in the FG are bad for diabetics as well. Beers with very low SG and extremely low FG like Beck's light, Bud 55 and Miller 64 might be better.

The key to making a light beer is to put very little malt in it.

 

[BluesNBrews]

Thanks everyone for your comments, definitely some great feedback that will be helpful!