How many calories in beer? GDNF shows beer calories, wine and alcohol calorie and carbs sorted by their calorie to alcohol ratio.
So why are those carbohydrates there in the first place? To answer this question, we'll have to look at how alcohols is made. Without getting too in depth, alcohol is made by fermentation, which is a process in which yeast eat up sugars and turn them into alcohol. So to make alcohol, you first need to start with sugars which themselves are a type of carbohydrate. The sugars can be obtained in many different ways, and the type of sugar used actually defines the type of alcohol. For wine the sugars come, of course, from grapes. Beer and whiskey are typically made from barley, while vodka is often made from potatoes. If the yeast isn't 100% effective at converting these sugars to alcohol, there will be sugars left over in the beverage, which will result in a more fattening drink. Beer and wine can have quite a bit of this residual sugar, which is why most of the wines with a low C.F.A. ranking taste extremely sweet. The process of distilling hard alcohol after this first fermentation can leave behind the vast majority of carbohydrates which is why pure hard alcohol is often the best choice for those on a diet.