On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Casey Dougall <ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Wow, I just remembered how much sugar was in beer... >> > > > You should read up on the fermentation process, not much is left by the time > you consume it.
Yeast converts it to ethanol, however, and ethanol is still considered a sugar if you are looking at it from a chemistry perspective. The amount of residual sugars left over also varies significantly depending on your beer style. Roughly speaking, the amount of sugars pre-fermentation is related to the Original Gravity and the amount left over at the end is related to the Terminal Gravity. An interesting historical anecdote on this subject. Bert Grant, one of the founders of microbrewing in the US post-Prohibition, tried to put nutritional information on his beers so that everyone could see how many calories, how much sugar, etc. The BATF and FDA came down hard on them and nipped it right in the bud because they said that nutritional information amounted to a claim of health benefits on an alcoholic product, which is strictly verboten. Grant tried to argue that people should get to know what's in their beer but the government agencies didn't want to hear anything about it. Alcohol is bad, m'kay and that trumps the wisdom of letting people know what's in it in their minds. Brilliant stuff. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:330452 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
