- An alcohol-free Brewdog IPA incorporates 6g of sugar per 330ml can or bottle
For anybody who’s been nursing a sore head over the previous few days, the considered low-alcohol beer could also be a extra engaging one than standard.
However, whereas gross sales of the drinks have been booming amongst more and more health-conscious customers, a survey by the Mail has found that they could nonetheless go away a bitter style within the mouth so far as their ‘advantages’ are involved.
For whereas low-alcohol and zero-alcohol drinks sometimes include lower than half the energy of their full-bodied variations, some include as much as ten instances the sugar.
Our examine discovered that, whereas an everyday can of beer equivalent to BrewDog IPA incorporates negligible quantities of sugar, alcohol-free variations from the identical brewery can have 6g per 330ml can or bottle – the equal of a teaspoon and a half of sugar.
Old Speckled Hen Low Alcohol, in the meantime, incorporates 2g of sugar per 100ml, in contrast with simply 0.2g in its common equal.
While low-alcohol and zero-alcohol drinks sometimes include lower than half the energy of their full-bodied variations, some include as much as ten instances the sugar (Stock Image)
Faye Thompson, a dietary therapist, stated: ‘Reducing alcohol is nice, however the pay-off in switching to non-alcoholic beer is the upper sugar content material.
‘Sugar is the actual perpetrator, not fats, on the subject of weight acquire.’
Ms Thompson, of Lift Nutrition in Manchester, stated drinkers ought to verify the labels for sugar content material.
Adnams Ghost Ship 0.5 per cent, for instance incorporates simply 0.1g of sugar per 100ml, she stated, whereas Big Drop Paradiso has lower than 0.5g. Brewers stated the various sugar contents have been the results of the totally different processes used to supply low alcohol beer.
Johnny Clayton, of Big Drop, stated: ‘In a full power beer, the alcohol is fashioned by the yeast consuming the sugar extracted from the malted barley. This turns into alcohol through fermentation. With some low alcohol beers manufacturers an extra of sugar doesn’t get transformed and stays after fermentation. We do it in a different way.’