Beer : Health and Nutrition

Brand kcal
Sunnyside Pale Ale 150.9
Pale Ale 160.3
Dog Town Pale Ale 165.6
Single Track Copper Ale 154.5
Old Slugger Pale Ale 164.3
Mirror Pound Pale Ale 169.2
Saranac Pale Ale 177.2
Ruedrich’s Red Seal Ale 173.6
Porch Swing Single Ale 172.0
Ruth All American Ale 183.5
Pale Ale 169.3
Syracuse Pale Ale 159.2
Hop Jack Pale Ale 169.8
Union Pale Ale 186.3
Mobjack Pale Ale 159.0
Wild Salmon Pale Ale 156.2
Telemark Ale 151.1
Shelter Pale Ale 143.6
Seneca Trail Ale 166.3
Sam Adams Pale Ale 163.7
Holyoke Dam Ale 156.1
Beast Bitter 160.0
Long Trail Pollenator Ale 151.2
Yuengling Black & Tan 151.0
Ballantine Ale 175.2
Summit Extra Pale Ale 156.0
Jackman’s American Pale Ale 172.4
Casta Pale Ale 179.0
Casta Dark Ale 190.0
Beamish Irish Cream Stout 131.4
Guinness Extra Stout 152.7
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Sources: Most of the data in this table is reproduced courtesy of Carlos Alvarez & Jaime Jurado (Gambrinus).
The data was originally published by Jurado in a series of articles in The Brewer International. Most of the
remaining information is from http://brewery.org/brewery/library/AlClbinger.html.
Although for many people the focus on alcoholic beverages is the potential negative
impacts when consumed in excess, the question of their contribution to obesity is
perhaps the major concern, as obesity is associated with many other health problems,
including hypertension, cancer, cardiovascular disease and type II diabetes. In the US
39% of men and 36% of women are overweight (National Research Council 1989). The
research of Peeters et al. (2003) suggests that obesity is at least as dangerous as smoking
as a causal agent of death. The US Surgeon-General recently expressed the concern that
obesity will soon overtake cigarette smoking as the leading cause of preventable disease
and death (see http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obesity/default.htm).
Most drinkers add alcohol to their normal diet (Prentice 1995) rather than substitute
it. Thus total calorie intake is increased and, if not metabolically utilised by exercise,