I drank a beer ... for science

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(Richard Morris) #1

There’s a beer available in Australia called BigHead

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Supposedly it’s got zero carbs. Sounds like time for an N=beer

As you can see there wasn’t a blip. Maybe a little drop in glucose as my liver focussed on detoxifying the alcohol and kind of forgot “how to Liver”. When it dropped to 3.8 around the 2 hour mark I had no hypoglycemic symptoms, and no intense cravings for glucose, so I tested my ketones expecting to find them elevated. They were only 0.3 so that alcohol did apparently make me a little hypoglycemic which is a concern.

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(Guardian of the bacon) #4

I had 2 beers during our Christmas festivities. An IPA and a Hard Cider. Certainly not LC. These were my first beers in a very long time. I did not test as I had all my equipment put up out of reach with all of the grand kids running around.

A short time later I started feeling really miserable. Stomach cramps, nausea etc. At first I attributed it to overdoing the LC chocolate mousse with it’s swerve sweetener. I’ve had small servings before with no ill effect. Upon further thought I think it very well may have been the alcohol and associated carbs. Woke up the next morning feeling fine and ready to KCKO.

(David Pegg) #5

Thank you for going through all that work of graphing your response! I wonder if a Pure Blonde with 1.6g carbs would have the same glucose response? Another experiment for the future :wink:

(James Green) #6

I drank 10 of these the other night… for science… and can attest to an increase in cephalgia the next morning :sob:

(Jeff) #7

I’m almost ashamed to admit that I had 3 Michelob Ultras with a friend over the holidays. There are 2.6 carbs per bottle. I’ve been primarily an IPA man (before keto) and I actually enjoyed them. Got a little buzz and will go back for more in the future. It’s nice to know there’s something out there for a nice beer on a hot summer day. :slight_smile:

(Malcolm Groves) #8

It’s a dirty job mate, but someone has to do it.

I tried these, and while low carb, I found them also very low taste :frowning:

Pure Blonde used to be ok, but they changed the recipe in the last 12 or 18 months and it’s also lost a lot of taste.

When I have a beer these days, I go for Hahn SuperDry. 0.7g carbs per 100ml, but tastes like beer.

Cheers
Malcolm

(Peter Barney) #9

I dont drink often but since I’ve been keto I’ve seen with alcohol i get sharp drop in blood glucose followed by drop in blood ketones. But I can drink so much more now!!! And waking up without a sore head. Don’t know the science behind that. Ketone levels seem to recover pretty well the next morning though.

(charlson.melissa) #10

Ditto to all of this

(Doug White) #11

I started brewing my own beer last April. Anybody know of any beer recipes for low carb varieties for home brewers?

(João Pedro Abecasis) #12

I am thinking of doing the same.

Found this link http://www.home-brew.com/x/home.php?cat=13
that explains the process on how it should be done

However does anyone knows how can someone measure the carb content on a home brew beer?

(Richard Morris) #13

I am so going to try that - awesome.

You could measure carb content using diastix - a urine test strip.

(João Pedro Abecasis) #14

Thanks for replying Richard.
Was not aware it was possible - to understand what you meant googled it a little bit more and found the following:

I am not diabetic but for someone that is it should be important information - if you consider that mixed up fountains can happen at restaurants.

(I once had an issue with a Coke Zero at McDonald’s basically the mixture was not diluted - had caffeine for a couple of days - and now am thinking it could even have been regular coke also :confounded:)

PS - Great show by the way. Along with 99 percent invisible it’s the only podcast I went back to the first episode and listened to them all :+1:t2:

(Richard Morris) #15

I saw @RD_Dikeman doing a demo where he ate food with starch in it then spat on a diastix to show that amylase in saliva is already breaking glucose out of starches at the beginning of the gut.