Keto beer by Michelob!
They keep talking calories but with real fruit I will wait for the carb count before claiming keto friendly.
I was thinking the same thing. I’m an IPA fan and Dogfish Head supposedly has come out with a low carb IPA but I’ve yet to be able to find it in my area. I will keep an eye out for Michelob’s keto beer and if I find it I will snap a pic of the carb count.
Nice. I’ll be looking for this next month. At 3.6g of carbs I can see fitting one or two into an evening. I hope the taste is up to snuff. I have no interest in Michelob Ultra.
I just went to Dogfish Head’s website and the “Slightly Mighty” low carb IPA will be released in April! Woooo hoooo!!!
I would do the math on this.
I have found before that taking a regular beer and adding several ounces of water would get you close (carbs, alcohol) to the same levels as some of these diet beers.
I felt they were essentially selling watered down beer.
If you drinking up to the same carb limit - all you are doing is ensuring more bathroom visits.
They claim 4% alcohol - so just a hair under Miller Lite and Bud Light, for example, and 5 grams of carbohydrates.
While I have no prior experience with low carb beers, I have tried a number of so-called session IPAs. They are pretty hit and miss, with even the best of them sorely lacking in complexity. But they are definitely NOT just watered down. Im guessing this Dogfish Head offering will be similar. It may not completely erase my cravings for good IPAs, I hope, at 3.6g, it’s good enough to enjoy while still maintaining ketosis. Something impossible with my favorite IPAs.
Scotch…done!
Grass fed steak…done!
Wine…ongoing and almost done!
Beer…yet to be opened!
And yes keto still works for me. YMMV.
Light Beers (12 oz. serving)
- Bud Select 55: 55 calories, 1.9 carbs
- MGD 64: 64 calories, 2.4 carbs
- Rolling Rock Green Light: 92 calories, 2.4 carbs
- Michelob Ultra: 95 calories, 2.6 carbs
- Bud Select: 99 calories, 3.1 carbs
- Miller Lite: 96 calories, 3.2 carbs
- Natural Light: 95 calories, 3.2 carbs
- Michelob Ultra Amber: 114 calories, 3.7 carbs
- Coors Light: 102 calories, 5 carbs
- Amstel Light: 95 calories, 5 carbs
- Bud Light: 110 calories, 6.6 carbs
Free beer tasted the best, back when I was drinking a 12-pack a day. I’m happy to say it’s been 19 years since I gave it up.
I drink craft beer because I enjoy the flavor, not as a vehicle to get alcohol in my system. When I stop drinking, as I have now for keto, I only miss it for the flavor. I have no desire to drink a vodka for example, even though keto approved. And I’d never want to drink any of the beers on that list. Not trying to be a snob; they simply don’t appeal to me flavor-wise. But I know many people who do like them. My MIL will drink nothing but Coors Light. That’s the flavor she enjoys and good for her.
For anyone who can’t wait for the Dogfish Head low carb IPA, I just found that Lagunitas has revised their recipe for their Daytime IPA. It’s 98kcal and 3g carbs per 12oz can. Make sure you get the most recent batch, though, with the revised recipe. Here’s an exchange someone had with the brewery.
I’m pretty sure this Michelob beer has been out as I’ve had it before. I think they are just re-branding it more towards Keto. It’s a good light summer beer.
It is not highly reported, but San Miguel LIght is quite low in carbs at 2g per bottle (11.2 oz bottle) while still being a ‘real’ beer with flavor and 5% alcohol. Having traveled extensively in asia, it is my go to beer while traveling and I search it out now at home. You may have to search within chinese markets to find it.
It’s a lager so more like Corona than an IPA.
https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/san-miguel-light-beer-51494714
Jim, yes, that complexity… My wife and I both like wine a lot, and have gotten quite into it over the years. It’s common to hear about the ‘structure’ of a wine - the overall flavor plan, the sweet/acid balance, the apparent viscosity, the content of tannins and alcohol, etc. Yet I feel it more with IPAs than anything else on earth.
Good IPAs have that broad, bitter, earthy floor that supports your mind early on, an initial massive bass note that precedes the symphony to come. Then the slow rise higher in your mouth, smell and taste now fully involved, combing through whatever brain-magic we have going on to come up with “flavor.” The pine, the citrus, swirling and rising ever higher, floral elements coming in, even a profound buttery lightness at the end.
Yes indeed, butter. 
And I’ve wondered about IPAs - hey, if one doesn’t like the bitter hops taste, then one ain’t gonna like them - but does the effect of bitterness go beyond that? How much does the context of one taste alter another? Normal mass-market beer usually has a substantial degree of sweetness, very noticeable if tasted in the same sitting with an IPA. Yet, if one eats something really sweet, like ice cream, then that same beer will taste seriously bitter.
So here comes an IPA with a big load of heavy, life-alteringly-good bitterness. Is there a “reflection” that occurs after tasting it? Once we’ve taken a taste, and swallowed it, and that bitter taste fades and our nearly-overloaded taste buds recover, do we perceive the absence of bitterness as the presence of an opposite taste? I think we do.