![]() A great beer with less calories is the holy grail-the no consequences situation that exists only in the perfect world I previously discussed. And honestly, I don’t see anything wrong with that quest. ![]() So, even though it is frowned upon, I am constantly searching for a low-calorie craft beer that still tastes like a craft beer. I am constantly teased about my obsession with teenage melodramas (RIP Vampire Diaries) and drinking lots of craft beer has the tendency to turn my abs into gnocchi. I also believe I should be able to watch episodes of Riverdale without my friends making fun of me, but I do not live in a perfect world. I would be able to drink several 10% adjunct stouts every night and still run a 6-minute mile. It would be an isolated event void of any repercussions. The experience.īut let’s be honest-if there was a great craft beer that also happened to have less calories, we’d drink the hell out of it right? In a perfect world, beer would exist in a realm outside of calories and consequences. We don’t care about the health consequences of the beer we’re drinking. We’re craft beer connoisseurs we’re proud of our soft, doughy middles and double chins. But “low-cal beer?” That’s for jocks who drink Mich Ultra in between bench presses at the gym. Session beers have nothing to do with our waist line. We can have “session beers” because it’s understood that we’re going to drink a lot of them in one sitting, and we’re not necessarily counting calories, we just want to be able to play with power tools or throw hatchets and keep drinking. ![]() Ditto “light beer” or “skinny beer” or any beer that suggests its construction will somehow harm your body less over the course of an evening. “Low-calorie beer” is a dirty phrase in the craft beer world. That title turned you off, didn’t it? Probably. ![]()
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