WebLow carb pale ales and IPAs are a great place to start if you’re after flavoursome low carb beers. That because the extra hop additions add both mouthfeel, …
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Low carb beer is basically beer with lower carbohydrate contents. An example of this would be one of Australia’s firsts, the Pure Blond. Its carbohydrate content is almost totally converted to alcohol and carbon dioxide, leaving little calories credited to sugar content.
Berliner Weiss, for example, is a low calorie sour beer that derives a lot of its flavor from the lactobacillus bacteria. If you use the method outlined here (and covered in the podcast referred there) you can brew it relatively fast, with a small grain bill and still get a flavorful beer without a high calorie count.
This recipe came out of a conversation with a friend’s wife, who told me her hubby ditched the keto diet because he couldn’t give up beer. I went to work on it right away, and came up with a reasonable facsimile. Start with some dried hops and Irish Whiskey. Soak 4 cups of hops in 750ml of Irish Whiskey. I used Jameson.
The more ingredients you need to make beer are barley, water, hops and yeast. After extracting the sugars from grains like barley, yeast is added to ferment it and turn it to alcohol and carbon dioxide. The combined ingredients processed to release sugars and carbonated water then becomes your beer.