Is draft beer good for you?

Answer 1

The people who are most passionate about the subject, meaning beer hounds and prohibitionists, are going to give you "facts" that aren't completely honest. I'm neither a regular drinker, not a teetotaler, so I'll try to give you a balanced look.

There are really no healthy or unhealthy foods, if they are fresh and properly prepared. What you need is a well-balanced diet - and a little draft beer certainly can be included in your healthy diet.

In the 1930s and even into the 1950s, pregnant women were advised by doctors to drink one beer a day.

Part of the reason this was done was to ensure that Mama got enough calories yo nourish the baby. Women sought to remain thin for vanity's sake, and durung the depression and WWII, women often denied themselves in order to keep the family breadwinner well-fed.

Beer is salty, which encourages drinking more fluids; proper hydration is good for the kidneys, which tend to be overtaxed during pregnancy. And bat keeps would set out a free lunch to encourage trade. Even today, many bars have jars of pickled eggs and sausages (although they aren't free any longer).

Nutritionally, no alcoholic beverage has much ti offer. Fruit wine has some vitamin C in it, which you won'y learn from ads, because the government prohibits advertising that fact; the alcohol does more nutritional harm than the vitamins do good. Beer should have some B vitamins in it, although beer is mostly a rice beverage, and rice isn't rich in vitamins.

The primary difference between bottled/canned beer and draft beer is that draft beer is not pasteurized. That suggests that the miniscule vitamin content may be a tad higher in draft beer. Cans and bottles of beer are sealed under three atmospheres if nitrogen. Kegs are sealed manually, which is why it's not pasteurized: they expect the beer to keep fermenting while it waits for someone to tap the brew. Some draft beers are extra foamy, because a little protein makes water sudsier.

The alcohol content is a mild tranquilizer, so limiting yourself to one beer a say, that might be a little beneficial.

But you know whar my pastor used to say about premarital sex: the fact that it's PREmarital means you're intending to marry, but a lot of people never get around to it. A similar situation exists with beer. A lot of people don't stop with one.

I find thata really cold one at the end of a hot day making hay is wonderful = but even so, the top half of the beer tastes better tan the second half. Ohio used to prohibit the sale of beer in cans or bottles less than 12 ounces - but Schoenling produced creme ale, not subject to that 12-ounce limit, and a frigid 7-ounce bottle of "Little Kings" creme ale really hit the spot. They also had their law read that "low-powered" beer (commonly called three-two, because it was a maximum 3.2% alcohol) could be sold at age 18 and on Sundays. Regular "high-powered beer" (commonly called six owe, for a maximum 6.0% alcohol) could not be sold on Sundays or to those under 21. Bars near colleges often had only 4.3% beer, because most kids would get sick before they got drunk. I suspect that most Baseball parks and family venues like Cedar Point and King's Island only had 3.2 beer.

If you drink 3,2% beer, limit yourself to one beer a day, and are otherwise healthy, it probably isn't going to hurt you. You might compare this to table salt, sold to little kids, and freely available on every restaurant table. The LD50 for table salt, meaning the dosage which kills half the adult population, is only a half cup. And Coca-Cola twice had to issue recalls of Dasani bottled water because it was carcinogenic, unlike the tap water they'd made the Dasani from. If name brand purified water is dangerous, a short beer with your wife is likely to promote the kind of emotional life that keeps you happy and healthy.