| The beer bonus (US) |
| Written by Microbrewing | |||
| Friday, 16 July 2010 00:00 | |||
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Beer is catching up with wine in making news for its health benefits. As the highest consumed alcoholic beverage worldwide, whether this popular barley brew is a healthy beverage needs to be carefully examined. Beer, an alcoholic carbonated beverage is a product of fermentation of grains such as wheat, millets and barley. Most breweries ferment barley, corn and rye together with hops and cultured yeast strains to provide the alcoholic content, carbonation and characteristic flavour of this beverage. Lager beer, the most popular American beer, is aged to mellow its flavour. The alcohol content is typically 3.2 per cent. “Non-alcoholic beers” are not strictly alcohol free because they contain up to 0.5 per cent alcohol. With less alcohol, non-alcoholic beverages contain fewer calories than their alcoholic counter-parts. However, beer with 2.5 per cent alcohol can still be called “low alcohol” beer because it contains less alcohol than the usual 3.2 per cent alcohol. More info: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/The-beer-bonus/644322/
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