Mormon Revival

[Flystripper]

Who wants to drink bread? You should eat your bread and drink from the fruit of the vine.

Who said it has to be one or the other? I enjoy wine as well.

[old_gregg]

A lady might drink a beer but usually she won't.

what in the world are you talking about?

[MarkGrace]

Alcohol content.

Budweiser             4.82%
Coors                     5.03%
Corona             5.03%
Genesee             4.70%
Guinness             4.27%
Heineken Dark     5.17%
Michelob             4.99%
Miller High Life     4.80%
Miller Genuine      5.02%
Molson             6.04%
Samuel Adams     4.88%
Amstel Light     3.96%
Natural Light     4.12%
Bud Light             3.88%
Coors Light             4.36%
Michelob Light     4.52%
Miller Lite             4.40%
Molson Light     2.41% 

Dry White 12.2%
Red/Rose 12.5%
Champaign 12.2%
Mad Dog 14%
Light Wine 7.4%
Dessert Wine 18.8%

http://oade.nd.edu/educate-yourself-...es-on-alcohol/

There you go. I think that's why, on the whole, wine drinkers consume fewer calories than beer drinkers.

[Flystripper]

what in the world are you talking about?

I think he is saying that women who drink beer are not ladies.

[Topper]

I don't know much about the alcohol content of beer vs. wine, but based on drinking both I feel like wine has more. You see people drink much higher quantities of beer than wine because it takes more to get drunk. At least that's my experience. Thus the calorie consumption is higher for beer drinkers. That's my guess at the beer gut theory.

Alcohol content on beer varies greatly, especially if you count ales and guinesses. You can have 3.2 beer to about 12%.

Wines typically vary between 11 to 16%.

Distilled liquors are much higher. I learned that in chemistry class when we distilled run from molasses.

[Blueintheface]

what in the world are you talking about?

1890's Boston.

[Donuthole]

Ounce per ounce, yes, but the fact is that when you drink beer you generally drink more fluid ounces than wine or mixed drinks, so you drink more calories.

I don't drink either, so you can stop the libel right there.

[Topper]

I think he is saying that women who drink beer are not ladies.

bingo. she's usually a stripper or wench.

[Topper]

I don't drink either, so you can stop the libel right there.

But you demonstrate uncanny expertise for somebody who does not drink.

[Pheidippides]

Don't compare a Bubba with a lady; compare a Bubba with a Bubba. If the same lady in your example is drinking beer, she's going to nurse a single bottle all night and probably never finish it. If Bubba is drinking wine, he's going to finish a bottle and then another. In short, it's not the type of alcohol, it's the amount. Staying away from one type or another will not have nearly the caloric impact as simply ensuring that alcohol is consumed in moderation, regardless of the alcohol type.



This is nitpicking. I didn't say exactly equal, I said about equal.

DH speaks truth here. I've also, just to take a different view, seen a lady put back six glasses of red wine more often than I've seen a Bubba down a six-pack, although that may say something about the crowds in which I run. But in those crowds, I don't see a lot of difference in how much who drinks what, on the whole.

Where you really get hammered, btw, is the mixed drinks. Take your gin & tonic, for example. 1.5 oz of gin is ~100 calories. Add in 130 calories of tonic water, and you're at 230 for one drink that barely fills a rocks glass. A sugary girly drink has more calories than a Big Mac (plus I've been told they give you worse hangovers).

[Donuthole]

But you demonstrate uncanny expertise for somebody who does not drink.

Says the guy who knows everything wrong with BYU basketball but doesn't play, coach, or follow basketball.

FTR, i credit my uncanny expertise to my belief in science. Well, that and working alongside some prolific drinkers.

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[old_gregg]

Where you really get hammered, btw, is the mixed drinks.

heh

[TripletDaddy]

I don't drink either, so you can stop the libel right there.

tough to prove libel when your reputation is already pretty bad.

[Topper]

DH speaks truth here. I've also, just to take a different view, seen a lady put back six glasses of red wine more often than I've seen a Bubba down a six-pack, although that may say something about the crowds in which I run. But in those crowds, I don't see a lot of difference in how much who drinks what, on the whole.

Where you really get hammered, btw, is the mixed drinks. Take your gin & tonic, for example. 1.5 oz of gin is ~100 calories. Add in 130 calories of tonic water, and you're at 230 for one drink that barely fills a rocks glass. A sugary girly drink has more calories than a Big Mac (plus I've been told they give you worse hangovers).

You hang with hard partyers.

Mixed drinks sometimes cloak the level of inebriation before it's too late, from what I've observed. And most ladies shouldn't drive after more than one drink per hour.
Ever watch people down margaritas? Or a simple Captain Morgan's and ginger ale?

[old_gregg]

Captain Morgan's and ginger ale?

admit it, you've never been in a bar.