GuyDow Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 In one of my recurrent attempts to cut down on my drinking I have just worked out the calorie content of my usual beverages using various information I found on the net. By my calculations a big bottle of Beer Chang contains 225 calories and a half bottle of Sangsom ( nung baan) contains 640 calories. Can anyone confirm these figures or give more reliable ones? I am well aware that a lot of the stuff on the net ain't too reliable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crushdepth Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 I looked up the calorie content of beer recently (don't ask me where, I forget) and a 'normal' beer of around 5% alcohol is in the vicinity of 80 calories (about the same as a banana, by the way). A lot of the calorie content comes from the alcohol, so a light beer is somewhere around 60 calories. Chang is rather stronger so (this is a guess) its probably somewhere around 90-95 calories. That's for a small bottle! So double it for a large bottle, but subtract say 10% because the cans/bottles are roughly 10% smaller here. So large bottle of Chang ~ 160-170 calories. At the time I was actually trying to find out what the calorie content of San Miguel low calorie beer is, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Not a bad drink that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayhech Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Can alcohol give diabetes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuyDow Posted April 23, 2008 Author Share Posted April 23, 2008 (edited) I looked up the calorie content of beer recently (don't ask me where, I forget) and a 'normal' beer of around 5% alcohol is in the vicinity of 80 calories (about the same as a banana, by the way). A lot of the calorie content comes from the alcohol, so a light beer is somewhere around 60 calories. Chang is rather stronger so (this is a guess) its probably somewhere around 90-95 calories. That's for a small bottle! So double it for a large bottle, but subtract say 10% because the cans/bottles are roughly 10% smaller here.So large bottle of Chang ~ 160-170 calories. At the time I was actually trying to find out what the calorie content of San Miguel low calorie beer is, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Not a bad drink that. I think you're a bit on the low side. I've seen a small bottle of Singha Lite quoted authoritatively as 94 cals. Chang is about half as strong again as Singha lite so this takes us to around 150. Hence a big bottle of Chang is at least 300. I now think my earlier estimate was too low also. Edited April 23, 2008 by GuyDow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crushdepth Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Looks like you're right - check out this table of beer calorie content - Chang isn't in here but going off other beers would probably be well over 300. Found another site that said San Miguel light is '80 calories per serve', which I presume is 1 small bottle, although it doesn't really say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuyDow Posted April 24, 2008 Author Share Posted April 24, 2008 Looks like you're right - check out this table of beer calorie content - Chang isn't in here but going off other beers would probably be well over 300.Found another site that said San Miguel light is '80 calories per serve', which I presume is 1 small bottle, although it doesn't really say. Thanks for the table, much to consider therein. Kirin at 6.8% and 53cal/100ml is an interesting comparison with Chang at 6.4%. Something just over the 300 mark sounds about right for Chang. Tried San Miguel Light last night, lightness in calories matched by absence of taste. Don't think I'll bother with it again. Incidentally, I still think my original estimate for Sang Som looks OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crushdepth Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 If absence of taste concerns you, stay away from Singh light. I am sure they lower the alcohol content by diluting it with water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NHJ Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 a gram of alcohol is 9 calories, a beer is usually 5% of alcohol wich density is lower than water, 798grams of alcool fit a bottle of 1 liter of water for 100ml of beer, you have around 4 grams of alcool = 36 calories beer usually contains sugar coming from malt called maltose wich is a high glycemic index a lot more than regular sugar wich is 65, maltose is 105 so it's absorbed very fast , usually you have 3% of sugar 3x4=12 calories normally 100ml of beer at 5% is around 48 calories. a bottle of whisky at 40% as long as there's no sugar added inside to create a special flavour is around 2000 calories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NHJ Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 a little error, a gram of alcool is 7 calories. so the beer should be : 40 calories and the whisky : 1600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuyDow Posted July 25, 2008 Author Share Posted July 25, 2008 a little error, a gram of alcool is 7 calories.so the beer should be : 40 calories and the whisky : 1600 Don't know when you posted this since I lost touch with the Forum for a while. FYI Sangson is, strictly speaking, rum rather than whisky. It is made mostly from sugar cane and has quite a sweet taste. Therefore it almost certainly has additional calories due to sugars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonelyplanettraveller Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 We need to perhaps look at the calories of the stuff we have along with our drinks ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPete Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Rum is 58 cal. per 25 grams (or about an oz). Times 4 - times 7 to get 70 cl. = 1624 cals/bottle. Yikes! a little error, a gram of alcool is 7 calories.so the beer should be : 40 calories and the whisky : 1600 Don't know when you posted this since I lost touch with the Forum for a while. FYI Sangson is, strictly speaking, rum rather than whisky. It is made mostly from sugar cane and has quite a sweet taste. Therefore it almost certainly has additional calories due to sugars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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