Even though I have shown that Guinness is relatively low in calories compared to some other lagers and beers it is still pretty difficult to quantify exactly how this compares to normal food. So, I have decided to show the amount of calories in different types of bread compared to an equal portion of Guinness.

So this table displays calories for 100ml of Guinness compared to 100g of bread (according to http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/):

It is pretty clear that there are loads more calories in 100g of bread than in 100ml of Guinness. So, to all of those people who say that a pint of Guinness is equivalent to 7 slices of bread…Whatever…

Guinness is my drink of choice, but for some reason every time I order a pint of the black stuff I end up in a discussion about how fattening Guinness is and how many calories it has in it. I always try to defend myself by saying that it has less calories than an average pint of lager. However, I have never had any solid evidence to base my argument on and the people I am debating with are generally under the influence, so it is difficult to convince them.

Well now I have done some research to find out the amount of calories in a pint of Guinness and I it is completely true, based on the figures on http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk.

These figures are the nutritional values for 100g of each drink:

So there is the evidence! Guinness may not be “good for you” as the old slogan suggests, but it is still lower in calorie count that a number of other popular lagers.

In my research I did also find that Carling only has 33 calories per 100g and 1.4g of Carbohydrate, which is one of the lowest out there.