Alcohol Carbs Tips 

Any type of alcohol does not provide only carbohydrate. Alcohol in itself is high in calories, a gram of alcohol provides 7 calories which is much high than carbohydrates and proteins which provides 4 calories per gram and near to fat which provides 9 calories per gram. All alcoholic beverages contain calories and most of the calories in alcohol come from alcohol itself. Alcohol is processed first when a body has an option between carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Thus this is the reason for gaining weight as drinking slows down the fat burning process. No hard liquor contains carbohydrates as they all are distilled so please do not believe the ads you watch that a particular brand of vodka or whiskey has ‘zero carb'. It is as good as saying that all nuts are cholesterol free (cholesterol only comes from animal sources). With regards to wine let's take an example of grape wine. When grapes are made in to wine almost all of its carbohydrate is converted to alcohol (few carbs do remain). A 5 ounce beer will give 13 gm alcohol and only 5 gm carbohydrate which accounts for only 20 calories from carbohydrates and remaining 91 calories form alcohol. Beer also contains some amounts of carbohydrates but alcohol too.