what’s in your beer?

Xavier J. Peg

Beer Biggies Agree To List Calories, Carbs & (Maybe) Ingredients On Bottles

While light (or “lite,” if you don’t care about spelling) beers often advertise their low calorie/carb content, most beers don’t have anything similar to the nutrition labels you see on other food and beverage packaging. This morning, a beer industry trade group announced a voluntary labeling standard that will add some of this information to beer packaging while allowing other data to be accessible via barcode. [More]