Drink Up! Discover Guinness Beer Nutrition Information

Drink Up! Discover Guinness Beer Nutrition Information
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If you’re a beer drinker there’s no doubt that you’ve heard of Guinness Beer (unless you’ve been hiding in a cave brewing your own). This is the dark, frothy, porter (AKA stout) type beer so famous around the world. Most everyone knows where this thick beer originated: Ireland, of course! But with a beer that is almost as heavy as a meal itself, people often wonder just what’s in there. Now it’s time to discover the Guinness Beer nutrition information you’ve wondered about as you slurped down this amazing and unique beer from the country known for its tasty beer.

Guinness Beer nutrition information may surprise you, but first let’s take a brief glimpse at the history of this infamous beer.

Guinness: The Number One Tourist Attraction in Ireland

The Guinness Beer Brewery and Storehouse is the number one visited spot in Ireland. That’s right: this world-famous brewery beats out the Blarney Stone and other hot tourist attractions in Ireland. This now modern facility in Dublin wasn’t always so ‘well to do.’ In fact, this popular tourist spot as it now is opened in November 2000, featuring an architecture that is modeled after the pint glass. If they filled this enormous pint glass to the brim it would hold 14.3 million pints of Guinness!

Guinness began quite meagerly in comparison to what it now is. Arthur Guinness began his brewery in County Kildare, Ireland in 1759 when he signed a 9,000 year lease to rent a rundown brewery. He was following in his father’s footsteps, as his father was in charge of brewing beer at an estate in Ireland.

The rest is, as they say, history. Guinness stayed in the family with relatives in direct supervision and control of the business until 1986. That’s six generations of Guinnesses with hands-on work with the company.

What began as a rather long lease and a dream has now emerged into a giant, money making empire that has stayed true to its history and culture. In fact the Storehouse maintains the only publicly accessible archive records in all of Ireland.

Guinness Beer’s Nutrition Information

First, the alcohol content:

Draught: 4.2%

Extra Stout: 4.2%

Foreign Extra Stout: 7.5%

Generally speaking, in one pint (it can vary by glass, bottle, or draft beers) there are 198 calories.

Let’s look closer at a one-pint serving of Guinness Draught Beer and its nutritional content.

* 196 calories

* 49 mg sodium

* 18 g carbohydrate

* 1.6 g protein

Within that you’ll get a few calories from protein and carbohydrates but most of the calories come straight from the alcohol content in Guinness beer. Although drinking a Guinness Beer can sometimes make you feel like you’ve just eaten Thanksgiving dinner, Guinness is not loaded with much at all.

References

https://www.guinness-storehouse.com/en/SomeHistory.aspx

https://www.guinness-storehouse.com/en/Index.aspx

https://www.guinness-storehouse.com/en/WhatsInside.aspx