On the other hand, the so called French Paradox of long life and relatively good health while swilling red wine also holds true for beers made with dark grains. Evidently, the same antioxidents found in red grape skins are also present in roasted barley malts. Guinness is indeed good for you. Now, as for beer being fattening, much of the data that is used to show the amout of sugar in beer is calculated before the yeast has done its work. Now, a good beer will still have sugars in it, but they will be longer sugars - all the mono and disaccharides will have fermented out, and, with lagers, much of the trisaccharides too. So the peril of a diet rich in alcholic beverages is somewhat overstated, unless you decide to drink dessert wines, candy liqueurs, or the strongest, sweetest beers. There's a reason fat and stout and portly all mean roughly the same thing.
