The lowest-calorie alcoholic drinks: rating and table of drinks

Chef Sommelier at the St. Petersburg restaurant Hamlet+Jacks and Moscow’s Squat Vinnaya restaurant

What to pay attention to when choosing alcohol? What alcohol is the most low-calorie?

How often do you wonder, standing in a store, which alcohol to choose? Probably not infrequently. It can be difficult to decide which one to choose. Drinking culture itself has many nuances and rules that are worth learning if you are a frequent drinker.

Today we will try to understand how to approach the issue of choosing alcohol correctly and what you need to pay attention to first.

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Where to start?

Eugene: Be sure to choose specialized wine shops, where professional sommeliers will help you with the choice, and it is best to be friends with someone from this profession. Then purchases can be organized in a more democratic price range.

What are the main types of alcohol?

Eugene: Wineje classified as alcoholic beverages with a low alcohol content, fortified wines are also popular – port, sherry, Madeira and others. The overwhelming majority of beer and ciders are considered to be low-alcoholic drinks, and strong drinks – cognac, armagnac, brandy, grappa, whiskey, gin and many others.

Chef-bartender of “Klava Bar”

As a teetotaler, I will say that alcohol is not the basis of the table. Of course, you should match alcohol with appetizers, make a complex meal and choose a set of alcohol for each course. No one forces you to buy one wine and serve the whole table with it.

It is necessary to choose alcohol for the aperitif – sparkling wine, let’s say. Then continue with a quiet wine: white, or maybe red. You can finish with strong or cocktails based on strong alcohol, maybe sauras. Or if the wine lover is sophisticated – some more interesting cocktails of vermouths, liqueurs, bitters, etc.

What kind of alcohol can be considered relatively “healthy”?

Eugene: There is no such thing as a relatively “healthy” alcohol, as it contains ethyl alcohol obtained by fermentation or distillation anyway. If you are still concerned about a healthy lifestyle, I recommend betting on natural wines. As a rule, they have a low strength of 8 to 12 degrees.

Ivan: It is strange to think of alcohol as “healthy”. But if we go into such terms, we are talking about alcohol with the lowest sugar content. The main thing in the question about the usefulness of alcohol is only its quantity. Naturally, the more you drink it, the worse you feel.

It is worth noting that the quality of alcohol and the amount of alcohol drunk are not always to blame for the hangover. It often happens that the cause is hidden in the general state of the blood and its oxygen saturation, in the atmospheric pressure around.