The Number of Calories and Carbs in America’s 25 Best-Selling Beers [Infographic]

The popularity of terms like “beer belly” may have given beer a bad rap when it comes to the waistband, but all alcoholic beverages contain calories, and drinking too much of any category will inevitably lead to weight gain.

While beer typically doesn’t contain any fat, it does contain alcohol (fermented sugars), unfermented sugars, and various grains that contribute to each beer’s carb content. But there are a few general rules of thumb when it comes to evaluating a beer’s nutrition stats.

Generally, the higher a beer is in alcohol content, the more calories it contains. There are some notable exceptions, like Miller High Life and Corona Extra, which have the same ABV but differ in terms of their calorie count (141 versus 148). Moreover, one can expect that the carbs derived from a beer’s residual sugar content or adjuncts will play into the number of calories present in a single brew.

That said, tracking down the calorie and carb counts of beers isn’t always easy, considering the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) does not require beer brands to list nutritional stats. So we took some work off your plate and rounded up the nutrition information on the top 25 best-selling beers in the United States.

To determine the list of the top-performing brews, VinePair consulted data from the most recent round of Circana data, which tracks consumer purchasing behavior for packaged goods in retail channels. It’s important to note that White Claw and other hard seltzers were not included in this list in order to focus exclusively on beer. From there, we determined each beers’ ABV, calorie, and carb counts, before assembling them into this graph for easy viewing.

From Blue Moon to Busch Light, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and beyond, here are the number of calories and carbs in each of the 25 best-selling beers in America.

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