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Originally Posted by sammyg2
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We asked Chris Mohr, Ph.D., R.D., one of Men's Health's nutrition advisors, whether corn syrup in beer is bad for you. The answer? It doesn't matter whether your beer contains corn syrup, because those refined sugars are eliminated in the fermentation process anyway.
"Sugar is used in the brewing process to feed the yeast as part of the fermentation, so the sweetener used for brewing beer is a moot point since the finished product does not have sugar," Mohr says.
In short, it's no big deal if the sweetener is coming from corn syrup or milk sugars or Gisele's tears of joy if no residual sugars are left after fermentation.
"Rather than being concerned are arguing about the type of sweetener used to brew beer, worry about how much beer you're drinking," says Mohr
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For light beer, this may be somewhat true. But for most beer, there are a lot of longer chain sugars that are not fermentable. These provide body.
The point of using rice or corn in the mash is to reduce the non-fermentable sugars. This was done with regular Bud & Miller. The light beers usually add alpha-amylase which can breakdown the non-fermentable longer chain sugars into short chain fermentable sugars. This also leads to further loss of "body".
Taken to its extreme, along with extreme cold filtration, you end up with low alcohol water. Add flavors and you have Zima.