I've tried getting answers from the internet and have ended up so confused I've disappeared up my own rectum.
Here's a challenge. Try finding out just how much sugar there is in a pint. There's just no standardisation anywhere. I've initially tried writing to "Stewarts" brewery to ask the sugar content of a pint of 'heavy'...still awaiting a reply after a week. Wrote to Caledonian Brewery asking the same thing about a pint of 'Deuchars 80/-'. I got a reply five days later where they've declared they aint got a Scooby but "best to avoid drinking it as there's a lot of sugar from the malt content, sorry to disappoint".
Some tables give you the 'carbohydrate' content..that's great 'cos there's no mention of sugar at all, yippee, I can get rat ***** tonight ! Seriously though there's a lot of conflicting information out there, giving us all a "bum steer". would it be too much to ask that this information be readily available to the consumer ?
While I'm griping, here's one aimed at you B.D.A.
Why, throughout your site, do YOU repeatedly refer to me as a 'diabetic'? Do me a favour ! STOP referring to ME as though I'm a walking disease. I am a HUMAN. YOU should know better, TIDY UP YOUR ACT. If I had a limp, would you say "hello, I understand you are a cripple" or to an asthma sufferer "you are an asthmatic" ? If you were in company would you say "meet John, he is an epileptic" of perhaps, "this is Mary, she is a Leper" ?
The press are the biggest culprits. Not to mention our good old N.H.S. your local dentist or optician. If you have any clout B.D.A., please campaign about correcting the aforementioned on our behalf.
Just for the record, I have type 2 diabetes (late onset). I have never had a "sweet tooth" and have always had a figure resembling a yard of pumpwater. So whenever I see the press referring to me as an overweight couch potato who has burdened the N.H.S. with a "self-inflicted" condition, I get angry.
Here's a challenge. Try finding out just how much sugar there is in a pint. There's just no standardisation anywhere. I've initially tried writing to "Stewarts" brewery to ask the sugar content of a pint of 'heavy'...still awaiting a reply after a week. Wrote to Caledonian Brewery asking the same thing about a pint of 'Deuchars 80/-'. I got a reply five days later where they've declared they aint got a Scooby but "best to avoid drinking it as there's a lot of sugar from the malt content, sorry to disappoint".
Some tables give you the 'carbohydrate' content..that's great 'cos there's no mention of sugar at all, yippee, I can get rat ***** tonight ! Seriously though there's a lot of conflicting information out there, giving us all a "bum steer". would it be too much to ask that this information be readily available to the consumer ?
While I'm griping, here's one aimed at you B.D.A.
Why, throughout your site, do YOU repeatedly refer to me as a 'diabetic'? Do me a favour ! STOP referring to ME as though I'm a walking disease. I am a HUMAN. YOU should know better, TIDY UP YOUR ACT. If I had a limp, would you say "hello, I understand you are a cripple" or to an asthma sufferer "you are an asthmatic" ? If you were in company would you say "meet John, he is an epileptic" of perhaps, "this is Mary, she is a Leper" ?
The press are the biggest culprits. Not to mention our good old N.H.S. your local dentist or optician. If you have any clout B.D.A., please campaign about correcting the aforementioned on our behalf.
Just for the record, I have type 2 diabetes (late onset). I have never had a "sweet tooth" and have always had a figure resembling a yard of pumpwater. So whenever I see the press referring to me as an overweight couch potato who has burdened the N.H.S. with a "self-inflicted" condition, I get angry.