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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 2059439" data-attributes="member: 374531">I know I'm commenting as a T1 on a T2 thread, but bear with me...T1s are acutely aware that beer has carbs (typically 15 to 20g per pint), and that will raise if not bolused for, but we're also aware that above a certain amount of alcohol, usually a couple of pints, the liver, which normally feeds out glucose to fuel day to day bodily processes, prioritises metabolising the alcohol, and reduces by a half or so the glucose it normally releases.I'm curious how this would work in a T2 context. You've got carbs coming in from the beer, but then, because of the effect of alcohol on the liver, you've got a reduction of glucose coming in from the liver, so the net effect might not be as bad as it seems?I can recall a few posts by T2s about the beneficial effects for bg of a cheeky wee glass or two red wine of an evening. Red wine is more or less zero carbs, so there's no raise there, but it's likely reducing release of glucose from the liver.Might a few beers just be a version of that?</blockquote>

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