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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2588419" data-attributes="member: 517579">Hi winky 57, and welcome to the forums.There's a couple of ways to answer your question, so I need to make clear I'm answering from the point of view of a T2 who wants to keep carb intake to a minimum, not about the alcohol itself.  With that in mind, it also depends what I've eaten the rest of the day - if it's been next to no carb, I can be a bit more relaxed.The other thing to remember is that alcohol ties up your liver for a while. Until the liver has metabolised the alcohol, you can find that BG readings fall in the short term.So - for alcoholic drinks I find most spirits (as zero carb) to have as you would expect no impact on my BG - I don't tend to use any mixers but if so they would be zero sugar ones anyway. Wine is generally OK too - although there are some carbs, they need to be judged in the context of how much wine you drink.Beer is unfortunately pretty high in carbs so I either avoid it altogether or on rare occasions, if my carb intake has been otherwise low, have one or two.  I do drink a couple of zero and very low sugar beers at home.Fruit juices are completely out and things like most cocktails, sherries and ports are once in a blue moon items.Most sorts of made up bottled alco-pop drinks have a lot of added sugar - didn't drink them anyway and certainly wouldn't now.Non-alcoholic - tea, coffee (with cream if possible), things like Coke Zero, soda water,  etc. Many "energy drinks" have a zero sugar option, which if OK if you're fine with artificial sweetners.  Milk does have carbohydrate in the form of lactose and hot milk will deliver a rise in my  blood sugar very quickly.<a href="https://www.dietdoctor.com/" target="_blank">https://www.dietdoctor.com/</a> has some useful information. There's also a website <a href="https://getdrunknotfat.com/" target="_blank">https://getdrunknotfat.com/</a> which lists drinks by carbs (and calories, not that I count calories).The other thing to remember is that if you are low-carbing it can change how alcohol hits your bloodstream. In my experience, tolerance markedly decreases, so watch out for that.</blockquote>

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