[dcmininni]

Alcohol itself may not raise insulin but what about the rest of your hard apple cider or miller lite?

[mikenew]

Miller Lite has about 12 calories from carbohydrates, so not much. Roughly the same for most red wines. Not sure about cider because I don’t drink it, but in general most of the regularly consumed alcoholic drinks have a lot fewer carbohydrates than you’d think.

[batty_alex]

With cider, mead, and wine you want to watch out for back-sweetening. Since many consumers prefer a sweeter product, the finished product will have additional fruit juice, honey, or other sweeteners after suppressing additional fermentation. Beer isn't completely immune from it, either, but it's less common.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

Do you mean to imply that premixed alcoholic beverages aren't regularly consumed?

I suppose you mean the wine beer and spirits that people regularly consume with a meal, or some such.

But also, there are plenty of people who regularly drink one or more premixed alcoholic beverages.

[mikenew]

I should have said “many”, not “most”. I have no idea what percentage of people consume wine, beer, hard liquor or mixed drinks. Just pointing out that the carbohydrate content of red wine, lighter beers, and straight liquor is not as high as you would think.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

Ok, no worries, thanks for clearing that up.

[pucke]

I would expect fairly similar rates between cider and wine, since the yeast are metabolizing the sugars.

Edit: stupid autocorrect

[pucke]

Most of the sugars present in the wort (or juice in the case of wine or cider) are consumed by the yeast who produce alcohol and carbon dioxide as waste products