Red Wine vs Beer

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Because of its lower alcohol conrent, a volume of beer would have a lower calorie content than an equivalent volume of wine. A typical 5 oz pour of 12.5% ABV wine will have about 102 calories while the same amount of 5% ABV beer will have about 63 calories. There are more things that contribute to the numbers in beer than just the alcohol because there's a formula I seem to recall that gives you the calories derived from alcohol. I think it's 1.633 x %alcohol x serving size. So, a 5 oz pour of 12.5% wine would yield about 102 calories, but the same for 5% beer would be about 41 calories. I came across a chart which listed the ABV and calories for about 200 beers and the average for 5% ABV lists as 63 calories, so there are some extra calories in regular beer that come from somewhere.