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6 Surprisingly Healthy Beers

Stock your six-pack with these beers for a side of health benefits with your buzz.

Abita Purple Haze
If you happen to find yourself journeying down to N’awlins for Mardi Gras this year, you’ll probably be drinking a lot of Abita, NOLA’s premier craft brewery. Abita offers a variety of flavorful brews, few as notable as Purple Haze, a raspberry-infused wheat beer. Purple Haze is brewed with fresh raspberry puree (providing nutrients and vitamins), added after filtration for a distinctive taste and aroma. What’s best, a serving of Purple Haze has only 128 calories and 11 carbs, pretty respectable stats for something so deliciously tasting. Hendrix would be proud.

While many wouldn’t equate beer with a healthy diet, it’s been said that a few brews per serving/outing isn’t the worst thing for you—as long as they’re light beers, and hence, low in calories and carbs. The problem, of course, is that most “light” beers tend to be “light” in flavor and therefore your enjoyment. Which begs the question; what’s the point of drinking two beers if they taste like watered-down crap? So here’s a list of beers—sans the “light label”—that are either surprisingly low in cals and carbs, or provide a nutritional/health kick that few know about. As always fellas, drink in moderation.


See the other 5 beers here