Dan Abel wrote:
> I wrote:
> > And on the subject of "carb-free alcohol": alcohol is created by
metabolism
> > of carbohydrates. Not every alcoholic beverage is "carb-free." Only
>
>
> Spirits are made by distillation. No sugars or complex carbohydrates can
> come across. If none are added later, then distilled beverages have no
> sugar or complex carbohydrates.

Right. That's what I said. They are only carb-free if all carbohydrate
molecules have been converted to alcohol and if none are added to the
finished product.

(PS, Dan: "Spirits" are distilled, but their bases are merely fermented.
"Home brew" as my family liked to call it back in the day, was not
necessarily worked any further except for straining and filtering to clean
it up.)

(And no, by "home brew" they did not mean beer or cider )


> However, I don't think that people on
> this group care about the chemical definition of stuff. I suspect that
> the effect of alcohol is similar to the action of carbs for people on a
> low carb diet.

Why wouldn't they care?

And according to the advertising low-carb proponents flog unendingly,
ingesting alcohol is a perfectly safe practice for low-carb dieters. Many,
many people on these diets think that alcohol is a non-problem inasmuch as
weight loss is concerned only because "alcohol has no carbs!"