In article >,
Blair P. Houghton > wrote:

> rst > wrote:

> >There's a lot of sugar in Miller.
>
> Bud, too.
>
> Sugar and rice.

Beer is made with barley and hops. Cheaper beer adds rice. The barley
is sprouted, which makes an enzyme that changes the starch in the barley
to sugar (maltose). There is an excess of enzyme, so rice can be added
and its starch will also be converted to sugar. The hops are just a
flavoring agent. When the yeast is added, it converts all the sugar to
alcohol. Thus, the final beer should contain no sugar or starch.

There are lots of exceptions, but I doubt that Bud or Miller have many
of them.

If you have some different cites, I would be very interested.