If we're so advanced as a civilization, how come no one has invented diet beer?

[MrScorpio]

Riddle me THAT, you buckos

[ZombieHorde]

1. They call it 'light beer', if they called it 'diet', fewer guys wouldn't buy it. nt

[Heidi]

2. Boylan's Diet Birch Beer.

Okay, it's not real beer, but the commercial is priceless.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1427670/so_so_bad_boylans_diet_beer_commercial/

[baldguy]

3. In Japan they have.

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/06/25/diet-beer-canned-cocktail-%E2%80%93-brewers-desperate/

[Juche]

4. Ethanol has calories

Ethanol has about 7 calories per gram. True diet beer would need to be non alcoholic.

[unpossibles]

5. they have - non-alcoholic beer

Eventually, you just stop drinking it as you wonder what the point is.

:D

[madinmaryland]

6. Isn't that stuff called "piss water"??

[realisticphish]

7. I believe the German for that phrase

is "Budweiser"

[east texas lib]

8. YEAH!!!

And what about frozen wine pops?!!

[Left Is Write]

9. They have. That was the original intention behind "light" beer.

Also the MGD 64 is a "diet" beer.

[Roon]

10. better yet..a zero carb and zero calorie beer

just like diet pop

[KG]

11. what would be the point of 'diet beer'?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

12. "Lite" beer- otherwise known (back in the day) as

"baby beer" because at 3.2% it was legal to sell to the 18-and-over crowd (at least in Ohio).

It was nasty then and it's still nasty, no matter what you call it. I've never seen so many people so thoroughly suckered by an existing product where they simply renamed it and started advertising it.

[CatholicEdHead]

13. Called Bud Light or Milwaukee's Best

:puke:

[Initech]

14. There's always that MGD 64 bullshit too.

[flvegan]

15. I'd rather be stabbed with the broken bottle.

[Initech]

16. Yeah really.

:rofl:

[cherish44]

17. I dunno, why can't they invent beer that doesn't taste like horse piss?

And to beat you smartasses to the punch, NO I've never drank horse piss but if I had to guess, it probably tastes like BEER (so neener, neener) It pisses me off too because I hate beer and mixed drinks are frickin' expensive dammit!

[Initech]

19. There's plenty of beer out there that doesn't taste like piss.

If you're just going on Bud, Miller, and Coors, then yeah you can use that as a judgement. But seriously, there's way better beer out there. For instance there's a local brewery where I live called Bootlegger's that makes a tasty stout called Black Phoenix and its brewed with coffee and chipotle peppers. It sounds weird but once you try its so good.

You could also try some of the darker Belgian beers like Karmelict, Kasteel, or St. Bernardus, those are fuckin' tasty as well.

[jobycom]

18. To me, not making a diet beer IS is the mark of an advanced civilization.

And we fail.

So do the Japanese:

[applegrove]

20. Aspartame doesn't work the fermentation process.