Adult Corner :: StyleOne Shine Malt

I like light beer. I just do. I also like low calorie beer. I can't help it. I like to get some bang for my buck but I also like to balance my caloric intake. I am a food tracker and that means finding a balance of what I eat. So Japan is a bit of a haven for me in terms of low calorie beer. There's tons of selection! My favourites are Kirin's Green Label and Asahi Style free. Both have low calories (28 and 24 calories per 100 mL) but still a nice 4% alcohol percentage (pretty standard for beer). They're also light and refreshing. I enjoy having them over the weekend, especially on Friday after a long day of work.

The other day I was perusing the alcohol aisle at my local grocery store and noticed there are...lots of other low calorie beers available. Now that I started this blog I told myself 'You should try some of these'. So I grabbed a few.

I started with, what is possibly, one of the worst beers I have ever had! Though I tried it first because I had the lowest of expectations.

StyleOne is a store brand and thus super cheap. A 350mL can of their Shine Malt low calorie beer was 88 yen! That's a steal! And at 4% alcohol...seemed like well worth the risk. Thank god it had alcohol because the taste was severely disappointing.

It was basically soda water with the essence of beer. If you really focused you could get a breath of beer flavour when you swallowed. But essentially it was just bubbly water. The bubbles were small and tingled on the sides of my tongue but beyond that...it was the most disappointing beer I've had. (And I spent 2 years living in Korea and drinking Cass and Hite.)

100mL contains 33 calories, 0.6 carbs, 0g fat and 0.3g of protein.

NOT WORTH IT! Even for 88 yen.

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