a good beer for diabetic

[mexican brew]

im look for a good beer for diabetics my grandpa a diabetic and
just can drink light beer dose anyone have a good recipe or
a good beer for diabetics

thanks

[LukeD23]

This is an interestng question to me. Typically Saisons finish at 1.002-1.008 which means there is very little sugar left. Would that mean that Saisons and other dried out Belgian styles would be better for a diabetic?

[spiderwrangler]

The residual sugars are only one part of it for people drinking with diabetes. Alcohol itself can mess with sugar levels and other aspects of a diabetic's stable state. Low alcohol with low residual sugars would be best, and they'd want to limit to only a few beers in one sitting (of course dependent on the severity of their diabetes). Unfortunately, that's the realm of light beers, but it would be interesting to try to make something that was in that session beer type family with very low alcohol, very dry finish, yet lots of character and flavor. Berliner Weisse comes to mind (without the syrups), as well as light versions of wit, saison, wheat, light Belgians etc. I guess my thought on this is that if you are need to keep alcohol and residual sugar low, that means low malt character. Low malt character usually means lower hop character to keep a balanced beer. If both of those are low, the only thing you have left to bump up to make a flavorful beer is yeast character, and the addition of spices or other flavoring adjuncts (fruit beers, etc).

[mexican brew]

thank guy i do some research a see if can find a good recipe

thanks again

[BarefootLion]

I've always understood that wheat beers are better for diabetics, maybe combine that with low abv...something like a refreshing wit.

[mexican brew]

what about a light cerveza mexican kit form midwest low abv

[spiderwrangler]

Probably. Anything starting out at a low OG would be better, just depends on how flavorful you want it to be. Or go big and he only gets a sip..