How Many Calories Are In A Pint Of Guinness? | Metro News

Tomorrow is St Patrick’s Day –  the perfect excuse to indulge in a pint of Guinness.

But before you do, it might be worth knowing how many calories you’re taking in.

A pint of Guinness, or 568ml of the beverage, contains 210 calories – which may be surprising to some, who would expect a drink with a caramel-tinged flavour to have a higher calorie count.

However, if you’re looking to get drunk on purely Guinness, you’ll need to get slightly more pints down than you would with most other types of beer.

The drink is only 4.2% ABV – compared with an average of 5% ABV when it comes to its alcoholic counterparts.

Is Guinness black?

Guinness is black, right? Dark brown, at least?

Nope – if you look closely, under the right light, you’ll see that Guinness is actually dark red.

It’s this colour due to the way it’s brewed.

As it’s created using roasted, malted barley, the heating process combines sugars, amino acids and grains in such a way that the dark red colour is the end result.

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Where does Guinness come from?

The stout beer originates in the brewery of Arthur Guinness, at St James’s Gate brewery in Dublin, Ireland’s capital.

Although the drink originates in Ireland, 40% of Guinness consumed around the world is being drunk in Africa, and three of the five breweries are on the continent.

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