Beers to swell by

Aggregator moment again ...

The online magazine The Daily Beast reaches out via email to Beer-Stained Letter with a link to their post on "The 50 Most Fattening Beers."

Here's what they say are the tops for straining the belt and some others that are a little friendlier (the list doesn't mine the craft vein all that much, but The Beast does say they pulled from the big domestics; and alas, their yardstick was most calories and carbs for least amount of alcohol content).

Top Worst:

• Boulevard Brewing's Unfiltered Wheat Beer (155 calories, 35 carbs and 4.4% alcohol)
• Leinenkugel's Berry Weiss (207 calories, 28 carbs, 4.8% alcohol)
• Grolsch Blonde Lager (120 calories, 15.8 carbs, 2.8% alcohol)

Least Worst:

• Schaefer (142 calories, 12 carbs, 4.6% alcohol)
• Guinness (125 calories, 10 carbs, 4% alcohol)
• Blue Moon Pumpkin Ale (180 calories, 14.7 carbs, 5.8% alcohol)

Make what you want of it. But if you're seriously looking at calories and beer, take a glance over at Peter Kennedy's Simply Beer.

Old Chub or just plain chubby?

The economy has tanked. Godfather Part III sucked. And beer makes you fat.

Yep, all true. Sadly, even that last one.

But Don "Joe Sixpack" Russell has the skinny on beer calories and why big beers can make you bigger.

His latest column is worth your time and may have you chewing the fat over a pint. Just try to keep the discussion, not the beer, light.