How Many Beer Calories Can Walking Around Burn?

A foamy deep dive

Apr 10, 2022

“Next West Friend” from Procreations Brewing at Fresbrew

I happen to have gone to a local music festival in Fresno yesterday. It required a lot of walking or bike riding if you wanted to see all the bands you could. Which is awesome for me as I enjoy seeing local bands.

Also awesome is the festival took place in a area of Fresno with lots of Craft Beer options to stop and enjoy while walking around.

It made me think about how many calories I burned walking and how many I drank in.

“Stag” Pale from There Does Not Exist at Goldstein’s

Using this dead blog’s post about beer calories, here are the beers I had and the calories I obtained from them:

Procreations Brewing “Next West Friend” WCIPA. 7.5% - 300 calories.
There Does Not Exist Brewing “Stag” Pale Ale. 5.5% - 220 calories.
Machinehead Brewing “10 Speed Machine” - 260 calories.

So I consumed 780 calories in that session.

I roughly walked five miles, going around to many different stages and venues while at Tower Porchfest in Fresno.

This is where it gets tricky as to how many calories I burned walking.

“10 Speed Machine” from MachineHead Brewing at Spokeasy’s

I don’t have a smart watch to tell me so I have to filter what the Internet says how many calories a dude my size would burn walking that much.

The number I came ip with is 450.

So 780 in, 450 burned, I carried over 330 calories. Not terrible. But more than I would expect with all of that walking.🚶

Maybe it’s best not to think about it and go enjoy another beer. 😆

Hey, but a good walk or meander through your neighborhood after a beer or two is a nice thing to do whether you’re worried about calories or not.

The Links To Beer

A deep dive into beer foam by Pellicle Mag makes for a good long read and will likely win a beer writer award at the end of the year.
The Twitter trend of the week was the “we’re canceling each other over…” and the busiest one on Beer Twitter was this dudes: