Cooper's Clear was Nice and Refreshing i liked it my farther Loved it  there are better low carb beers out there  there is Bud Select 55  with only has 55 carbs and is pritty good i hear

Good questuin i think its per case i will look in to it a friend was sayeing it was the lowest carbed beer in the world

Follow up to the Carlton Blonde Low Carb...Not worth the time. It might be lower in carbs by .3 but the flavour is very weak. I hate to pour beer down the sink or waste any of it but it happened more than once!

People are crabby about Coopers Clear but the Carlton Blonde blows chunks..Had to be the most unappealing beer I've had in a long time. S'Kay because Coopers Clear is the best so far for me atleast.

I can understand the whole 'have your cake and eat it too' deal....I don't really agree with artifical sweetners..Actually, I try to stay away from them as much as possible. As far as I can tell the Coopers Extra Dry doesn't have anything added in like sweetners..IF it does..They've done a bloody good job at hiding it. It does make one wonder how they get 'rid' of those carbs though.

Honestly the only reason why I've invested time into Low Carb beers is I need to lose weight and have a few Coopers over the weekend hasn't effected my weight..Actually, I'm still going down which is the obvious goal..lol And it's a diet I'll be on for quite some time annnd if I go without beer for so long I might cry..ahahaha. However, I've got my goals and will allow myself the occasional full strength beer so overal for me it's working.

I do think there is probably some low carb beers out there that DO nasty things to make them low carb...I'm highly doubtful I'd ever touch a Low Carb Bud. I don't enjoy normal Bud in the first place.

But overal the interesting thing I've found while searching online....There is a low carb beer called Virgin..It's organic..Goes on about how it's good blah blah blah...BUT there is nothing on the site to actully inform you how low carb it is. Same for Coopers and a few others I've found. This is a marketing tool that they are missing out on. I wanna know the carbs afteral wasn't this the first reason it was made in the first place?

I think low carb beers could get better over time the more people tinker with them. Guess it's wait and see. But I will update this thread on what I find/tried to let other curious people know.

My understanding is that an average lager only contains around 3% carbohydrates (starches and sugars) anyway, and that low carb beers are mostly marketing bs. Most of the kilojoule content of almost any beer comes from the alcohol anyway and not any remaining carbohydrates so if you need to restrict your kilojoule intake for health reasons you should choose a low alcohol rather than a low carb beer.

For example see:
http://www.fosters.com.au/enjoy/beer/beer_nutrition.htm
and
http://www.fosters.com.au/enjoy/beer/beer_and_diabetes.htm

BTW, I was under the impression that if a food product made a nutritional claim on the label (such as being low carb etc) that was required to have a nutritional information panel on the label. Beer seems to fit into a grey area in the legislation - it looks like if your product claims to be low in fat, alcohol or kilojoules the rules explicitly state you need the panel but it seems a bit vague when it comes to claims of low carbs.

See http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/ for some info on food labelling laws.