Which is better (or worse) for you, wine or beer?
A friend of mine posed this question to me last night and my gut was to guess wine, but secretly hope beer was a close second! I wasn’t too far off!
This article from the BBC shows that it’s a pretty close call and that there are some slight edges for each (e.g., beer gets you drunk a bit less quickly when consumed at same rate as wine, liquor is the fastest). The overall verdict (quoted below) is that wine wins out but not by enough to give one my beloved hops!
Overall verdict: When it comes to health benefits, wine edges it as the best medicine. However, beer drinkers can at least respond that their drink has the more illustrious history. In fact, some anthropologists have suggested that our taste for beer might have planted the seeds of agriculture, and therefore civilisation itself. That’s something to contemplate the next time you’re waiting at the bar.
