Strictly speaking, is even high quality beer bad for you, as it is carbonated artificially and contains starch

Question

I'm not refering to the alcohol, mind, the other ingredients

Answer 1

Drink Guinness it's not carbonated and it's yummy.

Answer 2

Artificially carbonated?  you must be referring to something like Bud, Coors or the like.

Some are on draft forced out of the keg with Carbonation, but it is not in the beer.  If it was, not a bad thing.  Also, starch is a natural carbohydrate.  also not a bad thing.

Answer 3

Bad for you Bad for you Bad for you

Why is everyone obsessed with this term?

Good Beer is tasty. In moderation it is fine.  Enjoy the beer.

Worry about something else in life.  

Answer 4

Starch isn't bad for you, I don't know who told you that.  Starch is good for you.  Contains carbohydrates, which power your body.  Of course, if you don't take the Calories from those carbs into account when analyzing your diet, you'll have a whole bunch of extra Calories unaccounted for, that will probably end up as fat.

But guess what--that's true of all alcohol, since pure ethanol  contains 7.1 Calories per gram; that works out to about 2200 Calories per 750mL bottle of 40pct abv spirits.

Beer is carbonated, and carbonated fluids are bad for you, but beer is a lot less carbonated than, say, soda or seltzer water, and the CO2 is expelled a lot more quickly when it's poured into a glass than drunk straight from the bottle (note the large, foamy head).  Mexican and Japanese beers are carbonated even less than Euro-American beers, and Guiness is known for using a combination of CO2 and N2 to draw head out of their beer, since carbonic acid also negatively affects the taste of the beer.

Answer 5

Ying Ding Aing is funny and wrong.

No, strictly speaking  high quality beers are  not bad for us.

Carbonic acid (CO2 in water) is not bad for humans.

Carbonated beverages are not bad for human health either.

High quality beers are not bad for us either.

Carbonic acid DOES HELP with beer flavor and sensory enjoyment.

High quality beers do not contain starch but dextrins. Dextrins in beer, even high qualitybeers, are produced by catalytic break down of starch. The activity of amylase enzymes work in the mashing process to break down starch into fermentable sugars and non fermentable sugars called dextrins.