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Guinness -- maybe not good for you, but not a bad choice either

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Sure, it’s dark, sure, it may seem filling, but as beer choices go -- caloric and otherwise -- you can do much worse than Guinness (expected to be a popular choice in bars and pubs around the country today).

A 12-ounce bottle of Guinness Draught will provide 126 calories. The same amount of Guinness Extra Stout offers 153. And Harp (note to beer-drinking neophytes: it’s a lager from Ireland, so you can choose it if you’re no fan of stouts but still want to be in the spirit of things) comes in at 142.

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All this according to beer100.com, which offers some fascinating reading -- providing both calories of imports and domestic brews.

Twelve ounces of Budweiser, inevitably used as a comparison for such things, offers 145 calories. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale comes in at 175. That latter company’s stout packs a 225-calorie punch, and its Bigfoot, I’d like to point out, comes in at 330. Seriously. 330.

A fine drink, to be sure, but 330 calories?

If you’re drinking by the pint -- and today, you probably will be -- that’ll be 210 calories for 16 ounces of Guiness, says Calorie Count.

Here’s some similar information on soda bread (it’s best not to drink on an empty stomach, after all):

-- 267 calories per serving in this L.A. Times recipe.

-- 192 calories in this AllRecipes.com version.

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So soda bread isn’t a nutritional powerhouse -- it’s a fine accompaniment to many things nonetheless.

And because we’ve your best interests at heart, we’ll remind you of Jeannine Stein’s blog post earlier in the day: Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with a drink or three? Read this first. (It’s about what alcohol does to the body -- not the calories, just the alcohol).

-- Tami Dennis

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