I'm fighting that desire as we speak!!! :laugh: In all seriousness, I do feel like it defeats the purpose... especially when you're doing a lower carb diet!

Beer, being grain-based, is not generally considered a part of the paleo/primal lifestyle - mostly because since it is not a distilled beverage, most of the things that makes grains a bad thing are still there.

Wine, although made from fruit, is more accepted because the primary no-no - sugar - has largely been converted to alcohol.

Distilled spirits are a toss-up. Nearly all are grain-based (except tequila), but the distillation process leaves all but a minute fraction of impurities behind.

Personally? I gave beer up, drink red wine as the adult beverage of choice, and have a nice single malt scotch when I feel I deserve it.

Cookies make me feel guilty. Booze does not.

I notice a big difference in my scale for several days after I have had more than a glass of wine. I try to do one or two glasses of really good wine if I am having a great meal. I type this after leaving a 4 day trip to Vegas where I committed some paleo-sins

I am very surprised to see that about 15% of my daily calories come from Alcohol. This includes the glass of wine here and there and one or the other beer.
In total amount of alcohol this is not a problem, health wise, but is actually in the range of where alcohol is healthy ( think that was up to 40g per day).

However, I do feel guilty because beer is grain based.
I try to keep it to a minimum, but since beer is a huge quality of life factor for me (I am Bavarian :-) ) I will not cut it out.