Thank you, Graham that was very informative. I appreciate your explanation.

Purely from a blood sugar point of view "spirits", so whisky, rum, vodka etc all by itself contains nothing that will affect blood sugar directly - nothing that "converts" to sugar.

If you mix with any of the Diet/Zero versions of Coke (or whatever) then you have a zero carb drink that comes in at about 50 to 100 calories for a standard shot.

(alcohol in it's pure form is not a carb, fat or protein but does contain calories and your body will metabolize it before anything that is actually "good for us/has nutritional value)

Beer is a bit more complicated - most light beers (under 100 calories) will have some carbs since the alcohol is fermented and not distilled - call it 10 to 12 carbs per beer - so depending on your carb tolerance one might not move the meter but three might put you over the moon.

Regular beers or higher alcohol beers will be higher carbs (more residual sugar not fermented) and something like Guiness (because of all the fiber in it and other darks/brown ales) is about 7 carbs.

Wine is where it gets dicey.

If you can ask/ascertain the "sugar count" of the wine that will tell you what you need to know.

The "sugar count" tells you how many grams of sugar remain in the bottle that didn't get converted to alcohol.

So the "very dry wines" can be from a 0 to 3 gram count (in the whole bottle - standard glass is 1/8 of that), then typical table wines may have 10 to 30 grams of sugar and stuff like the late season "ice wine" might have 100 grams of sugar "per litre".

Rule of thumb - if you stick to Dry, Red in particular (and red because it contains anti-oxidants that are not present in white, which are actually beneficial for blood sugar control so you can call red wine a "health food" 😁) you could guzzle a whole bottle and get less sugar then a single teaspoon of sugar.

Having said all that you should cross check alcohol interactions with any meds you may be on (a number of diabetes drugs can get messed up by alcohol as well as any other meds you might take), but generally if you stick to the "spirits" or very dry red wine and mostly avoid the beer and regular "mix", you won't mess anything up.

Not that I drink much or anything :)

PS - keep in mind that Alcohol is a very effective diuretic and excess consumption can cause dehydration which WILL jack your blood sugar - so when doing shooters, remember a bottle of water between each....
(at least that is what I have been told)

I wanna go too.