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Beer: what's actually in it?

The short answer is: mostly water, malted barley, hops and yeast — but the exceptions are where this page earns its keep. Some lagers add rice, maize or corn starch; some add sugar or glucose syrup; wheat beer adds wheat, coriander and orange peel; flavoured lagers add juice, sugar and flavourings; and low/no-alcohol beers are often rebuilt with natural flavourings after the alcohol is removed or never fully formed.

This page does not rank beers by taste and does not pick a "best" beer. ABV figures below are only those stated in the source checked; where the source checked did not state ABV, the page says so rather than guessing.

The headline, in 30 seconds

• Most mainstream lagers checked are 3–4 ingredients. Water, malted barley (or malt/barley malt) and hops/hop extract dominate; yeast is often part of the process but is not always listed as an ingredient on the retailer listing.
• Adjuncts are the main split. Tiger Crystal adds rice; Peroni adds Italian maize; Asahi Super Dry (UK listing) adds corn starch; Carlsberg Special Brew adds glucose syrup. None of these is hidden — they are on the list — but they are easy to miss if you assume "beer = barley only".
• Wheat beer is a different grain bill, not just a lighter lager. Hoegaarden lists wheat alongside barley malt, plus coriander seeds, natural orange peel and sugar.
• Stout's difference is roast barley. Guinness Draught's fuller official list adds roasted barley to malted barley, barley, hops, yeast and nitrogen; the FairPrice short list for Guinness Stout is just Water, Malt, Barley, Hops.
• Low/no-alcohol is not just "beer minus alcohol". Heineken 0.0 lists natural flavourings alongside water, malted barley and hop extract; Guinness 0.0 adds fructose and natural flavourings. Check the list, not just the 0.0% badge.
• Brewing location matters for the list. Several lists below come from UK/EU retailer pages for the same brand sold in Singapore (Asahi, Carlsberg, Hoegaarden). They are flagged as such — the Singapore pack must be checked before any publish step, because the same brand can be brewed in different countries with a different list.

At a glance

Re-audit 5 November 2026: 3 products added (Kirin Ichiban, Chang, Tsingtao — all from UK retailer listings, flagged as non-SG, in line with the existing Asahi/Carlsberg/Hoegaarden UK panels), taking panelled products from 18 to 21. Tiger Lager (flagship) is still NOT panelled: the UK lists found for it conflict with each other (glucose syrup vs cane sugar vs rice as the fourth ingredient), so no single list can be quoted — see the research notes. Stella Artois, Corona, Anchor, ABC Stout and Connor's Stout Porter still have no SG or UK ingredient section retrieved, and the Little Farms craft range still has no lists. This page is still not 100% complete.

Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Lagers — the mainstream shelf

Lagers — re-audit additions (UK retailer listings, verify SG pack)

Stout

Wheat beer

Low / no-alcohol

Little Farms check (added channel)

Little Farms (littlefarms.com) was checked for beer. It stocks a craft range that does not overlap the supermarket mainstream shelf: Specific Gravity (Singapore) Classic IPA 5.8% and Wheat Beer ("Light & Refreshing", South German style, clove and banana notes), Yulli's Brews Clarence Hazy Pale Ale 4.5% (Australia), Seabass Mediterranean Lager, and a 100 Day Pilsener. None of these had a verbatim ingredient list on the Little Farms product pages checked, so all five are in seen-but-not-verified below — not panelled. Little Farms also lists craft beer in its café drink menu (Specific Gravity lager/IPA, Yulli's cider), which is on-trade, not a retail pack, and is out of scope for ingredient panels.

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• Tiger Lager (flagship) — FairPrice's flagship listing gives brand description (tropical lagering, finest ingredients) but no ingredient section was retrieved in this pass. Brand/tour material describes malt, hops, yeast and water, and secondary sources mention rice — do not merge these into a list without a pack check.
• Tiger Radler Lemon, Tiger Remix Peach Oolong / Yuzu Lime (4.2% ABV) — flavoured lagers launched in Singapore in November 2026 (7-Eleven, RedMart, rolling out to FairPrice/Sheng Siong/Cold Storage/Giant). No ingredient lists retrieved yet; Remix is described as Tiger lager plus peach/oolong or yuzu/lime, which is description, not a list.
• Sapporo Premium (regular), Stella Artois, Carlsberg Smooth / Danish Pilsner SG pack, Corona, Anchor, ABC Stout, Connor's Stout Porter — listed at FairPrice/Cold Storage/Sheng Siong category level or in deal listings; no SG ingredient section retrieved in this pass. (Kirin Ichiban, Chang and Tsingtao are now panelled above from UK retailer listings, flagged as non-SG.)
• Tiger Lager (flagship) — still not panelled after the re-audit: three UK retailer listings found for Tiger Lager disagree on the fourth ingredient — Ocado/McGrocer list “Water, Malted Barley, Glucose Syrup, Hop Extract” (brewed in the UK), while a German retailer lists “Water, Barley Malt, Hops, Cane Sugar” for the Singapore-brewed can, and Difford's Guide describes the recipe as including rice. With glucose syrup vs cane sugar vs rice unresolved, no list is quoted as the SG pack list; a Singapore pack photograph is still required.
• Archipelago Brewery (Singapore) range — Irish Ale, Bohemian Lager, Singapore Blonde Ale, Belgian Wit — mentioned in Tiger brewery tour coverage; no retail ingredient lists retrieved.
• Little Farms craft range — Specific Gravity Classic IPA 5.8%, Specific Gravity Wheat Beer, Yulli's Clarence Hazy Pale Ale 4.5%, Seabass Mediterranean Lager, 100 Day Pilsener: listed at littlefarms.com, no ingredient lists on the pages checked.
• Craft / specialty at Donki, Meidi-Ya, Mustafa, Le Petit Depot, Lazada, Shopee — Japanese, Korean (e.g. Kloud variants beyond the one panelled), Belgian and craft imports appear in marketplace listings; no additional verbatim lists verified in this pass. Giant and Sheng Siong beer ranges were checked at category level only (Tiger, Carlsberg, Guinness, Connor's named in deal listings).
• Alcohol-free beyond the three panelled — Bavaria 0.0, Krombacher 0.0, Asahi Dry Zero, Lucky Saint, Big Drop, Heaps Normal: named in Singapore coverage as sold here, no SG pack lists retrieved in this pass.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

How to read this table. Figures are per 100 g (or per 100 ml for beer) only where the source gives per-100 figures. Where a source gives per-serving figures only, the row is quoted exactly as printed and the Basis column says “per serving, not per 100 g/ml” — those rows are not converted to per-100 and must not be compared gram-for-gram with per-100 rows. “Not stated” means the source retrieved did not give that column; it is not estimated, borrowed from another variant, or copied across flavours. Salt = sodium × 2.5, so the Sodium column shows sodium as printed with the salt equivalent in brackets. Sodium is not salt, and salt is not sodium.

Most Singapore packs list total sugars, not added sugars. A total-sugars figure is therefore not labelled “added sugar” here; the ingredient list on the page remains the evidence for whether sugar (or sucrose, glucose syrup, cane sugar) was added. No Nutri-Grade is assigned here and no health score, ranking or “best/worst” verdict is given — the numbers below are observations only, and the highest/lowest figures named in the text are just that: the highest and lowest numbers observed in this table.

Beer nutrition is per 100 ml. Most beer labels/retailer listings give only energy, carbohydrate and sugars — protein, fat and sodium are shown as “not stated” where the retrieved listing does not give them, not filled from another beer. Where energy is not printed, it is recorded as not stated, not estimated from ABV. ABV is shown as printed in the source for that row only. UK listings are flagged; they are not Singapore pack panels.

Sugar/sodium observations (numbers only): sugars in this table range from 0 g per 100 ml (Heineken Original, UK listing) to 3.2 g per 100 ml (Hoegaarden 0.0); energy ranges from 17 kcal per 100 ml (Guinness Draught 0.0) to 45 kcal per 100 ml (Hoegaarden). Sodium is not stated in any retrieved beer listing in this table, so no sodium comparison is made — and no energy figure is estimated from ABV for the beers below, whose energy is not printed.

Seen but not verified (nutrition) — the following panelled products have no verified nutrition panel in this pass, so no figures are shown for them. Do not estimate or borrow figures from another variant:

• Pure Blonde Ultra Low Carb Lager
• Lotte Kloud Beer
• Sapporo Premium Black Can Beer
• Heineken Draught Keg (5L) — the panelled keg, whose nutrition table was not retrieved
• Singha Lager Beer
• Leo Beer
• Peroni Nastro Azzurro Premium Lager
• Gold Medal Taiwan Beer (5% ABV as printed, energy not retrieved)
• Tiger Crystal Beer
• Tiger Soju Infused Lager
• Asahi Super Dry
• Carlsberg Danish Pilsner
• Carlsberg Special Brew
• Kirin Ichiban — re-audit addition; no verified nutrition panel retrieved
• Chang Classic Lager — re-audit addition; no verified nutrition panel retrieved
• Tsingtao Beer — re-audit addition; no verified nutrition panel retrieved

How to read a beer ingredient list — the jargon, in plain English

Malt / malted barley

Barley grains steeped, germinated and kiln-dried. Germination switches on enzymes that later turn starch into fermentable sugars. "Malt" on a short list usually means malted barley, but the page quotes the exact word printed.

Adjunct

Any fermentable ingredient beyond malted barley — rice, maize/corn, corn starch, glucose syrup, sugar. Adjuncts lighten body, cut cost, or change flavour; they do not automatically make a beer "less real", but they do make it a different recipe from a barley-only beer.

Hops vs hop extract vs hop oil

Hops are the flowers that give bitterness and aroma. Hop extract is the bitter/aroma compounds extracted from hops; hop oil is the aromatic oil fraction. All three do a similar job, but they are listed as different ingredients.

Top vs bottom fermentation (ale vs lager)

Lagers use bottom-fermenting yeast at cooler temperatures; ales use top-fermenting yeast warmer. The yeast strain is rarely listed on a retailer ingredient section, which is why many panels here have no yeast in the quoted list even though yeast did the fermenting.

Roast barley

Barley roasted like coffee beans, used in stout for dark colour and roasted flavour. It is unmalted, which is why Guinness lists both "malted barley" and "barley"/"roasted barley" separately.

Nitrogen

A gas used in draught stout (the "widget" in cans) for the creamy head and smooth texture. It is listed as an ingredient on the fuller Guinness list.

Natural flavourings

Flavourings derived from natural sources, used heavily in flavoured and alcohol-free beers to replace character lost when alcohol is removed or flavour is added. "Natural" describes the source, not the simplicity of the recipe.

ABV

Alcohol by volume, as printed. "0.0%" means the pack states 0.0% alcohol; other alcohol-free beers may state "<0.5%" — check the exact figure on the pack, because the two are not the same claim.

Gluten in beer

Beer brewed from barley/wheat contains gluten unless the brewing process has broken it down and the product is tested, as Pure Blonde claims (~10 ppm). A low-gluten claim is not a gluten-free claim.

What this page is not

• Not a taste test, not a ranking, and not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; ingredients change less often, but still change.
• Not medical or drinking advice. ABV is stated as printed; nothing here encourages or discourages drinking.
• Not complete. The flagship Tiger lager, the November 2026 Tiger Remix range, and the Little Farms craft range are deliberately left unpanelled for the verification reasons given, not hidden.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: NTUC FairPrice product pages (ingredient sections) for Pure Blonde, Kloud, Sapporo Black, Heineken Keg, Singha, Leo, Peroni, Gold Medal Taiwan, Guinness Stout; Open Food Facts for Tiger Crystal, Tiger Soju, Guinness 0.0; UK retailer listings (Tesco, Morrisons, Ocado, One Stop) for Asahi Super Dry, Carlsberg Pilsner/Special Brew and Hoegaarden, flagged as non-SG; Guinness official Malaysia site for the fuller Draught list; Little Farms (littlefarms.com) product pages for the craft range (no lists found); trade coverage for Guinness 0.0 Singapore rollout (Oct 2026) and Tiger Remix launch (Nov 2026). Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the page says so instead of filling the gap.