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Fox News
01-08-2025
- Health
- Fox News
7 best low-carb beers that are also big on flavor, according to new ranking
Move over, hard seltzers. Low-carb beer is making a comeback. Brewers are tapping into a renewed thirst for light beers, which were once marketed mostly toward women and lacking the complex flavors that connoisseurs crave. A rise in health-conscious behavior, especially among millennials and Gen Z, is driving the shift, said Michael Vollmer, assistant director of food and beverage at Chicago's Kimpton Gray Hotel. "People want to enjoy social moments without compromising on health goals," he told Fox News Digital. Michelob Ultra, a pioneer in the space, saw sales grow over 3% in June compared to the same period last year, even as broader beer sales declined, The Wall Street Journal reported in July. Producing full-bodied, low-carb beers can be difficult, but the challenge has inspired innovation, Katherine Benecke, a cicerone at Treadwell Park in New York City, told Fox News Digital. "Brewers are moving beyond the old 'light' stereotype to craft bold, flavorful brews that keep carbs and glycemic impact low," she said. "They help reduce blood sugar spikes so you can maintain more sustainable energy levels." When made well, low-carb beers can be good for anyone, Benecke added, regardless of health needs. "They help reduce blood sugar spikes so you can maintain more sustainable energy levels, can aid in digestion and are just generally easier on the gut and on the palate." While many beers, like IPAs, ales and stouts, can have as much as 20 grams of carbs – equal to half a cup of white rice – there are plenty of lighter varieties on the shelves. Men's Health features editor Matt Allyn, a certified beer judge, and editor Ryan Brower, a certified beer server, recently ranked the seven best low-carb options. With 95 calories, 3.6 grams of carbohydrates and 4% alcohol by volume (ABV), the hoppy Dogfish Head's 30 Minute Light IPA combines classic notes of citrus peel with juicy mango and pineapple, the judges said. The judges called Blue Moon's light offering a "unique and impressive" low-carb beer that blends herbal citrus flavors with creamy and bready malts at only 95 calories, 3.6 grams of carbs and a 4% ABV. A step up from Garage Beer's standard option, the citrus in its lime version helps round out the light beer, which has 95 calories, 3 grams of carbs and a 4% ABV. Partake's non-alcoholic IPA has no carbs, only 10 calories and a malty taste that competing 0% ABV hop seltzers lack. The Lagunitas Daytime IPA packs a full aroma and flavor into a crisp and thirst-quenching beer, clocking in at 98 calories, 3 grams of carbs and 4% ABV. The judges dubbed Michelob Ultra – at 95 calories, 2.6 grams of carbs and a 4.2% ABV – the "true king" of light lagers. Heineken Silver – and even its no-alcohol counterpart, Heineken 0.0 – manage to taste like the "real deal," according to the writers. With only 95 calories, 2.9 grams of carbs and a 4% ABV, it delivers the lager's familiar sweet, bready malt notes. The panel included some honorable mentions: Miller Lite, Miller 64 Extra Light, Kona Light Blonde Ale and Budweiser Select 55. Vollmer said he believes lagers lend themselves best to low-carb brewing and named Yuengling's Light Lager as a personal favorite. Benecke suggested Ommegang Brut IPA, a carb-friendly choice. She said it has an "elegant dryness and Champagne-like effervescence" — as well as sour beers like Berliner Weisse and Gose, which can be naturally lower in carbs.
Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Player Registration Now Open for 'Wedbush Presents The Hermosa Beach Open" Professional Beach Volleyball Tournament – September 4-7, 2025
New Sponsors goodr and Michelob Ultra Join the Lineup; More Sponsorship Opportunities Available Wedbush Presents The Hermosa Beach Open - Player Registration Open HERMOSA BEACH, Calif., July 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The countdown is on! Player registration for Wedbush Presents the Hermosa Beach Open is now open. Register here to join the tournament, taking place September 4-7, 2025. As one of the most anticipated events of the summer, this high-stakes beach volleyball tournament offers serious prize money and welcomes athletes of all levels to compete where the sand meets the surf at Hermosa Beach. 'In the last several years, Wedbush has become one of the most faithful and dedicated supporters of the sport of beach volleyball all around the world, but above all in Southern California and the South Bay community,' said Avery Drost, professional beach volleyball player and returning competitor. 'Last year's Wedbush Hermosa Beach Open carried on the tradition of world class volleyball at one of our sport's iconic beaches. I'm so honored to play in this special tournament again, in front of fans who have loved and appreciated our game for generations.' This year, we're proud to welcome two exciting new sponsors to the tournament: goodr, known for its stylish and functional sunglasses perfect for beach athletes and fans alike, and Michelob Ultra, the light beer that champions active lifestyles and unforgettable experiences. 'We're thrilled to join the Hermosa Beach Open and support a community that shares our love of getting outside and staying active," said Kelley Puckett, CMO at goodr. 'While we design our sunglasses for all sports, as a SoCal-based company, beach volleyball has a special connection to the brand.' We're also thrilled to welcome back the sponsors who have helped shape the spirit of this event, Chevron, Discover Lake County, Florida, and The Rex Steakhouse. 'We're grateful to have the continued support of Chevron and Rex Steakhouse—representing the spirit and flavor of the South Bay—and proud to welcome back Discover Lake County, Florida, home to Florida's largest sand volleyball complex at Hickory Point Beach,' said Mark Paaluhi, Director of Events at Day at the Beach Events. 'It's exciting to build connections across coasts with communities that share a passion for beach volleyball.' Silver and Gold level sponsorships are still available for this year's tournament, offering high-impact brand visibility through signage and activations throughout the venue. These packages are designed to integrate partners into the heart of the event—connecting directly with the vibrant community of players, fans, and local businesses that make Hermosa Beach a world-class destination for beach volleyball. For more details about sponsorships, visit here and/or contact jodi@ About Wedbush Securities Wedbush Securities is the largest subsidiary of Wedbush Financial Services. Since its founding in 1955, Wedbush is widely known for providing our clients, both private and institutional, with a wide range of securities brokerage, clearing, wealth management, and investment banking services. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California with 100 registered offices and nearly 900 colleagues, the firm focuses on client service and financial safety, innovation, and the utilization of advanced technology. Securities and Investment Advisory services are offered through Wedbush Securities Inc. Member NYSE/ FINRA / SIPC About Day at the Beach Events Day at the Beach Events (DATBE) was founded and established in 2008. DATBE was created to share the life experience that owner, Mark Pa'aluhi had grown accustomed to – to live life to the fullest: surfing, playing beach volleyball, traveling and much more with friends and family! With this mindset, DATBE has managed and helped develop marketing strategies, interactive events, team building and has been a host to various events around the world. For media inquiries:Serina MolanoWedbush Securities213-688-4564publicrelations@ For event inquiries:Mark PaaluhiDay at the Beach Events310-927-1288Mark@ A photo accompanying this announcement is available at in to access your portfolio
Wall Street Journal
07-07-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Michelob Ultra Is the One Bright Spot in a Gloomy Beer Market
Beer is having a bad year. But there is a bright spot for the industry: Michelob Ultra. As sales tumble for other big beer brands, Michelob Ultra is growing by pitching its low-calorie, low-carb brews to health-conscious consumers. The brand's marketing has emphasized sports and fitness for more than two decades, with ads promoting Michelob Ultra as a post-workout drink and brand sponsorships of golf and soccer tournaments.
Yahoo
25-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
OKC Thunder shows off its youth in funny way after winning NBA championship
If you buy something through a link in this article, we may earn commission. Pricing and availability are subject to change. It's a wholesome anecdote for the second-youngest NBA champion when you think about it. After the Oklahoma City Thunder won its first NBA title on June 22, most of the players didn't know how to handle the champagne party in the locker room. Advertisement It took 31-year-old Thunder guard Alex Caruso, who won the NBA title with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020, to teach his teammates how to open bottles of champagne. "None of us knew how to do it," Isaiah Hartenstein said after the Thunder's 103-91 win against the Pacers in Game 7 of the NBA Finals. "It was more like, you know those YouTube tutorials. We were just asking A.C. how to do it." Get your Thunder championship keepsakes LIVE UPDATES: OKC Thunder championship parade set to roll through downtown Jaylin Williams wasn't a fan of his first beer Meanwhile, Thunder center Jaylin Williams didn't give a ringing endorsement of what was apparently his first beer, a Michelob Ultra. Advertisement Pre-order our new Thunder championship book More: Who will OKC Thunder pick in 2025 NBA Draft? Here's what mock drafts project Jalen Williams 'gonna stick to Shirley Temples' Jalen Williams also wasn't a fan of alcohol after the Thunder won the NBA Finals. "I had a couple of shots, champagne, had beer," Williams told ESPN. "It was all disgusting. I'm gonna stick to Shirley Temples." Time will tell if the Thunder will sing a different tune after Tuesday's parade. More: How OKC Thunder won first NBA title: Relive playoff run by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander & Co. Jeff Patterson is the sports editor for The Oklahoman. Have a story idea for Jeff? He can be reached at jpatterson@ or on X/Twitter at @jeffpattOKC. Support Jeff's work and that of other Oklahoman journalists by purchasing a digital subscription today at . This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: OKC Thunder shows off youth in funny way after winning 2025 NBA title
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
How Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, OKC Thunder took their place atop the NBA as champions
They deliberated, still unsure what victory tasted like. Chet Holmgren's lanky arm reached for the neck of the Moet bottle, and Jaylin Williams' unraveled the seal like a Hershey's kiss. Across a table littered in neatly lined beer, the centerpiece of this locker room of baby-faced champions, rookie Dillon Jones barbarically shook his bottle like a shake weight. They cluelessly distributed the champagne, seeking Alex Caruso, the 31-year-old in the room and the only player who knew how to celebrate. You'd chuckle at the ceiling. In the aftermath, the once elegantly illuminated white tiles looked like a Jackson Pollock, painted by bottles handled by eager first timers. Advertisement 'We messed up the champagne toast a couple times,' Caruso told The Oklahoman after helping secure the Thunder's first-ever title in a 103-91 Game 7 win. 'Couple guys went early, like two or three times. … All the guys were trying to figure out what to do.' Dozens of bottles were left unopened on ice. Jaylin Williams' face soured at a sip of Michelob Ultra. Jalen Williams' first-ever drink came Sunday night. This was the second-youngest champion in NBA history's biggest tell. During a regular season that saw them heralded but questioned, propped but not yet anointed, this was the leading pitfall that left pundits reluctant. Wearing their youth was treated more like a sin than a commandment. The Thunder informed you of its adolescence with TikToks and group postgame scrums, but confused you with the bite of its snaggle-toothed defense and the gut punches it could stomach. For 68 regular season wins, OKC covered its ears. Unfazed by the outside world's attempts to convince it that its collection of talent wasn't aged enough to be ripe. Advertisement Buy our commemorative Thunder prints, books, keepsakes NBA Finals inside the stats: How Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Thunder won their first title Inside these playoffs, it was consistently challenged. Fight back from down 29 versus the Grizzlies. Rob and rip your way out of a seventh game versus Nikola Jokic's Nuggets. Make quick work of Minnesota, even if it pummeled you by 42. These Thunder babies were asked to grow into grown men, full-fledged leaders and capable champions so quickly that they never quite learned how to properly pose — or drink — like them. 'It's a unique capability to be able to do that for 21- to 27-year-old kids,' Caruso said. 'For me, I've seen greats do it, so I knew the way. I knew the mindset. But to see these guys do it, man, it's really cool to see it in person. I'm so happy for the guys to be able to figure it out and to be able to get this done.' Advertisement These Indiana Pacers pushed OKC unlike any other. Their insatiable role players, their unwavering offense, their late-game devilry. They were almost never out before the buzzer sounded, and even then, a double-take was necessary to know that it wasn't just a bullhorn. Tyrese Haliburton's grim first-quarter exit after a leg injury Sunday, reported to be a torn Achilles, wasn't Indiana's instant demise. It grinded out a halftime lead. It still earned crossmatches and seals and drilled 3s with its series-long precision. All the while, OKC's offense clenched up. The Thunder was faced with that months-long choice. Put up or shut up. Shrivel up or grow up. Appear as youthful and inexperienced as your detractors prefer you to be or be Benjamin Button, wrinkled at heart and whippersnappers in the face. Its third quarter told the story of its season. Advertisement Five steals, double the 3-point attempts that the trigger-happy Pacers could manage and more points off turnovers than they could handle. Vigor in a bottle. Oklahoma City technically isn't the youngest to rock the crown. It's the youngest champion since the 1977 Blazers, when cigarette fumes and 70s air normalized Maurice Lucas' scotch-on-the-rocks goatee and aged mug; ask your barber for Lionel Hollins' afro sideburns and beard combo and receive a copy of Marvin Gaye's album. CARLSON: Mark Daigneault credits players, but Thunder wouldn't be champs without its coach Thunder players celebrate after Game 7 of the NBA Finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Sunday, June 22, 2025. But the Thunder is the youngest in a modern era whose stone-age ways deem this squad an outlier. A league that requires your stars to be conditioned by bruised ego and immense playoff loss. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, 26, completed one of the most decorated seasons in league history. On Sunday, he tapped into no-look passes and jumping kickouts, adding 12 assists to his 29 points on 27 shots, eventually named the unanimous Finals MVP in just his second postseason run as franchise cornerstone. Advertisement Jalen Williams, his All-NBA co-star, is 24. His shoes are bright and cartoon-inspired. Kobe Bryant is his muse. He doesn't have a redeemable memory of the 2016 NBA Finals. Only after staring into Sunday's hardware did he uplift his target as scapegoat for a Thunder team living in the space between being expected to do great things and expected to look underage. Chet Holmgren's series was grueling. Flat 3s, thrusting his hips into an oak tree like Myles Turner. But his hands were made for this. Phalanges like putty. They tipped away Indiana's interior ambition, with his five blocks being a Game 7 Finals record. Their second-half maturations still came with boyish reactions. The childhood dreams of overgrown children came into focus. Advertisement Holmgen checked out his golden reflection in his first encounter with the Larry O'Brien, polishing its bald head with a T-shirt. When Jalen Williams checked out for a final time this season, he peered into the stands, close enough to see the tears escaping his mother's eyes. He pulled his jersey to wipe his damp eyes, the collar tugging like hotel covers, before taking his seat amid a bench on its feet. 'I looked at my parents,' Williams told The Oklahoman. 'My mom's crying, (so) that made me cry.' On this night, they couldn't be labeled too young. Their adversity was enough. Their innocence sufficed. Protected by general manager Sam Presti's vision. Affirmed by this tantalizing talent and weaponized in the form of friendship. Young adults who enjoyed playing with one another. Who, perhaps even more rare, almost played not to disappoint each other. 'I think the most impressive part is the group that did it,' SGA said. 'Our togetherness on and off the court, like how much fun we have, it made it so much easier. It made it feel like we were just kids playing basketball. It was so fun. Advertisement More: OKC Thunder championship parade route, date announced after NBA Finals win: How to attend 'All the achievements and accolades and things, like, they don't even come close to the satisfaction of winning with your brothers and people that you are so close to and want to succeed just as much as you want yourself to succeed. That's been the most impressive and fun part of it, just to know that I have 15 brothers that I just experienced a once-in-a-lifetime experience with. I'll never forget them, they'll never forget me.' They didn't know what they didn't know. They didn't have so much time shared or enough series losses to be thwarted. Broken down into cliques or conflicting agendas. Presti vets to avoid those qualities. It produced a combination of youthful ignorance and bliss, basketball braun and incubated culture that went the distance. That's what fueled this AAU energy. The 15-man push to pressure, to chase possessions and a title with reckless abandon. It couldn't be tracked by spreadsheets or DARKO. From 84 wins and four playoff series as a group, these 20-somethings knew both who they were and each other. That proved immeasurable. Advertisement 'Great basketball wins, whatever that looks like,' Caruso told The Oklahoman. 'If you're good enough, you earn it. You win it. I thought we were good enough the whole time.' Inside the Thunder's true locker room, an intimate setup next door to the space that faintly smells of champagne into the morning, where players' jerseys hang and bottles sit idle, Jalen Williams choreographed a photoshoot. He demands that the Thunder reserves — namely the two-way players and young end-of-benchers — hand over their phone for pictures with the Larry O'Brien. Pose. Grab the trophy. I got a few of you, don't trip. Advertisement Out on the floor, Jaylin Williams squeezed team reporter Nick Gallo so hard his spine was audible, and his feet dangled mid-air from the embrace. They flashed their teeth, contagious now. The energy that built and carried this title run. The most difficult intangible Presti ever needed to calculate. As he went to find his folks, Jaylin Williams wore that signature wide smile as he lugged around a tin bucket of ice, two bottles of Moet and a bevy of Michelob on tap. It's unclear whether he's learned how to enjoy them or if he enjoys them. But Williams, 22, kept them at his hip. Perhaps it's an acquired taste. More: See the day OKC Thunder made history as NBA champions, in photos Advertisement Joel Lorenzi covers the Thunder and NBA for The Oklahoman. Have a story idea for Joel? He can be reached at jlorenzi@ or on X/Twitter at @joelxlorenzi. Sign up for the Thunder Sports Minute newsletter to access more NBA coverage. Support Joel's work and that of other Oklahoman journalists by purchasing a digital subscription today at This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, OKC Thunder took place atop NBA as champions
