How many calories are in a Yuengling?

A 12 fl oz bottle of Yuengling Traditional Lager is 155 calories, and the beer runs 43 calories per 100 g. USDA has no record under the brand name, since alcohol is labeled under TTB rules rather than FDA ones, so the generic regular-lager row does the work here.

You'd need to walk about 31 minutes to burn the 155 calories in a 12 fl oz bottle (360 g).

On this page

• Yuengling quick facts
• US pours from a 12 oz bottle to a 40
• Light lager low-carb and non-alcoholic versions
• Where the 155 calories actually come from
• How does Yuengling compare?
• Most popular yuengling brands
• Yuengling FAQs

Yuengling quick facts

Search USDA FoodData Central for Yuengling and you get barbecue sauce, wing sauce and a bratwurst. You do not get the beer. Alcoholic drinks sit under the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, not the FDA, so no brewery is required to file a Nutrition Facts panel and none of the big American lagers has a branded USDA entry. The row that stands in for Yuengling Traditional Lager is FNDDS 2710616, "Beer", the survey record for regular full-strength lager. Its numbers are identical to SR Legacy 168746, "Alcoholic beverage, beer, regular, all" — same 43 calories per 100 g, same 3.55 g of carbohydrate — but only the FNDDS record carries US household pours, which is why it is the one on this page.

That makes the figures below an estimate for a mainstream American amber lager rather than a reading off Yuengling's own lab sheet. For a beer that sits in the ordinary 4.5–5% ABV band, the generic row tracks it closely, and it is the same row USDA uses when it codes "a beer" in national dietary surveys.

% Daily Value is based on a 2,000-calorie diet.

Two rows you would see on a food label are missing here. FNDDS does not publish an added-sugars figure for beer, so that line is left out rather than guessed — with total sugars at 0 g there is nothing for it to hold anyway. Trans fat is absent for the same reason, and in a drink with 0 g of total fat it would be a zero. Cholesterol is 0 mg. Potassium is the one mineral worth a mention: 27 mg per 100 g, or 97 mg a bottle, which is 2% of the FDA Daily Value.

US pours from a 12 oz bottle to a 40

The bottle in your hand decides the number far more than the beer inside it does.

The 12 fl oz, 16 fl oz and 40 fl oz pours are USDA household measures attached to the record itself. The 1 oz line is our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure, not a USDA serving — beer is sold by fluid ounce, and a fluid ounce of lager weighs about 30 g, so the two ounces are not the same thing.

A pint is the pour that catches people out. Order a draft Yuengling at a bar and you are drinking 480 g of beer, 206 calories, 51 more than the bottle you would open at home. Two pints out is 412 calories against 310 for two bottles on the couch, and the beer has not changed at all. The 40 fl oz bottle is the extreme version of the same arithmetic: 516 calories, more than three regular bottles, in one container.

Six-packs are how most people actually buy it. Six bottles is 930 calories by our own arithmetic from the 155-calorie bottle, with 76.8 g of carbohydrate — nearly half a day on a 2,000-calorie plan, spread across an evening in a form that never registers as food.

Light lager low-carb and non-alcoholic versions

Yuengling Light Lager is not in USDA either, so the generic light-beer record stands in for it, and the same holds for the low-carb, higher-alcohol and alcohol-free styles. All five rows below are priced at the same 12 fl oz bottle so they can be read against each other; the low-carb row has no USDA household pour, so its 97 calories are our own arithmetic from the 27-calorie 100 g figure.

Light lager saves 51 calories a bottle. Over three beers that is 153, which is the whole reason the style exists. The low-carb version goes further on carbohydrate — 2.6 g against 12.8 g — while only saving another 7 calories, because the fermenting yeast has already turned those carbs into alcohol, and alcohol still carries calories.

The higher-alcohol row is the counterintuitive one. At 209 calories a bottle it is the heaviest beer on the table, yet it has the fewest carbs of any full-strength version at 1.0 g. Strong beer is not sweeter beer; it is beer where more of the malt has been converted. Non-alcoholic beer runs the other way: 133 calories a bottle, but 29.0 g of carbohydrate and 29.0 g of sugar, since the sugars never got fermented. If you switched to it expecting a diet drink, the carb line is the surprise.

The brand does show up in USDA on the grocery shelf. Yuengling Traditional Lager Barbecue Sauce is 111 calories per 100 g, or 40 calories in a 2 Tbsp serving, and a Farmland bratwurst made with the lager is 317 calories per 100 g, 260 in one 82 g grilled link. Neither tells you anything about the beer, but both get logged as "Yuengling" by people who assume they do.

Where the 155 calories actually come from

Run the macros and they do not add up. Carbohydrate at 12.8 g and protein at 1.7 g account for roughly 58 of the 155 calories in a bottle. The other 97 — 63% of the beer — come from the alcohol itself, which appears on no macro row anywhere on this page. That gap is why beer feels like it should be cheaper than it is, and why logging it by carbs alone undercounts it by more than half.

The rest of the panel is quiet. Zero fat, zero saturated fat, zero fiber, zero cholesterol. Sodium is 14 mg a bottle, 1% of the Daily Value; even a six-pack lands under 4%, so beer is not the sodium problem in anyone's day. Protein at 1.7 g is 3% DV, which is a rounding error next to a single egg.

One 12 fl oz bottle of regular beer is exactly one standard drink under CDC's definition, and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans advise adults who drink to keep it to two drinks or fewer a day for men and one or fewer for women. Read as calories, that ceiling is 310 for men and 155 for women — the size of a snack, not a meal, and useful to know before the third bottle is open.

How does Yuengling compare?

The non-alcoholic figure is our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g row rather than a listed serving. For a named-brand reference point, USDA's Budweiser record is 41 calories per 100 g, which works out to 148 calories a bottle by the same arithmetic — 7 below the generic lager row, close enough that brand loyalty is not a calorie decision.

Our take: if you are cutting calories and plan to drink more than one, light lager is the switch that pays — 51 calories a bottle, 153 across three, with no change to how the evening goes. If you are drinking one good beer and stopping, take the regular lager at 155 and spend the difference elsewhere; the light version buys you a snack, not a strategy. Non-alcoholic is the wrong tool for calorie cutting at 133 calories and 29.0 g of sugar a bottle, though it is the right tool for cutting alcohol. And whatever you pour, pour it into a 12 oz glass rather than a pint: the glass is worth 51 calories on its own.

Most popular yuengling brands in the United States

Ranked by how widely each product appears among foods sold in the United States, from the BodyPal food database of over 3.3 million products. Calories are the figures printed on each Nutrition Facts label, checked against USDA FoodData Central.

Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.

Yuengling FAQs

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