Many stouts, especially a beer like Guinness Draught Stout, can actually quite low in alcohol (Draught is 4.2% ABV, for instance) and lower than you might think in terms of caloric content.

Pints of Guinness Draught beer are pictured in London, on May 9, 2008. Leon Neal/AFP via Getty ... Guinness Draught was created in the late 1950’s.