I've been a Mic Light drinker for years, but will drink this occasionally. Have acquired a taste for Sam Adams Light recently.
Lay off the wine, one of the worst things you can drink if you have Gout. I think it's the tannins in it.
The problem with Gout is it seems like there are a million opinions on what causes or triggers it. This was a studdy that I found:
In a recent reported study, US researchers followed 47,150 men aged 40 to 75 over 12 years, looking at their drinking habits (how many grams of alcohol they consumed per day). None of the men had gout in the beginning. The researchers documented 730 confirmed incident cases of gout among the men by Year 12. Compared with men who did not drink alcohol, the risk of developing gout increased with the amount of alcohol that the person was consuming. (Choi, et al, April, 2004).
For men drinking on average < 1 standard drink a day, the relative risk (RR ) was 1.32; this relative risk of developing gout increased to 1.49 for men drinking on average 1 to 2 standard drinks a day),. At 2 to 3.7 standard drinks a day), the RR was 1.96 and this jumped to 2·53 for men who were consuming more than 3.7 standard drinks a day.
In Canada, 13.5 g. of alcohol = 1 standard unit. In the US, it is 14 grams alcohol and in the UK it is 7.9 grams.
The researchers found that drinking beer showed the strongest independent association with the risk of gout (12-oz serving per day, the relative risk was 1·49).
Drinking spirits (e.g. brandy, whiskey, gin, vodka etc) was also statistically significantly associated with developing gout but the risk was lower (multivariate RR per drink or shot per day was 1·15). However, wine consumption was not (multivariate relative risk (RR) per 4-oz serving per day was 1·04).
The study notes there did not appear to be an association between drinking two 4 oz. glasses of wine a day and developing gout, regardless of whether the men were drinking red or white wine. Yet it is acknowledged that port, some red wines and stouts contain purines or oxypurines, which lead to an increased purine load.