Answers.Body: <p>So... I guess it depends on what you're deeming nutritional <strong><em>value</em></strong>. Beer has 4 main ingredients:  </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Water</li>
  <li>Grain</li>
  <li>Yeast</li>
  <li>Hops</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>The biggest mineral difference is going to come from the water source of the brewery. Following the exact same formula recipe/mashing instructions/yeast used/fermentation conditions (temperature, altitude, fermentation vessel)/time/etcetera... you can get very different flavor beers if the water source is different. </p>
  
  <p>The next varying source of minerals would probably be in yeast. Unfortunately, I can only find <a href="http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/custom/1323569/2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">evidence of all brewing yeast lumped together</a> at the moment. </p>
  
  <p>The interesting part in craft brewing, especially at the homebrew-mad-science level, becomes all of the additives that can be placed into beer. I once met a brewer that <a href="https://byo.com/hops/item/569-dry-hopping-techniques" rel="nofollow noreferrer">dry-hopped</a> smoked salmon bones (right they aren't hops but the same technique) in their secondary fermentation (or clarifying stage) chamber!</p>
  
  <p>These examples would be more "here is a random thing" that I found rather than being able to give you a definite answer as to "more nutrition" being provided than big-beer manufacturers. </p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>It would depend on the craft beer. Regular cheap beer is not a good comparison as you don't typically get the same style of beer. Craft rules are not the same everywhere.  Typical rules is water, hop, barley, and yeast.  A non craft can use other ingredients but that same 4 is going to be the bulk.  A craft tends to be denser so in the case it would have more nutrients.  </p>
  
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Body: <p>I was wondering if the craft beer has more nutritional values (vitamins and so on) than regular and cheap beer?</p>
  
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Title: Does craft beer have more nutritional values than regular beer?
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ThreadText: # Does craft beer have more nutritional values than regular beer?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-04-23)
  
  I was wondering if the craft beer has more nutritional values (vitamins and so on) than regular and cheap beer?
  
  **Tags:** craft-beers, nutrition
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-04-24. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  So... I guess it depends on what you're deeming nutritional ***value***. Beer has 4 main ingredients:
  
  1. Water
  2. Grain
  3. Yeast
  4. Hops
  
  The biggest mineral difference is going to come from the water source of the brewery. Following the exact same formula recipe/mashing instructions/yeast used/fermentation conditions (temperature, altitude, fermentation vessel)/time/etcetera... you can get very different flavor beers if the water source is different.
  
  The next varying source of minerals would probably be in yeast. Unfortunately, I can only find [evidence of all brewing yeast lumped together](http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/custom/1323569/2) at the moment.
  
  The interesting part in craft brewing, especially at the homebrew-mad-science level, becomes all of the additives that can be placed into beer. I once met a brewer that [dry-hopped](https://byo.com/hops/item/569-dry-hopping-techniques) smoked salmon bones (right they aren't hops but the same technique) in their secondary fermentation (or clarifying stage) chamber!
  
  These examples would be more "here is a random thing" that I found rather than being able to give you a definite answer as to "more nutrition" being provided than big-beer manufacturers.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-04-24. Score: 0
  
  It would depend on the craft beer. Regular cheap beer is not a good comparison as you don't typically get the same style of beer. Craft rules are not the same everywhere. Typical rules is water, hop, barley, and yeast. A non craft can use other ingredients but that same 4 is going to be the bulk. A craft tends to be denser so in the case it would have more nutrients.
  
  
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