You'd need to drink about 30 non-alcoholic beers to fully replace the carbs burned in a marathon, which is exactly why the smartest recovery drink at the Berlin finish line is a massive glass stein of the stuff.
Here's some raw data on why the podium finishers are immediately chugging non-alcoholic beer, besides the clear sponsorship: - 25g of carbs per 500ml to instantly begin restocking the 400-600g of glycogen burned over 42.2km. - Isotonic osmolarity (matches the concentration of human bloo
