@Barfly I think you may be confusing me with someone else (
@Lanny I believe) who commented about the alcohol, but in general alcohol does lower your BG levels because the liver prioritizes removing it from your blood as a toxin over trickling out glucose to keep your vital organs supplied with fuel, HOWEVER beer and cider and sweet wines and alcopops all contain carbohydrates, so those increase your BG levels whilst the relatively small amount of alcohol in them has a relatively minimal effect on the liver, especially from just 1 or 2 pints, so the net BG will usually be a gain from drinking beer. Spirits and dry wine on the other hand, have almost no carbs so they will not raise your BG levels and the increased alcohol content can have more of an impact on the liver output, so unfortunately your beer is not a good choice for your diabetes, so please don't be encouraged to have more in the hope it will improve things. Of course all alcohol is high in calories which may well end up on the waist line and that will also thwart your Type 2 diabetes management.
In brief, your choice of tipple being beer is sadly not one of the more BG lowering options.
