Comments on: When is a beer not a beer? http://www.sowrey.org/2005/07/12/when-is-a-beer-not-a-beer/ I'm a web developer who crossed the line ... I really wanted to direct! Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:01:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Klementz http://www.sowrey.org/2005/07/12/when-is-a-beer-not-a-beer/comment-page-1/#comment-3373 Klementz Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:57:25 +0000 http://www.sowrey.org/index.php/2005/07/12/when-is-a-beer-not-a-beer/#comment-3373 The Reinheitsgebot of 1516 allowed for three ingredients, not four. Yeast was not one of them. So when any micro-brewer claims they follow the "act of 1516" it ain't exactly so. Which means the act has been amended once already. On sugar: without it, you won't get any alcohol. Not that I support adding refined sugar to beer and that is not a brew I will be drinking anytime soon! (Now corn... when that gets added to the act it's game over.) The Reinheitsgebot of 1516 allowed for three ingredients, not four. Yeast was not one of them. So when any micro-brewer claims they follow the “act of 1516″ it ain’t exactly so. Which means the act has been amended once already.

On sugar: without it, you won’t get any alcohol. Not that I support adding refined sugar to beer and that is not a brew I will be drinking anytime soon! (Now corn… when that gets added to the act it’s game over.)

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