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I'm sorry but if your beer has rice in it its not beer. Admittedly, I spent a while in Germany and really learned to appreciate quality beer there, especially
by arca_vorago 9y ago
I'm sorry but if your beer has rice in it its not beer.
Admittedly, I spent a while in Germany and really learned to appreciate quality beer there, especially the purity laws.
- sgs1370 9y agoWould the proper category then for Bud be some type of "lesser" sake then?
- tomc1985 9y agoThat's why Asian beer taste so crisp! German purity laws are great but too narrow, there's good beer made from rice
- julianz 9y agoThe purity laws that never mentioned yeast as one of the possible ingredients? They have their own issues.
- rockostrich 9y agoYea, it's funny how they had to add yeast after they realized it was the reason why beer is beer. But I agree that barley, water, hops, and yeast are the ingredients needed to be called a beer, but beer wouldn't be as great if brewers weren't allowed to experiment with a bunch of different adjuncts.
- tomc1985 9y agoThere's plenty of shitty beer in Germany too (at least according to the German hipsters in my friends list)
- rockostrich 9y agoThe Reinheitsgebot is no longer in effect. Using rice as a fermentable in your beer doesn't make it any less beer than adding adjuncts like chocolate, coffee, fruit, vegetables, etc. While I can certainly appreciate the history of beer in Germany and the rest of Europe, there's a reason why there a bunch of breweries in Europe that are trying to emulate new styles that American breweries are creating. And most of them involve adding adjuncts. Milkshake IPAs include lactose and usually some sort of fruit. NE IPAs involve using flaked wheat or oats as a large percentage of the mash.