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The main claim is not that our beer is old. The main claim is that the ingredients adhere to a strict standard: Hops, malt, yeast and water, nothing else is all
by mgraupner 6y ago
The main claim is not that our beer is old. The main claim is that the ingredients adhere to a strict standard: Hops, malt, yeast and water, nothing else is allowed.
So there are still thousand ways to brew a beer, and as another commenter said, there are so many breweries in my vicinity I can't even count them.
But German beer having a bad reputation in the world? Which part of the world would that be? Really curious.
- samatman 6y agoYes, you have a thousand beers of high quality, within a narrow band of the beer spectrum. Belgium, next door, has a couple thousand more, also of high quality, across a much wider field. Honestly an unfair competition, but it's how Germans like it, I suppose.
- mgraupner 6y agoWhat do you think about the argument that in wine there is just one ingredient, still no real wine connoisseur would claim that there is narrow spectrum of wines. Same for beer, there are countless varieties of hops, malts and yeasts and by combining them and using different temperatures, brew durations and a multitude of other parameters you could still achieve a wide variety of different flavours that one could probably never try all of them in a lifetime. I my view the "Reinheitsgebot" as it is called is just a way to ensure that this is a basic product where everybody knows what's inside, so more of a quality standard than a taste standard.