>"We've been arguing about what beer is since the German beer laws and before." The Reinheitsgebot had nothing to do with a debate over what beer is and what i

>"We've been arguing about what beer is since the German beer laws and before." The Reinheitsgebot had nothing to do with a debate over what beer is and what it isn't.[1] The purpose of the regulation was to stop driving up the price of wheat up so more bread could be made and also to protects people from unscrupulous brewers using toxic additives in their brews. Everyone still agreed that thing was beer even if they had different preferences for the type of beer they preferred. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot