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"German Beer Purity Laws can't really protect the drinker from consuming nasty adulterants" Can you expand on this? I was under the impression that non-export
by PeterStuer 3y ago
"German Beer Purity Laws can't really protect the drinker from consuming nasty adulterants"
Can you expand on this? I was under the impression that non-export beer brewed in Germany according to their "reinheitsgebod" did not contain additives.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoThere have been plenty of non-German beer brewers who hide behind the so-called "beer purity laws" to claim some cachet for themselves. In America they tout themselves as adhering to these laws, which is sort of nonsensical if you think about it, because how could they be prosecuted or sued for breaking them? They are not in Germany; perhaps the brewing occurs in Germany and the product is exported from there? I don't know. Anyway, it's just one of those examples of corporate hypocrisy that the FDA/USDA doesn't really require them to label any ingredients at all, and they could put anything in there -- not saying that they do, of course, but we have no actual guarantees that they don't.