Lasse Lammert
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wrong.
if I order a beer I know exactly what I want.
I'd be pissed if I order a beer and get strawberry flavoured lemonade with some hops in it
Reinheitsgebot!
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wrong.
if I order a beer I know exactly what I want.
I'd be pissed if I order a beer and get strawberry flavoured lemonade with some hops in it
Thing is, if the ingredients are not protected a brewery can put anything in it to extend the storage capability, and that goes for the taste.
That's why "german" beers in the US don't taste like german beers from germany.
Lasse Lammert
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I love guinness....but when I wnat one I order a GUINNESS and not a BEER.
I do love Pizza, but I'd be pissed if I order a steak in a restaurant and get a pizza instead (or the other way round).
the purity law doesn't say you must not use anything but those ingredients (there are heaps of beer mix drinks over here as wel), it just say you must not call it "beer".
if you DO use other ingredients you have to call it "beverage containing beer" or something.....it's NOT tht the purity law says cou cannot have all the other drinks....it just means "if you order a beer you know exactly what you're getting"...I like that.
anyways...the purity law just guarantees you know what you're getting.
when I'm ordering beef I want beef and not artificially darkened chicken with beef flavour
well put!
damn, I've seen "german beers" in the us....one was called "st. pauli girl" or something and had a girl with a dirndl on the label....
st. pauli is in the very north of Germany which has NOTHING to do with bavaria and NOONE up here (ESPECIALLY not on st pauli) would EVER consider wearing a dirndl or even pronounce a word as fucked up as that.
that's like drinking a "Montreal" that has the confederate flag on the label....it's just bollicks.
kaomao
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Since I'm a huge fan of microbreweries I tell ya there's some great stuff coming from USA
GONZO IMPERIAL PORTER!
Good to hear that finally nowdays, people consider beer up to wine. you see all these microbreweries serving great food paired with great beer!
GONZO IMPERIAL PORTER!
Good to hear that finally nowdays, people consider beer up to wine. you see all these microbreweries serving great food paired with great beer!
AboutBlank
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Haha, the bavarians
Anyone can say what he want about these dudes, but sometimes a Kristallweizen is pretty nice...
Ah and +1 @ Reinheitsgebot, it's fucking important!
hoehlentroll
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I've totally noticed this too! When I was down in LA with the band in January, every single grocery store we went in was just crammed full of macro crap. Totally disappointing. According to ratebeer.com, there are some stores with good brew selections, but it's nothing like the Pacific Northwest, where even the worst grocery store selections still yield plenty of drinkable choices!
I toured the Stone brewery in Escondido in January...really cool. The tour guide said that the amount of beer that Annheiser-Busch spills in a year at their breweries is over ten times the amount of beer that Stone brews in a year! I was thinking though- the lack of ingredients in an Annheiser-Busch brew makes those spills probably hardly any worse for the their bottom line than if they had just been spilling water
Band video blog from the Stone tour, in case anyone is interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK0sHRYs2_U
Notice the Behringer PA speakers
Arrogant Bastard Ale!!! I havent had that in years. Anybody ever tried Mississippi Mud? Not my fave but still pretty good.
jauernis
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100% agree!! ANYTHING that has ingredients that a fucking 7 year old cant pronounce doesn't make it into my house. For example Ice cream that has more than 4 or 5 ingredients makes me wonder if its still ice cream. Check out those cereals next time at the grocery store..the ingredients written fill up the whole side of a cereal box. Wish we had more laws like the purity law!
I see your point. Problem is that there are tons of people that think that any beer that doesn´t use the "German Purity Law" is instantly inferior, when fact is that many great beers doesn´t even come close of it. For example, I would gladly take a Guinness or a kickass trapist beer over a Heineken any day. I bet that many awesome german beer recipes were lost when they came up with the law.
How can you say that?? I live in bavaria and we have 3 small breweries within a 10 km range... And they brew really good beers! I doubt that you´ve tried enough bavarian beer to say that it generally sucks.
And Lasse: I really like your attitude when it comes to beer^^ When you ever get to south bavaria we should have a cold one
Lasse Lammert
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you're completely misunderstanding the point...
the law doesn't say you're not allowed to brew anything that contains other ingredients, you just can not call it beer then.
so no recipe/brew got lost, it's also not illegal or anything to sell guinnes over here of course.
the law does NOT keep you from brewing, selling, drinking, enjoying any other type of brew...the ONLY difference is that it's not called "beer" but "beverage containing beer" or something.
so that law doesn't limit you in ANY way, it only says "if you go into a servicestation at 1am and grab a sixpack of BEER you know you'll end up drinking BEER and not strawberry flavoured batshit with some malt and hops".
if you want that or Guinness or Trapist...you can still buy that of course...it just doesn't say "beer - brewed under the law of purity" on the label....but why would that be a problem or limit you in any way?
Chris: yep, bei Bier hört der Spass auf!
Just those few who were burned along with some brewers by the beer inquisition back in 1517.
Lasse Lammert
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Just those few who were burned along with some brewers by the beer inquisition back in 1517.
well, that was just the year after.....
...actually...I think it's about time again
btw, there were some laws already way before 1516...Nürnberg for example had one 1293. many bavarian regions in the middle of the 15th century etc...
hoehlentroll
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dude I drank loads of bavarian beer. If you compare a "helles" to a "pils", the helle tastes like piss! ever tried a jever and a let's say andechser helles. totaly different beverages!How can you say that?? I live in bavaria and we have 3 small breweries within a 10 km range... And they brew really good beers! I doubt that you´ve tried enough bavarian beer to say that it generally sucks.
And Lasse: I really like your attitude when it comes to beer^^ When you ever get to south bavaria we should have a cold one
hoehlentroll
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you mean I made a statement about a drink according to taste? sorry - you got me
no srsly: I love bavaria, bavarian food and I have many bavarian friends. I really like "weissbier" but besides that bavarian beer sucks
no srsly: I love bavaria, bavarian food and I have many bavarian friends. I really like "weissbier" but besides that bavarian beer sucks
I drink a lot of helles and sometimes pils. Helles is a matter of taste... You grew up with pils and you´re just not used to a good helles. Andechser is by far not my favourite but it´s drinkable. You should try Augustiner Helles and Schönramer (which is from a very small brewery, but very good). Those are my two favourites. We do have good pils too!
Lasse Lammert
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hoehlentroll
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und das von dir als als nordlicht wenn man herbe biere gewöhnt ist schmeckt helles (genau wie kölsch) nach verwässertem bier. augustiner helles ist mir auch zu wässrig. pils ist in bayern ja leider nicht so gebräuchlich, meines wissens nach gar nicht existent. und bitte: ich spreche von bayrisch NICHT fränkisch oder schwäbisch! genauso ist es mit österreich, wo man ja nur export bekommt und das ist ebenfalls maurerpisse!
wenn man herbe biere gewöhnt ist schmeckt helles (genau wie kölsch) nach verwässertem bier. augustiner helles ist mir auch zu wässrig. pils ist in bayern ja leider nicht so gebräuchlich, meines wissens nach gar nicht existent. und bitte: ich spreche von bayrisch NICHT fränkisch oder schwäbisch! genauso ist es mit österreich, wo man ja nur export bekommt und das ist ebenfalls maurerpisse!Similar threads
