German Beers

brow_601

I was just wondering if the German beers we get over here are the same as the ones you'd find in Germany. What i mean is, German beer generally just has 3 or 4 ingerdients and no added chemicals. I'm currently looking at my bottle of Warsteiner to see if it was brewed in Ireland or Germany, but i can't seem to find anything. If it was brewed in Ireland could i still be assured that it doesn't contain any chemicals?

oblivious

Diageo have been brewing it would seam back in around 2002 and i also suspect around the time it was push in Ireland.

Reinheitsgebot (German beer purity law) that was made defuncked by the EU did have it flaw and was set up as a monopoly by the Bavarian nobility, but it did save a large part of Europe in suffering the same fate as US with bud, miller and coors.

Probable avoid bud an generally most major commercial lager found on draught. But most brewer will use mineral salt addition to treat water, this is a common practice and generally excepted. Also its not uncommon for brewer to add lactic acid to control the ph of the mash. Reinheitsgebot made the produce it from lactic acid bacteria but many will now by it in commercially there is no real difference if its produced by bacteria or in a plant

bud, miller and coors have been guilty of adding brewing enzymes and lot of brewers would frown on the practice.

BeerNut

If you're concerned about what's in your beer, it's a good idea not to buy any beer that doesn't list its ingredients. If more drinkers did this, perhaps the brewers would be more inclined to tell us what they put in there.

Short answer, OP, is no: there's nothing to stop the brewer, whether in Dundalk or Warstein, from putting all manner of chemicals in their beer and not telling you about it.

the beer revolu

Why is it, that if I buy a can of coke, it has to list the ingredients but a can of beer doesn't?

Never could get my head around this?