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To: NYer

If they employ Germany’s purity laws, they’ve got a steady customer. Beer is made of malt, hops, sugar, and water. Nothing else. American breweries leave something to be desired by adding cheap grains like corn, rice, and wheat into the malt. The American brews taste like a cheap imitation which they are.

Let’s hope these guys are better. Let’s hope they hold to the German purity laws.


13 posted on 05/21/2015 3:38:32 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: maxwellsmart_agent
Beer is made of malt, hops, sugar, and water.

What is the malt made of?

16 posted on 05/21/2015 4:18:06 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

Malted barley, hops, yeast and water.


17 posted on 05/21/2015 4:56:59 PM PDT by ebshumidors
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Belgian beer doesn’t follow the Reinheitsgebot (German Purity law, 1516). It’s not unusual to add candi sugar to bigger beers, like doubles and triples, to get get the specific gravity of the wort up and increase attenuation of yeast. It’s common to add other adjuncts, like fruit, spices, etc.

They also use spontaneous fermentation to produce some of the most amazing beers in the world-—lambic!


19 posted on 05/21/2015 5:16:38 PM PDT by brewer1516
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You might want a little yeast in the4e.


21 posted on 05/21/2015 5:37:45 PM PDT by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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