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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Well, ackshually akshually - drink German beer. With very few exceptions, it's only allowed to contain barley, hops, yeast and water. That law has existed in some form for over 500 years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

It still allows using other substances in the production process if they are filtered out afterwards.
Which vegans would still reject.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A German guy once told me that the original penalty for violating that law was that the brewer was to be drowned in his own beer - to be fair, he was quite drunk at the time, so it might be complete bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

He's confusing it with the law of Hammurabi, in which a brewer that is caught diluting his beer is sentenced thusly.

German reinheitsgebot was not as severe, nor German (it was a Bavarian law, before Germany was a thing)

[–] PlasticExistence 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That only applies to beer breweries in Bavaria. Not all of Germany is subject to that law.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not true, you are not allowed to call it beer then

[–] PlasticExistence 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Only in Bavaria. I brewed beer for many years and am very familiar with the law which hit 500 years old in 2016.