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Beer and Wine are vegan drinks. (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] [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.

[โ€“] [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)