Re: Nostalgia

Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote, despite their Organization
header reading "A noiseless patient Spider"

>Ben Newsam wrote:
>
>> John Williamson wrote:
>> 
>>> Point of order. If sold immediately after brewing, it is not allowed to
>>> be called lager (Literally "stored beer", as a few weeks of storage is
>>> part of the Rheinheitsgebot law.
>> 
>> But, but... the Reinheitsgebot (of 1516) was repealed to comply with
>> EU rules, I believe.
>
>Plenty of beer is still brewed in accordance with it (plus or minus 
>yeast as a specific ingredient)

Indeed. When it was actual law, though, I heard of a tanker-load of
Whitbread Tankard that was turned back at the border. Guinness, on the
other hand, was allowed.
-- 
Ben

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