Re: Nostalgia

On Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:49:56 +0100
Ben Newsam <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 the Reinheitsgebot (of 1516) was repealed to comply with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.


Lots of foods are required to list their ingredients; not so british beer.

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