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Reinheitsgebot (Deutsche CAMRA) |
| Posted by Barry on 2010-10-01 11:16:11 |
| Thanks Gerhard, that is very interesting. I thought that the only point in these people brewing was that it was a good marketing idea. Well, one has to say that the beer in all establishments is excellent. Unusually for us (because of being with Don S and friends), we had meals in both Drei Kronen and Hartmann. In each case, the food was excellent (even for us choosy veggies) and, certainly by UK and Ireland standards, not too expensive. Ah Jimbo, it makes me grieve to here you say this! I'm not sure that Americans can really appreciate the way things are in the UK. Before c. 1970, we had a centuries old tradition of our ales, brewed and served naturally, from hundreds of different breweries (actually more than 20,000 in England alone before WW1), and with huge regional variations. Then along came the huge conglomerates and decided that it was just too expensive to carry on in this way, when it was so easy to close down the regional breweries, make some vague approximation of ale in a factory, pasteurise it, sterilise it, add chemicals to make sure that it would ast forever, and serve it up with a bit (or a lot) of CO2 and pretend that nothing had changed. Of course, it would have been simpler for us to have just rolled over on our backs and pretend that nothing had happened. But some people decided they would fight and formed the Taliban - sorry, CAMRA - and resisted. So now, it is possible to drink good, unadulterated ale almost anywhere in our land, with many new breweries having sprung up to carry on the fight. I bet that you wish it was like that in the USA. |
| Followups: |
 Reinheitsgebot (Deutsche CAMRA) by Mark Andersen on 2010-10-01 11:32:06 |
| Reinheitsgebot (Deutsche CAMRA) by john ratcliffe on 2010-10-02 07:20:21 |
| Reinheitsgebot (Deutsche CAMRA) by Barry on 2010-10-02 12:14:10 |
| How far from Bamberg. by Fred Waltman on 2010-10-05 08:05:00 |