Beer “German brewers still observe a version of the Reinheitsgebot, but Belgian brewers, just across the border, have cheerfully renounced it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 June 2017 According to the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot, or Purity Law, of 1516, beer can be made...
Beer “The strictures of the Reinheitsgebot have helped turn German brewers into the most resourceful and technically capable in the world” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 June 2017 A well-made German beer is both tasty and relatively wholesome: in Bavaria, it’s considered...
Beer “The Reinheitsgebot…had less to do with keeping peasants from poisoning themselves…than with controlling the hops and barley crops” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 May 2017 Beer is less ancient than wine, McGovern went on to say, because it requires...