JCC Celebrating 500 Years of German Purity!

The original Bavarian Purity Law celebrates its 500th anniversary tomorrow. We can agree that there have been a few missteps in the last 500 years of German history, but the Purity Law isn't one of them. As an example for other countries to follow, the Purity Law has served as a shining beacon of hope, a symbol of how purity leads to cultural dominance. Raise your glasses and join me in toasting Germany and its five century commitment to purity.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/celebrating-500-years-germans-beer-purity-law-180958878/

 

achtung, baby

 

Gersten!
Hopfen!
Wasser!

 

weinerschnitzel!

 

i am a cheeseburger!

 

http://reinheitsgebot.de/startseite/reinheitsgebot/

Ganz besonders wollen wir, daß forthin allenthalben in unseren Städten, Märkten und auf dem Lande zu keinem Bier mehr Stücke als allein Gersten, Hopfen und Wasser verwendet und gebraucht werden sollen. Wer diese unsere Anordnung wissentlich übertritt und nicht einhält, dem soll von seiner Gerichtsobrigkeit zur Strafe dieses Faß Bier, so oft es vorkommt, unnachsichtlich weggenommen werden.

It's the Magna ******* Carta of fermented grain.

 

inch bin dankbar

 

Sieg heil, pppt! Sieg heil, pppt!
Right in der Fuhrer's face!

 

umm...farfegnugen!

 

I like that beer.

 

pure enough to drink by the half liter

 

Is this something 2 b proud of? The GPL was made to prevent brewers using wheat so the wheat can be used for food.

That's it.

 

I prefer a good sandwich with my brew.

 

The added bonus of this thread, Rylo Ken, is that you can recycle it for my birthday next year with only a minor change to the title.

 

As with tobacco and Coca-Cola, beer has had its moments when producers experimented with making it even more addictive, as if anything ever needs to be more addictive than alcohol.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36110288

also, don't know if you noticed this. It's subtle. Those Germans and their limitless capacity for poetry.

 

Bier auf Wein, das lass sein; Wein auf Bier, das rat ich dir.

 

Did a little research on this. Thanks 2 the Purity Law. North German Spice Beer & Cheery Beer went extinct. If some one wants 2 make a "craft beer" in Germany it cant b called beer.

This law created more problems then solved.

 

that's because it's not beer.

There's the old classic joke, probably first told in Germany:

Q: why is American beer like making love in a canoe?
A: It's ******* close to water.

 

They don't get to decide. Only the Reinheitsgebot gets to decide.

If it were only a suggestion, it would be called the Reinheitsvorschlag or maybe the Reinheitsvorliebe (not sure that one works).

But it's the ReinheitsGEBOT.

 

And Gebot means "Commandment" dammit!

A few more things

1 It's really the Bavarian Purity Law, as it was passed in the Kingdom of Bavaria first, other German kingdoms followed suit afterward.

2. Craft beer in and of itself is not banned by any means - craft beer is simply need in smaller amounts rather than mass produced.

And the law has been flouted for years in its place of origin - Weißbier, nectar of the gods for most Bavarian, is made with wheat, not barley.