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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.wines,net.consumers
Subject: Re: Reinheitsgebot (and export)
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Date: Wed, 16-May-84 05:03:21 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 16 05:03:21 1984
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>The question is: Are the German brewers allowed to export
>beer with additives??? 'anyone know the answer?

From _The_World_Guide_to_Beer_ by Michael Jackson:
	...When Munich's famous Loewenbraeu brewery mooted the idea that
	they might be excused the Reinheitsgebot in respect of export, the
	idea was quashed amid some embarrassment.  Purity may be less
	readily preserved when the good name of Munich's beers is licensed
	to brewers in other countries...
In other words, apparently the Reinheitsgebot applies to beers brewed in
Germany regardless of whether they export.  Unfortunately, Jackson sees the
Loewenbraeu situation from his side of the Atlantic - the German firm no
longer exports to the US but rather licenses the right to the name to the
Miller Brewing Co. in the US (on which, consider the second sentence of the
quote from Jackson:-)  I don't have any information on Miller's brewing
practices WRT the American version of Loewenbraeu - but Miller has a bad
reputation in the brewing industry.  (I haven't had any LB since it was
turned over to Miller and I managed to find out in time to taste-test the
German and American versions.  The difference was striking.)

[Sorry about the non-umlauts; the name should be Lowenbrau with umlauts
over o and a.]
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