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Most beers contain all kinds of chemicals to enhance shelflife. Preservatives, artificial stuff to enhance taste, etc. etc. are added. In Germany all that is strictly prohibited.
Originally posted by Jeroen Wenting: Most beers contain all kinds of chemicals to enhance shelflife. Preservatives, artificial stuff to enhance taste, etc. etc. are added. In Germany all that is strictly prohibited.
Most beers? I don't know of any beers that contain chemicals. Could you name some.
Originally posted by Jeroen Wenting: [QB]Most beers contain all kinds of chemicals to enhance shelflife .... enhance taste, etc. etc. are added. QB]
I think thats why beer originally had hops added to it. That and the alcohol, you don't need additives.
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Originally posted by Steve Wink: I think thats why beer originally had hops added to it. That and the alcohol, you don't need additives.
Hops provide both taste and a natural preservative to the beer. Hops tend to have a bitter taste so the more hops a beer has the more bitter the taste.
...but you may be interested to know that Miller Lite contains propylene glycol alginate, water, barley malt, corn syrup, chemically modified hop extracts, yeast, amyloglucosidase, carbon dioxide, papain enzyme, liquid sugar, potassium metabisulfite, and Emka-malt, whatever that is. I would venture to say that light beers as a class tend to have more additives than others, simply because they'd be totally flat and tasteless otherwise.
I guess I'm used to a better class of beer: http://www.samadams.com/beer/specs/adjuncts.html Notice that the only ingredient in Bud other than the ones I listed is tannin. Tannin is a natural ingredient found in tea. I know some homebrewers who use anti-clouding agents. I never use them because the cloudiness only effects the appearance and not the taste.
Originally posted by Steven Broadbent: Isn't budbweiser a czech brand? - it tastes awful and I thought the czechs were renowned for their beer. Budweiser Budvar is Czech and the 'original' Bud brand. Budweiser from Anheuser-Busch is American. Some is explained here: http://www.budvar.cz/html/en/main_spor.html (from their main site: http://www.budvar.cz under 'About us' > 'Trademark dispute') I've tried both and much prefer the US Bud. That, Stella Artios Dry, Koronenburg 1664 and Corona are all lagers of choice for me (depending on the occasion), though I'll tend to drink anything yellow, fizzy and alcoholic.
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