"The Shocking Ingredients In Beer"

Thx., Not surprising. Lots of laws these days to enable taxing....

 

Agreed. Rocky Mountain Oysters from ram testicles have a much better flavor for use in a stout. Never have understood why they didn't use top quality ingredients.

 

+1.

She forgot this one:

Water (an ingredient found in nuclear reactors and gasoline)

 

Where do Briess, Weyerman, etc... Get their grain from? I would like know that Monsanto isn't in that cycle, but I fear they are.

 

Not fair! You added the pic after I already posted the reply...

 

The word shocking is overused. Eat moar bacon.

 

Well, I'd guess they like them since they're a style you find all over the country and on every menu in any restaurant. But interestingly almost no one in my wife's family (she's German) really likes beer and the only ones who do usually drink pilseners...

But to me the hefe's are where German beer reigns supreme, rarely do I drink one in the states that stacks up to stellar examples I've had from all over Germany.

 

OK then. The "German Beer Institute" sounds all authoritative and well informed until you see that it's written by Horst Dornbusch.I'll let patto1ro take over; http://barclayperkins.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/horst-dornbuschs-ultimate-almanac.html
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/more-dornbusch-bullshit.html

 

Definitely agree. They've got history, and their prowess in their own styles is legendary, but they have no room to grow.

 

I don't give much credence to that site; it just trots out the standard vegan tropes and shock-bait (corn syrup? oh no! GMO? those are bad, so i've been told but don't really understand why! fish bladders? gross!).
Worcestershire sauce is made from whole anchovies fermented until they literally disintegrate, bones and all. Does that make it less tasty? No. Does that make me not want to eat it? No.
Tons of food has used ingredients from odd places; it's been that way for centuries. Just because a common coloring is derived from insect shells doesn't mean there's insect shells in your beer. Just because a common flavoring comes from a beaver gland that happens to be located near its anus doesn't mean there's beaver diarrhea in your beer. And isinglass is used in all sorts of things, and has been for a long time. I don't think Guiness meant it to be a secret, but they didn't advertise it on the front page because it's not important (and they know that people would freak out because a common ingredient has a "gross" source). All of the offenders are macro brands; and so far I don't think AB/Inbev has changed what Goose Island is doing (and I'm also confused in that the site seems to think Rolling Rock was a craft brand...).

 

As expected, no sense of humor... The jokes appear to write themselves.

As for the GBI, it's goofy in other ways. Check out their "breweries" page that's supposed to list their members. It's been around for almost 10 years now and still says "Work in progress". In other words, no one takes them seriously. Doesn't mean that the writeups are worthless, but there should be some nagging doubts. I'm always skeptical of random proclamations on the net, so none of this surprises me. But pardon me for not taking "knowledgeable bloggers" of British origin seriously either, for the same reason.

 

What do you think her opinion is on the quality of the hot dogs, pizza, nachos and wings I eat will drinking my surprise ingredients in beer?

 

Don't forget her favorite ice cream with natural flavoring a.k.a. beaver anal gland secretions. yummy

 

She gets her clues from CSPI...

 

This was a link that my local brewery sent out today. I thought it was interesting, nothing too shocking in it. Just another reason to buy craft beer. My local is Blue and Gray Brewery in Fredericksburg, VA. Good Quality and they do it the right way.



http://foodbabe.com/2013/07/17/the-shocking-ingredients-in-beer/

 

i see they use "fish bladder" instead of isinglass. I suppose "fish bladder" is a bit more impactful for the authors purpose.

 

i see she's proudly drinking wine in the picture at the bottom....hope shes enjoying that fish bladder

 

i really hate everything about the article, including the use of "babe" in her title

 

lol, just thought it was interesting. can't take any of this stuff to seriously. I would never be shocked to see that macro brewers are using high fructose corn syrup or anything. Won't stop me from enjoying a Guinness every now and again.