Post Your Ingredients

Brew your own? I know what goes in my beer.

 

The alarmist web articles that you are reading are out of date. Isinglass isn’t used to produce Guinness and caramel color isn’t used in Newcastle (as far as I know). Just FYI.

 

Drink Reinheitsgebot. Problem solved.

 

Nope.

 

That is certainly the case today:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...ineken-beer-brewer-caramel-coloring/22371053/

Cheers!

As a FYI the caramel coloring (that was previously used) was deemed to be safe: "Rush says the FDA has approved the caramel coloring. "It's completely safe," she says."

 

I, too, have been subjected to the Food Babe's nonsense once or twice.

 

I use Irish moss, so a form of seaweed goes in my beer. Still natural I guess.

 

Isinglass is a commonly used fining agent in both beer and wine. I think you might have run across some click bait. The alcohol in beer is far more destructive to your body than the exceedingly low level of isinglass you might ingest in the beer. Also GMOs are generally healthy and you have been eating them for years. Norman Borlaug paved the way for GMOs in the 1970s and saved countless millions of lives in the process. The GMO outrage is in my opinion fueled by a "holier than thou" attitude towards food. The truth is that without many of the GMOs we have today lots of people would die.

Just my "Joe six pack" opinion. Drink what you like, Cheers!

 

Not according to Guinness' US FAQ:

That not what the TTB says in Beverage Alcohol Product Safety Harmful Ingredients, Adulterants, and Unauthorized Additives

 

I, too, prefer my news and scientific research to be sourced from FaceBook and Twitter. I better get off to Instagram - I have to write a technical assessment of high pressure steam drying...

 

OP's post illustrates the point that if breweries did post their ingredients there would likely be less confusion as to what the ingredients were in their beers.

 

The only problem I can see with the use of isinglass if for strict vegans. Same reason they want lactose clearly stated on the labels.

 

Well if the government says it's okay then it must be fine to drink (until they say it's not)

 

Nope, you won't do it? Or, nope, problem not solved?

 

Ha. No problem drinking it, and problem definitely not solved.

 

Why are GMOs bad? How about sugars?

Umm . . . yes they absolutely do.

Also these things:

 

Most people don't understand them and also don't understand that what people used to do to increase yield and increase resistance to disease before direct genetic modification is MUCH less predictable and has the capacity for greater harm to people. It's called cross-breeding or hybridizing.

 

I thought I should elaborate on my previous point. As far as I know, the Reinheitsgebot isn't really going to change anything regarding GMOs, pesticides, herbicides, carcinogens, chemical fertilizers, certain coloring agents, chemical water treatments, etc. I'm not saying that one needs to be concerned or unconcerned about such things, but if someone cares about the issues as brought up in the OP, then drinking beer brewed according to the Reinheitsgebot isn't going to solve anything for that particular drinker.

 

As long as they are malt-derived, like Sinamar, they are OK.