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Wine
Notebook, Part 11 (May 19, 2007)
by the Wine Baron
The Truth About
Beer...
Sad fact: most beer
produced in the industrialized world is not real beer.
It's just colored water and alcohol that looks and
tastes like beer.
The proper way to brew
beer:
- Start with just four
or five ingredients (spring or well water, hops,
malt barley and yeast).
- Brew and lager for 3
to 5 weeks.
The way most breweries
make beer:
- Start with the above
mentioned ingredients but maybe don't use spring
water. Use tap water.
- Add over 100 chemicals
(but call your beer "natural" because it's
allowed by law).
- With the help of all
those chemicals, brew and lager for 5 or 6 days.
Why not investigate your
favorite beer?
Want a list of properly
brewed beer?
- Heineken (Holland)
- Okocim (Poland)
- Zywiec (Poland)
- Lezajsk (Poland)
- Warka (Poland)
- EB (Poland)
- All German beers (in
Germany), but many alter their recipe for export
- Most microbrewery
beers
- ...not a whole lot
else
Read
about the Polish beers here
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