German beer purity law.Everyone knows the Germans take their beer very seriously. All good beer names are German, from Pilsener to Doppelbock, and, of course, Dunkel Lager. The German’s don’t stop at awesome beer names, they put their beer where their mouth is, or… wait. They put their beer laws on paper. That’s right, they have a medieval piece of law called “The Beer Purity Law” except they didn’t speak English then so they called it the Reinheitsgebot. The law was enforced based on the list of three ingredients: water, hops and barley. Today any beer swiller worth his bar tab knows they spaced on a key ingredient: yeast. It wasn’t until the discovery of bacteria or microscopes or something that yeast was discovered to be a key ingredient in the fermentation of alcohol. So the Germans temporarily rlaxed their purity laws, and added the fourth ingredient. Read more
