Chemicals in drink

malene

I often hear people they've switched from Bud and carlsberg because of all the chemicals, to Heineken and Coors because they're made with little or no chemicals.

So firstly, apart from C and H, what other beers have no chemicals as such and

secondly, why doesn't Diageo come up with a way to make Bud and Carl WITHOUT as many chemicals.

mal.

malene

malene wrote: »

secondly, why doesn't Diageo come up with a way to make Bud and Carl WITHOUT as many chemicals.

mal.

It probably wouldn't matter if they did, bud and carlsberg would still be tasteless crap. Try hoegaarden,leffe,duvel,erdinger,paulaner or schofferhofer instead.

taram

Go for German beers, under their beer purity law you can only include water, hops, barley-malt and either yeast or sugar to ferment.

c - 13

taram wrote: »

Go for German beers, under their beer purity law you can only include water, hops, barley-malt and either yeast or sugar to ferment.

Bingo was just about to say the same thing.

BeerNut

malene wrote: »

I often hear people they've switched from Bud and carlsberg because of all the chemicals, to Heineken and Coors because they're made with little or no chemicals.

I very much doubt that production methods at Heineken Ireland are any better than Diageo's. Have these people told where they read that Heineken and Coors were made with "little or no chemicals"? 'Cos you won't find it on the packaging anywhere.

malene wrote: »

So firstly, apart from C and H, what other beers have no chemicals as such

One good rule, for bottled or canned beer, is never drink any of them that don't give you a full list of ingredients on the packaging. As other people have said, German law means beer made in Germany can only contain the basic ingredients (note that this doesn't go for German beer made elsewhere, like Dundalk-brewed Warsteiner, though it may well have ingredients or a purity promise on it anyway). But for non-German draught beer, your only option is the craft ones: Porterhouse, Franciscan Well, Galway Hooker and Carlow Brewing are all additive free.

malene wrote: »

secondly, why doesn't Diageo come up with a way to make Bud and Carl WITHOUT as many chemicals.

Because the shelf-life wouldn't be as long. Because the head wouldn't look as nice. Because there's a danger that some pints might be slightly different from others. Because it would make them less money, basically. They can still get rich without the custom of people like you and me who care about what's in the beer they're drinking.

stillhere08

BeerNut wrote: »

But for non-German draught beer, your only option is the craft ones: Porterhouse, Franciscan Well, Galway Hooker and Carlow Brewing are all additive free.

Does this mean that for e.g. draught Guinness, Beamish contain lots of chemicals

I would recommend the Carlow O Haras stout btw

BeerNut

stillhere08 wrote: »

Does this mean that for e.g. draught Guinness, Beamish contain lots of chemicals

I'd imagine so. Though since they point-blank refuse to tell us what's in their beer and there's no legal obligation for them to do so, I couldn't say which ones. But there's a raft of preservatives and foam enhancers and stabilisers and the like that would be normal in any industrially-produced Irish beer.