What's In Your Beer?
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The Treasury Department regulates alcohol simply because it's a lucrative source of revenue. All of the beers that were shown in that video are made by questionable companies to begin with. There are a number of better breweries out there who are much more responsible with their ingredients and their impact on the environment.
The linked article has ramblings by someone without even the most basic grasp of chemistry and fermentation. I don't think it really helps our cause to give the slightest bit of attention to this drivel.
This is a very bias site. You can go to any brewery and see the ingredients they use. I love brewery tours. The brew masters will often drink a beer with you. Look I am not big on GMO products either, but its been going on for 30 years now and if you buy food at grocery stores or eat fast food you eat lots of GMO food products. The same goes for any chain restaurant. Basically if you eat anything prepackaged or processed you eat gmo food products. Even if you grow your own you need to read the back of the package to make sure its not GMO. This is just as bad as the yahoos who attack tobacco as the evil cancer devil of death, and paint the tobacco corporations as evil death cults trying to kill everyone in the world.
I love beer. It is one of the few joys of visiting the UK outside of Condor is the beer. I love little country pubs where they brew the stuff on the premises and you can see it all happening through a window in the bar floor. Beer in the US can be a little challenging although Sam Adams is a very good stab at a sort of British beer.
True. It is sad that I have had to stop drinking beer because of the GMO. I do wonder about Coors Banquet. Does anyone know if it contains GMO? Their light does. For those that don't know, GMO means genetically modified, and is considered carcinogenic. It should be outlawed.
I think it's funny that she's lecturing about beer and her photo has her holding wine. I doubt that Two Buck Chuck is all that pure.
Personally, I just like to know what the ingredients are if I'm going to ingest something...but I'm funny that way. It seems completely reasonable to me that beer companies should disclose the ingredients in their product.
For those who are not concerned about things like GMO's, high fructose corn syrup, etc., wonderful...drink up and enjoy...don't worry, be happy!
For those like me who actually question such things, there are non-gmo beers. Below is some basic info...I'm sure you can find more as well:
Non GMO Beer
http://tryorganicliving.com/drink-these-a-non-gmo-beer-list
For those who are not concerned about things like GMO's, high fructose corn syrup, etc., wonderful...drink up and enjoy...don't worry, be happy!
For those like me who actually question such things, there are non-gmo beers. Below is some basic info...I'm sure you can find more as well:
Non GMO Beer
http://tryorganicliving.com/drink-these-a-non-gmo-beer-list
You guys do know that high-fructose corn syrup ferments completely right? When it's in a beer it only acts as a neutral adjunct and becomes nothing but ethanol and other yeast byproducts (like CO2 and fusels). You really want to freak out about a beer ingredient? Then you should look at the phenolic compounds that are a direct result of natural fermentation.
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