Poor, Poor, Vegetarians

I suppose it depends on quite how vegetarian (or vegan) someone actually is but something to think about if you ever think to stray onto this dark side of perversity of diet:

However, even the most traditional brewers use some
exotic "natural" ingredients during the brewing process, Mr Loe
conceded. Brewers commonly use a form of seaweed, known as "Irish
moss", when boiling hops to clear particles from their beer.

They
will also clear beer in the cask by adding a product extracted from the
swim bladders of fish – a technique believed to have been discovered by
the ancient Greeks.

Yup, beer is not vegetarian.

4 responses

  1. Hardly anything is, once you consider the widespread use of gelatin, which is in pretty much everything.
    What’s more, the gelatin often comes from pigs, something I enjoy pointing out to certain Arabs.

  2. And even worse Golden Promise, the best malting barley, and ancestor of more modern malting barleys was bred by Genetic Modification – though back in 1956 they didn’t have a very sophisticatd way to do it – they just exposed a lot of seeds to Gamma radiation and picked out a useful mutant. So no GM, no Beer, no Whisky…

  3. dearieme Avatar
    dearieme

    Half relevant: we had a Kiwi to dinner the other day. Between sips he said “When I was growing up in NZ we were all told that NZ beer is the best in the world. It isn’t is it?” Glad to have done my bit for international relations and World Peace.

  4. David B. Wildgoose Avatar
    David B. Wildgoose

    Some beer *is* vegetarian, and to be honest as a CAMRA member I would have hoped everybody knew the origin of finings, just like everybody should know the origin of rennet, which is used to set cheese. (Shredded calf stomach if you don’t know). Anyway, that’s why some cheese is specifically labelled as “Vegetarian” – it uses vegetable rennet.
    My wife used to be vegetarian by the way, but she got better. 🙂

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