puttin' up hot sauce.

Does not sound good.
I live in Bavaria and we have a special beer-law since the 16th century: beer is made from malt, hop and water - nothing else. We have a great variety of small breweries here that make really good beer of different kinds - and in addition 80 km from my home, behind the Czech border there is Budvar (Budweis) and Plzen (Pilsen), cities that are famous for their beers (Budvar, Prazdroj). I think I live in beer-paradise. We have low taxes on beer as it is considered basic food stuff.
However the EU will uniformize the laws on food and other things soon - and the "Bavarian-purity-law" for beer will not exist any longer. Think we will get the same mix-beverages :barf: and bad quality beer other countries have. Lots of the small breweries already have problems because the big ones are getting too strong and begin to ruin them. Bad prospects - but still enough time to have a few beers...

Andreas
 
Pan Tau, that's horrible. That's how cultures are lost, for all the lip service of ethnic diversity we hear from the great socialist wave out of Europe.

I think you should be able to keep your own darn food designation for Beer. A little asterisk at the bottom of the EU codes; "Except in Bavaria."


munk
 
... may be a good idea - but it should not be the exception as every region here has specialities that are confronted with EU legislation.

bye Andreas
 
....We have a great variety of small breweries here that make really good beer of different kinds... Lots of the small breweries already have problems because the big ones are getting too strong and begin to ruin them
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Sigh....If Schneider and Sohne or Ayinger go under, I will be very, very sad. :( Don't know if they are truly small, but I'm guessing small enough to be in danger.

Hopefully, a strong fight by consumers can save many traditional breweries, like they did in England. The only way is to be as proud and fierce about beer as the French are about wine. But I guess there's no way to avoid paying a lot more for good beer.

And I am very worried about many Belgian Breweries, where some beers apparently cannot even be made in a different building--they don't know where all the different micro-organisms come from that make the finest brews unique. Once such things are gone, they are gone forever. Replacements or substitutes may be of comparible quality, but not the same

Ironically, Brussels seems to be city from which these damaging policies are implimented, and is also home to many unique, endangered breweries.
 
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