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Related: About this forumPurity Concerns: German Beer Brewers Foaming over Fracking
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/german-brewers-oppose-fracking-because-of-fear-over-clean-water-a-901474.htmlGerman brewers worry that fracking might contaminate the water they use for beer.
The fight over fracking in Germany has taken an unexpected turn: German breweries are now warning that the controversial method of extracting natural gas from rock layers deep in the earth would affect their ability to brew the best beer.
The process threatens to contaminate drinking water, according to a letter written by the German Brewers Federation to the federal government, and quoted by the mass daily tabloid Bild.
Regulations controlling the brewing of beer in Germany date back to the beer purity law, or Reinheitsgebot, of 1516 -- the world's first food purity law. According to the Brewers Federation, German beer still may only be made from malt, hops, yeast and water.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition has drafted regulations for fracking, but the brewers say their proposed laws don't go far enough.
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Purity Concerns: German Beer Brewers Foaming over Fracking (Original Post)
xchrom
May 2013
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niyad
(113,336 posts)1. now THAT ought to get people's attention
unhappycamper
(60,364 posts)3. Germans would frown on flaming beers.
Here' we have
xchrom
(108,903 posts)4. I would be very unhappy if my beer set on fire.
wtmusic
(39,166 posts)5. Mmm, two frosty mugs of Marcellus tapwater nt