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Apparently Guinness ain't "safe" <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt="" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: -->

[quote:2v3y2e2e]GUINNESS

THE black stuff is clarified with isinglass - a form of gelatine made from the air bladders of fish. It's only a minute amount but technically it's still a fishy pint.

A vegetarian-friendly alternative used in some beers is Irish moss.

All German beers are also safe for veggies because of a law from 1516 which states their beer must contain only four products - hops, water, sugar and yeast.[/quote:2v3y2e2e]

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why don't you get in touch with the porterhouse and ask them if they use isinglass for finings? I'd imagine they do. I always use irish moss because you can buy it in the health food shop and a bag lasts ages, but I think commercial brewers use isinglass. Also I wouldn't trust that just because the old Reinheitsgebot forbids it that it isn't in practice used to drop lagers bright.

You could email carlow and hooker and ask them too.

&amp;quot;RichieH&amp;quot;:2ip7tlii wrote: Also I wouldn't trust that just because the old Reinheitsgebot forbids it that it isn't in practice used to drop lagers bright.

You could email carlow and hooker and ask them too.[/quote:2ip7tlii]

I knew a master brewer at the Gilde Brauerei in Hannover, largest in the world apparently, terrible beer, but I'd trust them to stick to Reinheitsgebot if it's on the beer, at the end of the day EU law does not insist on it. Germans are very proud of their oldest law.

yes but I think if it's an ingredient that's part of process, and not technically "in" the finished beer, in fact, the point of it is that it and other molecules don't end up in the final beer, then that's a potential grey area for a rule that defines what can go in the beer, that's all I was thinking

&amp;quot;EoinMag&amp;quot;:3qstlkb5 wrote:

&amp;quot;RichieH&amp;quot;:3qstlkb5 wrote: Also I wouldn't trust that just because the old Reinheitsgebot forbids it that it isn't in practice used to drop lagers bright. [/quote:3qstlkb5][/quote:3qstlkb5]

Yea but lager are lagered form months, ales are turned around in a week or so there a need from finings

I didn't know that, I never made a lager. Do they use kettle finings even?