A member of another forum I participate in posted a link to this article. An interesting read, in a perverse sort of way.
For all of you truthers out there.
For everybody else, it will either make you laugh, or piss you off.
Before you get too worked up, consider the source. (Look at the other topics discussed there)
Yawn. Life is gonna kill you. Might as well end it all now while you’re ahead.
I am shocked!
I’m a little shocked that guiness is using HFCS. regardless of the validity of health claims around the product I think it’s kind of a bummer that such a classic gateway beer is headed down the cheap ingredients path.
Fish bladders??? What, are they trying to make their crappy mass produced beer taste like traditional cask ale?
The author makes a lot assumptions and alters information. A number of these things are used by your local craft breweries (and homebrewers). This person obviously doesn’t understand brewing and is just trying to create a controversy.
Classic… Thanks for the laugh.
I luv me some beaver anus bitter.
I LOL’d
Good to know German beer doesn’t cause hangovers ;). If only I had this information when I was in college.
Also, +1 for beaver anus.
I need to put my beer down, get a towel, and clean the spit beer off my screen!
It can be used to make raspberry and strawberry flavors in candy and soft drinks. So I really do love the stuff, any one is welcome to my lemon and orange Star-bursts, but leave me the beaver anus flavored ones.
I wonder about the first person who decided that beaver anal gland secretions tasted more like raspberries than raspberries do.
I imagine it was a lot like me and my friends camping. Gutting a fish and daring each other to eat random organs. Then some one says “Wow a fish heart tastes like blueberries.” So in short a drunk person discovered what beaver glands taste like.
The author wasn’t very thorough. They completely missed the largest and most dangerous ingredient in beer. That is, dihydrogen-oxide. That stuff kills lots of people every year. ;D
Paul
The author of that article might be shocked to find that the following can be used under the Reinheitsgebot to make “pure” beers.
Slaked lime to remove alkalinity.
PVPP. A plastic to clarify.
Isinglass to clarify, if the beer is filtered (From Kai’s page).
If it can be proved the material is not in the finished beer, it can be used.
Fears of GMO and HFCS are over hyped IMO.
Went back and reread the article. The author claims Guinness uses HFCS but what is his source? As far as that goes, Pepsi is made by martians. It’s true, you read it here. folks.
And isinglass is made from SWIM bladders, they contain air to regulate buoyancy and have nothing to do with waste. As far as trying to generate alarm goes, i think that’s a big distinction.
And why would guinness use simple sugars? To lighten the body of their 3% beer?