Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 11/24/07 05:19

On 2007-11-23, Toby A Inkster wrote:
> dorayme wrote:
>
>> You cook and stuff Toby, so you might appreciate that my beer is made
>> from the grain and like the Germans, with no cane sugar
>
> I'm actually in the second fermentation stage of my latest batch of cider
> right now. :-) (Sparkling cider is twice fermented: the first time's to
> make it alcoholic, but the second time, in the bottle, makes it bubbly.
> It's the same process as champagne.) I've added sugar though, and plenty
> of it, as the apples from my parents' garden was very sour.
>
> And since the 1980s, the Germans have been able to use whatever
> ingredients they like in beer. (Well, any ingredients that are generally
> approved for consumption -- they couldn't use strychnine for instance.)
> They can't market it as a traditional German beer though -- in much the
> same way as wines made outside the Champagne region can't be marketed as
> "Champagne". Frankly, who needs champagne when Ridgeview is practically on
> my doorstep? <http://www.ridgeview.co.uk/>.

I hope their wine is better than their web site.
<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/testing/ridgeview.jpg>


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