german beer Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 28 May 2013 07:33:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 German Beer Purity Threatened by Fracking for Shale Gas, Brewers Protest https://www.greenoptimistic.com/german-beer-gas-fracking-20130528/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/german-beer-gas-fracking-20130528/#respond Tue, 28 May 2013 07:31:15 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=37671 You don’t mess with Germans when it comes to beer purity. Period. An official letter was sent to Berlin officials by brewers, stating their concern that fracking (to extract shale gas) could endanger the water supply that beer is made from, and change its composition. This will breach a 497-year-old law called “Reinheitsgebot” (Beer Purity […]

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