Hi, i buy grolsch beer in the u.k. that says it is brewed in the u.k. is it under the same regulations that exist in germany that no chemicals can be added? or will it fall under u.k. regulations that chemicals can be added. thanks for any help. yours john west
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FYI. Grolsch is a DUTCH beer, not a German one.
my god we live and learn don't we! ok someone please help me out here. which beer should i be buying in the u,k. made to a german receipe without chemicals please.
thanks john west
Some of us more than others, it would seem.
Have you posted this request on uk.food+drink.real-ale yet? If not, why not? It's reasonable to assume that there are any number of high quality beers brewed by smaller local brewers in the UK. It's the products of the bigger mass-market brewers that tends to be a bit suspect, but they're obvious enough (usually).
Also, it would be useful to know which "chemicals" you believe to be abundant in British-brewed beer, even if it carries a foreign name. There might be some odd chance that such a beer actually has none of those "chemicals" that can be so upsetting to those of more delicate constitutions. It couldn't hurt to ask. Perhaps a call to the brewer of said beer might be enlightening.
Otherwise, perhaps the logic escapes you that this might be the most obvious answer: any beer imported from Germany is "made to a German recipe." The trick, then, is to find such beer, as opposed to a beer with a German-sounding name but actually brewed in the UK under licence." This also applies to beers from the Czech Republic, so perhaps you would do well to seek out imported Pilsner Urquell and Budvar. In the meantime, you're probably not going to have much luck with Dutch or Belgian lagers (or their brewed-in-Britain namesakes), as, not being brewed in Germany, they have a miserably low probability of being "made to a German recipe."
Perhaps a trip across Ye Olde Channelle to a Calais hypermarche would yield genuine imported bottles of some highly-favoured German-brewed nectar that would meet your specifications. Or even better, a cheap Ryanair or easyJet flight from Britain to just about any German city might be the thing to find German beers that are guaranteed to be just what you want. Perhaps?
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