vis4valentinetoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world·8 months agoBeer and Wine are vegan drinks.message-squarearrow-up146arrow-down131message-square68fedilink
arrow-up115arrow-down1message-squareBeer and Wine are vegan drinks.vis4valentinetoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world·8 months agomessage-square68fedilink
minus-squareflatheadarrow-up4arrow-down0·8 months agolinkfedilinkA German guy once told me that the original penalty for violating that law was that the brewer was to be drowned in his own beer - to be fair, he was quite drunk at the time, so it might be complete bullshit.
minus-squareAkasazharrow-up3arrow-down0·8 months agolinkfedilinkHe’s confusing it with the law of Hammurabi, in which a brewer that is caught diluting his beer is sentenced thusly. German reinheitsgebot was not as severe, nor German (it was a Bavarian law, before Germany was a thing)
A German guy once told me that the original penalty for violating that law was that the brewer was to be drowned in his own beer - to be fair, he was quite drunk at the time, so it might be complete bullshit.
He’s confusing it with the law of Hammurabi, in which a brewer that is caught diluting his beer is sentenced thusly.
German reinheitsgebot was not as severe, nor German (it was a Bavarian law, before Germany was a thing)