tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post4099334160366610016..comments2023-11-02T07:13:53.064-07:00Comments on Beervana: Should Beer Be Required to List Ingredients?Jeff Alworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02930119177544342495noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-4419367927320530542014-06-14T12:03:47.965-07:002014-06-14T12:03:47.965-07:00So? How does this remotely affect the average beer...So? How does this remotely affect the average beer drinker? I am mystified at the consulting classes heated concern. This is different from the PR foolishness of "beer as a health drink" but I don't see anyone rushing out to send those morons to the gallows. Or is it that we like trade positive fibs.Alanhttp://agoodbeerblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-21082275499448318642014-06-14T11:52:46.649-07:002014-06-14T11:52:46.649-07:00Jeff, I don't think anyone objects to a demand...Jeff, I don't think anyone objects to a demand for labeling. But Babe's intent is only and every and always to improve her bank account. She doesn't give a damn about anything else, as evidenced by the fact that when AB listed ingredients (!!), she declared "victory." But of course AB's list had nothing at all to do with the ingredients she denounced, which are used in maureen oglehttp://maureenogle.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-4118194855620983072014-06-13T16:39:44.218-07:002014-06-13T16:39:44.218-07:00I'm with R & Bill with regards to bottling...I'm with R & Bill with regards to bottling date. Sierra Nevada recently started putting a (easily readable) bottling date on their bottles, and I wish more breweries would follow suit. And not with a cop-out 'best by' date!a non-mousenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-20289900672244305912014-06-13T15:37:50.167-07:002014-06-13T15:37:50.167-07:00I understand where Gary is coming from in a way. F...I understand where Gary is coming from in a way. For most food products you list things by their basic ingredient names (Whole Wheat Flour instead of Organic Flour raised and tended by magical elves) and have kind of a misc catch all for others. So where would you put clarifying agents or minerals as an ingredient? Or the polyethylene glycol coolant for the tanks as they are listed by ATF? Do youJaredhttp://www.theweeklybrew.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-87971886867431020992014-06-13T10:12:11.825-07:002014-06-13T10:12:11.825-07:00@Gary, your objections seem strange. These are al...@Gary, your objections seem strange. These are all more-or-less settled matters for food products already and the same rules & judgements could apply to beer.Kevin Scaldeferrinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-1966107654578420542014-06-13T05:55:10.385-07:002014-06-13T05:55:10.385-07:00I will put aside the fact that Hari is a self-serv...I will put aside the fact that Hari is a self-serving shill for her own megalomania. Yeah, it'd be great if brewer's listed the ingredients, but I don't think it's vital or an urgent priority. I'm with R in that I'd far prefer to know the bottling date. Who cares what the ingredients are if it's stale? Bill Schnellernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-10833059960472559382014-06-12T16:03:30.340-07:002014-06-12T16:03:30.340-07:00I don't think we need disclosure, for one thin...I don't think we need disclosure, for one thing, what is an ingredient? All these things are value judgements. Should butter list ingredients, milk, hamburger meat? If we list the cereal components of the mash, need we say whether insecticides were used to help grow those cereals? Do we say what trace elements of minerals are in the brewing liquor? Where does it end?<br /><br />Leave Gary Gillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-12199621374342351772014-06-12T13:59:34.940-07:002014-06-12T13:59:34.940-07:00I'd be even happier if more craft brewers woul...I'd be even happier if more craft brewers would put a bottling date on the label. Rnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-32692128239848615252014-06-12T13:58:39.223-07:002014-06-12T13:58:39.223-07:00She is indeed a flawed vessel, but her solution--h...She is indeed a flawed vessel, but her solution--having breweries list their ingredients online--is a low-impact requirement for breweries and serves the purpose of enlightening customers. Over at Facebook, outraged beer geeks are slamming the proposal because it comes from Hari. So what? If it's a good practice, that's good enough for me.Jeff Alworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02930119177544342495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-60753752977685074142014-06-12T13:47:09.468-07:002014-06-12T13:47:09.468-07:00this 'Food Babe' being the same person tha...this 'Food Babe' being the same person that came out with that spurious trash article that Maureen Ogle schooled so comprehensively?<br /><br />While I agree in theory that ingredients should be listed on the label, I think the concept of 'ingredient' needs to be explained, so for example the 'fish bladders' that so horrified said 'Food Babe' is not an ingredient Velky Alhttp://www.fuggled.netnoreply@blogger.com