Subject: Digest for the period 8/12/2007 - 8/13/2007
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:02:36 -0400

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  1. re:Real beer 


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From: Oobyjooby`at`cs.com  Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:37:56 EDT
Subject: re:Real beer 


There is more than just a "snob factor" to the designation
"real beer." Originally, only a very few homebrewers used
any type of filtering and 99.9% of homebrew was bottle conditioned
beer, and very well fit the CAMRA definitions. Since then we have
increasingly filtered beer, and used counter pressure bottle filling
instead of bottle conditioning; has this made our beers "unreal?"
No, we have only advanced our technology. We have never truly
held firm the CAMRA definitions of real beer, meaning live beer.
To use the oft cited examples of Standard American lagers; there
is still a large gap between the factory (unreal) and the homebrewed
versions. Homebrewers are not using cooker-zyme, not using beta-
glucanase, adding amylase to the mash to ensure/expedite conversion.
Homebrewed versions still are not pasteurized, and sterile filtered. The
homebrew still remains a live product thereby nebulously clinging to
the original expectations of "real" beer.    



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