Purity Law in Germany: This beer is illegal

Germany's Reinheitsgebot is super strict. Ignoring the purity law is a problem. Is the beer you're about to drink... illegal?
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[djMALITE]

Just don't call it beer and you are fine, since when it not according to Reinheitsgebot it's not a beer

[derorje]

first: it's not a law, just a regulation.
second: it doesn't apply in the whole country but only in Bavaria

[TheStarkiller]

Just call it "Honig-Hopfen" ... Will sell like hot cakes.

[Pnstrp]

“What’s this? If it’s beer there’s a fine.”
“I’m calling it honey’ed horse piss.”
“Ah excellent carry on.”

[lestefani]

Ah yes the German ''purity laws'

[pressifyouhate]

Almost every video I've seen about Germany has them bragging about how much garbage bureaucracy they have, like wow we're so cool we have a age old law that isn't fit for a modern setting

[pathighminded]

Why is a Hufflepuff enforcing German consumption bylaws? Lol. Great vid, loved it

[DasParanoiProjekt]

This law has never been in effect in modern German history, many breweries choose to oblige it for publicity reason but it's not an official law.

[scrambled]

Bureaucracy due to beer

That is the most German thing I’ve ever heard

[philippkoburg]

you do know that this law is no longer in use because in Germany, we have something called " Gesetzeshierarchie ". so basically we have laws that are of more value than others
(for example in some city laws you would be punished with death if you kill someone but the state law prohibited the execution of the city law)
so the law that is to take notice is called Inhaltsbestimmungspflicht, basically you have to tell all ingredients or give the opportunity for the customer to easily reach Tham.

the point given if you put something like honey in it it's not allowed to be called beer because of another old law the Reinheitsgebot

[daxtron]

One of the first consumer protection laws in the world!

[andretan]

The best part of this was her reading a piece of law off a roll of kitchen paper

[arjshane]

pronunciation: [ˈʁaɪnhaɪtsɡəboːt] (listen), literally "purity order") is a series of regulations limiting the ingredients in beer in Germany and the states of the former Holy Roman Empire. The best known version of the law was adopted in Bavaria in 1516 (by William IV), but similar regulations predate the Bavarian order, and modern regulations also significantly differ from the 1516 Bavarian version. Although today, the Reinheitsgebot is mentioned in various texts about the history of beer, historically it was only applied in the duchy of Bavaria and from 1906 in Germany as a whole, and it had little or no effect in other countries or regions.

[danloeser]

"What about all the wheat in hefeweizen?"
"Obviously it doesn't count."

[jamiegaming]

Never thought Hermione Granger would start debating about a 500 year old German beer law because there was honey in her beer guh daymn 💀

[cansezgin]

And it doesnt work against any beer important out of germany but from eu. Germans cant call it beer of its against purity law but any country in eu can come and sell their beer as beer even if its against purity law. Negative discrimination

[hidude]

The words "purity law in Germany" had me super worried there for a second lol.

[tommyhardarsson]

Bruh it isn't even a law anymore, brewers literally just follow it out of tradition.

[alwallace]

Got to say, those Bavarians love their purity laws.

[obi-wankenobi]

Germany didn’t exist then lmfao. How are you going to enforce a law of a country that doesn’t exist anymore (Bavaria)