Epic Fail?

[slofox]

No.
It wasn't a pilsener or pilsner. It was some reddish thing, claimfully organic, but contaminated with 4.2% ethanol. I can't remember what it was, and by now the recyclatron'll have been emptied, so I can't check. I'd know it if I came across it though.
Given it was supposedly only 4.2% (huh... my favourite Belgians are 8.x%), it seemed to have a wallop. Prolly those organic contaminants - didn't feel like the normal neurotoxicity beer usually has. More sort of poisony...
Didn't fully read the label either; coont be bothered sticky my reading glasses on (yeah, I'm getting old(er) and my eyes aren't what they was, and the organix made them worse), so I dunno what claims it made.
I'm not buying it again though.
You can never tell what's in that Hippy Stuff.
Give me Good Ole Straightforward ChemicAle any day.

Mmmmm maybe a Founders Red Head then - from Nelson. They only use bio grow certified products in their beers. Read all about it here if you can be bothered....

I stopped selling that range of beer - nobody wanted to buy it........

[vifferman]

Mmmmm maybe a Founders Red Head then - from Nelson. They only use bio grow certified products in their beers. Read all about it here if you can be bothered....

I stopped selling that range of beer - nobody wanted to buy it........

Yeah, that's the stuff!
We hatesss them we doessss...
Sssspoiled our happinesssss they hassss....



I see they're trying to find a sales rep for Auckland.

[slofox]

I see they're trying to find a sales rep for Auckland.

They've stopped trying to sell it to me now.....finally.....

[slofox]

Try the Renaissance beers from Blenheim...mmmmm nice....(no organic claims either...)

[vifferman]

Try the Renaissance beers from Blenheim...mmmmm nice....(no organic claims either...)

I think I have one in my fridge.
If so, it's good (had one a week or so ago).... [browses the googler]
Indeed it was!
I had the Scotch Ale, and have the American Pale Ale or the Perfection in the fridge (forget which - my brain's been ruined by that organic bilge).

[Big Dave]

Nice cartoon, Mr Big the Dave, but I aint.
Ack (Shirly) perhaps I yam.
I just want someone (anyone) to acknowledge that it makes no sense to have "organic" on a beer bottle, as if it somehow imbues the contents with magical non-poisonous properties.
"Organic" + Organic Solvent = FAIL.

I just liked the cartoon and was pointing at hitcher.

[Forest]

All beer is "organic". No beer that's brewed in New Zealand contains "chemicals". It's made from natural products contained in scrupulously clean stainless steel. There is no such thing as "organic". It's just another fucking religion.

Bollocks. A number of major brewerys add non-natural chemical additives and enzymatic agents to their beers in order to tweak the properties of the brew.

Beer is a little unusual in that the brewers have a statutory exemption from listing the ingredients. The typical additives can include:

Propylene glycol alginate
Acetolactatedecarboxylase (ALDC)
Amyloglucosidase
Betaglucanases
Arabinoxylanases
Papain
Potassium metabisulfite
Food colouring

[Hitcher]

Bollocks. A number of major brewerys add non-natural chemical additives and enzymatic agents to their beers in order to tweak the properties of the brew.

Breweries. I am shattered at this revelation.

[Forest]

Breweries. I am shattered at this revelation.

Hah. I forget about the irregular plural (God damned dutch and their brouwerij).

[jrandom]

Potassium metabisulfite

Dunno about the others, but I'm pretty darn sure that ain't organic.

*sips his vodka and lemonade*

[Ixion]

Prop glycol alginate is made from kelp (seaweed). Papain is made from papaya (the fruit) . Sounds pretty natural to me. Not to mention decidedly carbonaceously organic.

[Ixion]

Dunno about the others, but I'm pretty darn sure that ain't organic.

*sips his vodka and lemonade*

Want to bet whether anything in your lemonade ever saw a lemon tree?

[Forest]

Prop glycol alginate is made from kelp (seaweed). Papain is made from papaya (the fruit) . Sounds pretty natural to me. Not to mention decidedly carbonaceously organic.

I didn't say that the additives on the list were non-organic - I said that they were non-natural.

Alginates and Papain are extracted from natural sources, but they undergo fairly major chemical manipulation as part of the extraction and purification processes.

[jrandom]

Prop glycol alginate is made from kelp (seaweed). Papain is made from papaya (the fruit) . Sounds pretty natural to me. Not to mention decidedly carbonaceously organic.

Potassium metabisulfate isn't, though. K2S2O5. Apparently it's used as a sterilising agent. Charming, eh? You're drinking, like, bleach.

[Lucy]

But are we agreed that it's pointless touting beer has organic status, when by design it's poisonous?
WTF is the point?

Cos it's less poisonous than non-organic beer?