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Hey Nhatt...i can't make it cos my kids are coming down from scotland on boxing day...but eat a cheese free pizza for me...and have a great birthday!
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Is beer vegan?
Not all beers are. There are loads of sites that explain which beers are and which aren't. Just Google for 'vegan beer'.
(Guinness most certainly isn't. Neither is most real ale.)
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Not all beers are. There are loads of sites that explain which beers are and which aren't. Just Google for 'vegan beer'.
(Guinness most certainly isn't. Neither is most real ale.)
As with wine. I have a friend who has been veggie (not vegan) for years and doesn't know this. She also doesn't know about rennet in cheese, and scoffs a fair amount of it. I haven't the heart to break it to her.
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I"m pretty good about alot of stuff, but admitedly do turn a blind eye occationaly. I have a 5% rule, if something has less than five percent of something that isn't vegan, and I'm having a hard time finding something else to eat or drink, then I shrug my shoulders and have some anyways. I do alot for animals and the environment by makeing the choices that I make the rest of the time, I don't feel bad about cheating sometimes.
That being said, whiskey and most of the other hard stuff is vegan, so my Birthday should be 100% animal free.
and tasty.
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Having been vegetarian since 1984 a couple of years ago I accidentally ate chicken in Paris. It wasn't really my fault; all the sandwiches were names after composers and I mistakenly ordered the Paganini instead of the Vivaldi or something like that. I'd eaten half of it before I started to think the Mozzarella had a funny texture; the chicken actually had no taste at all.
I was really hungry and debated for a while the ethics of finishing off the sandwich but in the end knowing it was meat, even tasteless meat, put me off. I spend fifteen minutes trying to remove every trace of it from between my teeth. Twenty odd years and I'm beaten by a sandwich named after a dead musician. -
i imagine german beer is vegan, due to the purity laws?
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oops! of course i meant the beer purity laws :) [ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_beer[/ame]
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i imagine german beer is vegan, due to the purity laws?
Yes, it should all be vegan, but it's been interesting just now reading the wikipedia article in German:
[ame]http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot[/ame]
Interestingly enough, the wikipedia article in English isn't nearly as good and looks like a translation of an earlier version of the article in German.
It seems to be quite a complex situation that can't be put in a nutshell. Briefly, there were various versions of beer laws in medieval German towns (Augsburg's apparently dating back to 1156), and the first large scale beer law was the Bavarian Beer Law of 1516, which ruled that only certain ingredients were to be used.
The situation as to which ingredients were to be used for which beer, however, doesn't seem nearly as clear-cut as is usually claimed.
Germany-wide beer tax laws (again containing rules about ingredients) were passed in 1923 and 1952 and the latter was in force until 1987, when it was abolished owing to a conflict with EU legislation. German brewers immediately vowed to stick to these older rules in any case, handing them a powerful marketing instrument against foreign beers (which previously hadn't even been on the market, I think).
Then there's a bit that I don't understand, which seems to claim that in 1993 a new beer tax law was promptly passed? Not sure how that would have got around EU Law, as the article doesn't say.
In all this complex discussion of ingredients, I couldn't find a mention of animal ingredients, although I don't know the origin of the chemical http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvinylpolypyrrolidon
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I"m pretty good about alot of stuff, but admitedly do turn a blind eye occationaly. I have a 5% rule, if something has less than five percent of something that isn't vegan, and I'm having a hard time finding something else to eat or drink, then I shrug my shoulders and have some anyways. I do alot for animals and the environment by makeing the choices that I make the rest of the time, I don't feel bad about cheating sometimes.
Quite right, no point beating yourself up over everything. There's so much detail to observe. Over time I've come to being pretty much 100% nutritional vegan and I can also afford not to be a 'short-sighted' vegan any more, i.e. I tend to know what's in things, but there's always something that slips through the net. Let everybody else catch up first and then we can talk about purity. ;)
That being said, whiskey and most of the other hard stuff is vegan, so my Birthday should be 100% animal free.
+1 for vegan birthday party.
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not really!
Quite! Not at all. And you can get vegan wine gums and sweets, too.
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Excellent to hear, mr. object.
Jaquie informed me a few nights ago that Morrison's best whiskey is now being made by some posh scottish distillery, so expect a few bottles of that to be flouting around.
Oh, and MERRY CHRISTMAS all you wonderful bike people!
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Hey y'all,
for those of you that are in town on boxing day, I normally have a large birthday bash/ pizza party.
All are welcome, but you need to bring one vegan pizza topping with you. We then make as many weird pizza combinations as we can until all the whiskey is gone and we can't possibly eat any more food.
I live at 113 Shacklewell lane, e8, and the oven will be on from half 7.
See you there!