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Alcoholic
Beverages
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With
the growing number of microbreweries and the number of corporate
breweries introducing new beers that pose as microbrews, a
complete list of beers that are suitable for vegans would
have to be updated daily. In this chapter we have attempted
to note more popular beers. We have also attempted to note
which breweries don't typically use animal products in their
brewing process. As always, common sense should prevail. If
one of the brands listed here releases a honey porter after
this book goes to print it is obviously not vegan. We have
also tried to provide a lot of general information on the
brewing of beers to assist in making an educated guess. If
all else fails the best means of finding out if a particular
beer is vegan is to contact the manufacturer.
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Since the
last edition, cider has become an integral part of US drinking
culture, so we've tried to provide as much information as
we could find on the ever confusing world of cider. Unfortunately
the myth is not true that vegan alcoholic beverages don't
give you less of a hangover.
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Vegan
Beers
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Vegetarian
Times and The
Bay Vegan found that animal products aren't generally
used in beer brewing in the US. Gelatin used to be widely
used in beer manufacturing in the US, but most major brewing
companies haven't included gelatin in beer for some time.
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Those
on the following list are all acceptable for vegetarians and
vegans.
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BITTERS,
ETC.
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Alloa Light
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- keg
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Alloa 70/-
Special
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Alloa 80/-
Export
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Alloa Stout
|
- bottle
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Batemans
IPA
|
- bottle
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Batemans
Nut Brown
|
- bottle
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Batemans
XXXB
|
- bottle
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Batemans
Victory Ale
|
- bottle
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Batemans
Dark Mild
|
- bottle
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Batemans
GB Bitter
|
- bottle
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Burtonwood
Bitter
|
- keg &
can
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Burtonwood
Mild
|
- keg
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Burtonwood
Pale Mild
|
- keg
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Burtonwood
Top Hat Ale
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- keg
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Drybrough
Heavy
|
- keg
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Drybrough
Best Scotch
|
- bottle
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Felinfoel
Bitter
|
- keg &
can
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Felinfoel
Double Dragon Bitter
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- keg &
can
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Fuller's
London Pride
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Fuller's
Chiswick Bitter
|
- keg &
can
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Fuller's
Mild
|
- keg
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Fuller's
ESB Export
|
- bottle
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Fuller's
Pale Ale
|
- bottle
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Fuller's
Brown Ale
|
- bottle
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Fullers
LA
|
- bottle
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Gale's Southdown
Bitter
|
- keg
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Gale's Best
Bitter
|
- keg
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Gale's 777
Mild
|
- keg
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Gale's Prize
Old Ale
|
- bottle
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Gale's Pale
Ale
|
- bottle
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Gale's HSB
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- can
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Golden Promise
Organic Beer
|
- bottle
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Hall &
Woodhouse BXB Bitter
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- keg
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H &
W Malthouse Bitter
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- keg
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H &
W Oasthouse Bitter
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- can
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H &
W Badger Country Bitter
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- can
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H &
W Tanglefoot Bitter
|
- can
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Morrells
Friars Bitter
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- keg
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Morrells
Castle Ale
|
- bottle
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Morrells
Light Ale
|
- bottle
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Morrells
College Ale
|
- bottle
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Morrells
Brewery Gate Bitter
|
- can
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Redruth
Brewery Bitter
|
- can
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Redruth
Brewery Mile Ale
|
- can
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Redruth
Aston Manor Bitter
|
- can
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Redruth
Gold Cap Bitter
|
- can
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Redruth
Brewster Bitter
|
- can
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Redruth
John Davey Bitter
|
- keg &
can
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Robinson's
Best Bitter
|
- can
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Ross Brewery
Hartcliffe Bitter
|
- bottle
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Ross Brewery
Clifton Dark Ale
|
- bottle
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Ross Brewery
Saxon Ale
|
- bottle
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Sainsburys
Premium Ale
|
- bottle
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Sam Smiths
Old Brewery
|
- keg &
can
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Sam Smiths
Sovereign Best
|
- keg
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Sam Smiths
Tadcaster Bitter
|
- keg
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Sam Smiths
4X Best Mild
|
- keg
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Sam Smiths
Dark Mild Ale
|
- keg
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Sam Smiths
OB Strong Brown
|
- bottle
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Sam Smiths
OB Strong Pale
|
- bottle
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Sam Smiths
Pale Ale
|
- bottle
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Sam Smiths
Light Ale
|
- bottle
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Sam Smiths
Nut Brown
|
- bottle
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Sam Smiths
Strong Golden
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- bottle
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LOW
ALCOHOL, N/A
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AyingerBrau
Low Alcohol
|
- keg &
bottle
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Clausen
|
- bottle
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Greene King
Lowes
|
- bottle
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Marston's
Low "C"
|
- keg &
bottle
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Wheelwright
Low Alcohol
|
- keg &
bottle
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Wyvern Low
Alcoholic
|
- bottle
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Sharp's
|
- can &
bottle
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Kingsbury
|
- can &
bottle
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O'Douls
Premium Non-Alcoholic Brew
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- can &
bottle
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LAGERS
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Aston Manor
Lager
|
- can
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AyingerBrau
|
- keg
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AyingerBrau
D. Pils
|
- keg &
bottle
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AyingerBrau
Very Strong
|
- bottle
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Brewster
Lager
|
- can
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Budweiser
|
- keg, can
& bottle
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Burtonwood
Dagen
|
- can
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Cornish
Pilsner Lager
|
- can
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Henri Funck
|
- bottle
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Grolsch
|
- keg, can
& bottle
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Guapa Lager
|
- bottle
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Hall &
Woodhouse Hectors
|
- can
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H &
W Forum
|
- can
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H &
W Compass
|
- can
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H &
W Skona
|
- can
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H &
W Royal Hofbrau
|
- can
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Harp
|
- keg, can
& bottle
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Harp Extra
|
- keg
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Heineken
Export
|
- keg, can
& bottle
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Heineken
|
- keg, can
& bottle
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Holsten
Pils
|
- can &
bottle
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Knight's
|
- can &
bottle
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Labatt's
|
- keg
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Lincoln
Green Organic
|
- can
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Lowenbrau
Strong
|
- keg
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Mousel
|
- bottle
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Norseman
|
- can
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Pinkus Special
Organic
|
- bottle
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Prinz Strong
|
- keg
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Redruth
Brewery Pilsner
|
- can
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Sam Smiths
Natural Lager
|
- can &
bottle
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Scorpion
Dry
|
- can &
bottle
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Skol
|
- keg, can
& bottle
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Tennent's
Gold Bier
|
- bottle
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TQ Lager
|
- bottle
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Tuborg Gold
|
- keg, can
& bottle
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US
DOMESTICS AND/OR BOTTLED IN THE US
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In the
January/ February 1995 issue of Animal Times-PETAs bimonthly
magazine, there is a list of "cruelty-free beers" that states
"The following brewing companies have assured PETA in writing
that all their various beers are made without animal-derived
ingredients, additives, or processing agents." We have researched
and expanded their existing list here.
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Anderson
Valley
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Anheuser-Busch
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Barley's
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Beach
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Beck's
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Big Dog's
Hospitality Group
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Blue Ridge
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Brick
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Carlsberg-Tetley
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Columbus
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- bottle
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Courage
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Dallas County
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Dempsey's
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Deschutes
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Dock Street
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Dubuque
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Eddie McStiff's
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Fremont
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Fullers
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Golden Pacific
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Grant's
Yakima
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Greene King
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Groisch
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- keg, can
& bottle
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G. Heileman
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Irons
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- keg, can
& bottle
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James Page
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Jones Street
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Lakefront
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Latrobe
(Rolling Rock)
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Les Brasseurs
du Nord
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Lost Coast
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Mad River
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Manhattan
Beach
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Masters
Brewpub & Brasserie
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Miller
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Miracle
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Nelson
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Nevada City
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- keg, can
& bottle
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North Coast
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Nouveaux
Brasseurs-Bar Ulnox
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Odell
|
- keg, can
& bottle
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Onalaska
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Oranjeboom
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Otter Creek
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Otto Brothers’
|
- keg, can
& bottle
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Pacific
Hop Exchange
|
- keg, can
& bottle
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Pennsylvania
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Pete's
|
- bottle
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Pyramid
Ales
|
- can &
bottle
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Ragtime
Tavern
|
- keg, can
& bottle
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Rainier
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Richbrau
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Roslyn
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Samuel Smith
(except Oatmeal Stout)
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- See Bitters,
etc
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San Andreas
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Scottish
& Newcastle
|
- bottle
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Shan Sui
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Sharky's
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Shepherd
Neame
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Sierra Nevada
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Silo
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Sleeman
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Sonoma (Dempsey's)
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Spinnakers
Brewpub
|
- keg, can
& bottle
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Sprecher
|
- keg, can
& bottle
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Star
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Steelhead
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Table Rock
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Telluride
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Thames Valley
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Treaty Grounds
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Triple Rock
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Truckee
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Umpqua
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Upper Canada
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Vaux Brewery
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Weeping
Radish
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Whistler
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Whitbread
Beer
|
- keg, can
& bottle
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Woodstock
|
- keg, can
& bottle
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Aoung &
Co.
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- keg, can
& bottle
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Most
German beers are winners, because all are vegan. Bavarian
purity laws limit them to four ingredients only: water, grain,
hops and yeast.
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Also:
"Among the breweries making vegan nonalcoholic beer are Miller
(Sharp's), Heileman (Kingsbury), and Anheuser-Busch (O'Doul's
Premium Non-Alcoholic Brew)."
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Vegan
Wines
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Unfortunately
many wines available in shops may have isinglass, gel, egg
albumen (from battery eggs), chitin or even ox blood added
as fining agents. Organic wines are much more likely to be
vegetarian.
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Outside
The US
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The use
of animal derived products in the production of alcoholic
beverages outside the US is fairly widespread not because
alternatives do not exist, but because they always have been
used and there is little demand from the consumer for an alternative.
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The main
obstacle when trying to judge the acceptability to vegetarians
of any given product is a clause in the 1984 Food Labelling
Regulations (UK) which excludes from the 1984 Food Act all
drinks with an alcohol content exceeding 1.2% by volume (ABV),
leaving only very low or non-alcoholic beers, wines and ciders
being required to list all ingredients.
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The main
appearance of animal derived products is in the fining or
clearing process, though some others may be used as colorants
or anti-foaming agents.
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It must
be pointed out that alcohol is routinely tested on thousands
of animals each year. However, this is not usually done directly
by any individual company.
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BEER:
Cask-conditioned
ales need fining to clear the material (especially the yeast)
held in suspension in the liquid. This is invariably done
by adding isinglass, derived from the swim bladders of certain
tropical fish especially the Chinese sturgeon, which acts
as a falling suspension. If you were to hold a pint of real
ale up to the light and see cloudy lumps swirling around that
would suggest that the cask had been recently disturbed and
the isinglass shaken up from the bottom. Naturally bottled
conditioned beers will not always have been treated with isinglass.
Keg beers and Lagers are pasteurized and usually passed through
Chill Filters, as are canned beers and some bottled beers.
However, a considerable number of breweries still use isinglass
to clear their pasturized beers, though sometimes only to
rescue selected batches which are considered too hazey. Also
occasionally the sometimes animal derived additive Glyceryl
Monostearate is used in place of 900 Dimethylpolysiloxane
as a foam-control agent in the production of keg beers.
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It is
sometimes possible to buy barrels of cask-conditioned beer
from a brewery before it has been fined. The beer would then
have to be left for a considerable time to stand before consumption.
To our knowledge, only one pub in England sells unfined real
ale on draught: The Cumberland Arms in Byker, Newcastle on
Tyne.
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Please
refer to the list in this chapter for acceptable beers for
vegans.
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CIDER:
Most of the
main brands of cider will have been fined using gelatin. Scrumpy
type ciders are less likely to have been fined (see the Cider
section of this chapter).
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WINE:
With wine,
it is again in the fining process that animal derived ingredients
make an appearance. Finings can be isinglass, gelatin, egg
albumen, modified casein (from milk), chitin (derived from
the shells of crabs or lobsters) or ox blood (rarely used
today). But alternatives do exist in the form of bentonite,
kieselguhr, kaolin and silica gel or solution. Also newer
methods such as centrifuging and filtering are becoming more
popular. The majority of organic wines do not use animal derived
finings - but some do. Thorson's Organic Wine Guide by
Jerry Lockspeiser and Jackie Gear, published in 1991, lists
those wines which are suitable. You might like to note that
the Wine Development Board claim that the fining agents are
removed at the end of the process with the possible exception
of very minute quantities.
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SPIRITS:
Most spirits
appear to be acceptable to vegetarians, with the possible
exception of Malt Whisky, some blended whiskies and Spanish
Brandies which have been conditioned in casks that had previously
held sherry which may have been treated with animal derived
finings. (Brandy itself is not produced from wine which has
undergone any fining processes). Also some imported vodkas
may have been passed through a bone charcoal filter.
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FORTIFIED
WINES: All
ports except crusted port are fined using gelatin. Sherry
should be treated in a similar way to wine.
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COLORANTS:
Cochineal (E120)
produced by extracting the red body material from pregnant
scale insects of the species Dactilopius Coccus is used as
a colorant in a small number of red wines, soft drinks and
Campari.
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Cider
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Choosing
a cider which has been naturally fermented and fined can be
a bit of a minefield. Producers often tend to add rather nasty
clarifying agents such as gelatin, isinglass, chitin (crab
shells) and collagen. The most popular comtnercial ciders
such as Woodpecker, Strongbow, Scrumpy Jack, Symonds and
Taunton Cider all use animal derived clarifying agents,
and although they stress that these are removed during the
final stages of production, The Vegetarian Society would nonetheless
class them as unsuitable for vegetarians.
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Vegetarian
ciders are usually naturally fermented in large oak barrels
and allowed to settle over a period of months (the longer,
the better, as this not only makes the cider clearer, but
also stronger!). Bentonite clay when mined and specially prepared
for clarification purposes can also be used, or alternatively
cellulose filter sheets.
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Apart
from fining agents, other additives are used in the production
of keg cider, chiefly for sterilization. All those listed
below -are suitable for vegans & vegetarians:
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Calcium
sulphite (calcium salt of sulphurous acid) (E226): as
a cask sterilizer and antibacterial agent.
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Citric
acid (E330): Occurs
naturally in many fruits, especially citrus juices. Used to
aid the effect of the anti-oxidant used.
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L-ascorbic
acid (E300): Occurs
naturally in many fruits and vegetables. Used in keg draught
cider and bottled cider.
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Pectolase:
A naturally
occuring enzyme used to destroy residual Pectin (a fruit starch)
in keg and bottled cider.
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Sodium
dioxide (E220): used
as a preservative in the cask or bottle.
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Sodium
hydrogen sulphite (sodium salt of sulphurous acid) (E222):
also used as
a preservative and as a cask sterilizer.
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Sodium
metabisulphite (commercially manufactured sodium salt of sulphurous
acid) (E223): used
to sterilize apple skins when cultured yeast is used.
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Sorbic
Acid (E200): Occurs
naturally in some fruits. Used as a pH adjuster.
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