Hemp beer
Hemp beer is a name for different types of beer made from components of the hemp plant .
history
The hops used almost exclusively for beer today are part of the hemp family (Cannabaceae), of which several species, including the hemp plant, were used for brewing beer from an early age. Historically, beer was prepared with various additions, in addition to hops and hemp, also with the leaves of the Gagelstrauch , yarrow , gruit and others. The cultivation of hops started around the 8th century. With the work of Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179), the knowledge about the preservative effect of hops found widespread use (an exclusion of hemp as a possible intoxicant for religious reasons could have played a part) so that all other common additions were strong over the course of several centuries were pushed back. As a clear direction, away from hemp and towards hops, the German Purity Law (exclusively with hops, malt and water as raw materials for beer) of 1516 marks the preliminary complete change, even if it was actually only a decree and not a law, and should rather prevent the wheat for bread from becoming scarce, while barley farmers ( barley for barley malt) lost sales.
100 years ago, the old tradition of hemp beer briefly revived until the opium laws and other bans made hemp illegal in the 1920s. On March 17, 1996, the German federal government changed the cannabis laws to allow the use of the hemp plant subsidized by the EU.
At the end of summer 1996, the Wädenswiler brewery Wädi-Brau-Huus produced the first Swiss hemp beer. The demand was so strong that other breweries were involved in the production. In the following year the hemp beer turn was also brewed in Germany .
Hemp beer types
In Europe, hemp beer is called as follows: Hemp-beer mixed drink made from organic beer and organic hemp drink (D), Hemp Beer (UK), Bevanda a base di birra (I), Cerveza con cánamo (E), Biére au chanvre (F).
Varieties are:
- Hemp blossom beer , crushed hemp blossoms are added to the brew (before or during the brewing process)
- Hemp leaf beer , like hemp blossom beer, only with hemp leaves
- Hemp extract beer , the brew or finished beer is mixed with a hemp extract (even after brewing)
- Hemp oil beer , like hemp extract beer, only with essential hemp oil
- Hemp flavor beer , e.g. B. the brewing water is only flavored with hemp (without adding it)
- Strong hemp beer
A New Zealand brewery sells a "hemp beer" that has just passed through filters made of hemp fibers .
Legal
Germany
According to Section 9 of the German Beer Act, hemp beer produced in Germany may not be sold as beer in Germany. When manufactured and distributed in Germany, only mixed beer beverages may be designated as hemp beer . Although z. B. the Berlin beer company brewed its turn using the same procedure as conventional beers and beer tax was paid for this, turn had to be brewed in Switzerland until 2012 after a complaint by the brewers' association before the administrative court.
Since then, other German courts have also been concerned with the question of whether the German Purity Law or the freedom of trade should be valued higher. The Rudolf choice KG from Gundelfingen on the Danube was the production and marketing of alcoholic hemp Trunkes by Bavaria Cannabia never prohibited. Rather, the courts dealt again with the same question; Matthias Schillo, the same lawyer who defended the Bier Company against the Brewers' Association, helped again; with the result that the negotiation had to be stopped.
Meanwhile, "the guardians of the purity law" accept the hemp-beer drinks Cannabia and Cannabis Club Sud brewed in Germany today .
United States
The American Federal Drug Police, DEA, wanted to classify foods containing hemp as marijuana in the early 2000s . Hemp beer that is flavored with industrial hemp with less than 0.3% THC is said to be illegal. An injunction against the entry into force of the September 9, 2001 regulation was issued by the Ninth Circuit's US Court of Appeals on March 7, 2002.
marketing
The Federal Government's Press and Information Office campaigned for Turn to be served at Expo 2000 .
Hemp beer was served on President Bill Clinton's Air Force One aircraft .
literature
- Ralf Hiener, Bettina Mack, Matthias Schillo, Stefan Wirner: Hemp - the cookbook. With photos by Ansgar Pudenz. Hädecke, Weil der Stadt 1998, ISBN 3-7750-0311-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beer knowledge: Craft beer hops - hop heroes . January 13, 2015.
- ↑ herbs and spices - it's better to brew beer . Archived from the original on May 5, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
- ↑ Brewery tour at Meckatzer Löwenbräu
- ↑ the "purity law": the pure truth - better brewing beer . Archived from the original on May 5, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
- ^ Hemp beer and the Netherlands . www.hanfmillenium.de. Retrieved October 29, 2009.
- ↑ Saxony: Lower harvest yields and new markets for hemp . news.bio-based.eu. Retrieved October 29, 2009.
- ↑ a b Market success for hemp beverages from Germany . news.bio-based.eu. Retrieved October 29, 2009.
- ↑ New Zealand: hemp filters when brewing beer . news.bio-based.eu. Retrieved October 29, 2009.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ US HI: Makers Of Hemp Products To Fight DEA . www.mapinc.org. Retrieved October 29, 2009.
- ^ DEA and hemp ban (USA) . www.cannabislegal.de. Retrieved October 29, 2009.
