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Old 17th October 2011, 12:25 PM   #157
John Albert
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Originally Posted by mudguts View Post
Gelatins and albumins are used as well.


Process clearing is used a lot now.



A good conspiracy is that commercial beers are bad for you as they have "heaps" of chemicals in them.

I really dont know how to reply to these charges.


Heaps of chemicals is an astounding claim.

Huge macro-brewers use hop extracts (some which have been chemically-altered to prevent skunking) and fermentable adjuncts like rice and corn, that's about it, really.

Beer is its own preservative. The alcohol, low pH, and iso-alpha acids from the hops prevent anything real bad from growing in there.
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