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Section 04

Where It Came From

The documented moments — a law, a yeast strain, a founding — that made the modern industry's shape.

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A Law Written in 1516 That Still Gets Cited on Modern Cans

The Reinheitsgebot — the Bavarian purity law of 1516 specifying water, barley and hops as the only permitted ingredients — is routinely cited in brewery marketing five centuries after it was written: this piece documents the original law, its later modifications and what its invocation on modern packaging actually means legally. History with a present-tense kicker.

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Plzeň Munich Vienna Burton upon Trent London Dublin Copenhagen Leipzig Brussels Weihenstephan

The places this section keeps returning to: Plzeň, Munich, Vienna, Burton upon Trent, London, Dublin, Copenhagen, Leipzig, Brussels, Weihenstephan. Each one is where a style, a law or a method was first documented.

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