{"id":139,"date":"2004-12-17T19:13:02","date_gmt":"2004-12-18T03:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=139"},"modified":"2004-12-17T19:13:02","modified_gmt":"2004-12-18T03:13:02","slug":"vegetarian-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarian Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not content with blissful ignorance about beer&#8217;s origins, Geraint Bevan has started a <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/geraint.bevan\/Vegetarian_beers.html\">list of beers<\/a> he knows to be vegetarian, or in some cases, vegan friendly.<\/p>\n<p>What? Aren&#8217;t all beers vegetarian? Well, no. Some animal byproducts such as isinglass are used for clarity. Isinglass is a derivative of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gelatin\">gelatin<\/a>, a protein most often collected from pig or cattle hide or bone. In beer, most isinglass comes from fish swim bladders. As such, they aren&#8217;t fit for vegetarians.<\/p>\n<p>An alternative to isinglass is Irish moss, which is dried seaweed. It seems a no-brainer, but there are probably reasons people prefer to use isinglass, including custom.<\/p>\n<p>When I brew, I use Irish moss, so my veggie friends need not worry. Even that beer that ended up tasting like over-salted pork contained no animal products. It was just an overdose of sanitizing solution.<\/p>\n<p>thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/bluehole.org\">Al<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not content with blissful ignorance about beer&#8217;s origins, Geraint Bevan has started a list of beers he knows to be vegetarian, or in some cases, vegan friendly. What? Aren&#8217;t all beers vegetarian? Well, no. Some animal byproducts such as isinglass are used for clarity. Isinglass is a derivative of gelatin, a protein most often collected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=139\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vegetarian Beer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-beers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}