<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e1baf448-c82c-4700-8dc6-a3efb907978c/23977AAD-2912-446A-898C-B7D1BC322B51/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.makeyour-ownbeer.com/" href="http://www.makeyour-ownbeer.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.makeyour-ownbeer.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.makeyour-ownbeer.com/"><P><SPAN>For a long time German beer is considered to be the best in the world and surprisingly the thing that stand behind this success are not just the traditions, it is the law. Reinheitsgebot limited the</SPAN><SPAN> beer making supplies</SPAN><SPAN><SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN> to water, barley, and hops and also limited the price to 1-2 Pfennig (German cents) per specified amount. If someone disobeyed the law his beer was confiscated with no compensation. The law was first put forward in 1487 and accepted in 1516, it lasted for almost 500 years had some amendments and was canceled only in 1987. It had both good and bad effects. Reinheitsgebot turned the chaotic beer brewing into a standardized industry, which guaranteed quality of beer and made German beer – the best beer in the world. But also this law eliminated hundreds of sorts that included outlaw ingredients, basically leaving Germany with Bavarian beer only.</SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/23977AAD-2912-446A-898C-B7D1BC322B51/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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