# Reinheitsgebot 500 years later

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 29, 2016, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinheitsgebot-500-years-later/761182 "2016-07-29T12:58:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinheitsgebot-500-years-later/761182/41 "2016-08-03T16:11:58Z")

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> [@ISiddiqui](#):
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> To be more exact, the EU rules applied to imported beers, and then further in 2015 where German beers can be produced outside of the four ingredients, but not called “beer” - which has a similar issue that say, GMO labeling, would. People may not buy something called something other than beer, even though it’s exactly the same style as something they’d buy imported.

So what you’re saying is that they could import say… Stella Artois (made with corn) labeled as “bier”, but a German brewery couldn’t make a similar recipe and label it “bier”? Seems kind of strangely illogical to me, and like a law that would give an advantage to foreign brewers.

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