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Samuel Adams beer boss Jim Koch: 'Germany's Reinheitsgebot becoming like artistic censorship'

2014-11-12 02:02:32| Beverages - Topix.net

The Boston Beer Company founder and Samuel Adams brewer Jim Koch has compared Germany beer purity law Reinheitsgebot to artistic censorship and suggests it is stifling innovation in the nation's beer market. At a keynote speech in Nuremberg, Germany to mark the opening of Brau Beviale 2014, Koch spoke passionately about innovation in US craft beer - 8% of the US market by volume and 13% by value - and said brewers had many more choices than winemakers or distillers.

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