Guinness on the Path to Making Their Stout Vegetarian
by Siti Zawani
@ 13 Nov 2015
Guinness recently announced that they were making a change to their two century-old recipe, one that wouldn’t make any use of fish bladders. Wait, said many people. Guinness has fish in it?
“There’s fish in Guinness’ beer” has been a popular food rumour for a long time now — and it’s sort of true, sort of not true. According to Guinness, their recipe is a four-ingredient mix of barley, water, hops and yeast. So just where does fish come in? Through the filtration process. So why after all these years is Guinness swapping it out? The problem, according to the company’s statement to the New York Times, appears to have been not one of problems with the recipe, but one of marketing to a growing vegetarian market, “Because of its use we could not label Guinness as suitable for vegetarians and have been looking for an alternative solution for some time.”
Are you as surprised as we are? Read on at
http://goo.gl/tQrFG2 to find out more about this recipe tweak.
