Clubs are a great way to meet up with friends and strangers and do things you share a passion for. They bring like-minded people together, organize events and represent a group of people who share interests, hobbies or attitudes. There are clubs in all areas of everyday life, but we like the ones that focus on our favorite topic the most. By that we don't necessarily mean clubs of beer drinkers, but rather those that come together to make a difference in the beer world. Although they certainly enjoy drinking beer while doing so.
The German Creative Brewers Association is one such group: numerous young breweries in the country have come together and organized themselves to stand up for hand-crafted beer. They all have a love and passion for barley juice in common. The enthusiastic beer lovers are flexible, open and receptive in their way of thinking and are keen to break new ground with their creations. The independent brewers celebrate the time-honored craftsmanship of their guild with all its traditions. At the same time, they want to break old structures and discover and exploit the full potential of beer. Under the seal of the hopped eagle, the eleven breweries have decided to push the Purity Law off its high horse. For a long time, Germany was considered a pioneer in beer and justified this position with its millennia-old brewing tradition. But now the beer veteran is standing in his own way: the Bavarian Purity Law and the associated Provisional Beer Law are slowing down young brewers and taking the wind out of their sails with strict rules and regulations. In other countries, people brew to their heart's content, while here the craft industry has to contend with the law. To put an end to this injustice, the Association of German Creative Brewers has launched the Naturalness Law.
Basically, the Provisional Beer Law, like the Bavarian Purity Law, determines what can be contained in beer. As a layperson, you assume that these ingredients are hops, malt, yeast and water, but the state purity law has a few loopholes. These exceptions allow some artificial additives or sugar in beer, but prohibit the use of fruit or spices, for example. If you brew these natural raw materials, you cannot sell the result as beer. The rules are also not the same in every federal state, which makes collaboration and cooperation between breweries difficult. The solution that the German creative brewers propose and practice is the so-called naturalness law. All raw materials of natural origin that are suitable for consumption can be used.
With this daring step, the German creative brewers are catapulting their homeland's brewing craft into the present and are tastefully advocating for a modernization of the legal situation.
Bundesverband der Kreativbrauer e.V.
Rathgeberstrasse 7
97656 Oberelsbach
Deutschland 
