Keeping Beer “Pure”: The 1516 Reinheitsgebot
… By the 1980s, the growing availability of large multinational beer brands like Heineken and Carlsberg began to … that the Reinheitsgebot was protectionist, the European Union struck down the law as an impediment to free trade in … styles of beer. Bavarian beers now compete on an international stage—one of the United States’ largest craft …