1y ago

Beer and Wine are vegan drinks.

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Imagine not caring about the lives of yeast. Humans can be so heartless.
- I prefer the nomenclature ‘uncultured’ thanks.
  
  You seem like a fungi
Wine may be filtered using animal tissue, but many wines are vegan
- Guinness as well
well, ackshually - The fishy ingredient in beer that bothers vegetarians - BBC
- Well, ackshually akshually - drink German beer. With very few exceptions, it's only allowed to contain barley, hops, yeast and water. That law has existed in some form for over 500 years.
  
  It still allows using other substances in the production process if they are filtered out afterwards.
  Which vegans would still reject.
  
  A German guy once told me that the original penalty for violating that law was that the brewer was to be drowned in his own beer - to be fair, he was quite drunk at the time, so it might be complete bullshit.
  
  That only applies to beer breweries in Bavaria. Not all of Germany is subject to that law.
- Traditional Worchestershire sauce also contains fish.
  
  All Worcestershire sauce. It's fermented anchovy sauce with some spices.
  Anything that doesn't have the anchovy, isn't Worcestershire sauce.
No they aren't, unless specified. A lot is isinglass (spelling?) To clarify it, which is fish parts.
- Isinglass is not used very much outside breweries trying to do really traditional British styles, because it's finicky and there are better and cheaper options. I'd say that the most common thing making beer non-vegan is adding adjuncts like lactose in milk stouts.
Some beer has honey and milk ingredients
Most non-dairy drinks can be vegan. Why do beer and wine in particular surprise you?
- I told a friend of mine I was making Mead and she told me that is not interested because Mead is not vegan. I really forgot that she was vegan and then I started thinking "People usually make fun of vegan food, but beer and wine can be considered vegan (with the exception people has already pointed out) and those are fun drink"
  
  Vegan food being a joke is also a misconception. Vegan stuff can be pretty fucking delicious, but it's more dependent on you flavoring it correctly.
  If you fuck up non-vegan food, there is a good chance is it is still alright. If you fuck up vegan food, there is a good chance it's not great.
  But properly prepared it can be so awesome.
As people have mentioned the seafood, ill also add that many wines use egg.
Vegan things:
Bread, potatos, noodles, water, air all vegetables, all fruits, 70+% of the average diet.
Vegan is not hard
- I'm sorry but absolutely not.
  Finding vegan foods is easy, as you've pointed out, however eating well as a vegan takes thought and planning. Especially in the beginning.
  This is why so many people fail when they first start. They just cut out everything with animal products, and end up eating bread and salad, and give up when they're basically malnourished and starving.
  Saying Vegan is not hard is a disservice to anyone seriously considering it. Instead of being condescending about it, give people resources to help them get it right.
  
  Its a miracle how people can eat absolute garbage but the amount of supplements that is already in the animal products (and all that 1% uptaken plant material) kinda fix that
- Not all bread and noodles are vegan, or even vegetarian.
  
  True. Most of them though.
  
  Not vegetarian? How?
Oreo cookies are technically vegan.
- Wellllllll, maybe. Whitened sugar is processed with bone char, and given how white the stuf is, there’s a good chance that it’s also processed that way.
  
  Without any animal or dairy products, these chocolate sandwich cookies are now basically vegan. (We say basically because there can be some cross-contamination with milk during production).
  https://www.eatthis.com/oreo-filling/
YEAST ARE ANIMALS!
- I thought they were fungi?
  
  But I put it in all caps
- AND THEY ARE BEING EXPLOITED!!
  
  IN A TASTY WAY
Wine is not vegan. Wine uses sulphites which are made from crustaceans.
- It's isinglass rather that sulphites that makes a lot of beer and wine non-vegan. It's a type of collagen made from certain fish (not usually crustaceans, so far as I know) that makes the yeast suspended in the liquid sink and coalesce into a sediment that can be removed. If you try homebrewing you'll find that your own produce is hazy unless you use isinglass, although it doesn't significantly change the taste
- not all wine
  
  All wines matter!
- It’s not the sulphites, but the chitosan that acts as a clarifier that comes from shrimp shells and makes it not vegan.
- Milk and fishes are also sometimes used to filter the wine.
Ohh shit. Is beer gonna turn me gay?

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