Mises Wire
Author:
Daniella Bassi
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“Brewed according to the German Purity Law,” a Hobräu München hefeweizen bottle proudly declares. This brewery is not alone. Other German and even American brewers brag about how their beer adheres to the 1516 Bavarian Reinheitsgebot , which originally limited beer’s ingredients to water, barley, and hops. The pride in this law is strange—in 2013