I am quite happy that my vices do not include tobacco. I am especially happy today given this news about a German idea for a new way to quit smoking which otherwise might claim me:
Nautilus GmbH Laboratoriumsbedarf announced today the recent European launch of NicoShot, the world's first smoking-cessation beer containing a shot of natural nicotine, about what you would get in a couple of regular filtered cigarettes. NicoShot is brewed to the German Purity Law of 1516 and contains 3 milligrams of naturally derived nicotine alkaloids, 63 calories and 4.5 carbohydrates, with 6.3% alcohol by volume per 250 ml shot can. The cutting-edge nicotine beer is fire brewed separately and a standardized herbal extract of natural tobacco leaf (Nicotiana tabacum L.) of the Solanaceae nightshade family is added at the end of the natural brewing process.There might be no surprise that I find this claim to reliance on that old chestnut of a law from 1516 is weaker than most.
Comments
Stonch - March 19, 2007 10:30 PM
The German purity law is nothing more than a farce. It wasn't devised to protect the quality of beer in the first place, and it certainly doesn't work that way today. If anything, it's probably to blame for the fact that Germany isn't a particularly exciting country in terms of beer today.
Knut Albert - March 20, 2007 5:32 AM
I found a brewery in Florence that also claims to follow the purity law. They throw all the herbs they can find in the Tuscany hillsides into the brew.
http://www.contedicampiglia.it/pages/UK/prod_birra.asp
(Now, if I could only get them to answer e-mails about opening hours..)
Eerik - March 20, 2007 4:23 PM
Is this some joke??