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What are some of the best kosher beers? Beers you wouldn’t know are kosher?
Where I come from you can’t drink alcohol #UtahLife
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I think that’s only for Mormons
Utah has clearly never even visited Utah.
I have. See my published works (cr threads).
A couple of interesting alcohol laws in Utah. Beer is limited to 4 percent alcohol (3.2 percent by weight). You can’t have a bar, so it needs to be a pyruvate club with a membership fee. So they charge like a 5 dollar membership fee.
“Beer is limited to 4 percent alcohol”
Most beers have more than that. Does that mean they don’t have any normal beers there?
If you like imperial stouts Brooklyn Brewery has one called “dark chocolate stout (no chocolate in it though). New Belguim has several beers with hechserim (look on the bottom of the 6 pack), A couple of my favorites are “tripple” “accumulation”. Boulevard brewery has many beers under hechser (not all are labeled) my favorites include “sixth glass” “BBQ” (bourbon barrel quad) “tank 7” “80 acre”.
All of the above are kosher certified, however, according to many opinions (including CRC and Star-K)not all beers need to be certified to be kosher, you should speak to your rav for guidance.
If you like imperial stouts Brooklyn Brewery has one called “dark chocolate stout (no chocolate in it though). New Belguim has several beers with hechserim (look on the bottom of the 6 pack), A couple of my favorites are “tripple” “accumulation”. Boulevard brewery has many beers under hechser (not all are labeled) my favorites include “sixth glass” “BBQ” (bourbon barrel quad) “tank 7” “80 acre”.
All of the above are kosher certified, however, according to many opinions (including CRC and Star-K)not all beers need to be certified to be kosher, you should speak to your rav for guidance.
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i was told any unflavored beer is kosher. The crc has a list of kosher beer
Many hold all unflavored beer is kosher without a hechsher. However, CRC says that beer from microbreweries needs a hechsher. This is confusing because I don’t know how small a company needs to be to be considered a microbrewery.
Star K says only flavored or home- or pub-brewed beer needs a hechsher. So according to them, even unflavored microbrews should be OK without hechshers.
I try to avoid unflavored microbrews if I see on the shelf that that same company also produces flavored beer with problematic or clearly treif ingredients (like grape juice or oysters — yes, such strange things exist) but that wouldn’t seem to be necessary per the Star K.
I have spoken to the rabbanim in the Star-k that make the beer list. They do advise people to avoid buying anything from microbreweries that make a lot of stuff with items that are definitely treiff, such as oyster stouts. Most breweries, however, do not use items that are definitely treif, rather they may use certain flavors that may or may not be kosher, such as syrups and the like. Star-k did not seem to be concerned about cross contamination with more benign flavorings such as this. For example, if a brewery makes a blueberry stout, they would advise not drinking that, but you could drink a not-flavored beer of theirs.
For further guidance on Star-k’s beer recommendations, this is a great read: http://www.star-k.org/articles/kashrus-kurrents/2183/beer-halacha-clarifying-the-kashrus-of-beer/
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