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Öko-Test tests beer with good results, but glyphosate and pediococci reduce enjoyment

2022-05-20T10:57:55.184Z


Öko-Test tests beer with good results, but glyphosate and pediococci reduce enjoyment Created: 05/20/2022, 12:43 p.m By: Anne Tessin The experts from "Öko-Test" tried a lot of beer - not every one was convincing. (Iconic image) © Peter Heinzmann/Sorge/Imago “Öko-Test” took a close look at Germany's most popular type of beer and found hardly any complaints. One variety fails the taste test comp


Öko-Test tests beer with good results, but glyphosate and pediococci reduce enjoyment

Created: 05/20/2022, 12:43 p.m

By: Anne Tessin

The experts from "Öko-Test" tried a lot of beer - not every one was convincing.

(Iconic image) © Peter Heinzmann/Sorge/Imago

“Öko-Test” took a close look at Germany's most popular type of beer and found hardly any complaints.

One variety fails the taste test completely.

The Helle, which is particularly popular in southern Germany, is gaining more and more fans throughout Germany, but the undisputed beer leader is still the Pils.

The magazine "Öko-Test" has now tested 50 types of Pilsner and can report pleasing results.

The testers had

pilsners from 50 major brands and small breweries

analyzed and taste-tested.

The result according to "dpa": 45 products received the grade "good" or "very good".

But the joy wasn't entirely unclouded.

For three beers, the experts only had the grade "satisfactory" left, "poor" and "unsatisfactory" each received one.

And one detail leaves a particularly bland aftertaste.

Öko-Test finds glyphosate in 12 beers

As the “dpa” reports, the testers found

traces of the herbicide glyphosate

, which is suspected of being cancerous, in twelve beers from well-known brands .

Although the maximum permissible content for malting barley in the European Union was far below, the proof led to a point deduction.

Positive: all tested organic pilsner beers were free of the controversial weed killer.

Pilsner and Helles - that's the difference

Both Pils and Helle are bottom-fermented lagers, but the first contains more hops.

This is clearly noticeable in the taste.

While a Pilsner with a hop bitterness of 30 bitterness units (BE) tastes tart and fresh and sparkling, the light beer with 15 BE is more full-bodied and drinkable.

Tastes good with a few outliers

In terms of

original wort content and foam retention

, the experts could not complain about any Pils.

The test drinkers also had little to complain about, but in ten beers they tasted off notes that are not typical of pilsners, including apple and bread.

According to t-online.de, the "Pinkus Pils, Bioland" by Pinkus Müller, which brought up the rear, was attested by the sensory experts "a contamination taste with buttery notes".

The cause was then found in the laboratory:

contamination with pediococci

.

Although these lactic acid bacteria are not harmful to humans, the taste suffers noticeably, so that the exposure means a “considerable reduction in quality”.

Then maybe you'd rather have a wheat beer...

Öko-Test tests beer: an extract from the test results

Brewery/Manufacturer

Beer

test verdict

Berlin Pilsner Brewery

Berlin Pilsner

very good

Bitburger Brewery Group

Bitburger Premium Pils

very good

Hasseroeder Brewery

Hasseroeder Premium Pils

very good

Brewery Leikeim

Leikeim Premium Pils

very good

Neumarkter Lammsbräu

Neumarkter Lammsbräu Edel Pils, Naturland/Bioland

very good

Ottinger brewery

Oettinger Pils

very good

beer

beer

very good

Badische Staatsbrauerei Rothaus

Rothaus Pils Tannenzapfle

very good

Warsteiner brewery

Warsteiner Premium Pilsner

very good

Bavaria-St.Pauli

Astra archetype

Good

Anheuser-Busch InBev

Beck's Pils

Good

Flensburg brewery

Flensburg Pilsner

Good

Frisian brewery in Jever

Jever Pilsner

Good

Mecklenburg Brewery Lübz

Luebzer Pils Premium

Good

Radeberger Exportbierbrauereiio

Radeberger Pilsner

Good

Aldi North/Aldi South (Brunswick Brewery)

Karlskrone Pilsner Premium

satisfactory

Company Piwowarska

Tyskie Gronie Pils

satisfactory

Norma

Kaiserkrone Pils

inadequate

Brewery Pinkus Mueller

Pinkus Pils, Bioland

insufficient

Source: Test results freely available at www.oekotest.de

(ante)

Source: merkur

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