Yes, there is such a thing: Ramapo Valley Brewery’s Honey Beer, a “Passover Honey Lager.” I’ve never tried it, but the good folks at BeerAdvocate say it’s pretty terrible. Thanks to LeElle Krompass for the link.
Yes, there is such a thing: Ramapo Valley Brewery’s Honey Beer, a “Passover Honey Lager.” I’ve never tried it, but the good folks at BeerAdvocate say it’s pretty terrible. Thanks to LeElle Krompass for the link.
ChrisTS says:
As my father would have said: “There are times when it is just better to let something go.”
March 29, 2010, 12:39 amSteve2 says:
I guess He’Brew is only routine Kosher, not fully Kosher-for-Passover?
March 29, 2010, 1:32 amSteve says:
I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood, but I never knew there was stuff like e.g. Kosher Chinese food until I moved to the East Coast. The safest assumption is that you can find Kosher anything if you look.
March 29, 2010, 1:34 amR Gould-Saltman says:
Hmmm. No grain, and some sort of yeast which “does not come from a grain product”. It’s not entirely clear why anyone’d call this stuff “beer” as opposed to “fermented sugar-water, with hops”.
Of course, the first time I had “Matzoh-O’s” (Cheerio-shaped cereal made from matzoh-meal) I also said “It’s not entirely clear why anyone’d call this stuff cereal…”
March 29, 2010, 1:48 amsubpatre says:
With descriptions like “Nose is like melted or burnt plastic“, “. . . bet me a dollar I wouldn’t drink it” or “Insipid yellow, like late afternoon pee.“, ‘Awful’ is an apt description. But the beverage is gluten free, so it’s a draw to those with celiac disease. Then too the beer is made in Suffern; between the kosher label and New City next door it’s a sure profit-maker.
March 29, 2010, 2:08 amDennis Nicholls says:
I’m confused. When the Exodus began they ran out without taking the time to leaven their bread. Fair enough. But any beer they took with them would have been brewed in advance, so there would be no historical use of unleavened beer
March 29, 2010, 5:46 amNowMDJD says:
You can’t read the canonical books of any religion and determine, without recourse to authoritative interpreters, and to custom, what the religion requires, or even what it believes.
I can read the New Testament, and not understand why Catholics, Pentacostalists, Episcopalians, Seventh Day Adventists, and Jehovah’s Witnesses all claim legitimacy for their denominations.
The rules for Passover observance have been established by evolution in practice in the 3400 years since the Exodus took place, and represent a consensus of the descendants of the participants of the Exodus.
March 29, 2010, 6:15 amDYSPEPSIA GENERATION » Blog Archive » Kosher-for-Passover Beer says:
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March 29, 2010, 6:17 amBrian Kalt says:
My experience with Passover food is that they can make just about anything kosher for Passover that you wouldn’t think possible, but it will generally be much more expensive, or taste terrible. Usually both.
March 29, 2010, 8:02 amPersonFromPorlock says:
Someday the genetic engineers will come up with a solid-hoofed pig: Kosher bacon!
March 29, 2010, 8:43 amDon Meaker says:
Perhaps it could stand in for the “Bitter Herbs”…
March 29, 2010, 9:35 amJonathan D. Abolins says:
I was working on the concept of a Matzah-Brau concoction. Comes dry in the bottle. Add water, mix, and guzzle within 18 minutes.
But seriously, the honey lager sounds like a form of mead.
March 29, 2010, 11:41 amEric says:
…but the good folks at BeerAdvocate say it’s pretty terrible…
I’ve tried kosher for passover beer. And calling it “pretty terrible” is an understatement of epic proportions.
March 29, 2010, 12:45 pmAnderson says:
Is cider not kosher?
March 29, 2010, 12:53 pmLaszlo says:
Why skirt the intent?
March 29, 2010, 12:53 pmdisintelligentsia says:
Easy. Beer = liquid bread. Can’t have leavened bread for Passover, therefore one can’t have leavened beer.
Chag Sameach to all!
March 29, 2010, 1:05 pmWhadonna More says:
Well, beer isn’t bread and wouldn’t have suffered the same way upon the Exodus, so they’re skirting the broadly interpreted intent much more than the textual intent.
That said, Jews and Muslims secretly giggle about Catholics’ version of fasting which involves no actual fasting.
March 29, 2010, 2:43 pmUrso says:
From those reviews, I think we can say that Prof. Kerr definitely does not owe me a bottle of this beer.
March 29, 2010, 5:13 pmBarbara Skolaut says:
You mean like Manischewitz wine, only beer? (Yes, Manischewitz makes a kosher-for-passover wine. God knows why.)
I don’t drink any beer, and yet know this is a horrible idea and will have a horrible taste.
March 29, 2010, 6:22 pmOwen H. says:
It will have to chew its cud, as well.
March 29, 2010, 6:32 pmArthur Kirkland says:
I discussed this proposition with several brewmasters. Most had heard of this product. None had tasted it. None wanted to. None advised it. One — a Siebel Institute instructor — questioned whether the product I described (no starch) would constitute beer. I have not performed the research necessary to a reliable conclusion, but I am skeptical concerning the product’s qualification as “beer” (or “malt or brewed beverage”) in American regulatory contexts such as taxation and distribution.
On a brighter note, the consensus (new to me) is that much, if not most, American beer is (or could be) kosher.
March 30, 2010, 2:43 amDennis Nicholls says:
Why not think outside the box? The miracle of genetic engineering could make a pig with fins and scales and therefore Kosher.
March 30, 2010, 4:26 am~aardvark says:
reading through all the posts here, I am convinced that the product described is just low-quality mead. And mead–like cider, wine and brandy–is kosher for Passover (provided it’s kosher to begin with). But it also sounds absolutely undrinkable.
As for kosher bacon, it exists in many (fake) varieties–turkey, duck, beef, lamb, goat, processed soy and tofu (not same thing). None taste like bacon and most don’t look or cook like bacon. But if it’s crispy when cooked and has a slight smoke flavor, it may pass for bacon. And there is a whole industry that’s responsible for fake bacon bits (usually TVP).
March 30, 2010, 6:21 ammarkm says:
I’ve eaten beef bacon served in a Malaysian hotel – that is, it was halal rather than kosher. It doesn’t really taste like bacon, but it’s good on it’s own terms, with more meat and far less fat than pork bellies. OTOH, their chicken sausages were awful.
But a grain-free beer? That’s not beer even by the loose standards of American p*sswater.
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