Bath Ales Ltd is NOT vegan friendly
| Address: | Units 3-7 Caxton Business Park Crown Way Warmley, Bristol, BS30 8XJ UK |
| Phone: | 0117 9474797 |
| Fax: | 0117 9474790 |
| Email: | roger@bathales.co.uk |
| URL: | http://www.bathales.com/ |
| Checked by: | Paul |
| Double checked by: | ian |
| Added: | almost 2 years ago |
| Double Checked: | over 1 year ago |
Products by Bath Ales Ltd:
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Not Vegan Friendly
Company Email:
"Vegetarians & Vegans
There are many definitions of vegetarianism and this does cause confusion.
For our purposes we shall take the premise that vegetarianism is the practice of
living on products of the plant kingdom (with or without the use of eggs and dairy
products), and thereby excludes any part of the body of an animal as food.
Vegans are vegetarians who will have nothing to do with any animal products or
animal by-products at all.
This encompasses food related issues but also involves clothes (wool, leather
etc), cleaning products (cosmetics shampoos etc) essentially the avoidance of
any animal product or ingredient.
Our beer is made from four core ingredients; malt, hops, water and yeast.
At a late stage in the beer making process we add a silicate which basically binds
on the yeast and acts as a clarification product.
The silicate we use is synthetic but it is made in part from the swim bladder of
fish (the sturgeon being one such fish). Nearly all beers are produced this way.
The silicate comes into contact with the beer. It then forms part of the sediment.
It is a product that is not actually ingested although remnants maybe present in
the beer.
As a lifestyle choice vegetarians and vegans will have to make up there own
minds as to the issues involved in choosing Bath Ales products.
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As a footnote – we have on two occasions produced Wild Hare
utilising ‘Irish Moss’ as the silicate – it comes in liquidised form and is not
as effective as the usual silicate we use and it was requested specifically
for an Organic Festival.
There are no plans to produce it in the future.
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Company Email:
"Our beer is made from four core ingredients; malt, hops, water and yeast.
At a late stage in the beer making process we add a silicate which basically binds on the yeast and acts as a clarification product. All brewers utilise this method.
The silicate we use is synthetic but it is made in part from the swim bladder of fish (the sturgeon being one such fish).
The silicate comes into contact with the beer. It then forms part of the sediment.
It is a product that is not actually ingested although remnants maybe present in the beer.
As a lifestyle choice vegetarians and vegans will have to make up there own minds as to the issues involved in choosing Bath Ales products.
* As a footnote – we have on two occasions produced Wild Hare utilising ‘Irish Moss’ as the silicate – it comes in liquidised form and is not as effective as the usual silicate we use and it was requested specifically for an Organic Festival.
* There are no planes to produce it in the future."
