Kirin is Not Vegan Friendly

by Wells & Young's Brewing
Address: Havelock Street
Bedford, MK40 4LU
UK
Phone: +44(0)1234 272766
Fax:
Email: Peter.Stathers@wellsandyoungs.co.uk
URL: http://www.wellsandyoungs.co.uk/
Checked by: Lisa
Double checked by: Brian, AngelA, Andrew, Eric, Ian, Veronica
Added: about 3 years ago

Company email: April 2011
For your information, we believe that currently all Wells' and Youngs' beers (beers branded as Charles Wells, Young's or Courage Best and Directors and Mongoose) in can, bottle and keg are suitable for vegetarians and vegans (except perhaps Waggledance which contains Honey). All cask conditioned beers are unsuitable as they are fined using isinglass finings. To the best of our knowledge, there are no fish, dairy, egg or other animal products in our beers except as described here. We do not use gelatin as a fining/clarifying agent.
[Editor's note: notice how this is the EXACT SAME copy as the other two below? It's a standard reply which means they get the question often enough to have a response prepared! Vegans on the radar yo!)]

Company Email: Aug 2010
"For your information, we believe that currently all Wells' and Young's
beers (beers branded as Charles Wells or Young's or Courage Best and
Directors and UK brewed Red Stripe Lager) in can, bottle and keg are
suitable for vegetarians and vegans (except perhaps Waggledance which
contains Honey). All cask conditioned beers are unsuitable as they
are fined using isinglass finings. To the best of our knowledge, there
are no fish, dairy, egg or other animal products in our beers except
as described here."

Company Email: March 2010
"we believe that currently all Wells' and Young's beers (beers branded as Charles Wells or Young's or Courage Best and Directors) in can, bottle and keg are suitable for vegetarians and vegans (except Waggledance which contains Honey). All cask conditioned beers are unsuitable as they are fined using isinglass finings. To the best of our knowledge, there are no other dairy, egg or other animal products in our beers"

Company Email: May 2009
"'Cask Conditioned' beer is otherwise known as 'traditional cask beer', and this means that it is not served from a 'keg' but from a 'cask', where the beer is naturally matured and 'conditioned'. This type of beer is served in pubs/bars from a hand pull dispense system direct from a cask. Keg and can beers are 'brewery conditioned' as are most bottles beers (except for 'bottle conditioned' beers which contain yeast). For our beers, it is only beer served from a cask which contains isinglass finings, which is used to settle out the yeast and other protein material. Isinglass finings is often also used in wine manufacture.

I hope this helps - bottled Chocolate Stout is not fined with isinglass finings, and so is ok for vegetarians "

"For your information, we believe that currently all Wells' and Young's beers (beers branded as Charles Wells or Young's or Courage Best and Directors) in can, bottle and keg are suitable for vegetarians and vegans (except Waggledance which contains Honey).
All traditional cask conditioned beers are unsuitable as they are fined using isinglass finings. "

December 2007
Company email:
Further to your question about the suitability of our Chocolate Stout for vegans, I confirm that this product should be acceptable for you as no finings are used in its production (isinglass), and the chocolate added is stated to be suitable for vegans.

In general all our keg, bottle and canned beers are suitable for vegetarians and vegans, with the exception of Waggledance (honey), and perhaps Kirin (where in the very early stages of yeast propogation some egg albumen is used - very small quantities, and likely not to be detectable in final product). All our Cask beers are all fined with isinglass finings, and are therefore not suitable.

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