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Nutrition

How many calories, carbohydrate count and outright sugar content is contained in Beck's Beer? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.188.116.208 (talk • contribs) 00:47, 3 October 2004

St. Pauli Girl

It has to be noted, that the clichès played on by the St. Pauli Girl brand are utterly wrong. While the girl is shown as being Bavarian, St. Pauli is actually a part of Hamburg, in the North of Germany. While we are in general very tolerant in Hamburg, there are a few things that are totally unacceptable. Being depicted as Bavarian is one of them. Interesting, how a GERMAN brewery got this wrong. Maybe it's because the brewery is based in Bremen, we also don't like the people there.

well, first of all, St. Pauli Girl is in fact not mentioned after the Hamburg City district but after the st. paul's monestary on whose ground th brewery was founded. Secondly the dress style didn't only exist in bavaria (southern Germany) but similar in northern Germany. Today this dress style has completely vanished in northern Germany and is now only connected with southern Germany. As the brewery of St. Pauli Girl had been founded in the 17th century the dress style hadn't vanished than. Third: Hamburg people are openly minded, as long as one regards them beeing the "best". And last but not least you should get your facts right before posting.

TOT UND HASS DEM HSV!!! <- Is that right? Definitly!

No, it's wrong. "Tot" means "dead"; you want "Tod", which means "Death". Moreover, the HSV rules. 82.32.65.149

Not to mention... isn't St Pauli the Hamburg red lights district? what's the thing with naming a beer after that kind of place, and marketing it as "prestigious"?

As mentioned above the beer is not named after the Hamburg district but after a St.Paul's Monestary. That could be prestigious, couldn't it? ;-)

Is that trying to prove that yankees are morons or something?

No. This dress style has once been (centuries ago) famous in northern Germany as well. Not in the extravagant style like in bavaria but in a more reduced style. That one looks like the one on the beer.

As for the girl on the label being Bavarian... since the beer is for export and Bavarion traditional dress is the best known in Germany, I'd guess it's just trying to improve logo recognition, not a deliberate (or stupid) insult to Hamburg folk. ----Svartalf 15:53, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is a bavarian girl on the bottle because the St Pauli Brauerei (which was aquired by Becks) was supposedly built on top of St Pauls monestary (in bavaria) after whom the part of Hamburg was named.... well.. and what Svatalf said..

Lager, Weissbier and Becks

I've just removed some major nonsense from this page; I probably haven't gone far enough. Problems with the previous content:

It suggested that the typical South German beer is Weissbier, rather than Helles.

It suggested that Becks, in the North, further developed Pilsener.

It ignores the fact that Pilsener bases on the Bavarian tradition, and that the differences in the water allowed it to be so light.

In fact, I don't see any reason to mention any of this. Becks is a typical German Pilsener-style beer, like others in the north more hopped than in the south, but not really very different. Jever, also from the north, is probably a better beer. Groogle 08:43, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Beckz

Some IP editors and user Fadgearse have been attempting to do wholesale edits on this page, citing a page on the Becks website. This is despite;

the part of the Becks website cited is a humour section, written by a professional comedian (http://www.becks.com/#/dailydifferent/).
It was published April Fool's day
Companies generally don't change 136 year old brand names simply to make "a clear distinction between ourselves and David Beckham. And girls named Rebecca."
No other reputable sources have taken up the story.

Fadgearse in particular has been attempting to claim the story is genuine, so I have been treating the edits as vandalism. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 22:22, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

calories

How many calories does a Beck Beer have? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.160.250.86 (talk) 01:49, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong / right

This is wrong!!!!!!!

The Reinheitsgebot of 1516 is frequently cited in advertising and marketing material, but modern commercial breweries do not adhere to its requirement.(advertising and marketing material, this meets for many other Countries like USA but not for Germany)!

This is right!!! The Reinheitsgebot of 1516 is not only frequently cited in advertising and marketing material. It ensures that the beer is clean(clear and purity) and harmless to drink in contrast to many other foods. In medival in Germany beer was an food also for kids(with less alcohol) because of its cleaness/purity.

Today if you want to call your drink beer(write beer on the bottle) you have demonstrate the clearness/purity. On the other side is american beer in it could be putted everything the food act allows. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.153.199.243 (talk) 08:43, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeast and the German Purity Law

The article currently states "as with virtually all modern beers, cultured yeast is an ingredient" and goes on to mention that yeast was not allowed in the 1516 German Purity Law (though it was later added as an amendment). I am looking at the ingredients for a bottle of Becks beer, and it does not contain yeast. My understanding is, only becks that is brewed under license in other countries contains yeast, but the official Becks beer brewed in Bremen does not contain yeast. --Abhi Beckert (talk) 07:08, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You can't produce a beer without yeast. What the "purity law" didn't specify was added yeast, because nobody knew about it. In those days, you just mixed all the ingredients together and hoped for the best. So much for "purity". The Rheinheitsgebot (did I spell that right?) was about regulation, not quality.