Then I asked very clearly and specifically about bottled Extra Stout brewed and bottled in New Brunswick. After checking for me the rep was able to very clearly confirm that this product, brewed in New Brunswick, didn't not use isinglass in it's production and was in fact suitable for vegans.
Company email March : "You will be pleased to hear that we do not use any animal products in our beer or the production of it. The fine beers we brew and import are brewed with these all-natural ingredients: water, barley malt, hops, yeast, and cereal grains. The water we use is drawn from the municipal drinking supply and carbon filtered for astounding purity.
Our brewing water must free of any taste, color, or aroma before brewing. Our beers are brewed with pale two or six row barley malt. Roasted barley gives the color to our beers — lightly roasted barley makes pale golden beers like Labatt Blue or Budweiser.
Roast them yet more? Yeast is the life of the brewing process. We use our own pure-cultured yeast strains for fermentation — the yeast breaks down sugars into carbon dioxide and alcohol. Our lagers use a bottom-fermenting yeast for a crisper, cleaner flavor. Ales use a top-fermenting yeast for a more fruity, floral, lingering notes. Most of our beers are also brewed with a cereal grain, also known as an adjunct.
Some are brewed with corn for a sweeter taste. Some use rice for a crisp, clean finish. Company email October : [from Labatt who brews Guiness Extra Stout in Canada] "You will be pleased to hear that we do not use any animal products in our beer or the production of it.
Company email Feb I am writing to you in response to your recent email regarding whether Guinness and it's suitability for Vegans. In answer to your query however, we do use isinglass, a by product of the fishing industry, for fining all Guinness brewed beers. To date, we have not found any alternative that is as effective and as environmentally friendly as isinglass for our product.
Company email November "In response to your inquiry, we would like to let you know that at this time, Guinness Black Lager is not suitable for vegetarians. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Note from William: March "I know you have received conflicting information regarding the brewing of Guinness, and your level of exasperation is obvious from the Guinness entry.
Nonetheless, I tried to follow a logical thread that has been apparent from the beginning, when Guinness original explained that a certain product Guinness Extra Stout for export to the U. How could that be, I asked myself. So, I did some research and found that many of the online commentators at beer sites were wrong. Moosehead, not Labatt's, brewed it for the U. Thus, I contacted the actual brewers of Guinness Extra Stout that exported here, and their response follows: consumerinquiries moosehead.
We do not make use of isinglass in any of our brewing processes, export or domestic. Company email: pamela. However, isinglass, which is a by-product of the fishing industry is used as a fining agent - i.
Findings are removed by sedimentation and centrifugation. Therefore it would not be suitable for vegans. Company Email diageona consumer-care. To the strict Vegan, this would be considered an animal product and therefore unsuitable. We can inform you that Guinness does not contain eggs, dairy or honey. In regards to Kaliber, unfortunately we are unable to confirm this for you.
The North American Guinness Extra Stout does not contain isinglass, nor are any animal products used in its manufacture. Company Email diageoNA consumer-care. Company Email guinness consumer-care. Isinglass, a fish product, is used during the clarification process as a magnet to get rid of excess yeast.
To the strict Vegan, this would be considered an animal product and therefore unsuitable for Guinness products. Since this applies to Guinness products, it is more likely that this also applies to the Guinness th Anniversary stout Edition.
Jan "In reference to your inquiry, isinglass, a fish product, is used during the clarification process as a magnet to get rid of excess yeast. To the strict Vegan, this would be an animal product and unsuitable. I hope this helps. Once again, thank you for contacting us. Jan I showed them your web page and they explained below is a small part of the email in case you want to quote it that the extra stout is vegan and the draught is not, which explained the discrepancy.
Hope that helps. Guinness Draught does contain isinglass in both bottles and the draught. Our Consumer Relations department has informed us that the Guinness Extra Stout product that you will find in the North American market does not contain isinglass. I hope this is the answer you were looking for. If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
In reference to your inquiry, isinglass, a fish product, is used during the clarification process as a magnet to get rid of excess yeast. Thank you for taking the time to contact us and for your interest in Guinness Draught nutritional information. All rights reserved. Find Booze:. James "In regards to your inquiry, Guinness Extra Stout does not contain isinglass. Aug Our Consumer Relations department has informed us that the Guinness Extra Stout product that you will find in the North American market does not contain isinglass.
But then we got this one in November: In reference to your inquiry, isinglass, a fish product, is used during the clarification process as a magnet to get rid of excess yeast. Did they not know about the Extra Stout? Does this cancel out the previous message?
Who knows? And then there's the standard reply: Thank you for taking the time to contact us and for your interest in Guinness Draught nutritional information. Other products by Guinness:. Guinness Black Lager. Guinness Blonde American Lager. Guinness The Guinness Extra Stout. Guinness Foreign Extra Stout. Which is a polite way of saying the taste of low-alcohol lagers isn't up to much - a Which? And the good news? Kaliber is getting a new flavour, thanks to top-secret techniques developed by owner Guinness, and its first TV advertising for nearly 10 years.
The brown bottles are also on the way out, to be replaced by more cosmopolitan-looking green glass - consumers, it seems, associate brown glass with deeply unfashionable pale ale. No more Billy Connolly then? The new ads apparently owe more to that other TV comic, Dom Joly. Ad agency Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO has come up with two Trigger Happy TV-style commercials in which characters are shown supping lager in deeply inappropriate situations, such as while driving a bus or conducting surgery, to the horror of everyone present.
The endline is "Only the beer gets drunk". History: Guinness launched Kaliber in as an upmarket alternative to existing alcohol-free lager brands.
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