Originally Posted by
LEONIDES
Corona is not beer. It is made with corn. No beverage made with corn can be considered beer. Under the German Reinheitsgebot rules, for a beverage to be called beer, it should only be made with 4 ingredients: water, barley, hops, and yeast. That being said, I wouldn't mind seeing it offered on UA flights.
(p.s., be the same rules, Budweiser would not be considered beer, because it is brewed with rice.)
And... neither would any Hefeweizen.
However, the meaning of the English word "beer" is not dependent upon what a bunch of protectionist German brewers thought the German word "bier" should mean in the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries. I'm not sure why anyone could possibly think that it might. Especially considering that the word "beer" was in the English language centuries prior to the Reinheitsgebot.
Actually the original Reinheitsgebot also set the price of beer at one pfenig per masse, so if you're paying more than that you're getting gypped.
