{"id":8561,"date":"2018-05-19T13:50:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T13:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=8561"},"modified":"2018-05-19T13:51:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T13:51:12","slug":"german-beer-no-longer-wholesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=8561","title":{"rendered":"German beer no longer wholesome"},"content":{"rendered":"

German brewers will no longer be able to advertise their beers as “bek\u00f6mmlich<\/em>” (wholesome) following a ruling by the Federal High Court<\/a> (BGH), The Local reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A wholesome tray of (un)wholesome beer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to the BGH, the word “bek\u00f6mmlich<\/em>” has connotations of health benefits and thus cannot be used as it falls foul of European Union regulations on advertising alcohol, which must avoid any suggestion that alcohol is good for a body.<\/p>\n

In 2015 a case was brought against Brauerei Clemens H\u00e4rle KG<\/a> of Leutkirch im Allg\u00e4u<\/a> in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg against the brewery’s use of “bek\u00f6mmlich<\/em>” in advertising.<\/p>\n

After a series of appeals through lower courts, the BGH finally ruled on Thursday ruled that breweries were not allowed to describe their beers in terms that portray them as having health benefits.<\/p>\n

That ruling and the EU legislation puts paid to any return of Arthur Guinness’ “Guinness is good for you<\/em>” advertising slogan for the Dublin’s most famous liquid export.<\/p>\n

The situation of Sanatogen Tonic Wine (marketed in the UK as a fortified wine with an alcohol content 15%), remains unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

German brewers will no longer be able to advertise their beers as “bek\u00f6mmlich” (wholesome) following a ruling by the Federal High Court (BGH), The Local reports. According to the BGH, the word “bek\u00f6mmlich” has connotations of health benefits and thus cannot be used as it falls foul of European Union regulations on advertising alcohol, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[18,22],"class_list":["post-8561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","tag-beer","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8566,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions\/8566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}