- Spaten Munchen
- MORE OF THIS?
I heard this on NPR this morning and wondered if Jason Rapert would trade fracking for seven or eight of the world’s biggest breweries.
I would.
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German brewers have warned Chancellor Angela Merkel that any law allowing the controversial drilling technique known as fracking could damage the country’s cherished beer industry.
The Brauer-Bund beer association is worried that fracking for shale gas, which involves pumping water and chemicals at high pressure into the ground, could pollute water used for brewing and break a 500-year-old industry rule on water purity.