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   Ruth

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   Are the lagers you state as vegan cask or bottled? Cask all used to be not vegan many years ago. I’ve been vegan nearly 30 yrs and my info is a bit outdated!!

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     The Vegan Punk

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     The vegan lagers are the bottles or draught (keg). Ales come in casks, they’re not vegan because they use isinglass (fish finings) to clear the beer.

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   Stone Forest

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   Hi, VPunk,

   Here from Hull.

   I made the decision a few weeks ago, so I’ve started asking the question when I go into a bar: “Which of your beers are not made with finings?”

   First response this evening: “None of them (it’s only fish swim bladders)”, “OK, see you later.”, “Are you serious?”, “Yeah!”

   Next bar (Chilli Devils in Hull, a tiny little bar, which has Atom ales and other Vegan acceptable ales on draught on a fairly regular basis); same opening question; response: “Have you turned Vegan?”, “Yes, a few weeks ago.”, “We have bottles of Atom (Hull, Sutton Fields), Brew Dog (dubiously acceptable, because of their taxidermy thing (My comment)), and a few ciders.”. I had a cider. Chilli Devils, which does three chilli dishes every day, one of which is ‘vegetarian’ (and usually Vegan), also hosts a Vegan evening every Wednesday. I mentioned Brass Castle to the proprietor, who expressed an interest into getting it in. More power to them. Every small step really does count.

   Ye Old Black Boy also stocks Vegan acceptable ale, cider, and lager, as does the Sailmaker’s Arms, and in between the two is Hitchcock’s vegatarian restaurant (although that is a pre-book).

   “Every journey begins from where you are standing” (Ancient Daoist saying)

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     Stone Forest

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     Just to clarify, although my diet and general consumption is probably aceptable to most Vegans, I probably cannot be considered to be a ‘true’ Vegan. My (active) decision is fundamentally ecological: I seek to minimalise any detrimental impact upon the biosphere that my lifestyle may have, because that will have a future impact not only on me, but also upon future generations. Apart from the overwhelming evidence supporting the facts that a plant based diet is both healthy and environmentally sustainable, and that an animal based one is neither, the breeding and culling of animals purely for their outer coverings is bloody cruel, as is the breeding and culling of animals for the purpose of exploiting them either as pets or for leisure activities or for ‘scientific’ experimentation of dubious value. But I don’t believe that any of this makes me inherently ‘Vegan’.

     After all, I do smoke tobacco irregularly, and I do drink alcohol, although interestingly (perhaps), since I stopped being an ‘eater of the dead’, I have found that my desire for both caffeine and alcohol have diminished considerably.

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     The Vegan Punk

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     Cheers for the info!

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3. 

   Stone Forest

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   Here’s another one from Hull: Bricknell Brewery (http://bricknellbrewery.co.uk)

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4. 

   john andrews

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   Hi,

   Apparently all Bateman’s bottled ales are vegan-friendly (and they taste pretty good). So too, I believe, is Fuller’s London Pride (bottled).

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   adrian mills

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   COORS LIGHT- VEGAN

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     The Vegan Punk

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     http://www.barnivore.com/products/32244-coors-light-uk

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6. 

   Anne Wood

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   Mumbles brewery in Swansea South Wales are vegan friendly apart from the Oystermouth stout which has oysters in it.

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7. 

   Suzanne

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   Does anyone know if Caffreys is suitable for vegans?

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