Something else the Purity Laws did for beer
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I'll drink to that! 
The purity laws were more for tax collection than food safety, so lager yeast was just a lucky happenstance
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As I sip my Saison brewed with a cane sugar and a bit of coriander & black pepper, fermented at 82 degrees, and take a long deep sniff of its aromatic complexities as swirls in my glass, I think "To hell with the Reinheitsgebot and the German affection of following the rules, give me Belgians in all their un-pure, rowdy gloriousness!"
That was an interesting, albeit brief, article. I didn't realize there were two families of lager yeast. I haven't ever lagered yet, but now I have something to think about for when I do; whether to use yeasts from the Saaz family or the Frohberg.
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