The Bavarian Purity Law of 1516, the Reinheitsgebot, stipulated that beer made in Bavaria may contain only Barley, Hops and Water. Yeast was added to the list of allowable ingredients in 1551. The law was further modified in 1952 and 1980. In 1987 the European Court of Justice of the EC ruled that the law created "intra-European trade barriers",
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