That vegan thread.

gon2seed

(and me! - Ed)
Am a Lacto Vegetarian, as I choose not to consume flesh! Tell people that I have no right to preach, as a 'Lacto' I am part of the animal farming industry, and Calfs/Eues/Kids and adults are not sent out to pasture when they have out-served their usefulness. Having regular offspring in order to keep producing milk is part of the system!

Perhaps I ought to be a Vegan! (Loves blue cheese too much! Ed !)
 

1JKz

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Most beer is not vegetarian nor vegan

Chewing gum is made from dead cows

And dog food is made from cut up Shetland ponies

Have a nice dayall
That's the field i struggle in, beer, though, you find out which beers are vegan, you work ya way through them and find a favourite or two, and where poss, stick with them, that's all, easy peasy lemon in my Corona thanks. I'll get the next one in.
There's even an app for it, you zap the pump badge and the app tells ya whether an ingredient's been passed unnecessarily through some poor fishsees's' body, or not. Just depends if you don't mind being that guy.

You can buy vegan chewing gum, if you so wish. Problem is, they come with a live cow.
 

Goldilox

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Most beer is not vegetarian nor vegan

Chewing gum is made from dead cows

And dog food is made from cut up Shetland ponies

Have a nice dayall

It's not the easiest information to get hold of, but I believe most large brewers now use centrifuges or Spanish moss, rather than isinglass finings, to clarify beers, meaning most beer is vegetarian these days.
 

John Marwood

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It's not the easiest information to get hold of, but I believe most large brewers now use centrifuges or Spanish moss, rather than isinglass finings, to clarify beers, meaning most beer is vegetarian these days.

Five pound notes?

The thing is ...

I reckon most real ales are Labour voters, Carling is deffo Conservative, and Pink Gin Lib Dems.. But Guinness? Tricky ....
 

1JKz

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Little further a field, Faro Lounge, Lichfield have a vegan selection.
Great place!

I understand Stafford's getting a Lounge, soon.
 
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zebidee

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It's really tricky to find vegan food out and about. I'm on a milk and egg free diet currently (but eat meat). I've taken to only using chain pubs/restaurants that have an allergen menu on their website as I hate the faff of discussing all the ins and outs with a server who doesn't really know. Some places even have an interactive menu that you can tick off everything you're avoiding.
 

zebidee

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Oh, and I'm soya free too, which is a go-go answer for many places attempting veggie or vegan options.
 

1JKz

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At The Swan last week, i had the falafel burger. (Not the lamb, Chris!)
Highly recommended!
 

Noah

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Ovo-lacto vegitarian since about 1980, never been tempted to go vegan.

Beer can be a problem, the type of finings used for a beer can vary from brew to brew. Where animal finings are used very little if any remains in the final product, but that isn't the point. The following list is incomplete but gives some idea of beers available

Vegetarian/Vegan Cask-Conditioned Beers

Hop Back, Downton, Wiltshire
Tel. 01725 510986 www.hopback.co.uk
Vegan Beer: Entire Stout

Hoggleys, Litchborough, Northamptonshire
Tel. 01604 831762 www.hoggleys.co.uk
Two of the company's draught beers are suitable for vegetarians and vegans; Solstice Stout (5%) and Mill Lane Mild (4%)

Marble Brewery, Manchester
Tel. 0161 819 2694
Many of the beers produced by the Marble brewery are suitable for vegetarians and vegans.

Pitfield Brewery, Epping, Essex
Tel. 0845 833 1492 www.pitfieldbeershop.co.uk
All the draught beers produced by Pitfield are vegan friendly. The brewery produces one beer SB Bitter for the Duke of Cambridge, Islington.

Vegetarian/Vegan Bottle-Conditioned Beers

Atlantic Brewery, Newquay, Cornwall
Tel. 0121 328 4336 www.atlanticbrewery.com
All its bottle-conditioned beer are suitable for vegetarians and vegans.
Bottle-conditioned beers include: Gold Organic (4.6%), Blue Organic (4.8%), Red Organic (5.0%) Fistral Premium (5.2%), Black Organic Dining Ale (5.5%)

Blackfriars, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Tel. 01493 850578 www.blackfriars-brewery.co.uk
All bottled beers are fined (but not with isinglass) so are suitable for vegetarians.

Black Isle, Munlochy, Ross-shire
Tel. 01463 811871 www.blackislebrewery.com
The following beers are suitable for vegetarians : Porter (4.6%), Wheat Beer (5%), Goldeneye Pale Ale (5.6%), Scotch Ale (6.4%), Export Oatmeal Stout (7.2%).

Blythe, Rugely, Staffordshire
Tel. 07773 747724 www.blythebrewery.co.uk

Coastal, Redruth, Cornwall
Tel. 07875 405407 www.coastalbrewery.co.uk
No finings used in any of the bottle conditioned beers

Concrete Cow, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Tel. 01908 316794 www.concretecowbrewery.co.uk
No finings used in the bottle conditioned beers.


Corvedale, Craven Arms, Shropshire
Tel. 01584 861239 www.corvedalebrewery.co.uk
All the bottle-conditioned beers are suitable for vegetarians and vegans.
Current range: Katie's Pride (4.3%) Mild, Norman's Pride (4.3%) Bitter, Farmer Ray's Ale (4.5%) best bitter, Green Hop (4.5%) green hopped beer, Dark & Delicious (4.6%) Old ale

Cotswold, Lower Slaughter, Gloucester
Tel. 07760 889100 www.cotswoldlager.com
Wheat (4.2%) beer is the only bottle conditioned ale produced by this brewery

Country Life, Bideford, Devon
Tel. 01237 420808 www.countrylifebrewery.co.uk
All beers said to be acceptable for vegetarians.


Cropton Brewery, Cropton, N. Yorkshire
Tel. 01751 417330 www.croptonbrewery.com
All bottle-conditioned beers in the very wide range produced are suitable or vegetarians and vegans.

Durham, Bowburn, Durham
Tel. 0191 377 1991 www.durham-brewery.co.uk
All the bottle-conditioned beers are suitable for vegetarians and vegans. The range of beers include:
Cloister (4.5%) golden ale, Evensong (5%)old ale, St Cuthbert (6.5%) IPA, Benedictus (8.4%) barley wine, Temptation (10%) imperial stout

Elmtree, Snetterton, Norfolk
Tel. 01953 887065 www.elmtreebeers.co.uk
All the bottle-conditioned beers are vegan friendly.

Fallen Angel, East Hoathly, East Sussex
Tel. 01825 841307 www.fallenangelbrewery.com
Nearly all of the brewery output is bottle conditioned beers which are all suitable for vegetarians and vegans.

Hoggleys, Litchborough, Northamptonshire
Tel. 01604 831762 www.hoggleys.co.uk
All the bottle-conditioned beers are unfined.

Jolly Brewer, Wrexham
Tel. 01978 261884 www.jollybrewer.co.uk
All bottle-conditioned beers are suitable for vegetarians and vegans. Mail order service available.

King, Horsham, Sussex
Tel. 01403 272102 www.kingbeer.co.uk
No finings used in the bottle-conditioned beers which are therefore suitable for vegetarians.

Little Valley, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
Tel. 01422 249 2295 www.littlevalleybrewery.co.uk
All the bottle-conditioned beers are Vegan Society accredited. Beers include:
Withens IPA (3.9%) golden ale, Ginger Pale Ale (4%), Cragg Vale Bitter(4.2%), Hebden's Wheat (4.5%), Stoodley Stout (4.8%), Tod's Blonde(5%), Moor Ale (5.5%)

Lizard, Pednavounder, Cornwall
Tel. 01326 281135 www.lizardales.co.uk
Bottled beers suitable for vegetarians and vegans.

Marble Brewery, Manchester
Tel. 0161 819 2694 www.marblebeers.com

Ludlow Brewery, Ludlow, Shropshire
Tel 01584 873291 www.theludlowbrewingcompany.co.uk
Bottled conditioned beers: Boiling Well (4.7%), Black Knight I(4.5%)

Moodley's, Penhurst, Kent
Tel 07788 88 98 77 www.moodleys.co.uk
No finings used in any of the bottle-conditioned beers. Vegetarain Society accredited. Beers include Toad Rock Bitter, Poundage Porter, Pantiles Porter, Penhurst Pleasure , Smockham Ale and Royal Match (3.2%) launched to celebrate the wedding of HRH Prince William to Kate Middleton.

Neath Brewery, Baglan, Glamorgan
E. enquiries@neathales.co.uk www.neathales.co.uk
Produces a range of unfiltered, unpasteurised, vegan-friendly bottle-conditioned beers

Old Chimneys, Diss, Norfolk
Tel. 01359 221411 www.oldchimneysbrewery.com
All their bottle-conditioned beers are suitable for vegetarians but their Black Rat and Hairy Canary with their milk-derived lactose are not suitable for vegans.

Pitfield, Epping, Essex
Tel. 0845 833 1492 www.pitfieldbeershop.co.uk
All their bottle conditioned beers are suitable for vegetarians and vegans because no finings are used.

Ringmore, Shaldon, Devon
Tel. 01626 873114
The beers are fined using non-organic auxiliary finings and then bottled. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.

Stroud Brewery, Stroud, Gloucestershire
Tel. 07891 995878 www.stroudbrewery.co.uk
All the bottle conditioned beers are vegan friendly. Ding Dong (4.5%) organic porter, Woolsack (5%) organic porter, Tom Long (3.8%) organic amber bitter, Budding (4.5%) organic pale ale.

St Judes, Ipswich, Suffolk
Tel. 01473 413334 www.stjudesbrewery.co.uk
Two of the bottle-conditioned beers Pagan Path (4%) wheat beer and St Francis (4%) bitter are not fined and thus suitable for vegans and vegetarians.

Tunnel, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Tel. 02476 396450 www.tunnelbrewery.co.uk
This brewery produces a large range of unfined, vegan friendly bottle conditioned beers . Some beers are produced under the Battlefield Brewery name.

Wagtail Brewery, Old Buckenham, Norfolk
Tel. 01953 887133 www.wagtailbrewery.com
All the bottle conditioned beers produced by this brewery founded in 2006 are vegan and vegetarian friendly.

Welton's, Horsham, West Sussex
Tel. 01403 242901 www.weltonsbeer.com
Most of this brewery's cask ales are available in vegan friendly bottle conditioned form.

Why Not, Thorp St Andrew, Norwich
Tel. 01603 300786 www.thewhynotbrewery.co.uk
All the bottle conditioned beers are vegetarian friendly and all bar the honey ale is vegan friendly.

Wibblers, Mayland , Essex
Tel. 01621 772044 www.wibblers.com
All their bottle conditioned beers are finings free and thus suitable for vegetarian and vegan.
 

1JKz

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Great list, when's the vegan BBQ?

Finding out which beer is vegan, well, it's just a case of educating yaself, i've been doing it and it's not an over night thing, but is easy(ish). Many brewers are 100% transparent and have a list of beers that are V and V.

For example, off the back of seeing your list, i thought i'd check out my all time favourite beer; Everard's Tiger and here's what i've learned, vegan; bottled and keg OK, cask not OK.

http://www.barnivore.com/beer/1114/Everards-Brewery

Generally, cask isn't vegan but the same product bottled (or in a keg) is OK, i do wonder why then, they don't tweak the cask somewhat and have the product OK for almost everyone?

I know, i know, i'm not in the business so don't fully appreciate the effort it may take, but still.
 
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Thehooperman

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Great list, when's the vegan BBQ?

Finding out which beer is vegan, well, it's just a case of educating yaself, i've been doing it and it's not an over night thing, but is easy(ish). Many brewers are 100% transparent and have a list of beers that are V and V.

For example, off the back of seeing your list, i thought i'd check out my all time favourite beer; Everard's Tiger and here's what i've learned, vegan; bottled and keg OK, cask not OK.

http://www.barnivore.com/beer/1114/Everards-Brewery


This may help.

If you use an app called Untappd (no e) and type in Vegan in the search it lists a number of beers with Vegan in their title.

Also a good app for rating beers and remembering which ones you liked or disliked as the case may be.
 

1JKz

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This may help.

If you use an app called Untappd (no e) and type in Vegan in the search it lists a number of beers with Vegan in their title.

Also a good app for rating beers and remembering which ones you liked or disliked as the case may be.
Will do, thanks.

I've VeggieBeers app but not fully checked out it's capabilities.
 

1JKz

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Recently, i decided to go Hollybush, Salt.

I knew they had veggie options but wanted to see if any that came close to being vegan, anyway, i ordered the mozzarella veggie burger and asked for the mozzarella to be left off the burger, soon after, someone came over and said unfortunately the mozzarella comes in the burger, i didn't really have much choice (yeah, go with out go somewhere else, etc) so went along with it. It was a nice burger, there was some guilt OK, but i'm kinda safe in the knowledge i'm getting there.
I never told them i was aiming for vegan, as it scares the living 5hit out of some people, so it was all fair enough, i knew where i was going, knew pretty much the choices, so.
 

1JKz

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Heard someone say they're in-house vegan, i like that term, not quite there when away from the home, but damn trying!

The V(egan) word!

Has it been taken off the swear list?
 
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