aeacfm, you have to believe I'm not trying to do down religion, I'm just assuming you want beer that adheres to Halal and that means I have to
reference what the texts say about it.
It is my interpretation of it, but then, saying it should contain no molecules of alcohol is also an interpretation.
If it meant, to be entirely free of alcohol molecules, it would surely have been easy to say "no traces of alcohol", or something similar; "absolutely
free of alcohol", "drinks must be as pure as water".
The way it says "strong" and "intoxicating" drinks, would seem to be talking about drinks designed to get you drunk right?
Again, I'm not trying to say this is stupid or you're wrong to want it without alcohol in it, I'm only trying to work out what is okay and what isn't.
As you've heard, it's basically impossible to remove all of it from anything (water included), people didn't have spectroscopy when the Quran was
written, so that must mean there is some quantity that is not considered against Halal, or everyone would have been breaking it since the text was
written.
"Strong" and "intoxicating" I think I am more correct in meaning, a.) something you've brewed to get drunk or that will easily make you drunk, b.)
drinking enough of it that you do get drunk.
If you remove 99%+ of the alcohol from beer, you've tried hard to get rid of all the alcohol, you're approaching the limits of what is physically
possible and you'd have to drink buckets of it (literally) to even start feeling drunk.
We are talking about absolutely minute quantities of alcohol, not Western 'weak beer' standards, it will be getting close to water in terms of the
alcohol content.
I don't mean to offend you, so I hope I haven't,
John
[Edited on 31-10-2010 by peach] |