page_title: Reinheitsgebot
section_title: Predecessors
hierarchical_section_title: Reinheitsgebot / History / Predecessors
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Erinnerung an den Erlaß zum Reinheitsgebot durch Herzog Albrecht IV. am 30. November 1487; Viktualienmarkt in München.
context_page_description: The Reinheitsgebot, is a series of regulations limiting the ingredients in beer in Germany and the states of the former Holy Roman Empire. The best known version of the law was adopted in Bavaria in 1516, but similar regulations predate the Bavarian order, and modern regulations also significantly differ from the 1516 Bavarian version.
context_section_description: The earliest documented mention of beer by a German nobleman is the granting of a brewing licence by Emperor Otto II to the church at Liege (now Belgium), awarded in 974. A variety of other beer regulations also existed in Germany during the late Middle Ages, including in Nuremberg in 1293, Erfurt in 1351, and Weißensee in 1434.
caption: Sign celebrating the 1487 Munich Reinheitsgebot.
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