Jews collaborate with Germans - to create beer!

A local Jerusalem Microbrewery just won a contest to collaborate with a German brewery to create an international beer blend that will celebrate Jewish contributions to beer and brewing throughout history, especially German history. 

The story begins about a year ago. Bernhard Purin, Director of the Jewish Museum in Munich, and Conrad Seidl, the "Beer Pope" of Austria, visited Israel on a search to find a craft brewery in Israel that they could partner with. They wished to collaborate and create a German mixed with an Israeli beer, in honor of a new exhibition that is set to run throughout most of 2016 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reinheitsgebot, Germany's and perhaps the world's first beer purity law.