A man wanted to duplicate Budweiser beer in his home brewing facility, so he sent a sample of BUD off to a laboratory for an analysis, which he would use to duplicate the brew. A couple of weeks later, he got a reply from the lab, which read, "Your horse has diabetes."
Ha, my dad told me when I was a kid that beer was made of carbonated horse pee to discourage me from wanting some. Turns out, horse pee is pretty good. :)
@@peterclarke7240 I was making fun of American beer, specifically Budweiser. Do you not understand the concept of a satirical joke? And do you not know that micro-breweries all over America are brewing beer of the same and even better quality, variety, and taste than European beer? Your comment was wrong in so many ways, as if you are not fluent in English.
@@DEPARTMENTOFREDUNDANCYDEPT Sorry, I was replying to TheT)mmen, who asked if horse piss is better than beer. And yes, I certainly get the concept of satire, fear not. I'm British. I was using satire before I was out of my mother's womb. And also yes, I know about micro-breweries. I'm not talking about micro-breweries, because what they do is brew European beers with a bit of a twist. It's not "'Murican" beer like bud et al. It's almost as though you think the only person allowed to insult the weak piss most Americans class as beer is you.
My mother a non englisch speaking German came here in 1962. She thought somebody was messing with her the first time she tasted American beer and threw it out only to realize it really was that bad!
I like how for the japanese for a beverage to be classified as “beer” (nama biiru) it gotta have a certain percentage of malt in it. Otherwise it gets classified as Happoshuu and its less expensive. On the other hand i think it messes up the tax on beer with flavours because it cant be real beer and i think its considered liquor, im not sure about that, i only read something about it a while ago.
The US craft beer scene is really great. As a German I think, that's the way to go. Convince your friends to try some local beers, instead of buying that crap from the big companies. We have big companies in Germany too, and their beer is, compared to many of the small beweries, just not that good.
@@florianmeier451 Well not in germany, we have all the small/medium brewerys that make the good stuff and the big ones that use their scraps to make something similar to beer, at least it "tastes" like that. Thats basically the reason why craft beers mostly failed in Germany except a few ones that made the most exceptional beers and some that are linked to bigger brewerys like Zwönitzer.
I'm just the right age to have lived through all of this. When I was in my late teens it was still a wasteland for beer. I thought I hated beer because the only beer I had ever tasted was Pabst, Schlitz, Hamms, etc. Then I took a trip to Germany when I was 18 and tasted a real pilsner. I was hooked from the first sip. When I got home, I would desperately search the local liquor stores for any German imports. Daab, Bitburger, EKU, Spaten, even St Pauli, I didn't care. It was all a step up from Miller and Coors to me. And then finally the US craft beers started coming on the market. What a great time to be a beer drinker! :)
I tried a lot of different beers, impart or craft. Some are too hoppy for my taste. For me Pabst Blue Ribbon taste really good on hot summer days. Just right amount of hops and good carbonation so I don't feel like blown up balloon . And can't beat the price. Perhaps I develop this taste because in my younger years all I could afford was cheap American lager.
I always laughed at other Soldiers when they came back from Germany and said they couldn’t drink American piss-water anymore…until I got stationed in Germany! OMG! Their beers are so flavorful and amazing. Love me a heffeweizen. I can’t drink Lite or Bud anymore, Coors has always tasted like sh!t, Miller High Life is pretty good, but nothing beats the small company and craft beers. They actually care about quality craft and beer not numbers in a ledger!
You should visit Belgium where they have hundreds of different beers not counting craft beers. Belgian beers comprise both lighter and darker types but the main thing is their generosity with ingredients. They have double, triple and quadruple which have 7%, 9% and 11% alcohol. Get used to those and you will never drink Heineken let alone Miller, Bud etc.
I too served in Germany ...but with the British army ...we were warned about German bier !....even though some of us had been drinking since we were 14 ...it still got us into some right states
A good American Hefeweizen is from Live Oak Brewery out of Austin, if you can find it in your state, and I was the same, after being stationed in Germany in the mid 80`s never really cared for American beer, being in Texas, I at least had access to Shiner bock, which is pretty good. Now we have access to a lot of craft beer, so all is good.
Funny that you only mentioned the big brands that produce international light lager, which is like sex in a canoe - fucking close to water. The US has more than 10 thousand breweries - try them. German beer is fucking boring.
@The Lidl Rock Archive Of course you have more beer drinkers cause you have 4 times the population but okey using ur brain before writing a comment must be hard.
My taste for beer with flavor changed when I got stationed in the UK with the Air Force back in the 90s. I was at the enlisted club on base with local beers on tap. I told the bartender they didn’t recognize them and so he poured one and said this is a good British beer. It was John Courage an amber lager. when I tried it I found it absolutely delicious. Then later a guy had a bottle of Czech Budweiser and I tried it and loved it. I wanted to keep drinking and he’s like drink it down. This is when I discovered that I like beer that I can taste like Pulp Fiction, I know how f’n good my beer is!
Czech Budweiser is the most delicious beer on earth. In the US you have to go to some specific rare liquor store to buy it. In London, England where I live I can buy it in the corner shop at the end of my road. That sums up the difference between American and British attitudes to beer.
@@einzelganger2939 Czech Budweiser is in the top 3 best selling beers in the country, (Czechia) which drinks the most beer in the world and has some of the best. But I guess some guy said on the internet said it's shit so it must be.
@@einzelganger2939what do you drink? For me Asahi is the best lager I’ve ever tasted, but usually still prefer an Ale, Timothy Taylor’s the best, Black sheep is good and even Doom Bar if it’s kept well. Tbf tho on a hot sunny day you have to have a lager, we j don’t get many of them in England
Some years ago, myself and three colleagues in the BBC were filming the St Patricks Day parade in NY (All Brits). We stopped filming for a drink in a bar and as the empties piled up on our table, the barman came over with another round. " You guys in the the UK have strong stuff like this?" he asked. "Oh yes" my friend replied. "We call it Perrier"
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318well you're wrong there mate. If he voted brexit, he would want the immigrants out, bc EU law means they can travel freely into the UK. Also migrant means someone from within the country.
@@drjojo5551because they were making and drinking beer centuries before we started passing off our shitty, frat boy,horse piss,over marketed crap as beer 🍺🤦♂️
Mass produced American beer is served ice cold to kill the taste, which is not great. The colder it is, the less you can taste. Americans whine that Germans and Austrians serve beer warm. They don’t, but it is not as cold as a typical American beer because it tastes good. The craft beer industry has brought up the quality of American beer, no question. Many Americans will stick with Miller, Bud and Coors. To each his own!
I grew up in the Midwest. I worked on the farms, in the heartland of German immigrants, only 25-35 years after WWII. I can see why light lagers were popular. After long hot days baling hay, milking cattle, herding hogs, walking beans and de-tasseling corn, the kind of heavy dark beer that I prefer today would be just awful. I grew up with Pabst, Bud and Coors. Miller pretended to be high-brow while Michelob pretended to have dark beer. I don't like any of them anymore, but then I no longer spend my days convincing 600 pound sows that they need to get up that ramp. Maybe if I did, they would still taste good. In the end, it's always, each to their own.
I was raised in midwest farm country, so I know where-of you are speaking. The only thing I might add is beer out of the keg always tastes better than beer out of an aluminum can. Always.
Well, a beer that is light in colour doesn't NEED to taste like piss or overwhelmingly packed. See what the german immigrants tried to acchieve? A beer like in Germany, light in the colour, a watery taste was propably not intended. Here in Germany I can pretty much enjoy that. Our "light" beers are light in colour, but tastefull. However, they aren't so strong and "packed" like a dark beer. They are very enjoyable after such a long long working day, as you described it :)
@@sagichdirdochnicht4653 Yup, they explained that it's our 6 row Barley that's been the problem. I'm a farmer and currently pushing the numbers on growing 2 row Barley, to see if i could make money selling it.
@@thedudeperson Crying? Beer in general is for bitches. A real man drinks liquor. Beers good if you wanna get bloated and piss 500 times. And if you drink craft beer you automatically deserve to get you're male card revoked as its for pansies.
I have a visa pending to become an american, I'm gonna have to learn all my new beers at least for craft beer when I leave canada. I actually liked samuel adams when I was in america
I was a fan of Bud Light until I learned to replicate the recipe at home with just three ingredients: Kellogg’s ‘Rice Krispies’, powdered skim milk, and tap water - done! ✅
I thought the beers were standing there for a long time, or where poared really, really badly.,. ^.^' lol, I call beers from other nations than Belgium catpee, but I guess I need to agree than and call this actual water than, I guess.,. ^.^'
All the foam does is make your beer flat. A properly poured beer is tilted and poured smoothly down the side. Foam is for people that know nothing about beer.
Nope, you have never ever poared a beer correctly. You start by poaring the beer at an angle until reaching half, after that, you hold it streight, to create the optimum amount of foam. The glass needs to be also cleaned at a pretty specific way.,. In Belgium there are actually beer poaring contests. Perhaps you should take at least a look to that and not spend time on giving fucked up comments, without using your god damn brain.,. Also, the saying goes, "bier drink je met verstand". ( what ruffly means to use your brain when drinking beer ) Belgian beers aren't beers you can easily poar down as if it is water, most heavy beers contain around 8% Duvel for example, a beer that's been around since 1871, ( one of my favorite beers ) contains 8.5%.,.
First, your belligerent tone pegs you as uneducated. Second, you are using a computer. Use spell check. Even When writing in a foreign language, multiple spelling mistakes with spell check shows you as being lazy, ignorant or both. Typos are different. bier drink je met verstand...I speak English and German...don't need your condescending translation. Even if I didn't, we have Google translate. You obviously think you know more than you do.
I been home brewing since the 80s. Started with the brew kits and advanced to all grain. It is a bit of work, but not hard labor. I enjoy serving It to guests. Home brewing is very affordable when compared to the price of a dozen beer from the liquor store. Makes for a good rewarding hobby.
I started brewing my own at home around 1991. Started with the cans of malt extract - and they were pretty awful. But, I stuck with it and soon found that I could not drink all that I made. My friends only liked the mega brands - so what to do ? I loved the science and experimentation of the whole hobby and soon, started to enter my beers into competitions, mainly to get honest feedback on how to improve. Soon, I was winning ribbons and medals and certificates of achievement. I wanted to go commercial - but found that searching out and enjoying the labors of others to be much easier.......and didn't require all that cleaning and sanitizing ! !
And with all this temperature controlled high voltage brewing equipment the past few years it's gotten real easy too,it takes me more effort to drink the beer than to brew it.
Did I miss them covering the fact they add corn and other easily fermentable sugers to light lagers to boost the alcohol levels without having to use more malted barley? Using cheaper sugers that bring little to no flavor is a cost saving way to boost alcohol levels. Yes American style light lagers are very tough to brew because there's so little flavor for flaws to hide behind but they are still dull and uninteresting beers to drink.
As an under age kid only place which would sell us would only sell us the expensive stuff so our keg parties featured DAB Wurzburger Dinkle Acker Hoffbrau Becks StPauli etc. It was good
Prior to WW2, American beer was craft beer with high alchohol content, during the war the government wanted the troops to be able to drink but not get too drunk just in case they had to fight, they thinned it down and decreased the alcohol content, people got used to it and continued to consume that type of beer after the war
Craft beer will be around as long as the economy stays stable. This generation wants craft foods and brews. Now it’s quality over quantity. As in the past, it was the opposite.
The craft beer boom is starting to trickle south of the border too. I went to Tijuana recently and a lot of restaurants are starting their own breweries because the millenial tourists want more IPAs and stouts.
I don't think there were more than a dozen brands of brew locally available when I was a kid. And that was in Massachusetts! I can only imagine how deprived places like Idaho & Mormon Wyoming must've been.
Piss water beer is for the toothless neighbor down the street that comes home after work and gets shit faced every night because he can’t stand his wife .
Craft beer has always been around for people who love real beer. It’s just been more readily available for people for the past five years depending where you live . And as far as the economy they will only play a role so far . When the economy got bad years back it did not slow me down . I still bought the beer I like even though it cost more .
so in short: 1. US was not able to make beer like it tasted in Germany 2. instead used whatever they had to make beer their way (watery) 3. then prohibition with no legal beer making at all 4. followed by years of industrialized and commercialized beer production (watery) 5. then golden age of craft brewing (finally some taste in that beer!)
@@opalyankaBG What was it like when the people immigrated to the US? It's pretty well explained here. The same for all those that say all American beer is like water. Since the 1980s there has been a lot of small brewery's making other kinds of beers in the style of many different countries. So say to say it is all water is either to say all beer world wide is water or bigotry.
Yep. Belgian beer is king. I really don't appreciate some of the Belgian-style American beers they put out here (though there are a few gems). What American craft breweries have done to Blonde ales is really tragic. And my god some of these triples. Very few can truly compete with: Rochefort, St. Bernardus, Westmalle, Westvleteren, Rodenbach, Orval, Draak, La Chouffe, Delirium, Draak, St. Feuillien, Arend, de Garre, etc. (I know Cantillon is beloved, but that's simply a failure on my palate more than anything.) This doesn't include any of the craft breweries coming out of Belgium.
@@cscfpv6221 I grew up in the US and live in Europe now, I can honestly say that the US is still missing out on great beer despite the “craft revival”.
I gotta say that it is pretty cool when states create their own local beer, especially when they're craft beer because they have more personality and flavor than the typical big name brands that are sold everywhere
I know that the American craft brewing fraternity has come on in leaps and bounds and now produce some very fine ales of which they can be rightly proud.
I was surprised at how informative this video is. I’ve always preferred foreign beers to America’s crisp foam water, but America’s craft breweries have saved the day. I’m now just as happy buying a full-bodied American beer as to a foreign brew. Cheers!
I just dont drink beer bro i drink moonshine way better it got bite an it dont take much to do u in if its any good its all about how u run it an proof it.
Yes, nothing better than that light american lager if it is hot outside and you are working. But when cold weather comes, the ales become the best thing.
It depends, i prefer fuller lager on summer, even light and fruity ipa (Mosaic ipa, for example). But IMO you always need variety and sometimes i also enjoy light ones.
I like how everyone who doesnt know shit about beer talks about germany being the "Beer nation" meanwhile the Czechs are actually responsible for everything
Well as I understand these guys are coworkers on other successful channels. So they know how to do quality videos. But yeah they need more attention... couse its the GOOD STUFF
@@brunsta234 more people drink more beer. Aran is saying that per capita consumption should have been stressed or at least mentioned in the video. That's where the Czech Republic is #1, not in overall consumption. China is is #1 in overall consumption.
In 1980 or so there was a beer strike in Alberta so I used to buy 2 cases of American beer (48 bottles), drink them, then go out to the bar. I used to repeat on Saturday but only drink about 36 so that would have some left for Sunday. The good old days. When the strike ended I never drank it again. Many Canadians like USA beer but it never caught on with me.
This is kinda funny. I'm now 65 and even in the 70's, when I was old enough to drink, I found I liked my beer with salt or tomato juice. Then the micro brews sprang up and I was in heaven. Beer with flavor! I'm all over the micro-brews and have been ever since Ballard Bitters was first introduced. But I usually have, at the most, two beers in one sitting.
No mention of them nor Boston Beer company (Sam Adams I believe). They are the two largest owned American breweries in the US. I suspect they weren't included because they are mainly east coast brands, which is sad, because for affordable macro beers they're damn good.
As a home brewer and lover of the many types of beer the world over, I hate that America is only known for our Light beers. Coors, Bud, Miller, etc. All of them all ice cold, piss water. If we have to be known for a Lager why can't it be Yuengling.. It's our oldest brewery and it actually has a good flavor as opposed to watered down cat urine that the world knows us for.
YES! Yuengling! Ugggh, just HEARING that name makes me feel like my soul and I are sitting down beside a cozy pine fire sharing stories with close friends. Yuengling, if there's anything in the world I have lamented over since my move west of the mississippi, it's you. Nothing compares. It's the heartiness of a full meal when you feel empty It's effervescent and lively when you want to be social It's dark and comforting when you just need some alone time Yuengling is the one true American beer. Thank you, sir. You have brought back such happiness to my life with that one simple word
@@Wingo537 Hopsy will ship a mini keg of that stuff anywhere in the US, you just have to use their expensive draft system and wait upwards of 2 weeks for delivery. I just finished my first one down in Texas and it was absolutely fantastic.
My grandfather's brothers used to grow Moravian brewing barley in southern Colorado. (1930s and 40s mostly). For a time there was a group of grain storage towers in the town of Monte Vista that were painted to look like a six-pack of Coors beer cans.
I like the variety that craft beers offer. I tend to go for crazy malty stuff and Trappist beers, but I respect that everyone likes their own thing. A lot of drinking is about the culture and traditions that come with it, and there is certainly American tradition associated with lagers and light beer
In addition to the watery beer, we've got all different varieties of full-flavored craft beer everywhere now. This is the golden age of beer in the USA.
The thing about Americans is that we're also in a new age of self-loathing. We'd rather be hypercritical than accurately describe the state of a market.
Right, thats why people saying “american beer sucks”. Its such an ignorant statement, you can get any beer you’d ever want here. Not to mention micro breweries making all kinds of styles these days
As an Englishman in Texas in 2000 , I jokingly asked an Amarillo barmaid for a bottle of NEWCASTLE BROWN ALE , and lo and behold she got me one from behind the bar !....it was a smaller export bottle...but I was so happy after being subjected to watery American beer !
Rifle Shooter Channel lol thinking the US won the wars all on their own when they jumped in half way through both. Part timers is the only way to describe it.
The Monty Python skit was actually portraying Australians and the horrible CRAP called Fosters that we here in Australia do NOT drink (99.9% don't) but foisted upon the Poms - HA. But for sure - the USA - UK - NZ and Australia (and others) make some FANTASTIC CRAFT BEERS - not just the yellow - bubbly - tasteless stuff that BIG BEER markets to the masses.
I was stationed in Germany in the 70s, US Army. I was there less than two days and found out about Germany's beer purity laws and the liquid bread the Germans call beer. German beer is thick, rich, and loaded with calories and alcohol. It is very good stuff. The only beer I could find in the USA that came close was Heineken. That is of course Dutch beer, but the skunky rich taste and smell was spot on what German beer was all about. I have not had any alcohol for twenty years. When I was drinking, I drank Crown Royal on the rocks or straight up with a cold bottle of Heineken wash. If you ever find Heineken on tap, that is about the best beer you can find in the USA. Some of the micro-breweries in WI come close to German authenticity.
Well, some I've tried (European brews, for that matter) have nearly no foam, and they were quite good. I can for example recommend Pohjala (from Estonia) and Samuel Smith (from the UK). Also Tornion Panimo from Finland makes pretty tasty Cloudberry Ale.
One more thing. When I first got to Germany, I attended a mini-festival in the German town near our base. They rolled out the beer kegs at 10am to be tapped and served. I will never forget the very skunky smell of hops and yeast when they tapped those kegs. It was like you opened a case of Heinekens at the same time. Their kegs are still made the old fashioned way and the wooden bung must be hammered in to tap. Well, the lively brew just explodes out and the smell overtakes any other odor for yards.
Yep, thats actual beer. Kinda smells like weed 😂 i live in Romania so im glad we have some really good beers here, both craft and typical, but internationally, i think heineken, carlsberg and all these are not that great. Stella artois and straopramen are nice tho
I started out with British beer in my teens, because my best friend's Dad was an immigrant from South London. I spent a lot of time at their house, and he was accustomed to the idea that boys who could grow hair on their body were old enough to enjoy a pint. I was totally happy with a glass of Fuller's or Samuel Smith's, but the beer at teenage parties was disgusting and made my mouth dry. Oddly, I didn't drink hardly at all through college, because everyone was drinking the same dry garbage that they did during high school parties. When I turned 21, I bought a pile of British ales with the idea of finding my "brand". That turned into a lifelong experimentation with American craft beer and a soft spot for English bitters. I'll still prefer a pint of Timothy Taylor's Landlord over some big, giant hop bomb or imperial stout that's only sold for one day at the brewery. I had a friend from England who's folks lived within walking distance of the Timothy Taylor Brewery. Every time he visited, I'd beg him to bring me back a bottle. Once he brought home six. My wife drank one and she still hears about it ten years later.
Don't think there's anything wrong with people liking both "domestic lagers"/stronger, more tasteful styles. They have different drinking occasions for different people, and right now, there's never been more options out there. You want to take your time and sip on an IPA, you can get one just as easily as you can have a few Buds as a refreshing beverage.
While the big breweries continue to produce garbage, there are so many microbreweries producing actual quality beer that I think this statement is untrue these days. I live in America and cannot tell you the last time I drank Budweiser or any of the other mainstream highly advertised beers we all see. I would agree with the above statement in terms of the mass produced beers. There are a great many microbreweries in the US these days. Robust full bodied beers that fill every category / style you can think of. There was a Renaissance in the US in the last 2 or 3 decades. So many regional beers. There is no excuse these days if you are still drinking garbage in the US. To my fellow US citizens, if all you drink is Miller of Budweiser in the US I highly recommend you do some research online and expand your horizons. There is sooo much to be experienced in the beer world. So many flavors and varieties produce with nothing more than yeast, barley, hops and water. Take up home brewing and you will never go back to Budweiser ever again.
Unfortunately when these craft breweries get too big the big boys start to get nervous and start trying to buy that craft brewery. Generally, if the brewer was really only in it for the money they will sell out. Once the big boys got their hooks into it they either change the recipes to be more similar to their big name beers or they close it down. Big boys can't handle the competition. 3 or 4 years ago 10 Barrel Brewing out of Bend Oregon sold out to Budweiser. 10 Barrel is still around but their beer is no where near as good as it was before the buy out and they are slowly fading away.
In Finland we have got same kind of tasteless watery beer. Lapinkulta (Gold of Lapland) beer has said its 'piss of reindeer' 😀 Nowadays there is lot of small breweries in Finland that makes beers with stronger taste. But regular beer is quite slop.
As an American, there’s an insane amount of breweries that produce craft beer that are nothing like water so I’m really confused why all of our beer is getting put in one category of “water”
@Mountainfucker ipa's are abundant you guys aren't special. American beer like coors, budweisers, bud, pbr and every other original brand is SHIT. Miller is the only acception for a "brewing" company. Not even even close to a Canadian mill street. Dumb yank
First thing: what do the people at PBS even know about beer, they're all drinking Chardonnay or Zima or something. Second: For all you Euro-snobs. Here's a couple of personal anecdotes: I was at an airport bar, Newark I think, waiting for a flight. Another flight arrived and it was a bunch of English rugby players coming in for a tournament. Just about every single one ordered a Miller light. Another time my wife and I went to Scotland on a bus, I mean coach tour. Whenever we'd stop for a shopping opportunity, instead of running to the shops for made-in-China kilts, we looked for the "real ale" signs. In the pubs, it was amazing how many of the customers were ordering Stella instead of the real ale. Anyway, I live about 20 miles from the brewery that's had one of their beers rated "Best in the World" in international competition a couple of times. Hill Farmstead Brewery. Look 'em up. Best beer in the world, officially.
On what measurement scale does the US have the second highest beer intake in the world? It's 20th per capita. Oh total.... That means nothing since the US is so huge. Even when it comes to alcoholism, Americans want to pretend to be exceptional....
A couple of nice things about those cheap watery beers, while we have an abundance of incredible craft beers, those cheap bears are 1. Cheap, and 2. They are very refreshing on a hot day. It gets very hot in the summer in most parts of the USA and a nice cheap beer is quite refreshing. That said, I will put up our best craft beers against the best of anyplace in the world. Our craft beer boom is just incredible.
Then you never had a nice Bavarian wheat beer on a hot day. Very strong taste yet not harsh at all. Never had an american light beer but I think I'd rather kill myself
And the best of your craft beers are equal to the best in Europe. I'm a Brit and the range of craft beers in the UK is huge. And all of the american ipas i have tried have been great. Much respect to your micro brewers.
@@cultofmalgus1310 ................ I don`t mean any disrespect, however, IPA`S when 1st brewed for export, used a large amount of hops as a natural preservative as refrigeration wasn't available back in those days. They are so overly hopped, that it`s like biting into a grapefruit. It is not a balanced beer at all, in fact far from it. Germany would laugh at the style to be quite honest. If you like being God smacked in the face with hops, then have at it.
@@jamminjoe44 yes I do. I love those hops so much. They drive my taste buds wild. Troeggs Nugget Nectar. Yum! Also I never liked lagers, I've always been an Ale man. So I favor British Style Brews.
A very informative video. I had always wondered how German descendants could regress so much to not be able to brew good beer. Well, a hundred-something years with inferior components to still get something that *looks* like what you're used to, but doesn't taste that way will do that. As taste can't be delivered through a book or description, but only through your taste buds, you get used to a certain taste, which defines the new normal to you. However when confronted with the real deal, no matter where it comes from, you notice that, nope, that crap really doesn't cut it. Greetz from a German in Hamburg, who pities Americans are used to only the big five corporate brands watered down to a pale shadow of what they are supposed to be. But good on you to reinvigorate your craft beer breweries. That's something I would like to see in Germany as well.
I for one am very glad for the craft brewing industry. I have _never_ liked watery American lager. Maybe I would have had that been what I started out drinking. But when I was in high school in the mid-80s, my home state raised the drinking age to 21. After I finished my freshman year of college, I went and spent a summer in Ireland, and as I was eighteen, I could buy all the beer I wanted. I got used to Guinness and British-style ales, as well as European beers like Carlsberg et al. I _loved_ Ireland, and came back home determined to attend grad school there, which I did, and whenever I drank beer, it was _not_ American style light lagers. When I came home for good, I was thoroughly accustomed to beer that tasted like _beer_ not beer-flavored water. And all these years later, I'll drink _actual_ water rather than Bud, Coors, Miller, or any of that stuff. I honestly don't think I've had any of that swill since I was in college. I'm glad that the emergence of craft breweries and microbreweries and so on has allowed _real_ beer to start being made in the U.S.
The pendulum has swung to the other extreme with many small and micro-breweries in North America: Ultra hoppy IPAs that you could probably use to disinfect a sewer. Good beer is about balance.
Philippe Panzini It's pretty similar here in England with the hipster crowd going for anything with the word "craft" or "artisanal" and a tonne of hops put in it. It irritates me, especially in my home town where we have a brewery that's been making award winning classic Yorkshire Ales that blow almost all craft beers out of the water for decades.
Which is why we have all these frat boys in the comments section saying "lagers suck lol" and throwing down IPA which any brewer too lazy to clean his brewing equipment could make. There's nothing better than a real kolsch, pilsner or lager--a lot harder to make one of those well than the frenzied fad brews most breweries feature here in the Western US.
Drink what you like. As an avid home brewer who makes every type of beer under the sun, those who talk shit about IPAs are just as annoying as the hipsters who only drink them from custom growlers.
Please do a video on why American coffee sucks! I'm an American living in Germany and the coffee here, like the Bier, is way better. It is rare that when I order coffee, that it comes from a pot. It's most often made in a coffee machine that grinds the beans fresh for that cup.
Sounds like an Americano. You can get those at any small coffee shop/barista here in the US. Although, we may be spoiled for options here on the west Coast
Shit, once I have ordered starbucks here in europe. I hate anything sweet, don’t use sugar at all. I simply hate sweet taste. So I ordered that piece of shit without sugar. It was sweet as fuck. Immediately thrown it and went without having coffee. You in USA use sugar everywhere. Or corn syrup which is even worse shit. Beer? Well, I drink regular cheap czech and german stuff but even that cheap shit would win all fucking medals in USA in comparison to the US beer. Horse piss really
3:17 "Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours" I suspect the feeling was mutual, especially in the case of the woman (man in a dress, taxidermied pig, I dunno) in the bottom left.
@@tylermartin6998 Miller High Life IS good. And you make a good point about when to drink a light lager. I see beer snobs talking out of their necks sideways about how American light lagers are no good (on sites like BeerAdvocate). Looks like piss, tastes like piss. Unless... it's hot out. Or, you drink it really cold. Hey, if it's only good to you when it's hot out, or after mowing the lawn, or after a workout, only drink them under those conditions and don't complain about drinking a warm beer while meditating. I think American light lagers ARE better cold. So I drink them really cold. I don't think they stand up to being poured aggressively into a glass, so I drink them out of the bottle. And I think they taste great after a long run, no doubt because they're light and refreshing, unlike a heavier beer. Conversely, I don't like, for example, Sierra Nevada Celebration out of the bottle: No nose and tastes like the most bitter grapefruit you've ever eaten. Poured into a glass? The nose is heaven and the flavor range expands immensely.
The part of this whole conversation that drives me kinda crazy, is that the most popular beers in most countries are basically pisswater. That style of beer is huge world over.
Yeah, Heineken, Stella, Foster's, Molson--lots of non-American beers are pisswater, and plenty of American beers aren't (for example, most stuff brewed by Sierra Nevada is readily available in most of the country, but still quite high quality).
@@Eyedunno Exactly. Americans pushed craft beer into the 20th and 21st centuries. What a lot of the "American Beer is weak" comes from, is the fact that lots of beer alcohol content was measured by weight and not volume. So a 5% ABV (basically the most standard beer alcohol level) = 4%ABW. It makes it look 20% less alcoholic in nature. Even though, it's the same amount of alcohol. So a Canadian beer listing the alcohol percentage in ABV, could brag (incorrectly) about how much more alcohol is in their beer comparatively to ABW.
@@angloirishcad 5% is stronger? Most general lagers whether two row or six row barley are 4.6-5.2% abv. Also, Stella isn't that great. The Czechs make better lagers.
@@SlavicCelery Its not great but its perfectly drinkable...and the same goes for Peroni in Italy, Mahou in Spain, Pelfort in France etc etc...you wouldn't seek them out, they're a mass produced product, but they're a world away from the American commercial beers which I would say are actually undrinkable. I do like a Sam Adams though. P.s. the 'lite' concept doesn't even exist in Europe.
It's made like that so you can be out on your boat for 18 hours and 100° weather and drink a case of it and keep going strong. I can't do that with Guinness.
Prettty sure this has been mentioned hundreds of time here but, American beer isn't the same adjunct lager wasteland it used to be. Having spent time working in Germany and the Netherlands, however, I found my conversations a bit "dead end" with the locals. They know their countries are known for beer... while drinking Euro pale lagers. They'll die on a hill defending any beer from their country! These people are missing out IMO. Don't drink Stella Artois, try some Piraat or trappiste ales! At the end of the day, though, drink what you like. I still enjoy Coors Banquet often while also drinking a lot of the must have NE IPA beers or west coast beers like Pliny the Elder.
I'm American... watching all my relatives growing up drinking beer made me curious. I finally tried it and realized it was like piss water. Imported beer or bust is my philosophy. However there are some local domestic breweries that do an amazing job and are flavorful. I personally don't even like beer that much. Wine all the way.
I do like a good malty and hoppy beer like a pilsner or an pale ale, but if im really trying to enjoy a day of fishing with a beer or any outdoor activity, I have to drink American. The light flavors and profile makes it super refreshing
It doesn't drink like water anymore if you stay away from the big corporations the microbreweries are fantastic and here in California it's as hi in alcohol content as anywhere in the world. It also depends on the type of yeast you use. And if it's truly good you can drink it warm and it is delicious.you often cannot find Guinness because it doesn't compare with the beers that are here unless you talking about Guinness Antwerpen which is 8% alcohol and was made by Guinness for expert to Belgium. That's available here in San Diego California
A man wanted to duplicate Budweiser beer in his home brewing facility, so he sent a sample of BUD off to a laboratory for an analysis, which he would use to duplicate the brew. A couple of weeks later, he got a reply from the lab, which read, "Your horse has diabetes."
Ha, my dad told me when I was a kid that beer was made of carbonated horse pee to discourage me from wanting some. Turns out, horse pee is pretty good. :)
@@glenwoodfin is it better than beer?
It's better than American beer.
But go to Europe and try some actual beer before deciding to make horse piss your tipple of choice. 😂
@@peterclarke7240 I was making fun of American beer, specifically Budweiser. Do you not understand the concept of a satirical joke? And do you not know that micro-breweries all over America are brewing beer of the same and even better quality, variety, and taste than European beer? Your comment was wrong in so many ways, as if you are not fluent in English.
@@DEPARTMENTOFREDUNDANCYDEPT Sorry, I was replying to TheT)mmen, who asked if horse piss is better than beer.
And yes, I certainly get the concept of satire, fear not. I'm British. I was using satire before I was out of my mother's womb.
And also yes, I know about micro-breweries. I'm not talking about micro-breweries, because what they do is brew European beers with a bit of a twist. It's not "'Murican" beer like bud et al.
It's almost as though you think the only person allowed to insult the weak piss most Americans class as beer is you.
My mother a non englisch speaking German came here in 1962. She thought somebody was messing with her the first time she tasted American beer and threw it out only to realize it really was that bad!
cweed r/thathappened
I’m sure
sounds like your mother was a bitch
alot of aussies do the same thing when handed american beer
I like how for the japanese for a beverage to be classified as “beer” (nama biiru) it gotta have a certain percentage of malt in it. Otherwise it gets classified as Happoshuu and its less expensive. On the other hand i think it messes up the tax on beer with flavours because it cant be real beer and i think its considered liquor, im not sure about that, i only read something about it a while ago.
You get two choices in life: either the beer on tap tastes like water--or your tap water tastes like beer.
hahaha 👏
Does the tap water get you drunk?
borderlands10 American beer doesn't geht you drunk either
@Max If you don't drown first
Make beer from rain or spring water
The US craft beer scene is really great. As a German I think, that's the way to go. Convince your friends to try some local beers, instead of buying that crap from the big companies. We have big companies in Germany too, and their beer is, compared to many of the small beweries, just not that good.
as a southernn german i think there is absolutely no need for fancy craft beer.
@@florianmeier451 what would you recommend?
@@florianmeier451 Well not in germany, we have all the small/medium brewerys that make the good stuff and the big ones that use their scraps to make something similar to beer, at least it "tastes" like that. Thats basically the reason why craft beers mostly failed in Germany except a few ones that made the most exceptional beers and some that are linked to bigger brewerys like Zwönitzer.
Becks has really gone downhill
As a Belgian I would say we have the best beer in the world nuttin' beats a real Trappist brewed by the monks 😅
I'm just the right age to have lived through all of this. When I was in my late teens it was still a wasteland for beer. I thought I hated beer because the only beer I had ever tasted was Pabst, Schlitz, Hamms, etc. Then I took a trip to Germany when I was 18 and tasted a real pilsner. I was hooked from the first sip. When I got home, I would desperately search the local liquor stores for any German imports. Daab, Bitburger, EKU, Spaten, even St Pauli, I didn't care. It was all a step up from Miller and Coors to me. And then finally the US craft beers started coming on the market. What a great time to be a beer drinker! :)
Don’t hate the hamms bear my brother!
I grew up the same, anyone recognize pigs eye?
@@DSToNe19and83 Yeah, for the price, Hamms ain't too bad.
I too remember that, drinking Olympia, now we have so many choices, it's great
I tried a lot of different beers, impart or craft. Some are too hoppy for my taste. For me Pabst Blue Ribbon taste really good on hot summer days. Just right amount of hops and good carbonation so I don't feel like blown up balloon . And can't beat the price. Perhaps I develop this taste because in my younger years all I could afford was cheap American lager.
Pisswasser
Rockstar is so clever
Holy shit your a genius, and so is Rockstar
*pinkelnwasser
"This is beer! Drivin drunk, off the pee hear!!"
The American IPA decimates that European piss
In Norway we have a nickname for light beer... "piss"
Same in the states if u actually like beer.
Here in the states it's called Bud Light, but it's easier just to call it piss.
@@borderlands10 Nah, just dirt water
Same here
@@swissbreeze wait what, ok...
Why aren't you here then?
I always laughed at other Soldiers when they came back from Germany and said they couldn’t drink American piss-water anymore…until I got stationed in Germany! OMG! Their beers are so flavorful and amazing. Love me a heffeweizen. I can’t drink Lite or Bud anymore, Coors has always tasted like sh!t, Miller High Life is pretty good, but nothing beats the small company and craft beers. They actually care about quality craft and beer not numbers in a ledger!
You should visit Belgium where they have hundreds of different beers not counting craft beers. Belgian beers comprise both lighter and darker types but the main thing is their generosity with ingredients. They have double, triple and quadruple which have 7%, 9% and 11% alcohol. Get used to those and you will never drink Heineken let alone Miller, Bud etc.
mm hefeweizen
I too served in Germany ...but with the British army ...we were warned about German bier !....even though some of us had been drinking since we were 14 ...it still got us into some right states
A good American Hefeweizen is from Live Oak Brewery out of Austin, if you can find it in your state, and I was the same, after being stationed in Germany in the mid 80`s never really cared for American beer, being in Texas, I at least had access to Shiner bock, which is pretty good. Now we have access to a lot of craft beer, so all is good.
Funny that you only mentioned the big brands that produce international light lager, which is like sex in a canoe - fucking close to water. The US has more than 10 thousand breweries - try them.
German beer is fucking boring.
The beer consumption in the US is high because it's so weak. You have to drink 2 to 3 times more in order to feel buzzed.
Beer consumption in USA is low. About 70 liters on year per capita. Just amateurs.
What American beer are you talking about? We got craft beer that goes from 5% to 10+ are you an alcoholic? Or just anti anerican
Eat foreskin
@@brettfrimmer6567 Mate imagine calling "craft beer" beer, that shit is straight up fucking disgusting and should not be called beer.
@@kristofkapuv877 the thing about craft beer is that It's all different to say it's all bad is ignorant
Worked in an EM club in Germany. We got a big shipment of an American beer and ended up having to give them away for a nickel each.
r/thathappened
Wally McAllister
If you asked for a nickel each, you didn’t give them away. You sold them. Apparently logic is an American thing.
Sucks they bought cheap beer...
Ga Me No lie. I bought a six pack of Becks once , never again. Give me a Bud anytime, and NOT a Bud Light.
@The Lidl Rock Archive Of course you have more beer drinkers cause you have 4 times the population but okey using ur brain before writing a comment must be hard.
My taste for beer with flavor changed when I got stationed in the UK with the Air Force back in the 90s. I was at the enlisted club on base with local beers on tap. I told the bartender they didn’t recognize them and so he poured one and said this is a good British beer. It was John Courage an amber lager. when I tried it I found it absolutely delicious. Then later a guy had a bottle of Czech Budweiser and I tried it and loved it. I wanted to keep drinking and he’s like drink it down. This is when I discovered that I like beer that I can taste like Pulp Fiction, I know how f’n good my beer is!
Czech Budweiser is the most delicious beer on earth. In the US you have to go to some specific rare liquor store to buy it. In London, England where I live I can buy it in the corner shop at the end of my road. That sums up the difference between American and British attitudes to beer.
what about in the home country@@salkoharper2908
@@salkoharper2908Czech bud and asahi are the two beers I can’t even have near me 😂 vile stuff
@@einzelganger2939 Czech Budweiser is in the top 3 best selling beers in the country, (Czechia) which drinks the most beer in the world and has some of the best. But I guess some guy said on the internet said it's shit so it must be.
@@einzelganger2939what do you drink? For me Asahi is the best lager I’ve ever tasted, but usually still prefer an Ale, Timothy Taylor’s the best, Black sheep is good and even Doom Bar if it’s kept well. Tbf tho on a hot sunny day you have to have a lager, we j don’t get many of them in England
Some years ago, myself and three colleagues in the BBC were filming the St Patricks Day parade in NY (All Brits). We stopped filming for a drink in a bar and as the empties piled up on our table, the barman came over with another round. " You guys in the the UK have strong stuff like this?" he asked. "Oh yes" my friend replied. "We call it Perrier"
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318dude? 😮😂😢
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318well you're wrong there mate. If he voted brexit, he would want the immigrants out, bc EU law means they can travel freely into the UK. Also migrant means someone from within the country.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 I see what you did there lol
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318bruh
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318How could you possibly link Brexit with migrant crime?
Watery beer, watery coffee... damn u americans must be 99% water bc that's all u drink
Watery beer, maybe. Watery coffee though? Are you insane?
@@TheDeadAlewives Your coffee is dire. Go to a Mediterranean country and compare the strength.
Actually, we're 100% ready to kick your ass. What country are you in?
@@TheDeadAlewives Obviously, yes.
@@Cervando You damn dumbass. There is a coffee press on every corner in the US. You have no idea of what you're talking about.
"... there's not alot of malt."
Dude, there's not alot of anything in it besides of water!
And stabilizing additives.
That piss they call Bud..
has nothing to do with the real Czech BUDWEISER.
There is not much difference
czech budvar
They`ve been brewing it for 600 years, then the yanks wanted to sue them over the name!
they wonder why we larf at em.@@cameronpickard7456
I tastes it and i think it is the best pilsner i ever had and i am from the netherlands so pils is kind of our thing to
It is excually former German Sudeten beer...
I was with a Dane having his first USA beer.
He took one sip, set it down, and moved it away, saying, " No wonder it is made so cold.".
absolutely, let it set for 20 15-20 minutes and anyone will tell you it is undrinkable.
So WHY do you give a good god damn what a Dane’s taste is???
@@drjojo5551because they were making and drinking beer centuries before we started passing off our shitty, frat boy,horse piss,over marketed crap as beer 🍺🤦♂️
It's almost like we have refrigeration here and can make the beer whatever temperature we want...
Mass produced American beer is served ice cold to kill the taste, which is not great. The colder it is, the less you can taste. Americans whine that Germans and Austrians serve beer warm. They don’t, but it is not as cold as a typical American beer because it tastes good.
The craft beer industry has brought up the quality of American beer, no question. Many Americans will stick with Miller, Bud and Coors. To each his own!
I grew up in the Midwest. I worked on the farms, in the heartland of German immigrants, only 25-35 years after WWII. I can see why light lagers were popular. After long hot days baling hay, milking cattle, herding hogs, walking beans and de-tasseling corn, the kind of heavy dark beer that I prefer today would be just awful.
I grew up with Pabst, Bud and Coors. Miller pretended to be high-brow while Michelob pretended to have dark beer. I don't like any of them anymore, but then I no longer spend my days convincing 600 pound sows that they need to get up that ramp. Maybe if I did, they would still taste good.
In the end, it's always, each to their own.
I was raised in midwest farm country, so I know where-of you are speaking. The only thing I might add is beer out of the keg always tastes better than beer out of an aluminum can. Always.
That's what the germans invented the Radler for: 50/50 Beer and sweet citrus lemonade. Perfect.
Well, a beer that is light in colour doesn't NEED to taste like piss or overwhelmingly packed. See what the german immigrants tried to acchieve? A beer like in Germany, light in the colour, a watery taste was propably not intended. Here in Germany I can pretty much enjoy that. Our "light" beers are light in colour, but tastefull. However, they aren't so strong and "packed" like a dark beer. They are very enjoyable after such a long long working day, as you described it :)
@@sagichdirdochnicht4653 Yup, they explained that it's our 6 row Barley that's been the problem. I'm a farmer and currently pushing the numbers on growing 2 row Barley, to see if i could make money selling it.
I like light beers, but not so much the American lagers. There is a difference.
American beer doesn’t taste like water. It’s _pisswater._
Real talk, though, I’m so glad the craft beer boom is in my lifetime.
Soyboys drink craft beer. Go vape and tip your fedoras elsewhere you hipster fruitcakes
From a millennial punk that gets drunk on two pints. LOL.
@@brianpeppers8236 boo hoo stop crying
@@thedudeperson Crying? Beer in general is for bitches. A real man drinks liquor. Beers good if you wanna get bloated and piss 500 times. And if you drink craft beer you automatically deserve to get you're male card revoked as its for pansies.
I have a visa pending to become an american, I'm gonna have to learn all my new beers at least for craft beer when I leave canada. I actually liked samuel adams when I was in america
A more accurate title - Why Does CORPORATE American Beer Taste Like Water?
apostate001 cause it's mostly water? :o
erik svensson He was making a joke, using a his question 😑
Maximize profits by using cheap ingredients.This slob orders a Coors.Bat piss
American mass produced beer is for children.....some people say
And yet the entire world imports the hell out of it and swills it down.
I was a fan of Bud Light until I learned to replicate the recipe at home with just three ingredients: Kellogg’s ‘Rice Krispies’, powdered skim milk, and tap water - done! ✅
YiKeS!
Had it twice while in the states. I remember it being sweet
And a drag queen named Mulvaney. 😊
@@glennso47Calling that creature a drag queen is a massive complement.
@@glennso47”queen”
What a joke a beer with no foam.
The foam just makes you fart a lot.
I thought the beers were standing there for a long time, or where poared really, really badly.,. ^.^'
lol, I call beers from other nations than Belgium catpee, but I guess I need to agree than and call this actual water than, I guess.,. ^.^'
All the foam does is make your beer flat. A properly poured beer is tilted and poured smoothly down the side. Foam is for people that know nothing about beer.
Nope, you have never ever poared a beer correctly.
You start by poaring the beer at an angle until reaching half,
after that, you hold it streight,
to create the optimum amount of foam.
The glass needs to be also cleaned at a pretty specific way.,.
In Belgium there are actually beer poaring contests.
Perhaps you should take at least a look to that
and not spend time on giving fucked up comments,
without using your god damn brain.,.
Also, the saying goes, "bier drink je met verstand".
( what ruffly means to use your brain when drinking beer )
Belgian beers aren't beers you can easily poar down as if it is water,
most heavy beers contain around 8%
Duvel for example, a beer that's been around since 1871,
( one of my favorite beers )
contains 8.5%.,.
First, your belligerent tone pegs you as uneducated.
Second, you are using a computer. Use spell check. Even When writing in a foreign language, multiple spelling mistakes with spell check shows you as being lazy, ignorant or both. Typos are different.
bier drink je met verstand...I speak English and German...don't need your condescending translation. Even if I didn't, we have Google translate.
You obviously think you know more than you do.
great now I'm scared to leave Europe
You should be but of other reasons.
American craft beer is amazing, and there are tons of different varieties, it isn't just IPAs anymore.
Don't worry, Heineken is sold everywhere, if u don't like Heineken Grolsch is always there too :d
@@neenee8194 Heineken should be a drink category in itself...no beer lover would ever drink that shit
Sam Addams FTW!
"frederick pabst blue ribbon" full name🤣
blue ribbon not his name
I been home brewing since the 80s. Started with the brew kits and advanced to all grain. It is a bit of work, but not hard labor. I enjoy serving It to guests. Home brewing is very affordable when compared to the price of a dozen beer from the liquor store. Makes for a good rewarding hobby.
I started brewing my own at home around 1991. Started with the cans of malt extract - and they were pretty awful. But, I stuck with it and soon found that I could not drink all that I made. My friends only liked the mega brands - so what to do ? I loved the science and experimentation of the whole hobby and soon, started to enter my beers into competitions,
mainly to get honest feedback on how to improve. Soon, I was winning ribbons and medals and certificates of achievement. I wanted to go commercial - but found that searching
out and enjoying the labors of others to be much easier.......and didn't require all that cleaning and sanitizing ! !
And with all this temperature controlled high voltage brewing equipment the past few years it's gotten real easy too,it takes me more effort to drink the beer than to brew it.
I don't mind dome craft beer companies but do enjoy home brewing tbh
Did I miss them covering the fact they add corn and other easily fermentable sugers to light lagers to boost the alcohol levels without having to use more malted barley? Using cheaper sugers that bring little to no flavor is a cost saving way to boost alcohol levels. Yes American style light lagers are very tough to brew because there's so little flavor for flaws to hide behind but they are still dull and uninteresting beers to drink.
That sums it up in a nutshell.
“Expert beer drinker” 😂😂😂
Why can't all of us Irish just apply for this position
@Tommy Studd hey neighbourino
Aka average german/czech.
fancy name for alcoholics
As an under age kid only place which would sell us would only sell us the expensive stuff so our keg parties featured DAB Wurzburger Dinkle Acker Hoffbrau Becks StPauli etc.
It was good
Prior to WW2, American beer was craft beer with high alchohol content, during the war the government wanted the troops to be able to drink but not get too drunk just in case they had to fight, they thinned it down and decreased the alcohol content, people got used to it and continued to consume that type of beer after the war
Craft beer will be around as long as the economy stays stable. This generation wants craft foods and brews. Now it’s quality over quantity. As in the past, it was the opposite.
Come to Milwaukee, we have more craft beers in America. Most breweries in America.
The craft beer boom is starting to trickle south of the border too. I went to Tijuana recently and a lot of restaurants are starting their own breweries because the millenial tourists want more IPAs and stouts.
I don't think there were more than a dozen brands of brew locally available when I was a kid. And that was in Massachusetts! I can only imagine how deprived places like Idaho & Mormon Wyoming must've been.
Piss water beer is for the toothless neighbor down the street that comes home after work and gets shit faced every night because he can’t stand his wife .
Craft beer has always been around for people who love real beer. It’s just been more readily available for people for the past five years depending where you live . And as far as the economy they will only play a role so far . When the economy got bad years back it did not slow me down . I still bought the beer I like even though it cost more .
so in short:
1. US was not able to make beer like it tasted in Germany
2. instead used whatever they had to make beer their way (watery)
3. then prohibition with no legal beer making at all
4. followed by years of industrialized and commercialized beer production (watery)
5. then golden age of craft brewing (finally some taste in that beer!)
Germans in the U.S. weren't able to make beer like it tasted in Germany.
But German bear isn't watery.
@@@RobotShlomo
If this is true than I got why they left Germany.
Because they cared more for the good-looking than for the taste. ;)
@@opalyankaBG What was it like when the people immigrated to the US? It's pretty well explained here. The same for all those that say all American beer is like water. Since the 1980s there has been a lot of small brewery's making other kinds of beers in the style of many different countries. So say to say it is all water is either to say all beer world wide is water or bigotry.
@@opalyankaBG FOR SOME STRANGE REARON I NEVER GOT A HANGOVER ON GERMAN BEER LIKE ON AMERICAN//
Thank God i'm Belgian 🇧🇪🍻
Too bad, you are missing out on thousands of breweries that are making REAL beer. Not the stuff talked about in this video.
Yep. Belgian beer is king. I really don't appreciate some of the Belgian-style American beers they put out here (though there are a few gems). What American craft breweries have done to Blonde ales is really tragic. And my god some of these triples. Very few can truly compete with: Rochefort, St. Bernardus, Westmalle, Westvleteren, Rodenbach, Orval, Draak, La Chouffe, Delirium, Draak, St. Feuillien, Arend, de Garre, etc. (I know Cantillon is beloved, but that's simply a failure on my palate more than anything.) This doesn't include any of the craft breweries coming out of Belgium.
@minekpista BASED
@@cscfpv6221 I grew up in the US and live in Europe now, I can honestly say that the US is still missing out on great beer despite the “craft revival”.
I gotta say that it is pretty cool when states create their own local beer, especially when they're craft beer because they have more personality and flavor than the typical big name brands that are sold everywhere
It's rarely the states that do it, actually more like never. It's actually small private companies.
I know that the American craft brewing fraternity has come on in leaps and bounds and now produce some very fine ales of which they can be rightly proud.
Ales are actual piss water compared to American lagers and Craft Beers are for kids.
@@Mr._Warlight American lagers? Hahaha! 😂😂😂😂
@@johnwoodgate8125that's where they originate.
@@Mr._Warlight ? What does?
@@johnwoodgate8125 light lagers.
I was surprised at how informative this video is. I’ve always preferred foreign beers to America’s crisp foam water, but America’s craft breweries have saved the day. I’m now just as happy buying a full-bodied American beer as to a foreign brew. Cheers!
Oh, you're just a normy groupie. Craft Beers are unoriginal junk liquid.
I just dont drink beer bro i drink moonshine way better it got bite an it dont take much to do u in if its any good its all about how u run it an proof it.
@@scottbivins4758 I'll race you to the still.
@@glenwoodfin im more of weed guy
@@scottbivins4758 Less car crashes : )
For me it's seasonal. I drink light beers when it's warm and darker beers when it's cold. Being from Texas, can't go wrong with Shiner Bock.
Lonestar North I love bells new hazy ipa Official.
Drinking some Stash IPA in San Antonio. Talk about beer with flavor.
Waco here but coors banquet all day
Yes, nothing better than that light american lager if it is hot outside and you are working. But when cold weather comes, the ales become the best thing.
It depends, i prefer fuller lager on summer, even light and fruity ipa (Mosaic ipa, for example). But IMO you always need variety and sometimes i also enjoy light ones.
I like how everyone who doesnt know shit about beer talks about germany being the "Beer nation" meanwhile the Czechs are actually responsible for everything
It's kinda crazy how this channel hasn't blown up way more than what it's at currently. The shots and edits are brilliant and so is the script.
Unfortunately that's just not how TH-cam works, their search algorithm being not very fair.
Well as I understand these guys are coworkers on other successful channels. So they know how to do quality videos. But yeah they need more attention... couse its the GOOD STUFF
I agree!! they need more viewers!
People dont love long explainations...
Jeff Snaman QA
"We're ranked 2nd in the world for overall beer consumption" not that impressive since the USA is 3rd in the world for population?
Aran I don’t see the correlation
1st is the czech republic with only 10 milion people
@@brunsta234 more people drink more beer. Aran is saying that per capita consumption should have been stressed or at least mentioned in the video.
That's where the Czech Republic is #1, not in overall consumption.
China is is #1 in overall consumption.
What do you mean impressive? Drinking bear is impressive? I don't understand what your point is....it's just a number.
@@jonharwood1639 Some people just hate on the US for dumbest things.
In 1980 or so there was a beer strike in Alberta so I used to buy 2 cases of American beer (48 bottles), drink them, then go out to the bar. I used to repeat on Saturday but only drink about 36 so that would have some left for Sunday. The good old days. When the strike ended I never drank it again. Many Canadians like USA beer but it never caught on with me.
I know this channel isn’t active much but i’m glad they showed Straub brewery. It’s one of the few things Elk county has going for it lol
"light on beer flavour" so, water.
This is kinda funny. I'm now 65 and even in the 70's, when I was old enough to drink, I found I liked my beer with salt or tomato juice. Then the micro brews sprang up and I was in heaven. Beer with flavor!
I'm all over the micro-brews and have been ever since Ballard Bitters was first introduced. But I usually have, at the most, two beers in one sitting.
You sound like a good lad, what state you in, I’ll bring you French Canadian beer if i road trip down south
Beer with Clamato (tomato juice) and salt = Michelada, popular in Mexico.
You my friend can enjoy whatever beer you desire, you've deserve it
Micro brews are the best
@@romdog1818 clamoto isn't regular tomato juice it's actually clam flavored lol
great show but why didn't Yuengling get any love American's oldest brewery 1829
tchence yeeessss. My favorite beer hands down
No mention of them nor Boston Beer company (Sam Adams I believe). They are the two largest owned American breweries in the US.
I suspect they weren't included because they are mainly east coast brands, which is sad, because for affordable macro beers they're damn good.
Fuck yeah man great beer!
Yhengling is only available in certain parts of the US. Maybe the creators of this video are from the West Coast.
Yuengling beer is a great example of an American lager done correctly
I remember when here in Canada there were only a few breweries. Then in the 80's, micro brews slowly started to appear and life was good!
Because it's served So Ice Cold ..it has no Taste at all Just let it not be so cold .......Then you realise why they serve it ICE COLD
Exactly this.
American and Canadian lagers are served that cold because they don't taste good. Gotta hide that bland flavor some way.
Aussie beer tastes better but needs to be served brain freeze style. Maybe it's the climate?
ah .. SO thats why they do so many shots because they wont do it with that beer .
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Nothing should be drank at room temperature...
And thusly, the french-toast-with-raspberries-milkshake IPA was born.
YUMMY!
Good point.
As a home brewer and lover of the many types of beer the world over, I hate that America is only known for our Light beers. Coors, Bud, Miller, etc. All of them all ice cold, piss water. If we have to be known for a Lager why can't it be Yuengling.. It's our oldest brewery and it actually has a good flavor as opposed to watered down cat urine that the world knows us for.
YES! Yuengling! Ugggh, just HEARING that name makes me feel like my soul and I are sitting down beside a cozy pine fire sharing stories with close friends. Yuengling, if there's anything in the world I have lamented over since my move west of the mississippi, it's you. Nothing compares.
It's the heartiness of a full meal when you feel empty
It's effervescent and lively when you want to be social
It's dark and comforting when you just need some alone time
Yuengling is the one true American beer. Thank you, sir. You have brought back such happiness to my life with that one simple word
Too bad they don't sell it on the west coast but I enjoyed it when I read stationed in north Carolina
Ahh..I miss that beer!
@@Wingo537 Hopsy will ship a mini keg of that stuff anywhere in the US, you just have to use their expensive draft system and wait upwards of 2 weeks for delivery. I just finished my first one down in Texas and it was absolutely fantastic.
We recently started getting it here in TX it's surprisingly good unlike the mass brews that have no flavor
My grandfather's brothers used to grow Moravian brewing barley in southern Colorado. (1930s and 40s mostly). For a time there was a group of grain storage towers in the town of Monte Vista that were painted to look like a six-pack of Coors beer cans.
I like the variety that craft beers offer. I tend to go for crazy malty stuff and Trappist beers, but I respect that everyone likes their own thing. A lot of drinking is about the culture and traditions that come with it, and there is certainly American tradition associated with lagers and light beer
The only bad beer is no beer.
mike albers as someone who has made bad beer before that is a lie.
lol like it... and the best sun screen is sitting in a bar
mike albers the only bad beer is a warm beer
In addition to the watery beer, we've got all different varieties of full-flavored craft beer everywhere now. This is the golden age of beer in the USA.
The thing about Americans is that we're also in a new age of self-loathing. We'd rather be hypercritical than accurately describe the state of a market.
Any recommendations?
Right, thats why people saying “american beer sucks”. Its such an ignorant statement, you can get any beer you’d ever want here. Not to mention micro breweries making all kinds of styles these days
@@Ineverreadreplies is that really an achievement?
Beer nazis cannot handle that fact
As an Englishman in Texas in 2000 , I jokingly asked an Amarillo barmaid for a bottle of NEWCASTLE BROWN ALE , and lo and behold she got me one from behind the bar !....it was a smaller export bottle...but I was so happy after being subjected to watery American beer !
USA: Drinking Age 21 for yellow Water
Germany: get legally wasted by Age 16
USA: Back to back World War Champions.
Germany: Back to back World War *LOSERS.*
USA: Trump
Discussion ended
USA: Trump
Germany: Hitler (insert guilt) -----> Merkel -------> either a new Nazi Party or some guy named Mohammad.
USA Wins, that is all.
If you drink a Beer with your Parents its allowed at 14
Rifle Shooter Channel lol thinking the US won the wars all on their own when they jumped in half way through both. Part timers is the only way to describe it.
Water tastes better.
Mike Regan I so want to drink water now
drinking is for cleaning your body.
Everything tastes better than american beer.
Than drink water and not "beer".
If I lived in the US, I would. Fortunately, I'm Canadian, so I have _good_ beer to comfort me.
Wow! I’ve been tough on President Jimmy before, but hearing that he made home brewing legal in the US gives me nothing but gratitude for the man.
Jimmy was once know as the worst president in the History of the USA. Biden made him second place.
As an English man I appreciate American beer its the perfect hair of the dog breakfast drink due to it being so light
that joke about making love in a canoe was great
There are so many different sweets and candies. Most countries have their good and bad ones. It's the chocolate in America that's utter shite.
The Monty Python skit was actually portraying Australians and the horrible CRAP called Fosters that we here in Australia do NOT drink (99.9% don't) but foisted upon the Poms - HA. But for sure - the USA - UK - NZ and Australia (and others) make some FANTASTIC CRAFT BEERS - not just the yellow - bubbly - tasteless stuff that BIG BEER markets to the masses.
@@ToveriJuri racist.
@@quattro4468
Yes I'm racist towards Hershey's bars. Fuck em.
There's good stuff coming out of small breweries
No shit. But microbrewries exist everywhere in the world. Its a fad right now. They had em all over in germany and mexico as well.
I was stationed in Germany in the 70s, US Army. I was there less than two days and found out about Germany's beer purity laws and the liquid bread the Germans call beer. German beer is thick, rich, and loaded with calories and alcohol. It is very good stuff. The only beer I could find in the USA that came close was Heineken. That is of course Dutch beer, but the skunky rich taste and smell was spot on what German beer was all about. I have not had any alcohol for twenty years. When I was drinking, I drank Crown Royal on the rocks or straight up with a cold bottle of Heineken wash. If you ever find Heineken on tap, that is about the best beer you can find in the USA. Some of the micro-breweries in WI come close to German authenticity.
Because in ‘merica we substitute advertising for quality. Because it works.
Aaron Yonda from bber and board games snuck in at 1:18
I thought I was imagining it, chad Vader was my youth.
When I see small glasses, beer with no foam...moving along.
Well, some I've tried (European brews, for that matter) have nearly no foam, and they were quite good. I can for example recommend Pohjala (from Estonia) and Samuel Smith (from the UK). Also Tornion Panimo from Finland makes pretty tasty Cloudberry Ale.
A small glass with no foam can put you on your arse......
One more thing. When I first got to Germany, I attended a mini-festival in the German town near our base. They rolled out the beer kegs at 10am to be tapped and served. I will never forget the very skunky smell of hops and yeast when they tapped those kegs. It was like you opened a case of Heinekens at the same time. Their kegs are still made the old fashioned way and the wooden bung must be hammered in to tap. Well, the lively brew just explodes out and the smell overtakes any other odor for yards.
Heineken is a piss too. Complete piss. Serious beer lover here in Europe will not use it even to clean his ass
Yep, thats actual beer. Kinda smells like weed 😂 i live in Romania so im glad we have some really good beers here, both craft and typical, but internationally, i think heineken, carlsberg and all these are not that great. Stella artois and straopramen are nice tho
Budwieser goes into collaberation with Spacex to be the first beer on Mars.
Headlines...
"Colonists discover water on Mars!"
I started out with British beer in my teens, because my best friend's Dad was an immigrant from South London. I spent a lot of time at their house, and he was accustomed to the idea that boys who could grow hair on their body were old enough to enjoy a pint. I was totally happy with a glass of Fuller's or Samuel Smith's, but the beer at teenage parties was disgusting and made my mouth dry.
Oddly, I didn't drink hardly at all through college, because everyone was drinking the same dry garbage that they did during high school parties.
When I turned 21, I bought a pile of British ales with the idea of finding my "brand". That turned into a lifelong experimentation with American craft beer and a soft spot for English bitters. I'll still prefer a pint of Timothy Taylor's Landlord over some big, giant hop bomb or imperial stout that's only sold for one day at the brewery.
I had a friend from England who's folks lived within walking distance of the Timothy Taylor Brewery. Every time he visited, I'd beg him to bring me back a bottle. Once he brought home six. My wife drank one and she still hears about it ten years later.
You forgave her..?
Part of marriage is sticking with each other, man. We all make mistakes.
randsterama If I have multiples of something, I like to drink one a year. If you can get a fresh bottle for comparison, that's even more fun.
hell ya merica baby
I live in South London and just had a box of London Pride delivered :)
Don't think there's anything wrong with people liking both "domestic lagers"/stronger, more tasteful styles. They have different drinking occasions for different people, and right now, there's never been more options out there. You want to take your time and sip on an IPA, you can get one just as easily as you can have a few Buds as a refreshing beverage.
While the big breweries continue to produce garbage, there are so many microbreweries producing actual quality beer that I think this statement is untrue these days. I live in America and cannot tell you the last time I drank Budweiser or any of the other mainstream highly advertised beers we all see. I would agree with the above statement in terms of the mass produced beers. There are a great many microbreweries in the US these days. Robust full bodied beers that fill every category / style you can think of. There was a Renaissance in the US in the last 2 or 3 decades. So many regional beers. There is no excuse these days if you are still drinking garbage in the US.
To my fellow US citizens, if all you drink is Miller of Budweiser in the US I highly recommend you do some research online and expand your horizons. There is sooo much to be experienced in the beer world. So many flavors and varieties produce with nothing more than yeast, barley, hops and water. Take up home brewing and you will never go back to Budweiser ever again.
Unfortunately when these craft breweries get too big the big boys start to get nervous and start trying to buy that craft brewery. Generally, if the brewer was really only in it for the money they will sell out. Once the big boys got their hooks into it they either change the recipes to be more similar to their big name beers or they close it down. Big boys can't handle the competition. 3 or 4 years ago 10 Barrel Brewing out of Bend Oregon sold out to Budweiser. 10 Barrel is still around but their beer is no where near as good as it was before the buy out and they are slowly fading away.
There are so many micro brews all over the country.
In Finland we have got same kind of tasteless watery beer. Lapinkulta (Gold of Lapland) beer has said its 'piss of reindeer' 😀 Nowadays there is lot of small breweries in Finland that makes beers with stronger taste. But regular beer is quite slop.
The only finnish beer you can drink without womiting is Koff.
@@Frenne85 Koff is vomit. only real bears are sandels and karhu. but even koff is good out of tap
Here in Chile we have Lapichula. Also watery!
As an American, there’s an insane amount of breweries that produce craft beer that are nothing like water so I’m really confused why all of our beer is getting put in one category of “water”
Maine is one of the craft brewing capitols of the world, these silly euros dont understand that when beer is like water, you drink it faster!!!
@Mountainfucker ipa's are abundant you guys aren't special. American beer like coors, budweisers, bud, pbr and every other original brand is SHIT. Miller is the only acception for a "brewing" company. Not even even close to a Canadian mill street. Dumb yank
US craft beer is relatively recent, and to non-American palates (and quite a few American ones) most mainstream US beers are quite weak and watery.
Every major brand is labeled as water, of course craft beers are a different category, even here in Europe.
@@helixator3975 US craft beer has been a thing since the 1960s tho, by now people should be familiar with it so apparently we only export shit beer.
Nice to see Aaron in this! I do feel that he was seriously underused, though.
First thing: what do the people at PBS even know about beer, they're all drinking Chardonnay or Zima or something.
Second: For all you Euro-snobs. Here's a couple of personal anecdotes: I was at an airport bar, Newark I think, waiting for a flight. Another flight arrived and it was a bunch of English rugby players coming in for a tournament. Just about every single one ordered a Miller light.
Another time my wife and I went to Scotland on a bus, I mean coach tour. Whenever we'd stop for a shopping opportunity, instead of running to the shops for made-in-China kilts, we looked for the "real ale" signs. In the pubs, it was amazing how many of the customers were ordering Stella instead of the real ale.
Anyway, I live about 20 miles from the brewery that's had one of their beers rated "Best in the World" in international competition a couple of times. Hill Farmstead Brewery. Look 'em up. Best beer in the world, officially.
Australia had a similar thing happen in the 80s/ 90s. People were drinking the same old thing since forever, then craft beer starting getting traction
Just as well because a lot of Aussie beer is piss too, especially Fosters 🤢
Growing up in hot Southern California, and in a Mexican household, nothing beats a ice-cold, refreshing lager
Although I do prefer good craft brews like Ayinger and Weihenstephaner
0:50 expert beer drinker, that's me after two shots of vodka
On what measurement scale does the US have the second highest beer intake in the world? It's 20th per capita. Oh total.... That means nothing since the US is so huge.
Even when it comes to alcoholism, Americans want to pretend to be exceptional....
A couple of nice things about those cheap watery beers, while we have an abundance of incredible craft beers, those cheap bears are 1. Cheap, and 2. They are very refreshing on a hot day. It gets very hot in the summer in most parts of the USA and a nice cheap beer is quite refreshing.
That said, I will put up our best craft beers against the best of anyplace in the world. Our craft beer boom is just incredible.
Then you never had a nice Bavarian wheat beer on a hot day. Very strong taste yet not harsh at all. Never had an american light beer but I think I'd rather kill myself
And the best of your craft beers are equal to the best in Europe. I'm a Brit and the range of craft beers in the UK is huge. And all of the american ipas i have tried have been great. Much respect to your micro brewers.
Czech Pilsner from Plzen is still the best. Greeting from a Norwegian in Prague.
Souhlasím
Scofferhoffer oettinger
IPA or go home.
@@cultofmalgus1310 ................ I don`t mean any disrespect, however, IPA`S when 1st brewed for export, used a large amount of hops as a natural preservative as refrigeration wasn't available back in those days. They are so overly hopped, that it`s like biting into a grapefruit. It is not a balanced beer at all, in fact far from it. Germany would laugh at the style to be quite honest. If you like being God smacked in the face with hops, then have at it.
@@jamminjoe44 yes I do. I love those hops so much. They drive my taste buds wild. Troeggs Nugget Nectar. Yum!
Also I never liked lagers, I've always been an Ale man. So I favor British Style Brews.
A very informative video. I had always wondered how German descendants could regress so much to not be able to brew good beer. Well, a hundred-something years with inferior components to still get something that *looks* like what you're used to, but doesn't taste that way will do that. As taste can't be delivered through a book or description, but only through your taste buds, you get used to a certain taste, which defines the new normal to you. However when confronted with the real deal, no matter where it comes from, you notice that, nope, that crap really doesn't cut it.
Greetz from a German in Hamburg, who pities Americans are used to only the big five corporate brands watered down to a pale shadow of what they are supposed to be. But good on you to reinvigorate your craft beer breweries. That's something I would like to see in Germany as well.
I for one am very glad for the craft brewing industry. I have _never_ liked watery American lager. Maybe I would have had that been what I started out drinking. But when I was in high school in the mid-80s, my home state raised the drinking age to 21. After I finished my freshman year of college, I went and spent a summer in Ireland, and as I was eighteen, I could buy all the beer I wanted. I got used to Guinness and British-style ales, as well as European beers like Carlsberg et al. I _loved_ Ireland, and came back home determined to attend grad school there, which I did, and whenever I drank beer, it was _not_ American style light lagers. When I came home for good, I was thoroughly accustomed to beer that tasted like _beer_ not beer-flavored water.
And all these years later, I'll drink _actual_ water rather than Bud, Coors, Miller, or any of that stuff. I honestly don't think I've had any of that swill since I was in college. I'm glad that the emergence of craft breweries and microbreweries and so on has allowed _real_ beer to start being made in the U.S.
The pendulum has swung to the other extreme with many small and micro-breweries in North America: Ultra hoppy IPAs that you could probably use to disinfect a sewer. Good beer is about balance.
Philippe Panzini It's pretty similar here in England with the hipster crowd going for anything with the word "craft" or "artisanal" and a tonne of hops put in it. It irritates me, especially in my home town where we have a brewery that's been making award winning classic Yorkshire Ales that blow almost all craft beers out of the water for decades.
The hops hides the "imperfections" in the beer. It's the sign of a stupid brewer.
Which is why we have all these frat boys in the comments section saying "lagers suck lol" and throwing down IPA which any brewer too lazy to clean his brewing equipment could make. There's nothing better than a real kolsch, pilsner or lager--a lot harder to make one of those well than the frenzied fad brews most breweries feature here in the Western US.
Drink what you like. As an avid home brewer who makes every type of beer under the sun, those who talk shit about IPAs are just as annoying as the hipsters who only drink them from custom growlers.
Actually, IPA is a lot more drinkable these days. The passion for an excessive amount of hops has kind of subsided.
Please do a video on why American coffee sucks! I'm an American living in Germany and the coffee here, like the Bier, is way better. It is rare that when I order coffee, that it comes from a pot. It's most often made in a coffee machine that grinds the beans fresh for that cup.
Sounds like an Americano. You can get those at any small coffee shop/barista here in the US. Although, we may be spoiled for options here on the west Coast
@@Trenz0 I learned a true Americano in Italy. They use espresso with hot water. Italian Americano tasted pretty good.
Shit, once I have ordered starbucks here in europe. I hate anything sweet, don’t use sugar at all. I simply hate sweet taste.
So I ordered that piece of shit without sugar.
It was sweet as fuck. Immediately thrown it and went without having coffee. You in USA use sugar everywhere. Or corn syrup which is even worse shit.
Beer? Well, I drink regular cheap czech and german stuff but even that cheap shit would win all fucking medals in USA in comparison to the US beer. Horse piss really
Point being....?
Coffee beans from Hawaii are some of the best in the world,that’s in the US.Don’t think Germany has any coffee beans
3:17 "Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours" I suspect the feeling was mutual, especially in the case of the woman (man in a dress, taxidermied pig, I dunno) in the bottom left.
Crispy Bacon i vote taxidermied pig lol
Because the actual American end product is money, not beer.
Im all for micro breweries. These guys put in so much effort to make tasteful and versatile beers from stouts to IPA, saisons and sours
Y’all hurt my heart, I like light lager
@Eddie Arias Or mix cheap, strong lager with sparkling water. I genuinely think that'd taste the same, and saves money
@Eddie Arias Miller High Life is good. What's wrong with a lager mowing the lawn?
@@tylermartin6998 Miller High Life IS good. And you make a good point about when to drink a light lager. I see beer snobs talking out of their necks sideways about how American light lagers are no good (on sites like BeerAdvocate). Looks like piss, tastes like piss. Unless... it's hot out. Or, you drink it really cold. Hey, if it's only good to you when it's hot out, or after mowing the lawn, or after a workout, only drink them under those conditions and don't complain about drinking a warm beer while meditating.
I think American light lagers ARE better cold. So I drink them really cold. I don't think they stand up to being poured aggressively into a glass, so I drink them out of the bottle. And I think they taste great after a long run, no doubt because they're light and refreshing, unlike a heavier beer. Conversely, I don't like, for example, Sierra Nevada Celebration out of the bottle: No nose and tastes like the most bitter grapefruit you've ever eaten. Poured into a glass? The nose is heaven and the flavor range expands immensely.
It should be retitled "How The American Beer Industry Came To Be".
If thats what your water tastes like its time to change the filter.
Wheezy, you've grown into a great narrator. Keep working your dream.
love that the government and politics crash course host is educating me about dwindling beer sales
The part of this whole conversation that drives me kinda crazy, is that the most popular beers in most countries are basically pisswater. That style of beer is huge world over.
Yeah, Heineken, Stella, Foster's, Molson--lots of non-American beers are pisswater, and plenty of American beers aren't (for example, most stuff brewed by Sierra Nevada is readily available in most of the country, but still quite high quality).
@@Eyedunno Exactly. Americans pushed craft beer into the 20th and 21st centuries.
What a lot of the "American Beer is weak" comes from, is the fact that lots of beer alcohol content was measured by weight and not volume. So a 5% ABV (basically the most standard beer alcohol level) = 4%ABW. It makes it look 20% less alcoholic in nature. Even though, it's the same amount of alcohol.
So a Canadian beer listing the alcohol percentage in ABV, could brag (incorrectly) about how much more alcohol is in their beer comparatively to ABW.
Macro beers in Europe aren't as bad as American ones...Stella Artois etc are perfectably drinkable, and stronger
@@angloirishcad 5% is stronger? Most general lagers whether two row or six row barley are 4.6-5.2% abv.
Also, Stella isn't that great. The Czechs make better lagers.
@@SlavicCelery Its not great but its perfectly drinkable...and the same goes for Peroni in Italy, Mahou in Spain, Pelfort in France etc etc...you wouldn't seek them out, they're a mass produced product, but they're a world away from the American commercial beers which I would say are actually undrinkable.
I do like a Sam Adams though.
P.s. the 'lite' concept doesn't even exist in Europe.
It's made like that so you can be out on your boat for 18 hours and 100° weather and drink a case of it and keep going strong. I can't do that with Guinness.
beer is beer and like you, I like it all or at the very least, find the diversity from country to country interesting and refreshing.
Finally a comment that isn’t based out of hatred just because of where somebody is born 🙄
Give me stout or give me death
Prettty sure this has been mentioned hundreds of time here but, American beer isn't the same adjunct lager wasteland it used to be. Having spent time working in Germany and the Netherlands, however, I found my conversations a bit "dead end" with the locals. They know their countries are known for beer... while drinking Euro pale lagers. They'll die on a hill defending any beer from their country! These people are missing out IMO. Don't drink Stella Artois, try some Piraat or trappiste ales! At the end of the day, though, drink what you like. I still enjoy Coors Banquet often while also drinking a lot of the must have NE IPA beers or west coast beers like Pliny the Elder.
Imagine being an American and having to wait till your 21 to buy a beer/alcohol , and they think they are free LOL!!!!!
I'm American... watching all my relatives growing up drinking beer made me curious. I finally tried it and realized it was like piss water. Imported beer or bust is my philosophy. However there are some local domestic breweries that do an amazing job and are flavorful. I personally don't even like beer that much. Wine all the way.
You mean ketamine.
@@quattro4468 Wendy, do you even know what Ketamine is?
@@alozzzy1213 its heaven.
I do like a good malty and hoppy beer like a pilsner or an pale ale, but if im really trying to enjoy a day of fishing with a beer or any outdoor activity, I have to drink American. The light flavors and profile makes it super refreshing
It doesn't drink like water anymore if you stay away from the big corporations the microbreweries are fantastic and here in California it's as hi in alcohol content as anywhere in the world. It also depends on the type of yeast you use. And if it's truly good you can drink it warm and it is delicious.you often cannot find Guinness because it doesn't compare with the beers that are here unless you talking about Guinness Antwerpen which is 8% alcohol and was made by Guinness for expert to Belgium. That's available here in San Diego California
If you dont put malt, what the hell do you put in the beer? Knowing the us its probably high fructose corn syrup innit