The Berliner Weisse is Brewed with Lactic acid bacteria. test out Schenkerla from Bamberg. they have a english webside. and u will remind smoked Bacon or when u are in fish it will remind u on smoked fish
Your Implication about the PURITY LAW is PLAIN WRONG. Where did you read this Nonsense? IMAGINE MIDDLE AGE (or before): SAVE AND PURE WATERSOURCES where SPARE! Not Kidding! Not each City is at a River, not each Village had a Brunnen! You might have nboticed Germany has old Villages at Mountains too where no fresh Watersupply is given by Mother Nature.... BEER was a SAVE WAY to STORE WATER, PURIFY IT (from Bacterias and co! But this was UNKNOWN back then of course) and make it USAEABLE and DRINKABLE. That is the true REASON behind the PURITY LAW and that is, why it's called PURITY LAW. IT IS PURE! You can DRINK IT! So you might now also do understand why drinking in "young age" is common in Germany. In 13xx, a Son you sended to maybe make a Deal (not uncommon, average Age was not high, Marriages where common at young Age), needed to simply get something to DRINK (not to get DRUNK, that was not the Topic back then! Alcohol, so Beer, was used to make Water useable/drinkable over a long Period). So everyone basicly was DRUNKEN back then. Yes we Germans ruled the ROMAN EMPIRE drunken, our HANSE-Sailors where "drunken", basicly everyone was DRUNKEN who was not living at a River. This also explains why we have so many Breweries and Flavours! Not just because of the TASTE but to simply STORE WATER. If you don't add Alcohol (so Beer, ALL INGREDIENTS where commonly avaiable!) you gonna get ill if your Water is stored too long or if it's not realy clean (no matter, after a while you gonna get ill from it anyway, not kidding). THUS: PURITY LAW... ;) DUNKEL, HELLES and CO is what the People had AVAIABLE (to produce it + different Taste in the specific Region). Thus so many different Ways to brew Beer. :) Another FUN-Fact, same historical Timeline: We eat Sauerkraut! So we get called the CRAUTS. But this made us immune against scurvy and allowed us to spread the HANSE even we had no supply of Citrus fruits like the british.
I think one important thing about the lower drinking age in Germany is that, when you have your first drinking experience, you still live at home with your parents (as opposed to passing out in some dorm). That means you are still somewhat under the supervision of your parents. When I went to my first party with lots of drinking and came home in the morning feeling horrible, my dad just looked at me and said "so, have we learned anything tonight?" He did not scold me, we talked about it, he said "ok, so now you know that it sucks to be drunk, be more careful next time". When I moved out, alcohol was no longer that "wow, I can finally buy that and drink as much as I want!" thing, I knew how much I could handle and passing out drunk was not "cool", it was embarrassing.
Im from Estonia here. My first experience was when i was 14, got myself completely wasted, my dad came to ''collect'' me from the side of the road. He said absolutely nothing the entire way home. at home i passed out on the couch. When i woke up in the morning his first question was: ''So, how was it tough guy?'' No lecture, no punishment no nothing. The feeling itself speaks more than 1000 words lol. I felt like i was about to die!
Good point. I was allowed to drink small amounts of beer and wine at home from about sixteen onwards and therefore never became a problem drinker. By the time I was allowed to buy my own alcohol, I was the guy just chilling with beers instead of necking vodka and getting sick like the amateurs.
If you want to buy Beer, better go to a Getränkemarkt. They have huge collections, mostly local with small breweries. In a supermarket you find the mainstream beers from big breweries.
@@Breakfast_of_Champions All beers, presented on TV do kind of taste more or less OKish but not extraordinarily good, because they mostly come from the Top 3 or 4 brewery industrial companies. TOP not meaning good tasting, but just high output. Most TV beers may have some slight tendency, but all are "homogenated" and streamlined, so everybody can drink them - kind of. But there will be no extraordinary taste (whether good nor bad) within that beers. OTOH have some beers from smaller breweries, that are *not* within big brewery-companies. Something unlike Löwenbräu, Hofbräuhaus, Tucher, Jever brewery. The small town, I lived before had eleven (!!!) different and independent small local breweries (I think it was about 25k people in that city?). You buy the same beer type from any of these and you will taste a real huge difference inbetween them all! That's what makes the difference inbetween some streamlined and slick industry beers and the ones that (according to your personal taste) can be either disgusting or really good beers.
in 11th grade we had to do projects and my group brewed beer. we were supervised by a biology teacher and partnered with a local brewer, divided into several smaller groups and each brewed a different type of beer. we taste tested this beer in school as a class, with our teacher. cant imagine that happening in any other country
We actually did it in College in the U.S. Students picked the beer they wanted to brew. I did a German Wheat and yeast 4.5 ABV and used American hops for the win.
We Germans often argue about who makes the best beer and where it's from, but in my personal experience the best beer is always the local one no matter where you are. The only better beer is free beer :) (ok I lied, Franconian beer is the best, Huppendorfer Zwickl specifically)
Unless you're from central/east Germany and your local beers are the likes of Sternburg (trash), Hasseröder (trash), Ur-Krostitzer (not great) or Köstritzer (most sold Schwarzbier but far from the best). I wouldn't even drink the former two for free, and the latter two only fresh and cold from the tap.
Highly depends on personal preference. Naturally fresh beer is always of the highest objective quality, but that's not going to help much if your tastebuds disagree with the beer type or the brewer. Personally I like the light hop heavy ones the best, and not too crazy about either sour, yeast or too heavy malty beers. Not usually a taste shared by most Germans, I know, but then again, I'm not, so... 🤷♂️🍻Prost!
@@Turbobuttes I agree with your examples. My personal favorite brewery is Störtebeker from Strahlsund and i like the Rosenpils from Apolda. I rather would cut my hand off than drink a Sternburg. Greetings from Leipzig.
@@Turbobuttesas someone from northern Bavaria next to Frankfurt in central germany I would disagree that u can talk about eastern and central german in the same way. Just like I said I am from central germany and to compare sternburg piss with Our regional beers is a huge insult.
After all these german beers You should understand why Germans think the "scandal" around bud light isn't Dilan Mulvany as a promoter, its calling bud light a beer 😋
These are mostly bigger brands. A lot of the better beers are regional or smaller breweries. The thing that struck me about beer when I came to Germany, is that if you generally like beer you can mostly buy just about anything and get something enjoyable. Definitely not the case where I come from in California.
Alright, I'll bite: where in California are you from? Because the places I lived you could get basically what you wanted, especially if you knew where to go.
Good job. One thing: The Berliner Weisse is not drunk straight up. It is a summer beer we drink at the lakes with either a red or a green syrup to sweeten it up... ;-) God bless from an old American Football vet...
I belie he refers to Holsten Pilsener. First of all it's in a can (these beers usually don't taste as good as the bottled ones) and second it wasn't Holsten Edel which tastes better. Anyway, that's only my opinion.@@EK-gr9gd
Holsten knallt am dollsten? Yuck. IMHO that's indeed one of the worst big name Pilseners alongside Veltins, Becks and Warsteiner. He should have picked a Flensburger at least.
In the city of Bamberg, breweries still produce rauchbier (smoked bier), which was ubiquitous throughout Germany before the 1800s. The flavor is somewhat like drinking a smoked ham.
Drinking a smoked ham. That's absolutely the best way I could describe it. I've had one smoked beer in my life. That's exactly what it tasted like. It was good but I didn't want a second beer.
@@mrthomas7511That's exactly the problem with smoked beer: the label of Schlenkerla Rauchbier (from Bamberg - the world capital of beer) says that you have to drink at least two glasses to like it from then on. And that is absolutely true. The first tastes a bit strange to most people. The second makes you love it.
It's the attitude around alcohol. I grew up in Canada to German parents. Liquor was always around the house, never locked up. My parents drank socially, would have some on special occasions and my Dad would have one glass after work almost every day. My Dad played a joke on me once where I thought he was drinking coke on a hot day so I took a sip. It was Rye and coke and was awful to me. Either way, we could have gotten into the liquor but we never really wanted to. When I hit my late teens, I went to the bars, drank with my friends. We'd go to parties on occasion and drink a bit much. Now our neighbours had the traditional North American attitude where they locked up their booze. The first time they left their kids at home alone, the kids broke into the liquor cabinet to have the "forbidden" stuff. If you hold it up as some sort of mystical special thing, kids are going to want to try it. just my opinion.
agree. I guess because america is such a multi cultural nation, they have to raise the age limit. Especially when you consider that there are more guns than people over there.
Exactly, You nailed it! German's attitude to alcohol is quite different, most of us are social drinkers. We drink with friends or in good society to get into a good mood and have fun with others. We rarely get drunken by sitting home alone.
Exactly. Had booze all around the house growing up. Never of much interest to me as a kid. Couple of beers/drinks/shots at a party when i got older but went never "out of hand".
@@rolandjung9337ekelhafter du !!! Sprich nur für dich und ich hoffe du triffst am Bahnhof auf ein paar tolle soziale und ‘GARNICHT’ betrunkene Menschen in der Nacht alleine
The Berliner Weisse is one of a few varieties of beer that naturally contain lactic acid (as part of a slightly different fermantation process). [-->You can also get some "sour beers" around Goslar. It´s...an acquired taste...) Therefore, "Berliner Weisse" is very different from Münchner "Weisse", and on many depictions you can see it depicted as green or red, because traditionally, it is served in summer with a shot of raspberry or woodruff syrup. And that´s actually really nice on a hot day.
The Czech Republic took part in german culture under the name Böhmen (Bohemia). Pilsen (Plzeň) is the 2nd town to be the namesake for a type of beer (Pilsner), which dominates the german market. The first town was Einbeck (Bock).
a Pilsner is basically a helles with more hops notes. it was originally brewed by a bavarian who tried to adapt the bavarian brewing style to different water he found in plzen. before that, they had public spillings in that city, protesting the poor quality of local beer, that's why they got the bavarian guy to come there in the first place.
Hi, as I live in Würzburg and my wife comes from Schwäbisch Hall, I know the presented beers very well. Maybe having a brewer in the family helps, too... ;-) let me give you an advice: Try "Engel". That's a great brewery from Crailsheim, you will know it, it's just 20 minutes from Schwäbisch Hall. They have a bunch of good beers, too. I wonder that it is not available in Kaufland SHA, but you will get it in Kaufland Crailsheim. And if you want to go deeper into this topic: Make a trip to Bamberg. This city has the same amount of breweries than the rest of bavaria together and it is a class of it's own. I wanted to do a beer tasting video on my own. Maybe you want to join? Best Regards and Prost!
The most striking point for me is: You got 10 random bottles, and you enjoyed almost all of them. THAT is the beer richness in Germany. And the one that you didn't like, you probably didn't know that it is to be drunk with a syrup (Berliner Weisse). Like a summer lemonade drink. I wouldn't say that we necessarily brew "the best" beer, as this is highly subjective and to individual taste. There are great brewers pretty much everywhere that make good stuff. A lot of beers in germany are just run-of-the-mill standard beers that have hardly any typical characteristics but also no significant weaknesses.
I liked the raspberry syrup Berliner Weisse, but wouldn't try the mint one because mint+beer seemed very wrong [though I actually like both when separate]. The Belgian fruit beer [the specific word for it I have forgotten, "Lambic" maybe] is a good dessert, but can't be drunk as a refreshing beer. The English word in Britain for a mix of beer and lemonade is shandy, but here in the US there are coolers and proprietary mixes.
@@jackmclane1826 I don't doubt that there is a woodruff version for beer, as it is also used in some wines. It was 30 years ago, on one of me earliest trips to Germany, and I remember being told that there were two flavors, berry and mint, I'm pretty sure I heard Münze not Waldmeister. But memory is fallible. Personally, I have begun to prefer a beer mix or a wine mix for summer refreshment. The additive can be various fruit juice or soda. 7-Up [possibly with added juice] with white wine or beer works well [for me as tastes vary].
@@JMM33RanMA A good drink is the drink you like, and the right way to drink is it is the way you like it! I grew out of giving something on that. ;) I also only know 2 flavors of Berliner Weisse syrups. Red and green. And the green I know is woodruff. I don't know if anyone also mixes mint with it. And I would agree with you... beer and mint is strange. There is also a mint schnaps related to Berlin, called "Berliner Luft". Maybe you had some of these? Mixing non alcoholics with beer or wine is very common in Germany. We mix everything with sparkling water, making it a "Schorle". Weinschorle, Apfelschorle... Leading to the "Hopfenblütenschorle" = "hop blossom schorle" a colloquial term with a wink for a beer, if all the others ordered a Schorle. Beer with sprite/7up is Radler - a bottle of which he had here.
Since Berliner Weisse is so sour, it is traditionally drunk with a shot of syrup (raspberrry or woodruff). It originated as a 19th century attempt of a Berlin brewery to copy Bavarian wheat beer and was not very successful at that.
Wiki DE: "Berliner Weißbier hat seinen Ursprung wahrscheinlich im 16. Jahrhundert. Der allgemein verbreiteten Legende zufolge soll es aus dem Halberstädter Broyhan hervorgegangen sein; aber auch das Breslauer Weißbier Schöps könnte als Vorbild gedient haben. Berliner Brauer veränderten später die Rezeptur und stellten Weißes Bier her, welches seine Vorbilder an „Wohlgeschmack und Bekömmlichkeit noch übertraf“. Dieses „Berlinische Weitzenbier“ wurde urkundlich 1680 (nach anderer Quelle 1642) erstmals erwähnt.[4] Nach 1700 entwickelte es sich zum Lieblingsgetränk der Berliner. Unternehmer wie Breithaupt in der Palisadenstraße betrieben erfolgreiche Spezialbrauereien. Um 1800, als Bier nach Pilsener Brauart noch unbekannt war, gab es in Berlin rund 700 Weißbierlokale.[5] Einer weit verbreiteten Legende zufolge sollen die Soldaten Napoleons I. zu Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts, als sie sich in Berlin als Besatzungstruppen aufhielten, das Berliner Weißbier als „Champagne du Nord“ bezeichnet haben." Das Berliner Weisse von Kindl kommt da sicherlich nicht ran, aber das Budike von Lemke mit seinen ausgewogenen zurückhaltenden Noten schon. Nix mit erfolgloser Kopie, sondern eine eigene Entwicklung.
Fun fact, you didn't even touch on the actual dark secret of the german purity law. It's filtration. Breweries are allowed to use tons of natural and artificial filter methods, including some containing plastics. As long is the filter material is not detectable in the end product, basically everything goes and it still counts as german beer brewed according to the purity law.
Dear Nick, great video. Here are a few general comments. Hefe-Weizen and Berliner Weisse are top-fermented beers, meaning other yeasts are used in the fermentation process. That's why they taste fundamentally different than, for example, Pils or Helles. These are bottom-fermented beers. There are more hops in Pils than in Helles, which is why they taste more bitter. My favorite beer is "Tegernseer Hell" and "Oktoberfest-Bier" e.g. from Augustiner, which is only brewed from around September. My personal recommendation for you: Go to Bamberg once in the summer when there is a canoe slalom and drink a "Rauchbier" or better yet two Rauchbeers. The first glass usually doesn't taste that good, but the second and third... Rauchbier tastes a bit like smoked ham, this beer is very special. Google “Bamberg” and “Rauchbier”. Warm greetings from Peter from Munich.
@@lorenzsabbaer7725You don't understand what a Berliner Weisse is. It's Berlin culture...a refresher. It's not supposed to be a "killer Beer" but a summer drink to refresh.... putting the syrup in a Berliner Weisse is traditional and like putting Ketchup on French fries....
While living in Germany, you learned how to? 1) Drink boilermakers. Schnapps or Aquavitte (preferred). 2) Speak bad German. Mit schlecktem grammatik. 3) Plan converging convoys of 300 vehicles each and having it all mesh with perfection. 4) Drink raspberry-flavored beer. 5) Savor Bratwurst and Broetchen. Plus Spiesbraten at the Im Hof restaurant in Idar Oberstein. 6) My sergeant major bringing in a case of good local beer to the office for the lads to enjoy on a Friday afternoon. 7) Turning around while riding uphill in the track headed to the GDP and seeing the roads clogged with an entire Corps worth of vehicles behind you. THIS IS THE WAY GOD MEANT IT TO BE! (Quoting Patton) ;) 8) Loved the cold cuts. Had to, because the German idea of beef is a milk cow that dies of old age. And that fried ham and eggs was called a Strammer Max. 9) Spend a miserable afternoon in full MOPP because your Bundeswehr REFORGER opponent gassed you. 10) Stopping two opposing lieutenant colonels from attacking each other through the village again because our tracks had left two feet of mud on the streets the villagers had to clean up. ;) 11) That those manhole covers in the middle of nowhere were prechambers for backpack nukes, and not for utilities. 12) That the Baumholder troop clinic on a payday night was an interesting place to birth a baby, with 40 drunks cheering Mom on. 13) Discover the much-vaunted and feared Soviets were merely a comedy act soon to be slaughtered by a nuke-equipped, 3-Corps Theater Army 300,000 strong who had been practicing on the killing ground for 40 years.
Talking about Czech beer: Pils is called Pils because the original recipe comes from the Czech town Pilsen and Pilsner Urquell is one of the famous versions of Pils. You also might have heard of Budweiser which is originally a beer from the Czech town Budweis (České Budějovice). A US brewery bought the naming rights for the USA. In the EU, budweiser is a Czech beer.
The story about Pils is actually completely wrong. It's true that the name comes from the town Pilsen, but the actual creator of the Pils is a bavarian brewer named Joseph Groll from Vilshofen who was hired by the township of Pilsen in 1842 to create a beer that is actually enjoyable (it's said that the beer previously brewed was so disgusting it would damage the town's reputation). All subsequent owners of the brewery until 1900 were actually bavarians. The last bavarian master brewer to lead the brewery was actually his younger brother Johann Groll. After him all subsequent owners were czech, but all adhered to the Joseph's original recipe. Hope that clears up the myth.
Well tricky task figuring out the good and best ones from almost 1500 different breweries of which some are super tiny and local to their area. Also important to note beer wise Germans are incredibly territorial. If you travel 50KM you'll see quiet a change in offered local variants next to the mainstream ones. I'm sure if you'd ask the community you'd get at least 100 different suggestions easily :)
Ups. Berliner Weisse is to be mixed with syrup, either raspberry (red) or woodruff (green). But drinking it straight would be almost like drinking vinegarnot.
The selection was very southern German and one would have to include the many different northern and middle German beers and Pilsner varieties and the Czech beers should also be in the selection, because the German and Czech beer (Pilsner) cultures are closely related.
Three friends go to the bar together. One is from Cologne, one from Dusseldorf and one from Munich. The person from Cologne orders a Kölsch, the person from Düsseldorf orders an Altbier - but the person from Munich orders a sparkling water. The other two ask: “Why are you ordering a soda?” The Munich resident replies: If you two don't drink beer, I won't drink any either.
Nice. Our former mayor told that one years a ago on an acknowledgement event. Just with Munich replaced by my Hometown. Ironically it's located immediately bordering Düsseldorf.
Der Witz ist so alt. Hier in Düsseldorf wird der Witz genau andersherum erzählt. Ausserdem gibt es hier viele Privatbrauerein die nur hier bekannt sind. Schuhmacher, Uerige, Schlüssel, Füchschen, Kürzer usw. und die schlagen Münchner Biere um Längen, für mich zumindest, ausgenommen Ayinger. Viele Auswärtige die zum erstenmal diese Biere hier schmecken, vor allem Uerige und Schumacher , sind erstmal von den bitteren sehr hopfigen Bier abgeschreckt, weil sie den sehr milden wässrigen Biergeschmack gewöhnt sind. Aber nachdem zweiten oder dritten Bier wollen sie nichts mehr andres trinken.
I live in Germany.I am from the UK originally. Been here more than 40 years. I can buy a crate of 20 - 0.5 liters of glass recyclable bottles of beer for 8.49 euro from the Netto discount market, called Grafensteiner Pils. Another beer called Grafensteiner Alt (old and darker beer)) costs exactly the same. The beer is absolutely gorgeous and one of the reasons I stayed in Germany, and there were just so many others. The bottles have a time stamp for their manufacture date, the bottle itself and not the contents, some have been recycled for more than 20 years. Germany.
And for both there's another unwritten rule: Only have them from tap in their hometown (areas). They lose a lot when bottled. A Kölsch HAS to be tapped and consumed within 2 or 3 minutes, that's the reason for the strange ordering process and the tiny glasses.
I was in Munich last summer, and there was a vending machine in the hotel that sold 500ml bottles of beer for €2. It was a lot more expensive than it was in the store across the street, but at 2am it seemed reasonable. Can you imagine there being an unregulated beer vending machine in the USA? I almost made the mistake of buying a German beer in the store, but my Bavarian friend took it from my hand and just said 'No'. That is not the done thing.
you drank the berlinerweisse wrong! ok, I like it like that, but I have an acquired taste for sour beer. You're supposed to mix it with syrup. Raspberry syrup is really popular. And no, it isn't a "mixed" drink like a shandy or something, it's just a low alcohol sour beer.
A little fun story. There is a Brewery in Cleveland that bews a beer called Dortmunder Lager. Just looked on their webside and the Zipcodes of Cleveland and Dortmund are quite similar. Dortmund used to be a Beer city with a lot of breweries. There is also a Beer-Museum.
Dortmund was Well known for there "Export" beer or "Dortmund style Lager". It was Europe's biggest beer producer before Pilsener becomes popular and the breweries in Dortmund going bankrupt. To be honest, if there is a capital of beer in Germany it would be Bamberg. Best regards from Dortmund
German beer is really good. But as a Westphalian, I also love the beer of our European neighbours. Belgium, for example, also brews very good beer. Or what some people don't know, France also has very good beers. especially from Alsace or Brittany. The nice thing is the really huge selection of European beers, where everyone can find their favourite flavour PROST !
As much as it is blasphemy to admit, these strong, sweet Belgian beers are just great. I'm a Lower-Saxon by birth, and I cherish my Jever and Flens. But damn. Those Belgian beers are nice.... Prost aus OWL, wo wir das Herforder kaufen nur um es wegzukippen.
My roommate once did a beer blind tasting with a friend - both had studied food technology - and he was totally bummed that he voted out his favorite beer in the first round and he actually voted his least favorite beer in third position - he was rightfully horrified:):)
If you like Bavarian Lager Beer you should definetly try "Augustiner Hell". In my opinion the best beer from Munich. But stay away from "Edelstoff". Also by Augustiner, but it has a completly different taste.
Instead of drinking beer on the couch you could have it more sportive and walk on a beer trail. Especially in the Fränkische Schweiz ("Franconian Switzerland") which has the highest density of breweries worldwide. Their fine beers are only sold locally.
In the 1970's and 1980's, I worked for an American owned machine tool comany in the UK, in 1979 the company's German plant was short of skilled machine tool fitters, so the UK factory sent half a dozen of their fitters to Germany to help the German factory to fulfill their orders. The German factory had beer vending machines in all departments, the workforce could buy beer from the machines and drink it at any time of their shift, just like we do with coffee machines here in the UK.
Just a small correction concerning the tradition of beer; the production of beer in Germany traces back as far as to the Hallstatt Culture ~2800 years ago. It was then continously produced by Germanic cultures (they invented hoped beer) and medieval monastries until this day.
Always nice to see someone experiencing the german beer diversity. That being said, i have some remarks that could help in giving you a much better experience. Fist of all please dont go to Kaufland. Yes you can buy solid beer there, but thats basically it. The good stuff is in your local "Getränkemarkt". There you can find beer from smaller breweries that taste better most of the time. Another thing, as you seem to enjoy Weizen, is to pour in the whole baverage with all the sediment at the bottom. Thast where alot of flavor comes from, so its best to use a "Weizenglas" even for a taste test. I had beers where i forgot to do that and they tasted completly different at the end. Here is a personal suggestion for different types of beer that feel you would have the same experience as with the Maisels Hell (You actually ventured into the craftbeer scene a tiny bit with that, glad you enjoyed it.): Pils: Basically anything but Holsten, depends a lot on the selection. My absolute favorite is Schönramer, but thats hard to get. Something readily available would be budweiser (The chechian one!!!!) Weizen: Maisels or Schneider are readily available. Kuchlbauer is great if you can find it. Personal tip: Staffelsee Gold from Brewerie Karg in Murnau (very unique and not easy to find) Helles: The selection you had was quite good already. If you like Maisels Hell, you can look for more crafty Hell. Schönramer again. Secret tip with an interesting flavour twist:Speziator from Riegele Radler: Well its Radler, you can use basically every one. I prefer "naturtrüb" Schwarzbeer is not really my type so i cant recommend something out of my head. Bockbier: Something you haven´t tried yet it seems. Stronger beer but pact with a lot of flavor. Available as "Weizen" too (Schneider Aventinus is great) If you want to get a peak into craftbeer go for Störtebecker and Riegele. Störtebecker is readily availabel and Riegele can be found relatively easy and has really, rerally good stuff. If you want to try something really interesting go for Schlenkerla Rauchbier (Smokebeer), but be aware that its hit or miss for most people (goes great with barbeque. There is so much more, i just tried to give some examples to give you an even better experience.
Great episode, but don´t complain about not getting a Kölsch in the supermarket! LOL! There are everywhere "Getränkemarkets"! There you get a super big selection of nearly every beer you can imagine! I´m working in one of them so I know the difference to supermarkrts! You can get craft beer, beer from other countrys, like Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Argentinia, Kroatia, Korea, China, Japan, Thailand, India, even from Afrika like Benin or Nigeria, and so on! But thank you for likeing german beer and telling the storys and laws behind it! By the way, what happened to the miller?
After the end of the carnival season, the strong beer season begins (especially in Bavaria). If you want to try a really strong beer, try it at this time. The beers usually have their own name ending in "-tor" (for example Salvator, Animator ...). Traditionally, there is the so-called "Starkbieranstich". A public event at which the first keg of strong beer is tapped and presented to the guests (usually local politicians and business people). The most famous tapping is in Munich on the "Nockerberg". The prime minister, state ministers and party leaders are invited by a brewery. There is a Lenten sermon by a well-known actor and a big singspiel (a cabaret play with music and singing). The attendees get "drbleckt", presented with crude sayings and cheeky songs. The event is even broadcast on television. So everyone who gets caught has to put a good face on the "bad" game and laugh heartily at the reproaches. The first mass presents the brewery ceo to the bavarian prime minister with the old fashioned latin term „Salve pater patriae! Bibas, princeps optime“ ("Greetings, father of the fatherland! Drink, best prince!"). Strong beer is very full-bodied, with around 20 percent original gravity and at least 6.5 percent alcohol. The usual figure is 7 to 14 percent. Many breweries produce strong beers and some push the alcohol content particularly high. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Nice Video. But something to mention: never drink a German beer from a can - always buy a glass bottle - it makes a difference in taste. If you want to drink something special, try a AECHT SCHLENKERLA RAUCHBIER - a really unique kind of beer 😁
Berliner Weißbier is a beer that was fermented not only with yeast but also with lactic acid bacteria. It is completely different from other beers, which is why it is often used in mixed drinks.
Probably not the first here, but i highly recommend my Hometown Bamberg. It has one of, if not the highest density of breweries around. In the city alone are around 10, with even more in every little village in the surrounding areas. There's even a "Beer diploma" where you drink abeer from every brewery in the city in one day. Definitely should check it out:)
Right. Hailing from Pretzfeld / Fänkische Schweiz. At last "official" count we had 384(!!) breweries in Franconia, most of them in Upper Franconia (Oberfranken). I am happy to live just 200m from a brewery: Nikl Bräu - which has the best Zwickl / Helles Lager, at least for my taste.
German and Czech beer are historically intertwined. Borders have moved and “Germany” in that form is not that old yet. The Czech Republic used to be part of what was called Greater Germany or belonged directly to Austria (Austrian-Hungarian Kingdom), where German is also spoken. The best known and most popular variety is called “Pilsener” or Pils for short, and Pilsen is a city in the Czech Republic, but also close to the German border. But the varieties themselves are also important: Pilsner is relatively bitter, especially if you are new to beer. Helles is relatively mild, but for me it also has less of the actual beer taste (the bitterness). Then there's generally this thing about "top-fermented" and "bottom-fermented", which I still can't figure out. [Mostly translated with Google Translate, so I don't know, if things like "top-fermented" is correct) But, for example, Lager and Pilsner often taste similar, even though they are technically produced very differently. Specifically: Berliner Weiße is also called “Weiße mit Schuss” (white with a shot) because you drink it with sweet syrup (standard raspberry or woodruff). This means that it has been out of this purity law forever, although it is not brewed with it, but at least it is sold that way in pubs. I probably won't be the only one to mention this either, but for the sake of completeness. It's not a mix either, but has so little alcohol in it due to the different brewing method. But it's not mixed. Schwarzbier, on the other hand, is relatively sweet (for a beer) and often smoky. I personally don't like Hefeweizen, generally it's a "love it or hate it" kind of thing. But of course there are also differences within the varieties: Holsten is more of a "lower middle class" beer and tastes like it. You can drink it, but you don't have to. It is interesting that there has been movement in non-alcoholic beers. They used to all be disgusting, but Holsten, for example, has the best non-alcoholic one for me, but unfortunately it's not available everywhere. Jever Fun, for example, is common and quite good. Wernesgrüner is "upper middle class" as a normal beer, but their non-alcoholic beer is absolutely lousy. German beer culture also has a problem: it trivializes alcohol. Then you also notice that you are in southern Germany. You have some big brands, but also a lot from the region. Many other big brands (mostly Pilsner) are missing. You mentioned the Kölsch, but there's also the "Alt" and there are ridiculous culture wars surrounding these two, since they both come from North Rhine-Westphalia. In general, “Hell” and “Weißbier” are more southern German, although you can now get them everywhere. This also shows how German I am, because even though I'm not a huge beer fan, I've certainly tried over 100 different companies and every type. But if you have tried so many, mostly Pilsener or Lager, then you can also say that most of them somehow taste the same in 3 levels: "Upper class" (e.g. Pilsener Urquell or Budweiser, which has nothing to do with the US brand), "middle class" (e.g. your Holsten, Krombacher, Warsteiner, Wernesgrüner) and "lower class" like Berliner Kindl. There is a fourth class that is also called “Pisswasser” in GTA, something like Oettinger. While you can still drink Berliner Kindl but not buy it yourself (and because taste is subjective, there are plenty of people who particularly like the taste), there are countless memes about the disgustingness of Oettinger. And what's more: There is also "malt drink", sometimes also called malt beer, which is brewed like beer in the best case, but usually has additional sugar and Oettinger's is my personal insider tip: Absolutely cheap, but still better than the expensive competition. It should have little to no alcohol and is also popular with children. But you should still be careful because of the “little alcohol”. In addition, beer itself is an absolute fattening agent because it contains so many calories. Alcohol itself is also fattening → Bierbauch
Speaking of Miller. It was the german "Frederick Miller" who made this company that big. Frederick was born in my hometown Riedlingen in southwest Germany. :D
Thanks for saying! I am from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Miller beer in the United States is my go to for main line American beers because it is light and refreshing, but still manages to hold a nice wheaty taste. Prost now I want to try it in Germany.!! 🇺🇸🇩🇪
Schwarzbier is definitely an acquired taste, but it's become my favourite kind of beer over the years! For anyone interested, my favourite is "Störtebeker" Schwarzbier from Stralsund, named after the pirate Störtebeker.
I usually prefer amber bier or stout but the other day my grocery shop didn't have any then I try a dunkel bier cold brown hier. That was a good surprise, even better than an amber and it was only a classic Artois beer.
I usually prefer amber bier or stout but the other day my grocery shop didn't have any then I try a dunkel bier cold brown hier. That was a good surprise, even better than an amber and it was only a classic Artois beer.
To be fair, The Reinheitsgebot is not a law in the sense, as mentioned in the video, it originally refers to something from the 16th century in Bavaria, and specifically Bavaria, so there wasn't a unified German Beer purity law. The idea of a German Beer purity law wasn't around for a while until German brewers started trying to fight against foreign beers being imported as the European Economic Area began to develop, and it was then that the idea of a "Bavarian Beer Purity Law" turned into a German one. There ARE restrictions on what can be used in beer in Germany, but it's by no means a binding law that existed throughout the centuries, it's just good PR work by the German breweries. Don't get me wrong, German beer is pretty good, but the idea of a century old law having an influential impact on German brewing tradition throughout the last few centuries is, well, not really real.
Es ist kein Gesetz, aber in Deutschland darf sich kein Getränk "Bier" nennen, wenn es nicht nach deutschem Reinheitsgebot gebraut wurde. Daher hat es die selbe Wirkung wie ein Gesetz. Alle ähnlichen Getränke heißen schon nicht mehr einfach nur "Bier", sondern Malztrunk, Radler, Biermix, etc.
Bin mir nicht so sicher, ob du da richtig liegst mit der EU-Geschichte. Kann mich an nichts anderes erinnern als an das "Deutsche Reinheitsgebot" und da war grade mal die Montanunion ein Thema und die EWG am entstehen. Daß Kämpfe stattfanden, gegenüber der EU-Krake das Recht auf das Deutsche Reinheitsgebot für Getränke, die sich Bier nennen dürfen, zu behalten, steht außer Frage, aber das ist ein ganz anderes Thema. Die EWG hat alle Traditionen so sein lassen, wie sie waren, erst die verf***** EU hat in sämtliche Küchen der Mitglieder reinregiert und eine Menge Sachen verboten, die Tradition waren - und wer nicht rechtzeitig auf die Barrikaden ging, dem wurde einfach jedes Alleinstellungsmerkmal weggenommen und wenn's nur das Sägemehl auf dem Kneipenboden oder aufgewärmtes Gulasch oder Sauerkraut war. Klar hätten wir das Reinheitsgebot auch verloren.
@@JoehnDoue Also, jain. Es ist wahr, dass innerhalb Deutschland nur gewisse Dinge als Bier bezeichnet werden dürfen. Mit Ausnahmen. Laut dem Gesetz kannst du nach Pragaraph 9 eine Ausnahme zum "Brauen besonderer Biere" beantragen, die normalerweise auch genehmigt wird. Unter dem Zustand darfst du sehr wohl Dinge die ähnlich sind als Bier bezeichnen. Du hast insofern recht, dass viele bierähnliche Getränke allerdings anders bezeichnet werden müssen, wenn es eben einfacher ist einen andern Namen zu benutzen, statt die Ausnahme zu beantragen, mit etablierten Namen wie zb. Radler ist das ja Standard. Wobei ich auch sagen wollen würde, dass wie du schon ein bisschen angemerkt hast, diese Bezeichnung nur für Detuschland's Namengebung existiert, bedeutet im Ausland findest du durchaus deutsche Biere die auch ohne Ausnahme vom Biergesetz als Bier bezeichnet sind. Also ja, es gibt gewisse Gesetze die der Idee des Reinheitsgebotes ähneln, die sind aber bei weitem nicht so alt, zählen nur für Deutschland, und sind auch nicht so konsequent, dass es nicht zahlreiche Ausnahmeregelungen gibt. Ich glaube der Unterschied ist hier zu groß, als dass man wirklich guten Gewissens sagen kann, dass die Regelung genau den gleichen Effekt hat, als gäbe es das Reinheitsgebot wirklich.
@@witthyhumpleton3514 Ausnahmen für "besondere Biere" werden auch nur im Norden normalerweise genehmigt. Und sind wir ehrlich, wer norddeutsches Bier trinkt ist auch selbst Schuld. Je weiter man in den Süden geht umso weniger wird das genehmigt, bis hin zu Bayern und Baden-Württemberg, wo jedes Bier strinkt nach "Reinheitsgebot" gebraut wird, weil die Zuständigen Behörden die Ausnahmen grundsätzlich Verweigern.
@@PeppigUndBillig Austria is not "non German". Germany was deunified by her enemies after WWII, but Austria is no less German than the DDR or the Saarland were. This political separation is externally imposed and entirely artificial.
You´re also missing an Altbier from Düsseldorf, but Diebels isn´t too bad for a mass produced Altbier. Which of the really good Altbier to get depends on personal taste preference: you like more bitter beer Uerige or Schumacher, you like it more on the sweeter side Füchsen or Schlüssel and if you find it, Bolten Alt from neighoring Meerbush is a very good Altbier as well somewhere between the four big Düsseldorfer brewers. So even they´re all Altbier, they all taste very different.
Na Na Na Bolten is not from Meerbusch it is from Korschenbroich from my garden i have a perfect look at that sacred place so they may produce somewhere else too but that is where it comes from.
Bruder die Worte Altbier gut und Diebels in nem Satz sind schon ne harte beleidigung für nen Düsseldorfer bevor der Diebels nimmt war die variante in diesem video da am besten
@@feuerwerkisttoll2935 Welche Varianty im Video, Dunkelbier ist kein Altbier. Und welche Alternativen gibt außerhalb Raum Düsseldorf denn bitte? Schlösser und Kotzweiler, beides untrinkbar und die guten findet man sehr selten, weil Altbier nur 3 Monate Geschmacksgarantie hat, wobei die Kronkorkenflaschen etwas länger mein ich.
I highly recommend giving "Moritz Fiege Pils" a try. It's a distinctive beer from Bochum, the city where I reside. This particular brew has always been my top choice among beers.
Swede here, I have always preferred Czech beer in the past, now when im sober (soon 5 years) i like german, mostly because there are more N/A german beers to choose from but seems that other countries are catching on.
As I grew out of my 20s I really started to appreciate this. It's great to be able to enjoy a Weizen on a warm summer day, or at lunch, without having to worry about alcohol. Nowadays I always have a crate of alcohol free Erdinger or something similar in the house and people often take it over one's with
Sorry, but the only beer from Northern Germany you taste was Holsten - and this came in a can! Don't compare beers served in a can or plastic bottle! And BTW: What's up with the Miller's? Was that just thrown down the drain? That's where it belongs. BTW2: You'd never heard of Czech beers? OMG - What about Budweiser or Pilsener Urquell? (Not the US-American chemical broth!)
What is also unfortunate problem with Germany is that there are a lot of breweries which are distributing their beers only to local retailers. For Example, my favourite Altbier "Füchschen Alt" is impossible to find anywhere outside Düsseldorf.
And this small breweries often brew a special beer only one time the year for the festival "kerwa" in town. To get stuff like this ist really difficult for people of other regions. Because this beers are sold out quick.
Finally you did something like this. Pretty cool. I love so many good Lagers for a nice summer day, to a good Bock, something dark of course for the winter. The full spectrum. Even simply just a Stephaner Hefeweiz is great I think, maybe one of my favorites, as with many of the Bavarian selections. It has this amazing sort of slightly unripe banana flavor to it, almost somewhat grassy and I always thought it was very good and refreshing.
Because they only ever talk about German beer and not Czech or Austrian beer... in the supermarket you have a recording where both are available for purchase. Gösser Radler is an Austrian beer drink mixed with lemonade and Budweiser comes from the Czech town of Budjovice, so Budweis (the German translation), but has nothing to do with the horrible drink you get in the States. There's even 30% rice in it, yuck. By the way, the original is called “King of Beers” and I can only recommend that if you go to Vienna, then visit the Schweizerhaus in the Vienna Prater. You can also get Budweiser there... and it's tapped with less CO2, which makes it more drinkable. Be careful though, because if you're not used to it, it'll blow your mind. And avoid the Budweiser super strong!
I saw some old friends in this video lol. You could fill your channel for a year or two doing these taste tests. Now, when you go back to Oregon you should do another video showing some of the microbrews from up that way. The US brewed crappy beer for decades, but once the micros took off we have a lot of good beer available now. Problem is, at least in my area, I don't see as many German or Czech beers as I used to and that irritates me because I still prefer them.
Hi, German guy here - 8:00 - i think "Berliner Kindl" is meant to be mixed with syrup... like "Waldmeister Sirup" - at least we in "Hessen" drank it like that - oh sorry and also, you usually put the whole bottle of a "Hefe-Weizen" in a big 0.5 Liter glass and before emptying the bottle you would stir the leftover fluid to loosen the yeast at the bottom of the bottle and fill it in quickly... if you then also have a nice beer-foam-crown on top, you are a king ;)
8:37 Drinking Age in Germany -> 0 So just to be clear: There is NO legal drinking age in Germany. ---- Jugendschutzgesetz §9 (Youth Protection Law §9) deals with PURCHASING and or consuming alcohol in PUBLIC: 14 is the limit for children to drink in PUBLIC under parent supervision, like in a restaurant. The folowing two age limits applay to SELLERS of alcohol only, like restaurants and supermarkets and vendor machines. 16 is the legal age to BUY beer and wine, with emphasis on buying. 18 isthe legal age to BUY spirits, with emphasis on buying. ---- Parents have a legal obligation to care for the health of their children so they can´t let you get drunk. However in private parents can allow their children do drink anything at ANY age in a reasonable way.
Jup... I will allways remember a family gathering when I was about 11. My 6years Ole sister wanted to try the Obstler (60%) the adults were drinking. My father just handed her the glass, said "take a sip", my sister did and turn ran to the bathroom screaming and washed out her mouth with tap water for 15 minutes, while the entire family had a great laugh. German culture surrounding alcohol is just different.
What I realised is that Nalf never managed to get the yeast into the glas. A Zwickl or Hefeweizen has to contain the yeast in the glas in order to get the full taste. This mistake i have realized in quite a lot of these different taste tests.
@@JuJu-zb3zn yes, you do at least according to the Bier Knigge which is published by the Erdinger Brauerei. Additionally it is logical because if you don't drink the yeast you can simply buy a Kristallweizen.
Brewer here. You can, but you don't have to. If the beer is fresh i suggest to put the yeast into the glass, so it adds the typical "yeasty" flavour. If it's a little bit older i would not put the yeast in, since it is dead and already started to metabolize itself due to the lack of sugar. This sets all the different toxins free which were contained within the cells. This applies only to beers with "Flaschengärung", since only they have living organisms (yeast) inside. Others might have yeast as well but only for optical reasons.
Wow. That was a very honest and open minded statement.....well, in the first few minutes I thought "Oh great, I am watching another video of an american going to any place outside the US and complaining that things are not exactly like home". But, you have changed, opened yourself, changed your perspective and suddenly saw the positive sides. Great character to admit being on wrong or having the wrong perspective at first but then being able to see things as they really are. Thank you for your perspective. I would like to see or hear your partners perspective on how you have changed and if it was hard for him, too, when you still were negative about everything. Oh and in case you haven't guessed....I am German as well.
this was a nice video. I grew up in Poland having beers with dinner at 16 and sometimes a shot of vodka with the uncles after the meal. alcohol was such a normal part of our life that nobody cared. i had one uncle who sadly became an alcoholic and all i ever heard was to not end up like uncle Wiktor. in short, alcohol was normal but constantly being drunk was not normal. All of my friends had essentially the same experience.
The plopp-lock is called a BÜGELVERSCHLUSS :) - I like these, too because they stick to the bottle, they don't fly around (or get left on the table - by me, because I am lazy) :D
To me as a german beer enthusiast I am very surprised by your taste test, my ranking would not be mutch different. When it comes to the big brewerys in Germany, most of them arent that good tbh. Its the small and mid sized ones that put out the really good stuff. Another intresting thing is that craftbeer barely cought on here, because our small brewerys basically are our craft beers. We had a big wave of craftbeers a few years back, but most of them died out or some mid sized brewerys started to make their own craft beers in addition to their normal sortiment (for example Zwönitzer).
Holsten is a really bad Pilsener. Beers out of bottles taste always better than canned beers. Smaller breweries always make better beers than the mass produced beers. Czech and also Belgium beers are also very good.
Probably I am going to annoy some Germans here but: I live as a Belgian for many years in Germany now and , oh man, how I miss the very tasty beer from home! After all these years and many tastings I have only found 2 beers here that I could appreciate. In Belgium you go dizzy with the selection of very tasty strong or special beers.
In the Netherlands you can get Belgian, German, Dutch and all other beers, without any limitation in national pride or other feelings, only taste matters! And of course you pick a beer according the season, temperature, company, and the food that comes along. There is not 'one best beer'!
Even the small food store in my small home town sells Grimbergen and Leffe (blond is my favourite in belgian beers). But Hefeweizen bavarian style is my all time favourite.
Another belgian living in Germany here, my favorite German beers are the bock beers, and my all-time favorite is the aventinus ice bock, boy that's some tasty beer, more in style of a Belgian quadruple!! My style of beer! When I visit friends and family in Belgium I always bring back a couple crates and for my wife a couple crates of real lambic cherry beer! Belgian beer is unesco world heritage, and well... German beer uhm... Isn't!
@KRIS60 you have to go to Franconia, literally every village has its own brewery. There are about 300 breweries in this small part of Germany between Bamberg Bayreuth and Forchheim
Tip from an Bavarian: don’t drink beer from any big brewery, especially when they use TV adverts. They taste more or less all the same. Better try the small, local ones I like Unertl, Hopf, Guttmanns (all Weißbier), and Giesinger, Starnberger, Ayinger, Graf Arco, Maxlrainer (all Helles). There are hundreds of breweries in Bavaria and nearly all of them are excellent.
This is the slipperiest slope anyone has ever been to, being an American and having opinions about which Germsn beer is good...I'm Sure no one will disagree with whatever conclusion you come to☝️
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The Berliner Weisse is Brewed with Lactic acid bacteria. test out Schenkerla from Bamberg. they have a english webside. and u will remind smoked Bacon or when u are in fish it will remind u on smoked fish
Your MISSTAKE: get BOTTLED Beer if you compare it to.... another bottled beer! Seriously: The TASTE is differently if it's caned or bottled. :)
Your Implication about the PURITY LAW is PLAIN WRONG. Where did you read this Nonsense?
IMAGINE MIDDLE AGE (or before): SAVE AND PURE WATERSOURCES where SPARE! Not Kidding! Not each City is at a River, not each Village had a Brunnen! You might have nboticed Germany has old Villages at Mountains too where no fresh Watersupply is given by Mother Nature....
BEER was a SAVE WAY to STORE WATER, PURIFY IT (from Bacterias and co! But this was UNKNOWN back then of course) and make it USAEABLE and DRINKABLE. That is the true REASON behind the PURITY LAW and that is, why it's called PURITY LAW. IT IS PURE! You can DRINK IT! So you might now also do understand why drinking in "young age" is common in Germany. In 13xx, a Son you sended to maybe make a Deal (not uncommon, average Age was not high, Marriages where common at young Age), needed to simply get something to DRINK (not to get DRUNK, that was not the Topic back then! Alcohol, so Beer, was used to make Water useable/drinkable over a long Period). So everyone basicly was DRUNKEN back then. Yes we Germans ruled the ROMAN EMPIRE drunken, our HANSE-Sailors where "drunken", basicly everyone was DRUNKEN who was not living at a River.
This also explains why we have so many Breweries and Flavours! Not just because of the TASTE but to simply STORE WATER.
If you don't add Alcohol (so Beer, ALL INGREDIENTS where commonly avaiable!) you gonna get ill if your Water is stored too long or if it's not realy clean (no matter, after a while you gonna get ill from it anyway, not kidding). THUS: PURITY LAW... ;)
DUNKEL, HELLES and CO is what the People had AVAIABLE (to produce it + different Taste in the specific Region). Thus so many different Ways to brew Beer. :)
Another FUN-Fact, same historical Timeline: We eat Sauerkraut! So we get called the CRAUTS. But this made us immune against scurvy and allowed us to spread the HANSE even we had no supply of Citrus fruits like the british.
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I think one important thing about the lower drinking age in Germany is that, when you have your first drinking experience, you still live at home with your parents (as opposed to passing out in some dorm). That means you are still somewhat under the supervision of your parents. When I went to my first party with lots of drinking and came home in the morning feeling horrible, my dad just looked at me and said "so, have we learned anything tonight?" He did not scold me, we talked about it, he said "ok, so now you know that it sucks to be drunk, be more careful next time". When I moved out, alcohol was no longer that "wow, I can finally buy that and drink as much as I want!" thing, I knew how much I could handle and passing out drunk was not "cool", it was embarrassing.
hahaha the name and the story xD
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Im from Estonia here. My first experience was when i was 14, got myself completely wasted, my dad came to ''collect'' me from the side of the road. He said absolutely nothing the entire way home. at home i passed out on the couch. When i woke up in the morning his first question was: ''So, how was it tough guy?'' No lecture, no punishment no nothing. The feeling itself speaks more than 1000 words lol. I felt like i was about to die!
Good point. I was allowed to drink small amounts of beer and wine at home from about sixteen onwards and therefore never became a problem drinker. By the time I was allowed to buy my own alcohol, I was the guy just chilling with beers instead of necking vodka and getting sick like the amateurs.
Yeah but how many times didnt you tell yourself, Im not drinking ever again only to end up more pissed than you were the last time.
The most incredible thing to point out about beer is how many completely different flavors can be created with those three very basic ingredients.
If you want to buy Beer, better go to a Getränkemarkt. They have huge collections, mostly local with small breweries. In a supermarket you find the mainstream beers from big breweries.
Was just about to point that out!
We had one that was basically 90% just different beer brands and varieties but they didn't even advertise themselves as a specialty shop for beer lol
I was about to type the same thing. It's more likely to find the true gems in a "Getränkemarkt"... :)
The "TV beers" that all taste more or less the same
@@Breakfast_of_Champions All beers, presented on TV do kind of taste more or less OKish but not extraordinarily good, because they mostly come from the Top 3 or 4 brewery industrial companies. TOP not meaning good tasting, but just high output. Most TV beers may have some slight tendency, but all are "homogenated" and streamlined, so everybody can drink them - kind of. But there will be no extraordinary taste (whether good nor bad) within that beers.
OTOH have some beers from smaller breweries, that are *not* within big brewery-companies. Something unlike Löwenbräu, Hofbräuhaus, Tucher, Jever brewery. The small town, I lived before had eleven (!!!) different and independent small local breweries (I think it was about 25k people in that city?). You buy the same beer type from any of these and you will taste a real huge difference inbetween them all! That's what makes the difference inbetween some streamlined and slick industry beers and the ones that (according to your personal taste) can be either disgusting or really good beers.
in 11th grade we had to do projects and my group brewed beer. we were supervised by a biology teacher and partnered with a local brewer, divided into several smaller groups and each brewed a different type of beer. we taste tested this beer in school as a class, with our teacher. cant imagine that happening in any other country
"I hear baldrian is good for hang-overs. BALDRIAN !!".
We actually did it in College in the U.S. Students picked the beer they wanted to brew. I did a German Wheat and yeast 4.5 ABV and used American hops for the win.
We Germans often argue about who makes the best beer and where it's from, but in my personal experience the best beer is always the local one no matter where you are. The only better beer is free beer :)
(ok I lied, Franconian beer is the best, Huppendorfer Zwickl specifically)
Unless you're from central/east Germany and your local beers are the likes of Sternburg (trash), Hasseröder (trash), Ur-Krostitzer (not great) or Köstritzer (most sold Schwarzbier but far from the best). I wouldn't even drink the former two for free, and the latter two only fresh and cold from the tap.
Highly depends on personal preference. Naturally fresh beer is always of the highest objective quality, but that's not going to help much if your tastebuds disagree with the beer type or the brewer. Personally I like the light hop heavy ones the best, and not too crazy about either sour, yeast or too heavy malty beers. Not usually a taste shared by most Germans, I know, but then again, I'm not, so... 🤷♂️🍻Prost!
@@Turbobuttes I agree with your examples. My personal favorite brewery is Störtebeker from Strahlsund and i like the Rosenpils from Apolda. I rather would cut my hand off than drink a Sternburg. Greetings from Leipzig.
@@Turbobuttesas someone from northern Bavaria next to Frankfurt in central germany I would disagree that u can talk about eastern and central german in the same way. Just like I said I am from central germany and to compare sternburg piss with Our regional beers is a huge insult.
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It’s not just a thousand years. The Roman’s already wrote about Germanic tribes drinking extensive amounts of beer and doing drunk dares
After all these german beers You should understand why Germans think the "scandal" around bud light isn't Dilan Mulvany as a promoter, its calling bud light a beer 😋
interestingly enough most american popular breweries have german roots as well, they just stopped to produce beer at some point.
@@weisthor0815 Isn't Bud Light as well?
Not German but Czech.
I think while traveling Over to the US they just forgot how to brew a good beer.
@@officialkirin7219 Budweiser belongs to Anheuser-Busch, which is/was german.
@user-ks3ol3lw3b It is beer at least
@@officialkirin7219 German but yeah I guess they figured why give them actual beer if you can piss in a bottle and sell that too.
These are mostly bigger brands. A lot of the better beers are regional or smaller breweries. The thing that struck me about beer when I came to Germany, is that if you generally like beer you can mostly buy just about anything and get something enjoyable. Definitely not the case where I come from in California.
Winkler Amberg Helles is so good.
@@kjdude8765 I haven't tried that one. Chiemseer Hell is my favorite right now.
@@timseguine2 chiemseer is a great choice, of you like that definetly try Tegernseer Hell, its my favourite
Alright, I'll bite: where in California are you from? Because the places I lived you could get basically what you wanted, especially if you knew where to go.
@@TheGoddamnBacon in the desert. The biggest selection I ever saw there was at BevMo and even that was pretty weak
“1 1/2 beer and you‘re full“ is a sentence you will never hear in Germany 😂
Germans: "7 beers are a meal... and then you've not even had a drink yet."
Half drunk is a waste of money! 🙃
1 1/2 what???? There is no 1 1/2 beer. "Oa hoibe und no oane han zwoa Biar, oanahoibade homma mia ned"😄
I remember whe I was young and there was "double time" (2 beers for the price of one) in our local club... I drank like 6 to 8 Hefe xD
It depends on WHERE you drink 1 and a half beers. In the north west of Germany they drink beer from test tubes with the capacity of a thimble. 😆
Good job. One thing: The Berliner Weisse is not drunk straight up. It is a summer beer we drink at the lakes with either a red or a green syrup to sweeten it up... ;-) God bless from an old American Football vet...
Thank you. There are even more syrups. But those 2 are def, the most famous ones. Raspberry and Waldmeister/Woodruff.
You can't compare Weizen, Helles and "Schwarzbier". It's like comparing spare ribs, steak and turkey.
Yeah, steak allways winns.
The real shame is, that he bought one of the worst norther German beers for that competition.
@@lucascunningham1799 Which is?
I belie he refers to Holsten Pilsener. First of all it's in a can (these beers usually don't taste as good as the bottled ones) and second it wasn't Holsten Edel which tastes better. Anyway, that's only my opinion.@@EK-gr9gd
Holsten knallt am dollsten? Yuck. IMHO that's indeed one of the worst big name Pilseners alongside Veltins, Becks and Warsteiner.
He should have picked a Flensburger at least.
@@benne_drakenpancer Warsteiner is long no pilsener. For it has not enough "Stammwuerze".
In the city of Bamberg, breweries still produce rauchbier (smoked bier), which was ubiquitous throughout Germany before the 1800s. The flavor is somewhat like drinking a smoked ham.
Or liking on a coal brick ;)
Drinking a smoked ham. That's absolutely the best way I could describe it. I've had one smoked beer in my life. That's exactly what it tasted like. It was good but I didn't want a second beer.
@@0Turbox no, that's Whiskey
@@mrthomas7511That's exactly the problem with smoked beer: the label of Schlenkerla Rauchbier (from Bamberg - the world capital of beer) says that you have to drink at least two glasses to like it from then on. And that is absolutely true. The first tastes a bit strange to most people. The second makes you love it.
@@LoHulotmaybe I'll revisit that style again and try 3 beers
It's the attitude around alcohol. I grew up in Canada to German parents. Liquor was always around the house, never locked up. My parents drank socially, would have some on special occasions and my Dad would have one glass after work almost every day. My Dad played a joke on me once where I thought he was drinking coke on a hot day so I took a sip. It was Rye and coke and was awful to me. Either way, we could have gotten into the liquor but we never really wanted to. When I hit my late teens, I went to the bars, drank with my friends. We'd go to parties on occasion and drink a bit much. Now our neighbours had the traditional North American attitude where they locked up their booze. The first time they left their kids at home alone, the kids broke into the liquor cabinet to have the "forbidden" stuff. If you hold it up as some sort of mystical special thing, kids are going to want to try it. just my opinion.
agree. I guess because america is such a multi cultural nation, they have to raise the age limit. Especially when you consider that there are more guns than people over there.
Exactly, You nailed it! German's attitude to alcohol is quite different, most of us are social drinkers. We drink with friends or in good society to get into a good mood and have fun with others. We rarely get drunken by sitting home alone.
Exactly. Had booze all around the house growing up. Never of much interest to me as a kid. Couple of beers/drinks/shots at a party when i got older but went never "out of hand".
@@rolandjung9337ekelhafter du !!! Sprich nur für dich und ich hoffe du triffst am Bahnhof auf ein paar tolle soziale und ‘GARNICHT’ betrunkene Menschen in der Nacht alleine
@@TheFrankman711 Bullshit. It all comes down to raise children accordingly and that is not a matter of being native to a certain culture.
The Berliner Weisse is one of a few varieties of beer that naturally contain lactic acid (as part of a slightly different fermantation process). [-->You can also get some "sour beers" around Goslar. It´s...an acquired taste...) Therefore, "Berliner Weisse" is very different from Münchner "Weisse", and on many depictions you can see it depicted as green or red, because traditionally, it is served in summer with a shot of raspberry or woodruff syrup.
And that´s actually really nice on a hot day.
The Czech Republic took part in german culture under the name Böhmen (Bohemia).
Pilsen (Plzeň) is the 2nd town to be the namesake for a type of beer (Pilsner), which dominates the german market.
The first town was Einbeck (Bock).
I was so mad that he didn't try a Pilsener
@@diesesphil And he missed Märzen, another major beer. But to be fair, if he tried all the beers he should have, he would be under the table.
beer whise we Germans feel almost at home in Czech Republic :).
@@diesesphilwäre eh letzter Platz geworden 😂
a Pilsner is basically a helles with more hops notes.
it was originally brewed by a bavarian who tried to adapt the bavarian brewing style to different water he found in plzen.
before that, they had public spillings in that city, protesting the poor quality of local beer, that's why they got the bavarian guy to come there in the first place.
Hi, as I live in Würzburg and my wife comes from Schwäbisch Hall, I know the presented beers very well. Maybe having a brewer in the family helps, too... ;-) let me give you an advice: Try "Engel". That's a great brewery from Crailsheim, you will know it, it's just 20 minutes from Schwäbisch Hall. They have a bunch of good beers, too. I wonder that it is not available in Kaufland SHA, but you will get it in Kaufland Crailsheim. And if you want to go deeper into this topic: Make a trip to Bamberg. This city has the same amount of breweries than the rest of bavaria together and it is a class of it's own. I wanted to do a beer tasting video on my own. Maybe you want to join? Best Regards and Prost!
The most striking point for me is: You got 10 random bottles, and you enjoyed almost all of them. THAT is the beer richness in Germany.
And the one that you didn't like, you probably didn't know that it is to be drunk with a syrup (Berliner Weisse). Like a summer lemonade drink.
I wouldn't say that we necessarily brew "the best" beer, as this is highly subjective and to individual taste. There are great brewers pretty much everywhere that make good stuff. A lot of beers in germany are just run-of-the-mill standard beers that have hardly any typical characteristics but also no significant weaknesses.
I liked the raspberry syrup Berliner Weisse, but wouldn't try the mint one because mint+beer seemed very wrong [though I actually like both when separate]. The Belgian fruit beer [the specific word for it I have forgotten, "Lambic" maybe] is a good dessert, but can't be drunk as a refreshing beer. The English word in Britain for a mix of beer and lemonade is shandy, but here in the US there are coolers and proprietary mixes.
@@JMM33RanMA It is not mint but woodruff.
It's rare that I drink one either. When it's hot and I'm in the sun and I don't prefer a normal beer.
@@jackmclane1826 I don't doubt that there is a woodruff version for beer, as it is also used in some wines. It was 30 years ago, on one of me earliest trips to Germany, and I remember being told that there were two flavors, berry and mint, I'm pretty sure I heard Münze not Waldmeister. But memory is fallible.
Personally, I have begun to prefer a beer mix or a wine mix for summer refreshment.
The additive can be various fruit juice or soda. 7-Up [possibly with added juice] with white wine or beer works well [for me as tastes vary].
@@JMM33RanMA A good drink is the drink you like, and the right way to drink is it is the way you like it!
I grew out of giving something on that. ;)
I also only know 2 flavors of Berliner Weisse syrups. Red and green. And the green I know is woodruff. I don't know if anyone also mixes mint with it. And I would agree with you... beer and mint is strange.
There is also a mint schnaps related to Berlin, called "Berliner Luft". Maybe you had some of these?
Mixing non alcoholics with beer or wine is very common in Germany. We mix everything with sparkling water, making it a "Schorle". Weinschorle, Apfelschorle...
Leading to the "Hopfenblütenschorle" = "hop blossom schorle" a colloquial term with a wink for a beer, if all the others ordered a Schorle.
Beer with sprite/7up is Radler - a bottle of which he had here.
Allez zunne, gelijk nun Kriek Lambiek!
The reason those two dark beers tasted the same is they are both Farbebiere. They are light beers that a spiked with malt extract
Since Berliner Weisse is so sour, it is traditionally drunk with a shot of syrup (raspberrry or woodruff). It originated as a 19th century attempt of a Berlin brewery to copy Bavarian wheat beer and was not very successful at that.
Wiki DE: "Berliner Weißbier hat seinen Ursprung wahrscheinlich im 16. Jahrhundert. Der allgemein verbreiteten Legende zufolge soll es aus dem Halberstädter Broyhan hervorgegangen sein; aber auch das Breslauer Weißbier Schöps könnte als Vorbild gedient haben. Berliner Brauer veränderten später die Rezeptur und stellten Weißes Bier her, welches seine Vorbilder an „Wohlgeschmack und Bekömmlichkeit noch übertraf“. Dieses „Berlinische Weitzenbier“ wurde urkundlich 1680 (nach anderer Quelle 1642) erstmals erwähnt.[4] Nach 1700 entwickelte es sich zum Lieblingsgetränk der Berliner. Unternehmer wie Breithaupt in der Palisadenstraße betrieben erfolgreiche Spezialbrauereien. Um 1800, als Bier nach Pilsener Brauart noch unbekannt war, gab es in Berlin rund 700 Weißbierlokale.[5]
Einer weit verbreiteten Legende zufolge sollen die Soldaten Napoleons I. zu Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts, als sie sich in Berlin als Besatzungstruppen aufhielten, das Berliner Weißbier als „Champagne du Nord“ bezeichnet haben."
Das Berliner Weisse von Kindl kommt da sicherlich nicht ran, aber das Budike von Lemke mit seinen ausgewogenen zurückhaltenden Noten schon.
Nix mit erfolgloser Kopie, sondern eine eigene Entwicklung.
Thanks. Didnt know that.
All i know BW is 'ekelhaft'.
And it in itself is not a mix
It's realy nice and refreshing on hot days.
It is a sour beer and there are people that like it without sirup. I guess they are about 10 persons and I met one of them🤣
Fun fact, you didn't even touch on the actual dark secret of the german purity law. It's filtration. Breweries are allowed to use tons of natural and artificial filter methods, including some containing plastics. As long is the filter material is not detectable in the end product, basically everything goes and it still counts as german beer brewed according to the purity law.
Berliner Weisse is never served alone, it's always mixed with either berry sirup or woodruff sirup, not meant to be drunken pure.
woodruff😊
He needed his girlfriend around to explain the proper way to drink weisse mit schuss.
@@backcountry_pete I wonder that he is not in panic due to woodruff! 😉
And it's a beer drink for the summer time mostly in the Biergarten served in special glases.
Waldmeister better not get confused with Jägermeister
Dear Nick, great video. Here are a few general comments. Hefe-Weizen and Berliner Weisse are top-fermented beers, meaning other yeasts are used in the fermentation process. That's why they taste fundamentally different than, for example, Pils or Helles. These are bottom-fermented beers. There are more hops in Pils than in Helles, which is why they taste more bitter. My favorite beer is "Tegernseer Hell" and "Oktoberfest-Bier" e.g. from Augustiner, which is only brewed from around September. My personal recommendation for you: Go to Bamberg once in the summer when there is a canoe slalom and drink a "Rauchbier" or better yet two Rauchbeers. The first glass usually doesn't taste that good, but the second and third... Rauchbier tastes a bit like smoked ham, this beer is very special. Google “Bamberg” and “Rauchbier”. Warm greetings from Peter from Munich.
Nick, what the hell did you do? You can’t drink Berliner Weisse without Syrup (raspberry or sweet woodruff).
Yes! This beer can only be drunk with syrup. 👍
and drinking Weizenbier out of a regular glass was another blunder.
Next time try the Berliner Kindl Jubiläums Pilsener, my favorite German beer.
if you have to mix the beer with any other fluid than water its a bad beer
@@lorenzsabbaer7725You don't understand what a Berliner Weisse is. It's Berlin culture...a refresher. It's not supposed to be a "killer Beer" but a summer drink to refresh.... putting the syrup in a Berliner Weisse is traditional and like putting Ketchup on French fries....
While living in Germany, you learned how to?
1) Drink boilermakers. Schnapps or Aquavitte (preferred).
2) Speak bad German. Mit schlecktem grammatik.
3) Plan converging convoys of 300 vehicles each and having it all mesh with perfection.
4) Drink raspberry-flavored beer.
5) Savor Bratwurst and Broetchen. Plus Spiesbraten at the Im Hof restaurant in Idar Oberstein.
6) My sergeant major bringing in a case of good local beer to the office for the lads to enjoy on a Friday afternoon.
7) Turning around while riding uphill in the track headed to the GDP and seeing the roads clogged with an entire Corps worth of vehicles behind you. THIS IS THE WAY GOD MEANT IT TO BE! (Quoting Patton) ;)
8) Loved the cold cuts. Had to, because the German idea of beef is a milk cow that dies of old age. And that fried ham and eggs was called a Strammer Max.
9) Spend a miserable afternoon in full MOPP because your Bundeswehr REFORGER opponent gassed you.
10) Stopping two opposing lieutenant colonels from attacking each other through the village again because our tracks had left two feet of mud on the streets the villagers had to clean up. ;)
11) That those manhole covers in the middle of nowhere were prechambers for backpack nukes, and not for utilities.
12) That the Baumholder troop clinic on a payday night was an interesting place to birth a baby, with 40 drunks cheering Mom on.
13) Discover the much-vaunted and feared Soviets were merely a comedy act soon to be slaughtered by a nuke-equipped, 3-Corps Theater Army 300,000 strong who had been practicing on the killing ground for 40 years.
I went to Munich ten years ago for the first time. Ordered white bier with sausage. The tastebud bliss still lingers in my mind.
The Erdinger Dunkel is a dark Hefeweizen btw, the Erdinger Brewery only brews Weizenbier. That's probably why you liked it more than the Köstrizer.
No, they brew a helles (and have brewed the helles for Fischers Stiftungsbrau since 1991)
Talking about Czech beer: Pils is called Pils because the original recipe comes from the Czech town Pilsen and Pilsner Urquell is one of the famous versions of Pils. You also might have heard of Budweiser which is originally a beer from the Czech town Budweis (České Budějovice). A US brewery bought the naming rights for the USA. In the EU, budweiser is a Czech beer.
The story about Pils is actually completely wrong. It's true that the name comes from the town Pilsen, but the actual creator of the Pils is a bavarian brewer named Joseph Groll from Vilshofen who was hired by the township of Pilsen in 1842 to create a beer that is actually enjoyable (it's said that the beer previously brewed was so disgusting it would damage the town's reputation). All subsequent owners of the brewery until 1900 were actually bavarians. The last bavarian master brewer to lead the brewery was actually his younger brother Johann Groll. After him all subsequent owners were czech, but all adhered to the Joseph's original recipe. Hope that clears up the myth.
Notice that the names are German, because it's Bohemia, which used to speak German (like Franz Kafka)
@@thomasvieth578 which was not german but austrian. ;)
Are you suggesting that I could safely buy a Budweiser in any EU supermarket?
lol@@DenUitvreteryes, why not...
Well tricky task figuring out the good and best ones from almost 1500 different breweries of which some are super tiny and local to their area. Also important to note beer wise Germans are incredibly territorial. If you travel 50KM you'll see quiet a change in offered local variants next to the mainstream ones. I'm sure if you'd ask the community you'd get at least 100 different suggestions easily :)
Ups. Berliner Weisse is to be mixed with syrup, either raspberry (red) or woodruff (green). But drinking it straight would be almost like drinking vinegarnot.
Czech Pilsner Urquell and Gambrinus are better than most German lagers and is actually the most authentic ones too.
Tschechische und deutsche Biere sind quasi die gleichen. Vor allem Pilsner. Pilsen war früher mal deutsch.
The selection was very southern German and one would have to include the many different northern and middle German beers and Pilsner varieties and the Czech beers should also be in the selection, because the German and Czech beer (Pilsner) cultures are closely related.
yeah i was surprised he had so many good beers. i expected shit like becks warsteiner or astra but he had quality
0:43 "so bockle up" 😂
Nalf, you forgot another category completely: Bock-beer. It is a very flavorous and strong beer I can only recommend ;)
yeah something like a "Andechs Doppelbock Dunkel"
The german "Reinheitsgebot" became to "Rian Hights-Gebot". I really love how you spelled it. Made my Day 😂🙏🏻
Three friends go to the bar together. One is from Cologne, one from Dusseldorf and one from Munich.
The person from Cologne orders a Kölsch, the person from Düsseldorf orders an Altbier - but the person from Munich orders a sparkling water.
The other two ask: “Why are you ordering a soda?”
The Munich resident replies: If you two don't drink beer, I won't drink any either.
The bar that sevres Kölsch and Alt doesn't exist, but the Bavarians being self-absorbed dicks with no clue is on point.
Brilliant!
Nice. Our former mayor told that one years a ago on an acknowledgement event. Just with Munich replaced by my Hometown. Ironically it's located immediately bordering Düsseldorf.
Der Witz ist so alt. Hier in Düsseldorf wird der Witz genau andersherum erzählt. Ausserdem gibt es hier viele Privatbrauerein die nur hier bekannt sind. Schuhmacher, Uerige, Schlüssel, Füchschen, Kürzer usw. und die schlagen Münchner Biere um Längen, für mich zumindest, ausgenommen Ayinger. Viele Auswärtige die zum erstenmal diese Biere hier schmecken, vor allem Uerige und Schumacher , sind erstmal von den bitteren sehr hopfigen Bier abgeschreckt, weil sie den sehr milden wässrigen Biergeschmack gewöhnt sind. Aber nachdem zweiten oder dritten Bier wollen sie nichts mehr andres trinken.
😂😂😂
I live in Germany.I am from the UK originally. Been here more than 40 years.
I can buy a crate of 20 - 0.5 liters of glass recyclable bottles of beer for 8.49 euro from the Netto discount market, called Grafensteiner Pils.
Another beer called Grafensteiner Alt (old and darker beer)) costs exactly the same.
The beer is absolutely gorgeous and one of the reasons I stayed in Germany, and there were just so many others.
The bottles have a time stamp for their manufacture date, the bottle itself and not the contents, some have been recycled for more than 20 years.
Germany.
Hi Nalf. One German beer rule never written is: NEVER order a Kölsch when you are in Düsseldorf and NEVER order an Altbier when you are in Köln.
never drink either one of them. just drink pils. prost.
And for both there's another unwritten rule: Only have them from tap in their hometown (areas). They lose a lot when bottled. A Kölsch HAS to be tapped and consumed within 2 or 3 minutes, that's the reason for the strange ordering process and the tiny glasses.
good to know!
Or even better: Never order any of that saupreussen pisswasser
@@asdfjkl981 You dislike PIEFKES, don't you? Ahh; without SADOWA B-W und BAYERN might have joined Oesterreich in DONAULAND
I was in Munich last summer, and there was a vending machine in the hotel that sold 500ml bottles of beer for €2. It was a lot more expensive than it was in the store across the street, but at 2am it seemed reasonable. Can you imagine there being an unregulated beer vending machine in the USA? I almost made the mistake of buying a German beer in the store, but my Bavarian friend took it from my hand and just said 'No'. That is not the done thing.
Beer in Bavaria means food.
American here. Pretty much all I drink is German Beers. Drinking a Krombacher now as I am watching this.
David Sedaris said it best, "In Europe, you are not considered an alcoholic unless you are living half-naked on the street."
you drank the berlinerweisse wrong! ok, I like it like that, but I have an acquired taste for sour beer. You're supposed to mix it with syrup. Raspberry syrup is really popular. And no, it isn't a "mixed" drink like a shandy or something, it's just a low alcohol sour beer.
A little fun story.
There is a Brewery in Cleveland that bews a beer called Dortmunder Lager.
Just looked on their webside and the Zipcodes of Cleveland and Dortmund are quite similar.
Dortmund used to be a Beer city with a lot of breweries. There is also a Beer-Museum.
As a German I can tell you, the phrase "X used to be a beer city" is generally applicable to pretty much all German cities. Most of them still are. XD
Dortmund was Well known for there "Export" beer or "Dortmund style Lager". It was Europe's biggest beer producer before Pilsener becomes popular and the breweries in Dortmund going bankrupt.
To be honest, if there is a capital of beer in Germany it would be Bamberg.
Best regards from Dortmund
Budweiser / Budvar is literally a Czech beer by origin.
German beer is really good. But as a Westphalian, I also love the beer of our European neighbours. Belgium, for example, also brews very good beer. Or what some people don't know, France also has very good beers. especially from Alsace or Brittany. The nice thing is the really huge selection of European beers, where everyone can find their favourite flavour
PROST !
As much as it is blasphemy to admit, these strong, sweet Belgian beers are just great. I'm a Lower-Saxon by birth, and I cherish my Jever and Flens. But damn. Those Belgian beers are nice....
Prost aus OWL, wo wir das Herforder kaufen nur um es wegzukippen.
My roommate once did a beer blind tasting with a friend - both had studied food technology - and he was totally bummed that he voted out his favorite beer in the first round and he actually voted his least favorite beer in third position - he was rightfully horrified:):)
And now the other 4850 varieties. 😁
If you like Bavarian Lager Beer you should definetly try "Augustiner Hell". In my opinion the best beer from Munich. But stay away from "Edelstoff". Also by Augustiner, but it has a completly different taste.
I prefer Edelstoff over the normal helles. Helles has a weak taste to me I prefer the Dortmunder Type taste
Instead of drinking beer on the couch you could have it more sportive and walk on a beer trail. Especially in the Fränkische Schweiz ("Franconian Switzerland") which has the highest density of breweries worldwide. Their fine beers are only sold locally.
In the 1970's and 1980's, I worked for an American owned machine tool comany in the UK, in 1979 the company's German plant was short of skilled machine tool fitters, so the UK factory sent half a dozen of their fitters to Germany to help the German factory to fulfill their orders. The German factory had beer vending machines in all departments, the workforce could buy beer from the machines and drink it at any time of their shift, just like we do with coffee machines here in the UK.
Just a small correction concerning the tradition of beer; the production of beer in Germany traces back as far as to the Hallstatt Culture ~2800 years ago. It was then continously produced by Germanic cultures (they invented hoped beer) and medieval monastries until this day.
Always nice to see someone experiencing the german beer diversity. That being said, i have some remarks that could help in giving you a much better experience. Fist of all please dont go to Kaufland. Yes you can buy solid beer there, but thats basically it. The good stuff is in your local "Getränkemarkt". There you can find beer from smaller breweries that taste better most of the time. Another thing, as you seem to enjoy Weizen, is to pour in the whole baverage with all the sediment at the bottom. Thast where alot of flavor comes from, so its best to use a "Weizenglas" even for a taste test. I had beers where i forgot to do that and they tasted completly different at the end. Here is a personal suggestion for different types of beer that feel you would have the same experience as with the Maisels Hell (You actually ventured into the craftbeer scene a tiny bit with that, glad you enjoyed it.):
Pils: Basically anything but Holsten, depends a lot on the selection. My absolute favorite is Schönramer, but thats hard to get. Something readily available would be budweiser (The chechian one!!!!)
Weizen: Maisels or Schneider are readily available. Kuchlbauer is great if you can find it. Personal tip: Staffelsee Gold from Brewerie Karg in Murnau (very unique and not easy to find)
Helles: The selection you had was quite good already. If you like Maisels Hell, you can look for more crafty Hell. Schönramer again. Secret tip with an interesting flavour twist:Speziator from Riegele
Radler: Well its Radler, you can use basically every one. I prefer "naturtrüb"
Schwarzbeer is not really my type so i cant recommend something out of my head.
Bockbier: Something you haven´t tried yet it seems. Stronger beer but pact with a lot of flavor. Available as "Weizen" too (Schneider Aventinus is great)
If you want to get a peak into craftbeer go for Störtebecker and Riegele. Störtebecker is readily availabel and Riegele can be found relatively easy and has really, rerally good stuff.
If you want to try something really interesting go for Schlenkerla Rauchbier (Smokebeer), but be aware that its hit or miss for most people (goes great with barbeque.
There is so much more, i just tried to give some examples to give you an even better experience.
I read Schönramer, i have to press like. When it comes to Störtebecker i like the Atlantic Ale. Has in my opinion some Elderflower Taste to it.
@@00Arni00-k1c yeha the atlantic ale is great, especially considering the price.
Berliner Weisse is traditionally drunk mixed with Raspberry Syrup or Woodruff Syrup in a goblet-like glass with a straw :)
Great episode, but don´t complain about not getting a Kölsch in the supermarket! LOL! There are everywhere "Getränkemarkets"! There you get a super big selection of nearly every beer you can imagine! I´m working in one of them so I know the difference to supermarkrts!
You can get craft beer, beer from other countrys, like Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Argentinia, Kroatia, Korea, China, Japan, Thailand, India, even from Afrika like Benin or Nigeria, and so on!
But thank you for likeing german beer and telling the storys and laws behind it!
By the way, what happened to the miller?
After the end of the carnival season, the strong beer season begins (especially in Bavaria). If you want to try a really strong beer, try it at this time. The beers usually have their own name ending in "-tor" (for example Salvator, Animator ...). Traditionally, there is the so-called "Starkbieranstich". A public event at which the first keg of strong beer is tapped and presented to the guests (usually local politicians and business people).
The most famous tapping is in Munich on the "Nockerberg". The prime minister, state ministers and party leaders are invited by a brewery. There is a Lenten sermon by a well-known actor and a big singspiel (a cabaret play with music and singing). The attendees get "drbleckt", presented with crude sayings and cheeky songs. The event is even broadcast on television. So everyone who gets caught has to put a good face on the "bad" game and laugh heartily at the reproaches. The first mass presents the brewery ceo to the bavarian prime minister with the old fashioned latin term „Salve pater patriae! Bibas, princeps optime“ ("Greetings, father of the fatherland! Drink, best prince!").
Strong beer is very full-bodied, with around 20 percent original gravity and at least 6.5 percent alcohol. The usual figure is 7 to 14 percent. Many breweries produce strong beers and some push the alcohol content particularly high.
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Starkbier is probably the kind of beer that makes you become addicted. It´s just heaven. And makes you completely dizzy as well.
Nice Video.
But something to mention: never drink a German beer from a can - always buy a glass bottle - it makes a difference in taste.
If you want to drink something special, try a AECHT SCHLENKERLA RAUCHBIER - a really unique kind of beer 😁
Eisenboch?
Nalf, you forgot the syrup in the Beriner Kindl. Its a raspberry syrup.
Some crazy people use woodruff instead.
Berliner Weißbier is a beer that was fermented not only with yeast but also with lactic acid bacteria.
It is completely different from other beers, which is why it is often used in mixed drinks.
Probably not the first here, but i highly recommend my Hometown Bamberg. It has one of, if not the highest density of breweries around. In the city alone are around 10, with even more in every little village in the surrounding areas. There's even a "Beer diploma" where you drink abeer from every brewery in the city in one day. Definitely should check it out:)
Right. Hailing from Pretzfeld / Fänkische Schweiz. At last "official" count we had 384(!!) breweries in Franconia, most of them in Upper Franconia (Oberfranken). I am happy to live just 200m from a brewery: Nikl Bräu - which has the best Zwickl / Helles Lager, at least for my taste.
I heard there's an Edeka with over 400 different kinds of beer in Bamberg. If you know it, can you please post the address here? :-)
I'm from Cologne, so we know a bit about local beer culture, but Franconia really is *insane*.
German and Czech beer are historically intertwined. Borders have moved and “Germany” in that form is not that old yet. The Czech Republic used to be part of what was called Greater Germany or belonged directly to Austria (Austrian-Hungarian Kingdom), where German is also spoken.
The best known and most popular variety is called “Pilsener” or Pils for short, and Pilsen is a city in the Czech Republic, but also close to the German border.
But the varieties themselves are also important:
Pilsner is relatively bitter, especially if you are new to beer.
Helles is relatively mild, but for me it also has less of the actual beer taste (the bitterness).
Then there's generally this thing about "top-fermented" and "bottom-fermented", which I still can't figure out. [Mostly translated with Google Translate, so I don't know, if things like "top-fermented" is correct)
But, for example, Lager and Pilsner often taste similar, even though they are technically produced very differently.
Specifically: Berliner Weiße is also called “Weiße mit Schuss” (white with a shot) because you drink it with sweet syrup (standard raspberry or woodruff). This means that it has been out of this purity law forever, although it is not brewed with it, but at least it is sold that way in pubs. I probably won't be the only one to mention this either, but for the sake of completeness. It's not a mix either, but has so little alcohol in it due to the different brewing method. But it's not mixed.
Schwarzbier, on the other hand, is relatively sweet (for a beer) and often smoky.
I personally don't like Hefeweizen, generally it's a "love it or hate it" kind of thing.
But of course there are also differences within the varieties:
Holsten is more of a "lower middle class" beer and tastes like it. You can drink it, but you don't have to.
It is interesting that there has been movement in non-alcoholic beers. They used to all be disgusting, but Holsten, for example, has the best non-alcoholic one for me, but unfortunately it's not available everywhere. Jever Fun, for example, is common and quite good. Wernesgrüner is "upper middle class" as a normal beer, but their non-alcoholic beer is absolutely lousy.
German beer culture also has a problem: it trivializes alcohol.
Then you also notice that you are in southern Germany. You have some big brands, but also a lot from the region. Many other big brands (mostly Pilsner) are missing. You mentioned the Kölsch, but there's also the "Alt" and there are ridiculous culture wars surrounding these two, since they both come from North Rhine-Westphalia. In general, “Hell” and “Weißbier” are more southern German, although you can now get them everywhere.
This also shows how German I am, because even though I'm not a huge beer fan, I've certainly tried over 100 different companies and every type.
But if you have tried so many, mostly Pilsener or Lager, then you can also say that most of them somehow taste the same in 3 levels: "Upper class" (e.g. Pilsener Urquell or Budweiser, which has nothing to do with the US brand), "middle class" (e.g. your Holsten, Krombacher, Warsteiner, Wernesgrüner) and "lower class" like Berliner Kindl. There is a fourth class that is also called “Pisswasser” in GTA, something like Oettinger. While you can still drink Berliner Kindl but not buy it yourself (and because taste is subjective, there are plenty of people who particularly like the taste), there are countless memes about the disgustingness of Oettinger.
And what's more: There is also "malt drink", sometimes also called malt beer, which is brewed like beer in the best case, but usually has additional sugar and Oettinger's is my personal insider tip: Absolutely cheap, but still better than the expensive competition. It should have little to no alcohol and is also popular with children. But you should still be careful because of the “little alcohol”. In addition, beer itself is an absolute fattening agent because it contains so many calories. Alcohol itself is also fattening → Bierbauch
I noticed the same thing. Lots of regional beers and many big brands and types missing.
@@FiFiFilth I understand that, because he can't try hundreds of varieties in one video.
@@FiFiFilth In other words, there is no perfect way.
Borders never have moved for centuries. But people have moved, or have been moved.
@@holger_p Bla?
Speaking of Miller. It was the german "Frederick Miller" who made this company that big. Frederick was born in my hometown Riedlingen in southwest Germany. :D
Thanks for saying! I am from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Miller beer in the United States is my go to for main line American beers because it is light and refreshing, but still manages to hold a nice wheaty taste. Prost now I want to try it in Germany.!! 🇺🇸🇩🇪
Psshht, not so loud, nobody needs to know that a German invented such a bad beer ;)
Schwarzbier is definitely an acquired taste, but it's become my favourite kind of beer over the years!
For anyone interested, my favourite is "Störtebeker" Schwarzbier from Stralsund, named after the pirate Störtebeker.
I usually prefer amber bier or stout but the other day my grocery shop didn't have any then I try a dunkel bier cold brown hier. That was a good surprise, even better than an amber and it was only a classic Artois beer.
I usually prefer amber bier or stout but the other day my grocery shop didn't have any then I try a dunkel bier cold brown hier. That was a good surprise, even better than an amber and it was only a classic Artois beer.
To be fair, The Reinheitsgebot is not a law in the sense, as mentioned in the video, it originally refers to something from the 16th century in Bavaria, and specifically Bavaria, so there wasn't a unified German Beer purity law.
The idea of a German Beer purity law wasn't around for a while until German brewers started trying to fight against foreign beers being imported as the European Economic Area began to develop, and it was then that the idea of a "Bavarian Beer Purity Law" turned into a German one.
There ARE restrictions on what can be used in beer in Germany, but it's by no means a binding law that existed throughout the centuries, it's just good PR work by the German breweries. Don't get me wrong, German beer is pretty good, but the idea of a century old law having an influential impact on German brewing tradition throughout the last few centuries is, well, not really real.
Es ist kein Gesetz, aber in Deutschland darf sich kein Getränk "Bier" nennen, wenn es nicht nach deutschem Reinheitsgebot gebraut wurde.
Daher hat es die selbe Wirkung wie ein Gesetz.
Alle ähnlichen Getränke heißen schon nicht mehr einfach nur "Bier", sondern Malztrunk, Radler, Biermix, etc.
Bin mir nicht so sicher, ob du da richtig liegst mit der EU-Geschichte. Kann mich an nichts anderes erinnern als an das "Deutsche Reinheitsgebot" und da war grade mal die Montanunion ein Thema und die EWG am entstehen.
Daß Kämpfe stattfanden, gegenüber der EU-Krake das Recht auf das Deutsche Reinheitsgebot für Getränke, die sich Bier nennen dürfen, zu behalten, steht außer Frage, aber das ist ein ganz anderes Thema. Die EWG hat alle Traditionen so sein lassen, wie sie waren, erst die verf***** EU hat in sämtliche Küchen der Mitglieder reinregiert und eine Menge Sachen verboten, die Tradition waren - und wer nicht rechtzeitig auf die Barrikaden ging, dem wurde einfach jedes Alleinstellungsmerkmal weggenommen und wenn's nur das Sägemehl auf dem Kneipenboden oder aufgewärmtes Gulasch oder Sauerkraut war.
Klar hätten wir das Reinheitsgebot auch verloren.
@@JoehnDoue Also, jain. Es ist wahr, dass innerhalb Deutschland nur gewisse Dinge als Bier bezeichnet werden dürfen. Mit Ausnahmen. Laut dem Gesetz kannst du nach Pragaraph 9 eine Ausnahme zum "Brauen besonderer Biere" beantragen, die normalerweise auch genehmigt wird.
Unter dem Zustand darfst du sehr wohl Dinge die ähnlich sind als Bier bezeichnen.
Du hast insofern recht, dass viele bierähnliche Getränke allerdings anders bezeichnet werden müssen, wenn es eben einfacher ist einen andern Namen zu benutzen, statt die Ausnahme zu beantragen, mit etablierten Namen wie zb. Radler ist das ja Standard.
Wobei ich auch sagen wollen würde, dass wie du schon ein bisschen angemerkt hast, diese Bezeichnung nur für Detuschland's Namengebung existiert, bedeutet im Ausland findest du durchaus deutsche Biere die auch ohne Ausnahme vom Biergesetz als Bier bezeichnet sind.
Also ja, es gibt gewisse Gesetze die der Idee des Reinheitsgebotes ähneln, die sind aber bei weitem nicht so alt, zählen nur für Deutschland, und sind auch nicht so konsequent, dass es nicht zahlreiche Ausnahmeregelungen gibt.
Ich glaube der Unterschied ist hier zu groß, als dass man wirklich guten Gewissens sagen kann, dass die Regelung genau den gleichen Effekt hat, als gäbe es das Reinheitsgebot wirklich.
@@witthyhumpleton3514 Ausnahmen für "besondere Biere" werden auch nur im Norden normalerweise genehmigt. Und sind wir ehrlich, wer norddeutsches Bier trinkt ist auch selbst Schuld.
Je weiter man in den Süden geht umso weniger wird das genehmigt, bis hin zu Bayern und Baden-Württemberg, wo jedes Bier strinkt nach "Reinheitsgebot" gebraut wird, weil die Zuständigen Behörden die Ausnahmen grundsätzlich Verweigern.
@@tomtorom5814Huh? Jever ist das beste Bier. Das süße Zeug aus'm Süden kann man doch nicht trinken 🫣
Maisel Hell seems to be a kind of craft beer. If you like it, I recommend a craft beer tasting next - perhaps including craft wheat beer.
Normally you drink Berliner Weisse with a dash of syrup. Woodruff or raspberry. i think then it smells better ;-)
I love the fact that you like Kölsch a lot. ❤ I was happy to see that you've mentioned it although it was not available in your area. :)
I was waiting for the “Shocking” part.
Winner is an non german type of beer - a Lager, invented in Vienna, Austria in 1839
@@PeppigUndBillig Helles kommt aus bayern, kannste dir dein senf also sparen.
@@PeppigUndBillig Austria is not "non German".
Germany was deunified by her enemies after WWII, but Austria is no less German than the DDR or the Saarland were. This political separation is externally imposed and entirely artificial.
this test I never had the opportunity to participate in...Prost und Danke!
You´re also missing an Altbier from Düsseldorf, but Diebels isn´t too bad for a mass produced Altbier. Which of the really good Altbier to get depends on personal taste preference: you like more bitter beer Uerige or Schumacher, you like it more on the sweeter side Füchsen or Schlüssel and if you find it, Bolten Alt from neighoring Meerbush is a very good Altbier as well somewhere between the four big Düsseldorfer brewers. So even they´re all Altbier, they all taste very different.
I was about to start a discussion when he started with Kölsch 😅
Bolten Alt is my favourite beer. However, it's not from Meerbusch but from Korschenbroich.
Na Na Na Bolten is not from Meerbusch it is from Korschenbroich from my garden i have a perfect look at that sacred place so they may produce somewhere else too but that is where it comes from.
Bruder die Worte Altbier gut und Diebels in nem Satz sind schon ne harte beleidigung für nen Düsseldorfer bevor der Diebels nimmt war die variante in diesem video da am besten
@@feuerwerkisttoll2935 Welche Varianty im Video, Dunkelbier ist kein Altbier. Und welche Alternativen gibt außerhalb Raum Düsseldorf denn bitte? Schlösser und Kotzweiler, beides untrinkbar und die guten findet man sehr selten, weil Altbier nur 3 Monate Geschmacksgarantie hat, wobei die Kronkorkenflaschen etwas länger mein ich.
I highly recommend giving "Moritz Fiege Pils" a try. It's a distinctive beer from Bochum, the city where I reside. This particular brew has always been my top choice among beers.
Swede here, I have always preferred Czech beer in the past, now when im sober (soon 5 years) i like german, mostly because there are more N/A german beers to choose from but seems that other countries are catching on.
As I grew out of my 20s I really started to appreciate this. It's great to be able to enjoy a Weizen on a warm summer day, or at lunch, without having to worry about alcohol. Nowadays I always have a crate of alcohol free Erdinger or something similar in the house and people often take it over one's with
Hey Nick, thanks for the details and the nice pictures of my hometown. Go Unicorns! :-)
Sorry, but the only beer from Northern Germany you taste was Holsten - and this came in a can! Don't compare beers served in a can or plastic bottle! And BTW: What's up with the Miller's? Was that just thrown down the drain? That's where it belongs. BTW2: You'd never heard of Czech beers? OMG - What about Budweiser or Pilsener Urquell? (Not the US-American chemical broth!)
What is also unfortunate problem with Germany is that there are a lot of breweries which are distributing their beers only to local retailers. For Example, my favourite Altbier "Füchschen Alt" is impossible to find anywhere outside Düsseldorf.
And this small breweries often brew a special beer only one time the year for the festival "kerwa" in town. To get stuff like this ist really difficult for people of other regions. Because this beers are sold out quick.
That's not an unfortunate problem - it's the way it should be, every town having its own brewery and people drinking their local beer.
Finally you did something like this. Pretty cool. I love so many good Lagers for a nice summer day, to a good Bock, something dark of course for the winter. The full spectrum. Even simply just a Stephaner Hefeweiz is great I think, maybe one of my favorites, as with many of the Bavarian selections. It has this amazing sort of slightly unripe banana flavor to it, almost somewhat grassy and I always thought it was very good and refreshing.
Because they only ever talk about German beer and not Czech or Austrian beer... in the supermarket you have a recording where both are available for purchase. Gösser Radler is an Austrian beer drink mixed with lemonade and Budweiser comes from the Czech town of Budjovice, so Budweis (the German translation), but has nothing to do with the horrible drink you get in the States. There's even 30% rice in it, yuck. By the way, the original is called “King of Beers” and I can only recommend that if you go to Vienna, then visit the Schweizerhaus in the Vienna Prater. You can also get Budweiser there... and it's tapped with less CO2, which makes it more drinkable. Be careful though, because if you're not used to it, it'll blow your mind. And avoid the Budweiser super strong!
I saw some old friends in this video lol. You could fill your channel for a year or two doing these taste tests.
Now, when you go back to Oregon you should do another video showing some of the microbrews from up that way. The US brewed crappy beer for decades, but once the micros took off we have a lot of good beer available now. Problem is, at least in my area, I don't see as many German or Czech beers as I used to and that irritates me because I still prefer them.
Too many Pale Ales?
Try to get a Füchschen Alt from Düsseldorf. Its the Beer with the Fox on it. you taste it and you will like it.
Talking about Cologne's Kölsch, you missed out Altbier from Düsseldorf.
You can leave it out.
Although the band The Wise Guys insulted it in their music, I pick the Alt.
Hi, German guy here - 8:00 - i think "Berliner Kindl" is meant to be mixed with syrup... like "Waldmeister Sirup" - at least we in "Hessen" drank it like that - oh sorry and also, you usually put the whole bottle of a "Hefe-Weizen" in a big 0.5 Liter glass and before emptying the bottle you would stir the leftover fluid to loosen the yeast at the bottom of the bottle and fill it in quickly... if you then also have a nice beer-foam-crown on top, you are a king ;)
8:37 Drinking Age in Germany -> 0
So just to be clear: There is NO legal drinking age in Germany.
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Jugendschutzgesetz §9 (Youth Protection Law §9) deals with PURCHASING and or consuming alcohol in PUBLIC:
14 is the limit for children to drink in PUBLIC under parent supervision, like in a restaurant.
The folowing two age limits applay to SELLERS of alcohol only, like restaurants and supermarkets and vendor machines.
16 is the legal age to BUY beer and wine, with emphasis on buying.
18 isthe legal age to BUY spirits, with emphasis on buying.
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Parents have a legal obligation to care for the health of their children so they can´t let you get drunk. However in private parents can allow their children do drink anything at ANY age in a reasonable way.
Jup... I will allways remember a family gathering when I was about 11. My 6years Ole sister wanted to try the Obstler (60%) the adults were drinking. My father just handed her the glass, said "take a sip", my sister did and turn ran to the bathroom screaming and washed out her mouth with tap water for 15 minutes, while the entire family had a great laugh. German culture surrounding alcohol is just different.
@@Smido83 laughing until I had tears in my eyes... I can totally picture it. I guess she was cured for the next decade or so...
I absolutely loved your distinct non-german background music (while shopping). Ye-haa.
What I realised is that Nalf never managed to get the yeast into the glas. A Zwickl or Hefeweizen has to contain the yeast in the glas in order to get the full taste. This mistake i have realized in quite a lot of these different taste tests.
no you don't, its a habit for many people but you shouldn't do it because it flaws the taste
@@JuJu-zb3zn yes, you do at least according to the Bier Knigge which is published by the Erdinger Brauerei.
Additionally it is logical because if you don't drink the yeast you can simply buy a Kristallweizen.
Brewer here. You can, but you don't have to.
If the beer is fresh i suggest to put the yeast into the glass, so it adds the typical "yeasty" flavour.
If it's a little bit older i would not put the yeast in, since it is dead and already started to metabolize itself due to the lack of sugar. This sets all the different toxins free which were contained within the cells.
This applies only to beers with "Flaschengärung", since only they have living organisms (yeast) inside. Others might have yeast as well but only for optical reasons.
Berliner Weisse you usually drink with raspberry or woodruff syrup, which is red or green weisse.
Love the beer! It’s like liquid bread. It’s really more of a food than alcohol. But it’s definitely better consumed fresh in Germany.
Wow. That was a very honest and open minded statement.....well, in the first few minutes I thought "Oh great, I am watching another video of an american going to any place outside the US and complaining that things are not exactly like home". But, you have changed, opened yourself, changed your perspective and suddenly saw the positive sides. Great character to admit being on wrong or having the wrong perspective at first but then being able to see things as they really are. Thank you for your perspective. I would like to see or hear your partners perspective on how you have changed and if it was hard for him, too, when you still were negative about everything.
Oh and in case you haven't guessed....I am German as well.
Where did the Miller end up? Just being curious....
Miller isn't really a beer. Just colored water with a splash of alcohol. 🤣
@@KB-xd5wq That's exactly what I wanted to hear from Nick btw 😁🍺
this was a nice video. I grew up in Poland having beers with dinner at 16 and sometimes a shot of vodka with the uncles after the meal. alcohol was such a normal part of our life that nobody cared. i had one uncle who sadly became an alcoholic and all i ever heard was to not end up like uncle Wiktor. in short, alcohol was normal but constantly being drunk was not normal. All of my friends had essentially the same experience.
Calling Kölsch "Bier" is the worst crime I heared in this video
What do you mean? 😮
I just got one. Very good beer 🍺. Prosit
I do enjoy a nice, cold Schreckenskammer every now and then.
You forgot to mention how Miller stacked up to the competition
Because he was comparing beers ;) (Yes, I'm from Austria...)
You are also missing the Alt beer from Düsseldorf.
The Berliner Weisse usually is mixed with a tiny bit of sirup (eg. strawberry).
The plopp-lock is called a BÜGELVERSCHLUSS :) - I like these, too because they stick to the bottle, they don't fly around (or get left on the table - by me, because I am lazy) :D
To me as a german beer enthusiast I am very surprised by your taste test, my ranking would not be mutch different. When it comes to the big brewerys in Germany, most of them arent that good tbh. Its the small and mid sized ones that put out the really good stuff. Another intresting thing is that craftbeer barely cought on here, because our small brewerys basically are our craft beers. We had a big wave of craftbeers a few years back, but most of them died out or some mid sized brewerys started to make their own craft beers in addition to their normal sortiment (for example Zwönitzer).
Holsten is a really bad Pilsener.
Beers out of bottles taste always better than canned beers.
Smaller breweries always make better beers than the mass produced beers.
Czech and also Belgium beers are also very good.
Probably I am going to annoy some Germans here but: I live as a Belgian for many years in Germany now and , oh man, how I miss the very tasty beer from home! After all these years and many tastings I have only found 2 beers here that I could appreciate. In Belgium you go dizzy with the selection of very tasty strong or special beers.
As German, discovering Belgian beer felt like finding out a well hidden secret. Strong and sweet, and just very tasty!
In the Netherlands you can get Belgian, German, Dutch and all other beers, without any limitation in national pride or other feelings, only taste matters!
And of course you pick a beer according the season, temperature, company, and the food that comes along. There is not 'one best beer'!
Even the small food store in my small home town sells Grimbergen and Leffe (blond is my favourite in belgian beers). But Hefeweizen bavarian style is my all time favourite.
Another belgian living in Germany here, my favorite German beers are the bock beers, and my all-time favorite is the aventinus ice bock, boy that's some tasty beer, more in style of a Belgian quadruple!! My style of beer! When I visit friends and family in Belgium I always bring back a couple crates and for my wife a couple crates of real lambic cherry beer!
Belgian beer is unesco world heritage, and well... German beer uhm... Isn't!
@KRIS60 you have to go to Franconia, literally every village has its own brewery. There are about 300 breweries in this small part of Germany between Bamberg Bayreuth and Forchheim
Berliner Weiße is usually drunk with a shot of woodruff or raspberry syrup in a short, squat glass. I've never seen it drunk alone.
Beer out of a Can can never be as good as out of a bottle!!!
Tip from an Bavarian: don’t drink beer from any big brewery, especially when they use TV adverts. They taste more or less all the same. Better try the small, local ones I like Unertl, Hopf, Guttmanns (all Weißbier), and Giesinger, Starnberger, Ayinger, Graf Arco, Maxlrainer (all Helles). There are hundreds of breweries in Bavaria and nearly all of them are excellent.
This is the slipperiest slope anyone has ever been to, being an American and having opinions about which Germsn beer is good...I'm Sure no one will disagree with whatever conclusion you come to☝️
In Norway we got non-alcoholic radlers, and my 12 year old daughter loves it. Just a fresh, sweet treat that I think anyone can love.