Alright then beer geeks - you know the rules: must not be a one-off, you have to have tried it, and it's got to be good whatever the situation. So tell us...what's the best beer in the world?
May be boring opinion but Warsteiner for me is the best, very heavy taste yet very easy to drink But I do love me some Weissbier from time to time so it’s difficult choice lol
Perennial Abraxas or Pilsner Urquell (Edit: also Harvey's Best Bitter on cask!!)
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Hard to find a beer that suits every situation. I was never sisappointed drinking Erdinger Urweisse or Schneider Weisse Tap7 But tastebuds are different in every person and even in the same person in different ages.
Augustiner Lager Hell. I work as a brewer myself and Augustiner comes as close to perfection as I could imagine. It´s what you get when you do everything right.
Augustiner Edelstoff is my favorite from Munich, but the entire region to the south of Munich is full of great helles beers such as Ettal, Andechs, Ayinger, Hofbrau Berchtesgaden, Tegernsee -- all of them great!
@@MrSgtau yeah, there‘s some great stuff in this region. I‘m planning on spending a year in Munich for my Brewmaster‘s degree. So I‘ll definitely check them out.
Pilsner Urquel is definitely my favorite pilsner and is a great contender for top beer considering its origins and availability. I also agree that Pliny has a spot there (I used to live right outside Santa Rosa and I got it all the time). I studied abroad in Amsterdam and thus was able to try a ton of great Belgian beers in addition to Dutch, German, and others. Trappist beers are great but I definitely can't drink them all the time. Duvel stands out as a great Belgian beer for me. I think I have an affinity for beers from places I have lived such as Surly Furious in Minneapolis, Half Acre Bodem in Chicago, or the aforementioned Pliny in NorCal. Since I have moved to Denver, I have had several exceptional beers that merit consideration such as Maharaja DIPA from Avery, Superpower IPA from Comrade, and Bohemian Girl Pilsner from Tivoli. I think the best answer is that the perfect beer is one that you are enjoying in the moment.
I've been drinking craft beers for years now and none of them have ever been better than Chimay which has been around forever. I could name many beers that I have enjoyed very much, but the very best ones were shared with people I love.
I am so glad Westmalle Tripel came up in your conversation. I could drink it with any meal and in any season. I could drink it every day and not grow tired of it. It's unique but balanced, robust yet crushable (yes, even at 9.5), it's revelatory yet consistent. It refreshes me and challenges me at the same time. It's humble - it's not trying to be anything that it isn't. It ticks all my boxes and beyond. It is, in my opinion, the platonic form of what a beer should be.
Glad to hear Allagash White get such high praises - it's one I don't think I ever regret drinking, it's not even expensive, and it's just an exemplar of its style and why I stan Allagash pretty regularly. I'm not crazy about all their beers - but I feel safe trying them, knowing I'll get a solid beer that isn't trying to be something it's not. I need to find more breweries who have just mastered a style and know it in and out more - mad respect for any who do.
maybe the best beer in the world is the one, you miss the most? - that can of Maui-brew on sunset on big island with the girl you just meet? - the cheap ashasi can from a vending machine wandering the nightly streets of neon Tokyo? - a classic old Rasputin with friends at a campfire under stars of Yosemite? - stumbling into a small taproom behind mcdonalds in a shady part of NYC in 2015, drinking some haze for the first time? - that smoked ungespunden at spezial in bamberg with international friends? - a spritzy bolleke in Antwerp with fries and mussels waiting for your train to that beer festival with the struise brewers? - a night-out in Edinburgh with a hand-pumped real ale, you guess it could be a thornbridge? or in my case, 10 fresh uerige alt or schumacher alt in düsseldorf as i miss my hometown a bit.
I got goosebumps when Brad said Urquell. I'm very much a Belgian and love a lot of our beers (yet I do agree that the US, UK and even our brothers from The Netherlands and Scandinavia have "caught up" (It's not a competition, is it)) , but I lived and worked in Czech Republic for a year and after trying an unpasteurised and unfiltered oak aged pilsner in the cellars of the brewery my mind was blown. And most pilsners from tank or barrel had been great anywhere in the country. I haven't been able to convince any of my fellow country men how good Czech pilsner really is (heck, most think Duvel is the best and only good beer in the world) as all you can find is Urquell in small bottles or Budvar in cans but you guys gave me hope that my tasting buds did not cheat on me. Is it really the best beer in the world? Maybe on a boat indeed. But I agree: I hope I still have to discover it as well. Na zdraví!
@@scottcarvey9109 thank you. I don't know if I have been drinking an export variety or not, if so I have been drinking it for nearly 50 years and it remains delicious
I was in Czech back in 2019 and had a fairly cheap local beer known as Kozel and I remember it was a dark beer. That singular beer was the easiest drinking beer I have ever had and I could drink it day and night forever and ever. Just sad we don't get it where I live.
It’s such a difficult question to answer because I think it depends on the style. There are some IPAs that I would call my favorite beer, but then there’s also some traditional lagers that I would also feel obligated to call my favorite. So it should initially be narrowed down by style, to start anyway.
My personal favourite for crushability, any season - Fat Tug from Driftwood Brewery based in Victoria, BC, Canada. I lived there for a few years and fell in love with the brewing scene up and down the PNW, but Fat Tug became my go-to. Nice simple IPA
Rodenbach. The balance of malt, hop, and tartness is just unbelievable and amazing. Most excited I’ve ever been was finding a bar in Belgium that had it for €2.00 a bottle during happy hour. We spent quite a bit of time there
Really love this video. For me, taking the seasonal beers out of the equation, it's got to be tap 05 hopped Doppelbock from Schneider Weisse. It's the oldest wheat bear brewery and this beer is simply delicious. Super piney and honeylike aromas really full body and a nice kick to it with 8%. It is seriously good and in general the German wheat beer scene needs to be esplored more on this channel! Love the content lads, cheers!
Hard to disagree with Brad; Best beer has to be tied with an experience; I was a photographer at a event where there was pallets of Focal Banger and Heady; After the event ended, we had these for first time, and since then nothing can top that. But hey! Great video.
The main ingredient of that beer is hype, just like most Belgian beers really. It is mostly indistinguishable from Abt 12 anyway. Generally, these beers are not brewed very consistently and they are often impure.
@@Diggnuts I've only had one of each, but they were delicious. I personally love most Belgian beers, but they aren't for everyone; esp. if you have typical American sensibilities. What exactly do you mean by impure? How do you know they aren't brewed consistently?
@@TheSlandis Ow, I'm not American and don't really share their "sensibilities" and I do like a couple of Belgian beers, especially Duvel and Karmeliet, but I'm not going to pretend that all Belgian "craft" beer is heavenly ambrosia, because it obviously is not. Abt 12/Westvleteren is okay, but not sensational by any stretch of the taste pallet. It also varies greatly on included detritus from the brewing process that will affect the taste and, if you drink to much of the stuff, your mood the next morning. "What exactly do you mean by impure?" Well, just that. Added ingredients to hide certain tastes are a common practice and condering Geuze and Lambic style beers, the fermentation process is impure by definition as the brew is purposefully exposed to the outside air. There really is just one actual exception to this rule which is Duvel that has a meticulous complicated formula. For everything else, even the top beers like Karmeliet I have seen extreme variation in types of residue, colour and taste between batches. "How do you know they aren't brewed consistently?" Well, in case of spontaneous fermentation, this is just by design. You have no control over what particles are in the air at any point in time so the types of wild yeast, other biological or dirt particles vary every time you open up the kettle. It is an archaic and dumb method to brew and it should be banned from sale because of the obvious health and safety issues. As for sensibly fermented beers, you can see and taste the differences. I have ordered the same Belgian beers with friends and often the colour and taste would be different between bottles. That simply because Belgian brewers lack the rigorous standards that for example the Germans have. The fact is that on all levels, Americans are now better in brewing most Belgian styles than Belgium is.
@@Diggnuts I just reviewed some info I have on Westvleteren, and yes, they are the last Trappist brewery to open ferment (not the same as spontaneous fermentation). I don't think open fermentation is a bad thing and it is done quite a bit in the US. It doesn't have to lead to an inconsistent or dirty beer depending on the housing of the vessels. Since their beers, like many Belgian beers, are bottle fermented, you do get yeast sediment. German Weissbeir is the same but Germans consider it proper to rouse the sediment before drinking. If you know the beer, you can deal with the sediment. Until I could pressurize my home brewed beer, I bottle fermented everything to get the carbonation. There's nothing impure or dangerous about it. Just a different brewing style. I hope to visit Belgium when Covid settles, and I will keep in mind what you say about inconsistency. I know the Belgian beers I get here in the US, are pretty consistent. The other thing I like about most Belgian beers are their shelf life.
@@TheSlandis That does not mean that they are the only brewery to use spontaneous fermentation, just the only Trappist brewery. Many breweries use it out of some misguided sense of tradition while it is obvious that the practice is one that was born out of ignorance. I don't know if you ever have been to Belgium, but it is a densely populated dirty country with a lot of pollution. It is common sense that air pollutions gets into the brew using this antiquated and obsolete method. You can get better results by simply cultivating the wild yeasts you want and introducing them yourself. It simply makes no sense any more except to nonsensically brag about "tradition", which is meaningless. We do not cure people by blood-letting any more, now do we? As for sediments, of course you know not all detritus is equal. Basically there are two types. You can have yeast residue or you can have non yeast protein formation, which is the one you'd find in some unfiltered Weizen beers. One of these are dead organisms in your drink, the other is not. Personally I do not mind sediment as long as it is predictable and in my extensive experience with Belgian beers, it simply is not. Perhaps you get the good stuff and I simply lucked out, but I have had that experience in Belgium itself many times and I doubt they would export the best stuff. It is far more likely that they are just winging it as Belgians do with everything. Also there isn't anything special about the Shelf live of Belgian beers. Higher ABV does increase it, but so do overly hopped beers as hop is antiseptic as per IPA, but if you really want prolonged shelf life, you need ridged quality control. You can keep a 5% German dunkel for just as long as you can keep a Karmeliet and I can ensure you that a year over the best-by date, the Dunkel will taste about the same, but the Karmeliet will have developed a musky taste because of diacetyl contamination. I would avoid any Belgian beer under 7% ABV as these will almost always have something funky wrong with them. Also avoid Belgian wheat beer. These are an insult to actual wheat beer brew masters who understand the brewing process. Belgian "wit" beer is a joke. They need to add everything and the kitchen sink to barely get some hint of pepper or fruit while the Folks of WeihenStephaner can accomplish these flavour profiles by simply controlling the process and adding nothing. Of course steer clear of Krieg, Geuze or Lambic and if you are into Saison, make sure you get a Walonian variant from one of the bigger names, not Flemish and/or micro. As a rule of thumb, if the bottle has a funny cartoon on it, do NOT buy it. This includes pigswill like Delerium Termens and La Chouff. Of course ignore the pils category. Stella and Jupiler are just as vile as Heineken or Amstel. If you want a proper pilsner go Czech or German. Also for wheat beer go for German, not Belgian. Karmeliet is great. Duvel is very good. Westmalle Triple is high consistency and pretty nice. Abt 12. is fine. Orval is okay Floreffe Triple is the only good beer that place makes. Leffe is grossly overrated and basically a front for a common macro brewery. Affligem Blond is the only sub 7% beer I find acceptable. Dutch Blonds tend to be much cleaner and sophisticated. Chimay is hit and miss. Pauwel Kwak is a gimmick. The rochefort series is pretty decent on a whole, but don't expect orgasms. Any local micro brew is often a variation on one of these with some gimmicky twist that ruins it completely or is a simulacrum from twice the price. You can get a lot of expensive Duvel which is not Duvel in Belgium. But again, at this point in time, the best Belgian styles available are made in the USA so I would not bother to come to Belgium for that at all.
Love that Milton Glaser tee! No particular order: - Canillon Mamouche - Pilsner Urquell - Rodenbach Grand Cru - Orval - Saison Dupont I'd take Blind Pig and Pliny over Focal Banger and Heady Topper. I'm just not a hazy boi.
I remember being 16, walking to the local reservoir with my mates carrying a couple of crates that the older looking one of us bought from the offy. I have such good memories of that time, so for me, the best beer is warm fosters.
Lokál and tank unfiltered unpasteurised Pilsner Urquell there is my favourite in the world. There's no other experience like it and it makes me emotional thinking about it 🍻
I’ve always loved duvel for over 20 years it’s simple yet complicated, strong but easy drinking, refreshing enough for warm weather but is awesome and warming by the fireplace in the winter. It also goes with all ranges of food. I’m into health a bit more with my age so it fits more for someone who drinks 2 beers in a session instead of 4-6 of a lighter style beer. I don’t know if it’s the best beer ever, but definitely my “if you could only drink one beer for the rest of your life beer.”
Orval for me. it's widely available consistent, easy drinking. it's a good beer when it fresh and it's also very nice aged which will allow it to match most pairing. to me it's a never disappointing beer Nb: that being said i think that looking for the best beer per style (or family of style) will be easier as in my humble opinion even if it's still the same baverage the diffrence between a geuze a pastry stout or a ridiculously hoped IPA is so wide that they are uncomparable
Focal Banger is on top for me. I remember driving 1 hour to Stowe-VT from NH just for the beer. Now living in Florida I really miss it. I should go back soon...
It's got to be Orval for me. A complex taste that evolves and is always interesting whatever the bottle age. I love all the hype beers too, but will always come back to this.
Great conversation. I kind of feel the polar opposite - instead of trying to find a beer that ticks every box in every possible setting the best beer to me is the one that fits the particular occasion beautifully. Cheers!
While the best remains a mystery, I keep getting pulled to Double Sunshine from Lawson’s Finest as my favorite. While it may not be the most hyped beer out of Vermont, or even Lawson’s, every sip of it has been absolutely delicious. Its balance between west coast and New England flavors has been a treat from my first taste at the brewery to every last gulp from a can since.
Best one ever, in my opinion: Orval. Stand-alone unicorn beer, with predictable hoppy-to-brett transition so you can time the opening to your preference. Perfect for every occasion throughout the year.
@@JamesRea2 To me that's the best thing about Orval. I usually like it 18-24 months old, but there are surely times when I crave a 3-month-old Orval with more hoppy notes.
Westmalle tripel for me. The best beer is always the next beer! Orval and saison dupont are very close runners up. My taste changes so much but that's the great thing about beer. I can always find a beer to suit my taste.
The beers that most live up to the hype are Westvleteren 12, Pliny the Elder, Founders KBS. The first time I had all of them they blew my mind. But my favourite all time beer is Amager HR Fredericksen
I feel like I never pass down Saison Du Pont or their winter variant which is probably the best tasting but Urquell is definitely more universally applicable to any situation for me.
I don't know if it's 'the best', but special mention to Orval. A beer that's in a category of its own, has stood the test of time, and that can be many things throughout its lifetime. If I had to pick one beer to drink for the rest of my life, it would probably have to be Orval. Firmly agree on Focal over Heady.
Lads, I think it’s high time you planned an Antipodean adventure! There are some really top notch beers coming out of Wellington, Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane!
Been to the same pub on Mala Strana in Prague, has 3 stories underground, affordable Pilsner Urquell, amazing! They serve it from those huge horizontal tanks
Some great beers being brewed everywhere. I lean more towards hoppy beers, but I do have a love affair with dark beers too. I've traveled a lot and have been to almost 1200 breweries around the world. I thought Blind Pig by Russian River was a better then Pliny. Also love Heady, and Focal as well. My current city is Charlotte, North Carolina and we have some great breweries in town.
Whilst not as crafty as your choices, I'd go with Fullers HSB. I've had this on cold winter nights, hot sunny days, and it's equally amazing. Picking a craft beer, I'd go for any version of Cloudwater's DIPAs, they are incredible.
Missing Cloudwater brew tap so bad during these eternal lockdowns, was there most weekends, have been getting it delivered from time to time from there and Rivington brew Co who do some nice stuff
Weirdly, Guinness comes to mind. It’s so iconic, it’s been brewed forever in large quantities, yet it’s far from a watery, personality-free beer. It has a distinct flavor and stands above most any beer for its creaminess. All that said, I haven’t had one in some time, and there are stretches when I don’t want one at all. At other times it’s perfect. It definitely doesn’t work with all foods or for all occasions. For me, it’s a candidate, depending on the criteria. If the measures are uniqueness, standing the test of time, popularity, recognizability, and a robust personality, it wins, especially with its creaminess. With IPAs, I have a much harder time choosing. There are so many!
I just tried Pilsner Urquell for the first time recently and was surprised how much I like it. It is so crisp and dry I think it should be called the "Champaign of Beers". My personal favorite beer is Hacker Pschorr Munich Gold. Our local German Restaurant, Mr. Dunderbak’s, has it on tap, and drinking that along with their rueben sandwich is a fantastic combo. So, the best beer is definitely relative to the situation and/or the food you have with it. If you are just drinking beer alone or accompanied with food, those things effect what beer you choose.
Best beer I can get every day if I wanted to: Bell's Two Hearted Ale Best beer I can't get every day, but can get often: Other Half DDH Space Diamonds Best beer I wish I could still get often: Trillium Vicinity Best beer I've only had once or twice: Fieldwork King Citra
I'm drinking a Scheyern Kloster Gold Dunkel right now and it's right up there with the best. Which is surely understandable as they've had since the year 1119 to get it right. Practice makes perfect, as they say. (Yes I know Weihenstephan, the "oldest brewery in the world" has had 79 more years' practice).
If I could only drink one beer for the rest of my life it would have to be Rothaus pils! I don’t what it is I just can’t get enough of it 🍻! Although I do wish my local beer shop would take back the bottles to be used again. Rather than the death of the bottle every time I have one.
Finback Brewery "Oscillation". If it was something that was available more often it would be Finback Pass Through. I live in Maine with tons of micro breweries but Finback in New York is just my absolute favorite brewery of all time.
If I have to play by your rules, it would be Orval, Pfriem Brett Saison, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, or Alesmith Speedway Stout. Otherwise it’s Cellar Maker/Rare Barrel Tangerang.
Beer, like music, is not enjoyed in a vacuum. Every beer adds to the personal 'playlist' of everything you've ever tried and your perception of a beer is dictated, in part, by previous experiences and the environment you are in. A roundabout way of saying that there can (in my opinion) never be a consensus Worlds Best Beer. Simply a personal favourite at the current moment!
So many possibles but I always come back to Westmalle Tripel, with Brasserie De La Senne Jambe De Bois a close second. I’d throw Wild Beer Co Modus Operandi in the mix as well
Can’t really give you a best beer but I can give you most important beers (South East U.K. based) Hophead - Dark Star Brewing (first ale I loved) Premium Malts - Suntory (first lager I loved) Pacific Ale - Stone and Wood (first craft beer I could carry on drinking forever) Stoutzilla ‘19 - Unbarred Brewing (first strong stout I really enjoyed) Aotearoa Pale Ale - Tuatara (first ale I drank which had distinct differences between the nose and the taste)
When I tried Fullers ESB when I was about 19, it was probs the best beer I'd ever had up to that point- but that was early in my beery adventures, hard to say after so many since- but like you said, it's exciting to think most of us probably haven't had the best beer we ever will yet. So cheers to that!
Queue a pretty heated comments section on this one! For my money, St Bernards Abt 12 has to be in the conversation. However I think that Taras Boulba could be a contender if we're talking about sessionability. I could certainly drink that daily, as I did when I was in Belgium! I'll throw Saison Dupont into the hat too for good measure. Come to think of it, I could name about 50 more... Let's just call the whole thing off.
As a beer-oholic I found that there's so many outstanding beers out there these days that it is impossible to pick a number 1 choice. For me, a well balanced IPA, stout, or otherwise amongst family and/or friends in a great location makes for number one. I've got so many number one beers- including my own!
These are some big calls, but for 2020/2021, I'm backing DEYA SRM as well. Just finished my 24th can of the year. Keep some in the (almost) freezing shed, some in the fridge and some in my office. Equally lovely at any given temperature. It's not my favourite ever beer, and it's not great at getting me drunk. But objectively speaking, it's the 'best' beer that I buy.
It used to be Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen, but as of last year my new favourite beer is Rothaus Tannenzäpfle. It hits the spot every single time (and it's a nice change from the barrel aged stouts, NEIPAs, funky beers and what have you). I have soft spot for traditional German beer anyway. Well for traditional Belgian beers too..
@@TheCraftBeerChannel but even without the memory, I'd throw Augustiner Helles in there, never had a bad bottle, could drink it for the rest of my life.
@@weiht6767 I actually like the Helles more. To me, Edelstoff has a little less yeast character which I love in the Helles. But I guess it's a matter of preference at that point. 😅
It's such an impossible but fun question, isn't it? On the top level, you have all the different styles (and peoples tastes for those styles ie best/favorite) which has even blown up over the last decade. Then, because of the localized footprint of even the most successful (and yes hyped) breweries, there is always another out there to try. Luckily for the first point, I love pretty much all styles, so I always think about my favorite(s) in each style. To the second part, and your end point on the video, beer discovery is half the fun of drinking beer the way we do.
Would be so fun for you guys to do a “best in the world” by style. For me, if best in the world means I can only have this beer for the rest of my life then it would have to be Scaldis Noel by Brasserie Dubuisson
Rodenbach Alexander is mine. Could argue because of the tartness that I can't be the best (because some people don't like tart) but for me it's 1st. Winter time? Check. Summer time? Check. BBQ? Check. Cheese plate? Check. By it self? Check. (etc etc).
I know I am a little late, but the best beer in the world is *Duvel* Strong, Belgian, golden ale (8.5% ABV) Beautiful notes of citrus, a champagne like yeastiness, incredible mouthfeel. Suitable for any time of the day or any season.
The best beers in the world are always tied to good friends and experiences. A Westie, Apt 12, or Gouden Carols Cuvée all lose points unless shared with appreciative company!
By a total coincidence I had two of my best ever beers on the same evening - a can of Heady Topper and a bottle of Vigneronne by Cantillon. That, friends, was a good evening and both of those beers are candidates as far as I am concerned..
Fantastic debate guys, and one that many of us have (or used to have before this Covid madness) time and time again with friends. Since really getting into beer, I've loved nothing more than going into a good beer bar or bottleshop and seeing loads of stuff I haven't tried before and the opportunity to try something new. However, I think what really would stand out to me as a "best beer in the world" contender would be that if I saw a beer that I already loved in this sort of context and I'd choose it, again and again, over the opportunity to try something different, then that must be a winner. That to me would signal the best beer in the world. For what it's worth, and it's completely subjective, the beers that would stop me in my tracks and demand pint after pint would be Jakehead by Wylam, Steady Rolling Man by Deya and Tasty Juice by Lervig.
I have lived in Santa Rosa, California my whole life and never went to Russian River until about 2 years ago. Pliny is a amazing beer but my favorite has to be there Saison.
I love many of your choices. Let me give a top 5, in no particular order - Orval - Avec les bons voeux de la brasserie, Dupont - Pilsner Urquell - Hop Ottin IPA - Westvleteren Blond
If we're going be the criteria of "something I would like every time" Mikkellers kölsch is definitely up there for me. I would drink it all the time of it wasn't so expensive.
Most (all?) of my English friends talk shit endlessly about American beer, thinking it's nothing more than Budweiser. And then they think they've had a craft beer by drinking a Sam Adams and not being impressed. But then I come to this channel, and these two adore American beer. It's refreshing to see!
I'd been living in Tokyo the last few years, and whilst there had the pleasure of trying: Westvlederen 12; Pliny the Elder; Westmalle; and Rochefort 10 - Rochefort is the clear winner in that pack. But, had a local who brought in some Revisons (hello, Social Fermentation!), and some Alchemist, but also had a Japanese brewery, West Coast from Shizuoka - their Full Hop Alchemist was something to behold. I'm now in Kyiv, Ukraine and have found some amazing craft brews: 2085-5 "Fake Brett" is fabulous, and VarVar have an amazing Imperial Stout "Black Bean" that sits on 4.49 on untappd (that's Pliny territory) and is freakin' amazing!
So I love a smoked beer and Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier and the like, but I'm going to go with Morte Subite's Gueuze Lambic that I tried earlier in the week - lovely complex beer - just made me smile from start to finish.
I live in Seattle and my local bar has a connection with Russian River, so I’m lucky enough to get Pliny often. I love Two Hearted, but it’s not even close.
I don’t think there is a more drinkable beer on the planet (at least from what I have tried) than Pilsner Urquell. Pilsner Urquell is a beer, that in my opinion, is absolutely perfectly balanced, and one of if not the best in its style. The only beer that I would be perfectly happy with drinking only that single beer every single day for the rest of my life
@@TheCraftBeerChannel to be fair I wrote that at the beginning of the video. You did touch on them but for me (and let’s face it it’s all opinion) without question Belgian beers in general have to be considered up there if not the absolute pinnacle. Some of the triples particularly are absolutely mind blowing.
Love it Jonny! My choice was actually Heady but Focal Banger is equally fantastic. Anyway, right there on the same page with you. Basically, a perfectly balanced brew that can be enjoyed at anytime and in pretty large quantities, although that ABV will sneak up on you!
Sat in a New York bar, Bissel Brothers "The Substance", with a chaser of Founders CBS on Nitro. Hot wings and blue cheese dip. Swap out the the IPA and Stout for whatever suits you and you've got as close to "best" i can think of haha
Really can't pick just one, but I can give a top three which are all completely different.. If I could only drink one beer for the rest of my life it would have to be Weihenstephaner, their standard hefe. Although I don't really think it's the best beer in the world it's so consistent and I know I'll never be disappointed. Next up, St Bernadus 12. Quality really shines through and I really enjoy it every time, even though it would not be top of my preferred list in terms of style. Aslin Orange Starfish. If I could have only one beer, at any time, this would be it. I went on a work trip to Virginia a couple of years ago and looked up breweries nearby before the trip, discovered Aslin as a bit of a local legend. Drove straight from the airport to the brewery tap and bought some cans of this (and some others that I can't remember the name of). Drove to the hotel, checked in, got to the room, took off shoes, cracked the beer, relaxed. Best beer experience I've ever had. I brought some cans home and it held up well. Every time I drink a super hoppy NEIPA I compare it to this.
I’ll throw my weight behind Allagash White not only being the GOAT but also the most IMPORTANT beer of all time. As a vessel for introducing American palates to not only the Belgian-ish styles that would eventually blow up, but the entire concept of HAZE in beer as well, it’s importance can’t be overstated.
In the New England area it seems Focal is currently more talked about than Heady. I personally go back and forth between which I prefer... "Allagash White = disco juice" Lol! Cheers!
I'm late to this, but the best beer in the world is the one you get most enjoyment out of and will have any time. For my friend who grew up in rural Ontario, his best beer in the world is likely Bud Light. For me, my best beer in the world world probably be Head Stock from Nickel Brook Brewing or Great Lakes Stout (formerly Shinny Pants). Everyone has different tastes, but it's the social aspect that we can get together over a pint and be in each other's company.
Alright then beer geeks - you know the rules: must not be a one-off, you have to have tried it, and it's got to be good whatever the situation. So tell us...what's the best beer in the world?
May be boring opinion but Warsteiner for me is the best, very heavy taste yet very easy to drink
But I do love me some Weissbier from time to time so it’s difficult choice lol
Perennial Abraxas or Pilsner Urquell (Edit: also Harvey's Best Bitter on cask!!)
Hard to find a beer that suits every situation.
I was never sisappointed drinking Erdinger Urweisse or Schneider Weisse Tap7
But tastebuds are different in every person and even in the same person in different ages.
MARYLOU!!
Even Sharks Need Water by Verdant
"The best beer in the world is the one you're drinking right now." - Unknown.
Having drunk a lot of low-alcohol beer this month I can confirm this is not true.
I’ve had some gluten free beers this month and I’m not sure I feel that anymore....
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I always thought that was the saying about the weed. I guess it works for beer. Mostly.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel You gonna do a video on them? Be interested to see it. There's a lot out there, but no idea which are tolerable.
Augustiner Lager Hell. I work as a brewer myself and Augustiner comes as close to perfection as I could imagine. It´s what you get when you do everything right.
absolutely right.
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I thought this when I visited Germany in 2013. Have ordered it 2x to Oz, but it is expensive to get here.
Augustiner Edelstoff is my favorite from Munich, but the entire region to the south of Munich is full of great helles beers such as Ettal, Andechs, Ayinger, Hofbrau Berchtesgaden, Tegernsee -- all of them great!
@@MrSgtau yeah, there‘s some great stuff in this region. I‘m planning on spending a year in Munich for my Brewmaster‘s degree. So I‘ll definitely check them out.
Pilsner Urquel is definitely my favorite pilsner and is a great contender for top beer considering its origins and availability. I also agree that Pliny has a spot there (I used to live right outside Santa Rosa and I got it all the time). I studied abroad in Amsterdam and thus was able to try a ton of great Belgian beers in addition to Dutch, German, and others. Trappist beers are great but I definitely can't drink them all the time. Duvel stands out as a great Belgian beer for me.
I think I have an affinity for beers from places I have lived such as Surly Furious in Minneapolis, Half Acre Bodem in Chicago, or the aforementioned Pliny in NorCal. Since I have moved to Denver, I have had several exceptional beers that merit consideration such as Maharaja DIPA from Avery, Superpower IPA from Comrade, and Bohemian Girl Pilsner from Tivoli.
I think the best answer is that the perfect beer is one that you are enjoying in the moment.
I've been drinking craft beers for years now and none of them have ever been better than Chimay which has been around forever. I could name many beers that I have enjoyed very much, but the very best ones were shared with people I love.
I’m Belgian and Chimay for me is FAR from Being the best beer . For me it’s Orval
@@qiqi2692 which one?. Belgian beers aren't always easy to find in some places
I am so glad Westmalle Tripel came up in your conversation. I could drink it with any meal and in any season. I could drink it every day and not grow tired of it. It's unique but balanced, robust yet crushable (yes, even at 9.5), it's revelatory yet consistent. It refreshes me and challenges me at the same time. It's humble - it's not trying to be anything that it isn't. It ticks all my boxes and beyond. It is, in my opinion, the platonic form of what a beer should be.
Glad to hear Allagash White get such high praises - it's one I don't think I ever regret drinking, it's not even expensive, and it's just an exemplar of its style and why I stan Allagash pretty regularly. I'm not crazy about all their beers - but I feel safe trying them, knowing I'll get a solid beer that isn't trying to be something it's not. I need to find more breweries who have just mastered a style and know it in and out more - mad respect for any who do.
If your looking for something great from Canada, this beer fits the criteria. La fin du Monde from Unibroue.
La fin du Monde is fantastic. 🙌
Eh? Best brew house in North America.
I love La Fin Du Monde too! On many days in any given year, that might be my favorite. Oh Canada...!
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I came here to say this
maybe the best beer in the world is the one, you miss the most?
- that can of Maui-brew on sunset on big island with the girl you just meet?
- the cheap ashasi can from a vending machine wandering the nightly streets of neon Tokyo?
- a classic old Rasputin with friends at a campfire under stars of Yosemite?
- stumbling into a small taproom behind mcdonalds in a shady part of NYC in 2015, drinking some haze for the first time?
- that smoked ungespunden at spezial in bamberg with international friends?
- a spritzy bolleke in Antwerp with fries and mussels waiting for your train to that beer festival with the struise brewers?
- a night-out in Edinburgh with a hand-pumped real ale, you guess it could be a thornbridge?
or in my case, 10 fresh uerige alt or schumacher alt in düsseldorf as i miss my hometown a bit.
What wonderful imagery! We're going to do a video on the best ever beer experiences. Would be nice to try and collate some comments of them too
I got goosebumps when Brad said Urquell. I'm very much a Belgian and love a lot of our beers (yet I do agree that the US, UK and even our brothers from The Netherlands and Scandinavia have "caught up" (It's not a competition, is it)) , but I lived and worked in Czech Republic for a year and after trying an unpasteurised and unfiltered oak aged pilsner in the cellars of the brewery my mind was blown. And most pilsners from tank or barrel had been great anywhere in the country. I haven't been able to convince any of my fellow country men how good Czech pilsner really is (heck, most think Duvel is the best and only good beer in the world) as all you can find is Urquell in small bottles or Budvar in cans but you guys gave me hope that my tasting buds did not cheat on me. Is it really the best beer in the world? Maybe on a boat indeed. But I agree: I hope I still have to discover it as well. Na zdraví!
NA ZDRAVI! We are kindred spirits clearly!
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Urquell is a very complex Pilsner, it certainly is the best Pilsner in the world. Wonderful dry, love it!
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@@scottcarvey9109 thank you. I don't know if I have been drinking an export variety or not, if so I have been drinking it for nearly 50 years and it remains delicious
I was in Czech back in 2019 and had a fairly cheap local beer known as Kozel and I remember it was a dark beer. That singular beer was the easiest drinking beer I have ever had and I could drink it day and night forever and ever. Just sad we don't get it where I live.
It’s such a difficult question to answer because I think it depends on the style. There are some IPAs that I would call my favorite beer, but then there’s also some traditional lagers that I would also feel obligated to call my favorite. So it should initially be narrowed down by style, to start anyway.
My personal favourite for crushability, any season - Fat Tug from Driftwood Brewery based in Victoria, BC, Canada. I lived there for a few years and fell in love with the brewing scene up and down the PNW, but Fat Tug became my go-to. Nice simple IPA
Rodenbach. The balance of malt, hop, and tartness is just unbelievable and amazing.
Most excited I’ve ever been was finding a bar in Belgium that had it for €2.00 a bottle during happy hour. We spent quite a bit of time there
Really love this video. For me, taking the seasonal beers out of the equation, it's got to be tap 05 hopped Doppelbock from Schneider Weisse. It's the oldest wheat bear brewery and this beer is simply delicious. Super piney and honeylike aromas really full body and a nice kick to it with 8%. It is seriously good and in general the German wheat beer scene needs to be esplored more on this channel! Love the content lads, cheers!
Hard to disagree with Brad; Best beer has to be tied with an experience; I was a photographer at a event where there was pallets of Focal Banger and Heady; After the event ended, we had these for first time, and since then nothing can top that. But hey! Great video.
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Westvleteren 12 is the best I've ever had. The 10 was top 5. I was so lucky to have been delivered it by a friend.
The main ingredient of that beer is hype, just like most Belgian beers really. It is mostly indistinguishable from Abt 12 anyway. Generally, these beers are not brewed very consistently and they are often impure.
@@Diggnuts I've only had one of each, but they were delicious. I personally love most Belgian beers, but they aren't for everyone; esp. if you have typical American sensibilities. What exactly do you mean by impure? How do you know they aren't brewed consistently?
@@TheSlandis Ow, I'm not American and don't really share their "sensibilities" and I do like a couple of Belgian beers, especially Duvel and Karmeliet, but I'm not going to pretend that all Belgian "craft" beer is heavenly ambrosia, because it obviously is not.
Abt 12/Westvleteren is okay, but not sensational by any stretch of the taste pallet. It also varies greatly on included detritus from the brewing process that will affect the taste and, if you drink to much of the stuff, your mood the next morning.
"What exactly do you mean by impure?"
Well, just that. Added ingredients to hide certain tastes are a common practice and condering Geuze and Lambic style beers, the fermentation process is impure by definition as the brew is purposefully exposed to the outside air.
There really is just one actual exception to this rule which is Duvel that has a meticulous complicated formula. For everything else, even the top beers like Karmeliet I have seen extreme variation in types of residue, colour and taste between batches.
"How do you know they aren't brewed consistently?"
Well, in case of spontaneous fermentation, this is just by design. You have no control over what particles are in the air at any point in time so the types of wild yeast, other biological or dirt particles vary every time you open up the kettle. It is an archaic and dumb method to brew and it should be banned from sale because of the obvious health and safety issues.
As for sensibly fermented beers, you can see and taste the differences. I have ordered the same Belgian beers with friends and often the colour and taste would be different between bottles. That simply because Belgian brewers lack the rigorous standards that for example the Germans have.
The fact is that on all levels, Americans are now better in brewing most Belgian styles than Belgium is.
@@Diggnuts I just reviewed some info I have on Westvleteren, and yes, they are the last Trappist brewery to open ferment (not the same as spontaneous fermentation). I don't think open fermentation is a bad thing and it is done quite a bit in the US. It doesn't have to lead to an inconsistent or dirty beer depending on the housing of the vessels. Since their beers, like many Belgian beers, are bottle fermented, you do get yeast sediment. German Weissbeir is the same but Germans consider it proper to rouse the sediment before drinking. If you know the beer, you can deal with the sediment. Until I could pressurize my home brewed beer, I bottle fermented everything to get the carbonation. There's nothing impure or dangerous about it. Just a different brewing style. I hope to visit Belgium when Covid settles, and I will keep in mind what you say about inconsistency. I know the Belgian beers I get here in the US, are pretty consistent. The other thing I like about most Belgian beers are their shelf life.
@@TheSlandis That does not mean that they are the only brewery to use spontaneous fermentation, just the only Trappist brewery.
Many breweries use it out of some misguided sense of tradition while it is obvious that the practice is one that was born out of ignorance.
I don't know if you ever have been to Belgium, but it is a densely populated dirty country with a lot of pollution. It is common sense that air pollutions gets into the brew using this antiquated and obsolete method.
You can get better results by simply cultivating the wild yeasts you want and introducing them yourself. It simply makes no sense any more except to nonsensically brag about "tradition", which is meaningless. We do not cure people by blood-letting any more, now do we?
As for sediments, of course you know not all detritus is equal. Basically there are two types. You can have yeast residue or you can have non yeast protein formation, which is the one you'd find in some unfiltered Weizen beers. One of these are dead organisms in your drink, the other is not.
Personally I do not mind sediment as long as it is predictable and in my extensive experience with Belgian beers, it simply is not. Perhaps you get the good stuff and I simply lucked out, but I have had that experience in Belgium itself many times and I doubt they would export the best stuff. It is far more likely that they are just winging it as Belgians do with everything.
Also there isn't anything special about the Shelf live of Belgian beers. Higher ABV does increase it, but so do overly hopped beers as hop is antiseptic as per IPA, but if you really want prolonged shelf life, you need ridged quality control. You can keep a 5% German dunkel for just as long as you can keep a Karmeliet and I can ensure you that a year over the best-by date, the Dunkel will taste about the same, but the Karmeliet will have developed a musky taste because of diacetyl contamination.
I would avoid any Belgian beer under 7% ABV as these will almost always have something funky wrong with them.
Also avoid Belgian wheat beer. These are an insult to actual wheat beer brew masters who understand the brewing process. Belgian "wit" beer is a joke. They need to add everything and the kitchen sink to barely get some hint of pepper or fruit while the Folks of WeihenStephaner can accomplish these flavour profiles by simply controlling the process and adding nothing.
Of course steer clear of Krieg, Geuze or Lambic and if you are into Saison, make sure you get a Walonian variant from one of the bigger names, not Flemish and/or micro.
As a rule of thumb, if the bottle has a funny cartoon on it, do NOT buy it. This includes pigswill like Delerium Termens and La Chouff.
Of course ignore the pils category. Stella and Jupiler are just as vile as Heineken or Amstel. If you want a proper pilsner go Czech or German. Also for wheat beer go for German, not Belgian.
Karmeliet is great.
Duvel is very good.
Westmalle Triple is high consistency and pretty nice.
Abt 12. is fine.
Orval is okay
Floreffe Triple is the only good beer that place makes.
Leffe is grossly overrated and basically a front for a common macro brewery.
Affligem Blond is the only sub 7% beer I find acceptable. Dutch Blonds tend to be much cleaner and sophisticated.
Chimay is hit and miss.
Pauwel Kwak is a gimmick.
The rochefort series is pretty decent on a whole, but don't expect orgasms.
Any local micro brew is often a variation on one of these with some gimmicky twist that ruins it completely or is a simulacrum from twice the price. You can get a lot of expensive Duvel which is not Duvel in Belgium.
But again, at this point in time, the best Belgian styles available are made in the USA so I would not bother to come to Belgium for that at all.
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No particular order:
- Canillon Mamouche
- Pilsner Urquell
- Rodenbach Grand Cru
- Orval
- Saison Dupont
I'd take Blind Pig and Pliny over Focal Banger and Heady Topper. I'm just not a hazy boi.
to add to the Urquell/FB bar idea, all beer is elevated a few notches when consumed on a boat
Damn I think you are probably right.
True! Also every beer tastes so much better when drank after sauna while sitting on a porch.
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I remember being 16, walking to the local reservoir with my mates carrying a couple of crates that the older looking one of us bought from the offy. I have such good memories of that time, so for me, the best beer is warm fosters.
Lokál and tank unfiltered unpasteurised Pilsner Urquell there is my favourite in the world. There's no other experience like it and it makes me emotional thinking about it 🍻
I’ve always loved duvel for over 20 years it’s simple yet complicated, strong but easy drinking, refreshing enough for warm weather but is awesome and warming by the fireplace in the winter. It also goes with all ranges of food. I’m into health a bit more with my age so it fits more for someone who drinks 2 beers in a session instead of 4-6 of a lighter style beer. I don’t know if it’s the best beer ever, but definitely my “if you could only drink one beer for the rest of your life beer.”
Damn good choice. Completely floored when i first had that, and still I'm never not impressed and delighted.
Orval for me.
it's widely available consistent, easy drinking.
it's a good beer when it fresh and it's also very nice aged which will allow it to match most pairing.
to me it's a never disappointing beer
Nb: that being said i think that looking for the best beer per style (or family of style) will be easier as in my humble opinion even if it's still the same baverage the diffrence between a geuze a pastry stout or a ridiculously hoped IPA is so wide that they are uncomparable
So true, i totally agree with you
As a ski bro from Killington Vermont, I’m glad to hear Focal Banger and Heady Topper getting some love
Honestly anything fresh from Hillfarmstead Brewery is always at the top of the top :)
Florence and Arthur are tremendous (all their beer is of course).
Love Hillfarmstead! Thanks for the callout.
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Absolutely!
Abner is my favorite.
Focal Banger is on top for me. I remember driving 1 hour to Stowe-VT from NH just for the beer. Now living in Florida I really miss it. I should go back soon...
And Heady Topper as well. Alchemist is doing their IPAs right!
I will never turn down a chance to drink a Rochefort 10.
A dangerous but delicious precedent.
I couldn’t agree more.
6 and 8 are also good.
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My favorite. Rochefort10 the best.
It's got to be Orval for me. A complex taste that evolves and is always interesting whatever the bottle age. I love all the hype beers too, but will always come back to this.
The only correct answer.
Great conversation. I kind of feel the polar opposite - instead of trying to find a beer that ticks every box in every possible setting the best beer to me is the one that fits the particular occasion beautifully. Cheers!
While the best remains a mystery, I keep getting pulled to Double Sunshine from Lawson’s Finest as my favorite. While it may not be the most hyped beer out of Vermont, or even Lawson’s, every sip of it has been absolutely delicious. Its balance between west coast and New England flavors has been a treat from my first taste at the brewery to every last gulp from a can since.
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Lawsons is one of the best breweries ever!
Schneider Weisse Aventinus and their eisbock is some of my favorites Schneider Weisse as a whole is a great brewery.
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Yes! A beer that craft beer fans often ignore but it is amazing.
Best one ever, in my opinion: Orval. Stand-alone unicorn beer, with predictable hoppy-to-brett transition so you can time the opening to your preference. Perfect for every occasion throughout the year.
A great shout, and a truly great beer.
It's nice. Not the best ever IMHO but hey, you do you. That's why they make so much variety.
Agreed, but it needs to be aged at least 18 months.
@@JamesRea2 To me that's the best thing about Orval. I usually like it 18-24 months old, but there are surely times when I crave a 3-month-old Orval with more hoppy notes.
Westmalle tripel for me. The best beer is always the next beer! Orval and saison dupont are very close runners up. My taste changes so much but that's the great thing about beer. I can always find a beer to suit my taste.
Tree house juice machine was unreal. Currently on an other half all citra everything and it’s damn good.
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The beers that most live up to the hype are Westvleteren 12, Pliny the Elder, Founders KBS. The first time I had all of them they blew my mind. But my favourite all time beer is Amager HR Fredericksen
KBS & Founders in general is greatly overrated.
I feel like I never pass down Saison Du Pont or their winter variant which is probably the best tasting but Urquell is definitely more universally applicable to any situation for me.
Spot on with Focal Banger.
I don't know if it's 'the best', but special mention to Orval. A beer that's in a category of its own, has stood the test of time, and that can be many things throughout its lifetime. If I had to pick one beer to drink for the rest of my life, it would probably have to be Orval.
Firmly agree on Focal over Heady.
Indeed. I wish we'd gone into that in retrospect. Such a great and unique beer.
Lads, I think it’s high time you planned an Antipodean adventure! There are some really top notch beers coming out of Wellington, Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane!
Surprised by the lack of mentioning the brews coming from down under, the craft beer scene in Aus is going mental at the moment
Been to the same pub on Mala Strana in Prague, has 3 stories underground, affordable Pilsner Urquell, amazing!
They serve it from those huge horizontal tanks
Some great beers being brewed everywhere. I lean more towards hoppy beers, but I do have a love affair with dark beers too. I've traveled a lot and have been to almost 1200 breweries around the world. I thought Blind Pig by Russian River was a better then Pliny. Also love Heady, and Focal as well. My current city is Charlotte, North Carolina and we have some great breweries in town.
As you've likely found out, there's no best beer in the world. Just the best beer in the moment. Cheers, guys.
Bell's Two Hearted! Totally agree it could be on every best beer list. My No. 1 for sure
Dam right. 2 hearted is perfectly balanced.
I think I agree. It’s always in my beer purchase. Never get tired of it.
Whilst not as crafty as your choices, I'd go with Fullers HSB. I've had this on cold winter nights, hot sunny days, and it's equally amazing. Picking a craft beer, I'd go for any version of Cloudwater's DIPAs, they are incredible.
Missing Cloudwater brew tap so bad during these eternal lockdowns, was there most weekends, have been getting it delivered from time to time from there and Rivington brew Co who do some nice stuff
Weirdly, Guinness comes to mind. It’s so iconic, it’s been brewed forever in large quantities, yet it’s far from a watery, personality-free beer. It has a distinct flavor and stands above most any beer for its creaminess.
All that said, I haven’t had one in some time, and there are stretches when I don’t want one at all. At other times it’s perfect. It definitely doesn’t work with all foods or for all occasions.
For me, it’s a candidate, depending on the criteria. If the measures are uniqueness, standing the test of time, popularity, recognizability, and a robust personality, it wins, especially with its creaminess.
With IPAs, I have a much harder time choosing. There are so many!
Focal Banger! I for years felt the same way. It's sooo quenching and crushable..
Schneider Weisse Meine Hopfenweisse TAP5 has got to be one of my favorites, especially with sausage and pretzels
Fuckin' great beer. I need to find some, it's been too long.
I just tried Pilsner Urquell for the first time recently and was surprised how much I like it. It is so crisp and dry I think it should be called the "Champaign of Beers". My personal favorite beer is Hacker Pschorr Munich Gold. Our local German Restaurant, Mr. Dunderbak’s, has it on tap, and drinking that along with their rueben sandwich is a fantastic combo. So, the best beer is definitely relative to the situation and/or the food you have with it. If you are just drinking beer alone or accompanied with food, those things effect what beer you choose.
Best beer I can get every day if I wanted to: Bell's Two Hearted Ale
Best beer I can't get every day, but can get often: Other Half DDH Space Diamonds
Best beer I wish I could still get often: Trillium Vicinity
Best beer I've only had once or twice: Fieldwork King Citra
Trillium Vicinity is incredible.
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Super good choice!! I love me some Other Half Space Diamonds!! Such a good beer! I've been recently getting it here in Bar Harbor Maine.
I'm drinking a Scheyern Kloster Gold Dunkel right now and it's right up there with the best. Which is surely understandable as they've had since the year 1119 to get it right. Practice makes perfect, as they say. (Yes I know Weihenstephan, the "oldest brewery in the world" has had 79 more years' practice).
If I could only drink one beer for the rest of my life it would have to be Rothaus pils! I don’t what it is I just can’t get enough of it 🍻! Although I do wish my local beer shop would take back the bottles to be used again. Rather than the death of the bottle every time I have one.
Finback Brewery "Oscillation". If it was something that was available more often it would be Finback Pass Through. I live in Maine with tons of micro breweries but Finback in New York is just my absolute favorite brewery of all time.
If I have to play by your rules, it would be Orval, Pfriem Brett Saison, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, or Alesmith Speedway Stout. Otherwise it’s Cellar Maker/Rare Barrel Tangerang.
My life list is over 4000 and I would agree with Orval and SN Pale as good benchmarks.
Beer, like music, is not enjoyed in a vacuum. Every beer adds to the personal 'playlist' of everything you've ever tried and your perception of a beer is dictated, in part, by previous experiences and the environment you are in.
A roundabout way of saying that there can (in my opinion) never be a consensus Worlds Best Beer. Simply a personal favourite at the current moment!
So many possibles but I always come back to Westmalle Tripel, with Brasserie De La Senne Jambe De Bois a close second. I’d throw Wild Beer Co Modus Operandi in the mix as well
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Can’t really give you a best beer but I can give you most important beers (South East U.K. based)
Hophead - Dark Star Brewing (first ale I loved)
Premium Malts - Suntory (first lager I loved)
Pacific Ale - Stone and Wood (first craft beer I could carry on drinking forever)
Stoutzilla ‘19 - Unbarred Brewing (first strong stout I really enjoyed)
Aotearoa Pale Ale - Tuatara (first ale I drank which had distinct differences between the nose and the taste)
When I tried Fullers ESB when I was about 19, it was probs the best beer I'd ever had up to that point- but that was early in my beery adventures, hard to say after so many since- but like you said, it's exciting to think most of us probably haven't had the best beer we ever will yet. So cheers to that!
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Queue a pretty heated comments section on this one!
For my money, St Bernards Abt 12 has to be in the conversation. However I think that Taras Boulba could be a contender if we're talking about sessionability. I could certainly drink that daily, as I did when I was in Belgium! I'll throw Saison Dupont into the hat too for good measure.
Come to think of it, I could name about 50 more... Let's just call the whole thing off.
Taras Boulba is an absolute shout!
St. Bernardus is a great one I love their Wit beer! Their original and Tokyo one are some of my favorites.
@@seek8739 st B witbeer or 12 are phenomenal
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As a beer-oholic I found that there's so many outstanding beers out there these days that it is impossible to pick a number 1 choice. For me, a well balanced IPA, stout, or otherwise amongst family and/or friends in a great location makes for number one. I've got so many number one beers- including my own!
best beer ive ever had, with your guidelines in place, deya steady. always good, always avalable
I scrolled down, looking for an SRM nomination. Hits all the criteria described in this vid
These are some big calls, but for 2020/2021, I'm backing DEYA SRM as well. Just finished my 24th can of the year. Keep some in the (almost) freezing shed, some in the fridge and some in my office. Equally lovely at any given temperature. It's not my favourite ever beer, and it's not great at getting me drunk. But objectively speaking, it's the 'best' beer that I buy.
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It used to be Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen, but as of last year my new favourite beer is Rothaus Tannenzäpfle. It hits the spot every single time (and it's a nice change from the barrel aged stouts, NEIPAs, funky beers and what have you). I have soft spot for traditional German beer anyway. Well for traditional Belgian beers too..
I agree with Brad, but for me it's Augustiner Helles in June in the Augustinerkeller Biergarten. From a wooden keg of course.
Hot damn that is one of my favourite beer memories too. But it was March, and not all that warm.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel but even without the memory, I'd throw Augustiner Helles in there, never had a bad bottle, could drink it for the rest of my life.
The Augustiner Edelstoff is near perfect..
@@weiht6767 Came to say the same
@@weiht6767 I actually like the Helles more. To me, Edelstoff has a little less yeast character which I love in the Helles. But I guess it's a matter of preference at that point. 😅
It's such an impossible but fun question, isn't it? On the top level, you have all the different styles (and peoples tastes for those styles ie best/favorite) which has even blown up over the last decade. Then, because of the localized footprint of even the most successful (and yes hyped) breweries, there is always another out there to try. Luckily for the first point, I love pretty much all styles, so I always think about my favorite(s) in each style. To the second part, and your end point on the video, beer discovery is half the fun of drinking beer the way we do.
Would be so fun for you guys to do a “best in the world” by style. For me, if best in the world means I can only have this beer for the rest of my life then it would have to be Scaldis Noel by Brasserie Dubuisson
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Rodenbach Alexander is mine. Could argue because of the tartness that I can't be the best (because some people don't like tart) but for me it's 1st. Winter time? Check. Summer time? Check. BBQ? Check. Cheese plate? Check. By it self? Check. (etc etc).
Belgians make the most versatile beers.
Great w/ food, great alone, great during all seasons.
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Rochefort 10 for a single beer.
De Koninck (on tap, of course, preferably IN Antwerp) as a session beer.
I know I am a little late, but the best beer in the world is *Duvel*
Strong, Belgian, golden ale (8.5% ABV)
Beautiful notes of citrus, a champagne like yeastiness, incredible mouthfeel.
Suitable for any time of the day or any season.
Racer 5, Bear Republic. I could drink that all day long and even if it killed me I would die a very, very happy man.
An absolutely stunning beer, but their Hop Rod Rye just pips it for me.
If I remember correctly, they make a Racer 10, which I preferred (it's been a few years).
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Some really amazing beer and beer concepts being created and tinkered with in Australia right now you boys really need to plan a visit down under
The best beers in the world are always tied to good friends and experiences. A Westie, Apt 12, or Gouden Carols Cuvée all lose points unless shared with appreciative company!
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By a total coincidence I had two of my best ever beers on the same evening - a can of Heady Topper and a bottle of Vigneronne by Cantillon. That, friends, was a good evening and both of those beers are candidates as far as I am concerned..
Fantastic debate guys, and one that many of us have (or used to have before this Covid madness) time and time again with friends.
Since really getting into beer, I've loved nothing more than going into a good beer bar or bottleshop and seeing loads of stuff I haven't tried before and the opportunity to try something new. However, I think what really would stand out to me as a "best beer in the world" contender would be that if I saw a beer that I already loved in this sort of context and I'd choose it, again and again, over the opportunity to try something different, then that must be a winner. That to me would signal the best beer in the world.
For what it's worth, and it's completely subjective, the beers that would stop me in my tracks and demand pint after pint would be Jakehead by Wylam, Steady Rolling Man by Deya and Tasty Juice by Lervig.
Three great beers that I return to time after time too
I have lived in Santa Rosa, California my whole life and never went to Russian River until about 2 years ago. Pliny is a amazing beer but my favorite has to be there Saison.
It's gotta be 3F's Oude Geuze. The best OG out there, and it's super consistent.
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I have to say I really like Two Hearted by Bells and lately I have been drinking a lot of Leffe from the Stella Brewery in Belgium. Great video guys.
If you like Leffe try to hunt down Brugse Zot - and independent and (I think) tastier version! It is pretty widely available
Duvel, go to beer always in the fridge. Stille Nacht (seasonally) , De Garre tripel (bottled or Draft).
1. De Garre
2. Westmalle
3. Duvel Citra
Belgium beer is the bomb! Unique and difficult to duplicate. Allagash and Ommegang are decent imitations. The Bruery?
Hard to find people with such good taste...well done mate!!
@@niallmcdonagh1093 it's always hard to pin down your best beer, it's like listening to music it all depends what mood your in 🍻
I love many of your choices. Let me give a top 5, in no particular order
- Orval
- Avec les bons voeux de la brasserie, Dupont
- Pilsner Urquell
- Hop Ottin IPA
- Westvleteren Blond
If we're going be the criteria of "something I would like every time" Mikkellers kölsch is definitely up there for me. I would drink it all the time of it wasn't so expensive.
That’s a good pick! That and their iskold classic I could drink all day
Most (all?) of my English friends talk shit endlessly about American beer, thinking it's nothing more than Budweiser. And then they think they've had a craft beer by drinking a Sam Adams and not being impressed. But then I come to this channel, and these two adore American beer. It's refreshing to see!
Dunno about best beer in the world... that's way too hard man (as you've just proved) but The Verdant 20 Watt Moon you have there was my beer of 2020!
IT WAS SO GOOD. Strata is an exciting hop.
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I'd been living in Tokyo the last few years, and whilst there had the pleasure of trying: Westvlederen 12; Pliny the Elder; Westmalle; and Rochefort 10 - Rochefort is the clear winner in that pack. But, had a local who brought in some Revisons (hello, Social Fermentation!), and some Alchemist, but also had a Japanese brewery, West Coast from Shizuoka - their Full Hop Alchemist was something to behold. I'm now in Kyiv, Ukraine and have found some amazing craft brews: 2085-5 "Fake Brett" is fabulous, and VarVar have an amazing Imperial Stout "Black Bean" that sits on 4.49 on untappd (that's Pliny territory) and is freakin' amazing!
hey, where in tokyo did you find all those beers???
My gripe with this video is that some of the candidates you mention for best beer in the world, you only gave 4/5 on untapped, Jonny. 😂
Allagash White 👀
No way! I'll need to go reassess!
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So I love a smoked beer and Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier and the like, but I'm going to go with Morte Subite's Gueuze Lambic that I tried earlier in the week - lovely complex beer - just made me smile from start to finish.
Three Floyds Zombie Dust... I could drink it all day every day
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I live in Seattle and my local bar has a connection with Russian River, so I’m lucky enough to get Pliny often. I love Two Hearted, but it’s not even close.
Orval aged at least 18 months.
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I don’t think there is a more drinkable beer on the planet (at least from what I have tried) than Pilsner Urquell. Pilsner Urquell is a beer, that in my opinion, is absolutely perfectly balanced, and one of if not the best in its style. The only beer that I would be perfectly happy with drinking only that single beer every single day for the rest of my life
Heineken or Carling is the best beer in the world
Just joking, please put down your pitchforks and torches
Damn you nearly had me.
@Custom8 Tastes like pizza
I pinted BCBS 2019 back to back at a bar and it almost killed me. I don't really remember that much, but I'm still here.
Good lord. A dangerous game.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel That's for certain. It was ill-advised and I don't recommend it. Lesson learned.
If it’s not Belgian you’re wrong
Fighting talk!
@@TheCraftBeerChannel to be fair I wrote that at the beginning of the video. You did touch on them but for me (and let’s face it it’s all opinion) without question Belgian beers in general have to be considered up there if not the absolute pinnacle. Some of the triples particularly are absolutely mind blowing.
@@murphyebass7837 I prefer the quads I've had to the triples, but both are very good.
Love it Jonny! My choice was actually Heady but Focal Banger is equally fantastic. Anyway, right there on the same page with you. Basically, a perfectly balanced brew that can be enjoyed at anytime and in pretty large quantities, although that ABV will sneak up on you!
Sat in a New York bar, Bissel Brothers "The Substance", with a chaser of Founders CBS on Nitro. Hot wings and blue cheese dip. Swap out the the IPA and Stout for whatever suits you and you've got as close to "best" i can think of haha
Really can't pick just one, but I can give a top three which are all completely different..
If I could only drink one beer for the rest of my life it would have to be Weihenstephaner, their standard hefe. Although I don't really think it's the best beer in the world it's so consistent and I know I'll never be disappointed.
Next up, St Bernadus 12. Quality really shines through and I really enjoy it every time, even though it would not be top of my preferred list in terms of style.
Aslin Orange Starfish. If I could have only one beer, at any time, this would be it. I went on a work trip to Virginia a couple of years ago and looked up breweries nearby before the trip, discovered Aslin as a bit of a local legend. Drove straight from the airport to the brewery tap and bought some cans of this (and some others that I can't remember the name of). Drove to the hotel, checked in, got to the room, took off shoes, cracked the beer, relaxed. Best beer experience I've ever had. I brought some cans home and it held up well. Every time I drink a super hoppy NEIPA I compare it to this.
I’ll throw my weight behind Allagash White not only being the GOAT but also the most IMPORTANT beer of all time. As a vessel for introducing American palates to not only the Belgian-ish styles that would eventually blow up, but the entire concept of HAZE in beer as well, it’s importance can’t be overstated.
Leidsch Aaipiejee, holds a special place in my heart for the first beer, in a pub, I had when bars re-opened in Nederland.
In the New England area it seems Focal is currently more talked about than Heady. I personally go back and forth between which I prefer... "Allagash White = disco juice" Lol! Cheers!
I'm late to this, but the best beer in the world is the one you get most enjoyment out of and will have any time.
For my friend who grew up in rural Ontario, his best beer in the world is likely Bud Light. For me, my best beer in the world world probably be Head Stock from Nickel Brook Brewing or Great Lakes Stout (formerly Shinny Pants). Everyone has different tastes, but it's the social aspect that we can get together over a pint and be in each other's company.
That's so true, the experience you have while enjoying a beer totally influences this
Glad you guys brought up the Westmalle Triple! What a killer that is