I have to applaud Wired for picking an articulate, educated, reasonable individual to explain a HUGE variety of beer styles both accurately and in a way that does not insult his audience if that audience actual knows and/or brews beer. Seriously...well done!
If you think this is long, just imagine the 8+ hours of filming it took to get all of it out! Definitely don't envy whoever had to go through and edit it all together. It was an absolute blast to shoot though, and I have to say, after talking about beer for that long without getting to enjoy one, that first post-shoot beer was mighty tasty!
Thanks so much for this video and putting all the time in! It inspires me to want to discover beers and develop a taste. I haven't had luck finding a beer I liked before, but I didn't know how much was out there.
TIMESTAMPS FOR THE FIRST 30 MINUTES, i got bored and don't want to finish it lol. maybe later.... 1:26 MALTY LAGERS 3:43 PALE, AMBER, DARK 5:11 CREAM ALE 5:44 MALTY EURO LAGERS 6:07 MUNICH HELLES 6:49 KELLERBIER 7:11 MARZEN & FESTBIER 8:32 VIENNA LAGER 9:12 MUNICH DUNKEL 10:10 SHWARZBIER 10:33 CZECH MALTY LAGERS 11:03 BOCK BEERS 11:53 DUNKELS BOCK 12:03 HELLES BOCK 12:35 DOPPELBOCK 13:09 EISBOCK 13:58 HOPPY LAGERS 14:17 CZECH PREMIUM PALE LAGER 15:52 CZECH PALE LAGER 16:05 GERMAN PILS 17:08 GERMAN LEICHTBIER 17:18 GERMAN HELLES EXPORTBIER 17:38 KOLSCH 19:06 PRE-PROHIBITION LAGER 22:16 NON-ROASTY MALTY ALES 22:40 DARK MILD 23:02 BRITISH BROWN ALE 23:15 LONDON BROWN ALE 23:25 ENGLISH BARLEYWINE 23:56 BRITISH STRONG ALE 24:18 OLD ALE 24:54 SCOTTISH LIGHT, HEAVY AND EXPORT 25:39 WEE HEAVY 26:20 IRISH RED ALE 26:51 AMERICAN MALTY ALES 27:01 AMERICAN BLONDE ALE 27:18 AMERICAN WHEAT BEER 27:57 AMERICAN BROWN ALE 28:31 WHEATWINE 28:54 BELGIAN PALE ALE 29:19 BIERE DE GARDE 29:36 HISTORICAL MALTY STYLES 29:51 SAHTI
@@AlbPerNil some ppl can put it down i mean i did finish a heineken 5 l in one day its all about pace but a whole one after each i mena ur tlakin chuggin ther thne ppl complain oh hes not enjpoying lol
God I love beer. I’m not a big drinker outside of beer, there’s just something about beer that amazes me. I’m not drinking beer to get drunk, I drink beer for the beer. The taste, the history, the different varieties, crazy. Nothin like a cold beer at the end of the day, especially if you can really fully enjoy it and know exactly what you’re sipping on.
It took me 7 years of being sceptical to beer for me to realize that the reason it tasted bad was because the supermarket only sells the ones I dislike. After I found ale and the fresh taste of draft beer I fell in love with this drink.
I can't immagine that experience. As a czech, the beer is the commodity with the most variety in the whole supermarket. Like you can usually pick one of ten different types of cheese, but more than twenty different types and brands of beer (in a small shop).
You are not pronouncing dunkel correctly here. I thought is was an educational group. You need to know the correct way of how to say these words. Just put it into any translation software and here how it is pronounced.
Just saw this gem in my feed. And I'm really pleasantly surprised by your great way of describing Kölsch as more than a drink. The thing you mentiont with how easy it is to drink is so true. Normaly when I'm out with my friends we have a couple of cold ones, play a little Schoken and be out to 3 or 4 in the moring without even realising it. And Kölsch is a part of it. Since Kölsch is also the name of our lokal dialect, we like to say "Kölsch is the only language you can drink". So Kölsch for us is s feeling, a way of live, a language, a beer, a part of our culture. And yes. If you ever get the chance to come to Cologne try to seek out a Brauhaus, but also at least one of the many many many Kneipen. Smaler Pup style locations where you can meet locals and find friend for the evening.
Yh, I don't know why people have this thought it's going to be strong and be super heavy. As you said, a great session beer, perhaps my favourite thing on draft
Just a note: The second word in "Pilsner Urquell" isn't pronounced in a French way (like "urkell"), but more like "Oor-kwell". "Quell", or "Quelle" (with an additional e - pronounced like the one before - at the end) is a German word for source/spring/well. "Urquell" means something like "ancient source."
There is a reason why there cheap .... there just meant to get you drunk or a lot of people drunk. As bad as they are they are far more profitable then some mom and pop brewery in Germany who makes a 10X better beer.
It might too late but, timestamps for each "style" heading would've been nice in the description, as this video will serve as a reference to a lot of viewers. Being able to click something like "25:00" for X beer category, would've been great.
I thought this was excellent! I appreciate how there was not a lot of judgement about which beers were crap and which were amazing. Enjoy your beer, Cheers!
Very comprehensive! One of the reasons I love beer so much is how many varied styles there are, and how each style has its own history associated with it. As much as the world sucks these days, it sure is nice to be living in a beer Renaissance.
Yep crazy thing is that there’s many more than this as well. This is a bit more American craft focused, there’s many more international styles mentioned.
Lived in both Belgium and Germany in the late 1980’s and mid 1990’s. I was very impressed with the wide variety of beers in Belgium but settled on the Trappist beer as my favorites. Loved German Swartzbier like Kostritzer and the Hefeweizens. Today in USA, the explosion of microbreweries has made beer drinking a true pleasure.
When you say "popular" what you mean is "inexpensive and mass-produced". The iron law of the market is that cheap will outsell good. Iberico Ham is the best ham in the world, but at $4,500 for a leg, it's beyond the means of the mass market.
If it's mass-produced, surely somewhere along the line it became so popular they made it so they could produce it quicker. Although I don't particularly think some of the American pales are the best but I can appreciate it's easy to drink for people who may not regularly go out and try newer things and they're comfortable just driving the same thing all of the time.
@@jacobh01 >people who may not regularly go out and try newer things and they're comfortable just driving the same thing all of the time I feel sorry for them. Welp, more great beer for me.
@@RCRDC_handlesarepoopoo more great beer for all of us. I always make an effort to try new stuff at the local, I think it makes the experience more enjoyable and is never the same
I drink beers, I talk beers. If I sat down with this gentleman, all I could do would be listen. I thought I knew what I was drinking..... I’ve learned a lot.
This is one of the best videos I've seen. Kudos to the creators for putting this much effort into going into such detail and really taking the time to explain each one enough.
Altbier is not only found in Düsseldorf, but in the whole Lower Rhineland and Westphalia. Although Düsseldorf has a large amount of high quality Alt breweries, you should not exclusively look there for a good Alt. Especially the cities of Krefeld, Mönchengladbach and Münster have great Alts. The best Alt (Bolten Ur-Alt) is brewed in a small village named Korschenbroich, which also prooves that an Alt doesn't need to be hoppy when you have softer water available.
I think he didn’t mention the Reinheitsgebot (literally "purity order") which is a law limiting the ingredients in beer in Germany. The best known version of the law was adopted in Bavaria in 1516. The basic law now declares that only malted grains, hops, water and yeast are permitted in beer brewing. No extras like fruits etc are allowed.
To add onto this, obviously beers can still be mixed with other ingredients in germany, but they can't be labeled as 'beer' anymore. It will most likely say something like 'Biermischgetränk' (mixed beer drink)
@@COMMANDandConquer199 NO, it's still law here in Germany. And as for keeping up with the American craft beer industry, I would say that it's the other way round, the American craft beer industry is still trying to catch up with 400+ years of German beer brewing tradition :) But seriously, there's a significant craft beer industry here in Germany as well as in almost every European country and Australia etc. My personal estimate is that Belgium is ahead in terms of interesting new beers.
@@martinstent5339 Rheinheitsgebot is not a law. the breweries just follow it out of tradition. It's not a currently enacted law. They can violate it at any time. They just choose not to.
One other explanation for Bockbier in Germany is that "Es tritt wie ein Bock" (it kicks like a buck) when drinking it. Because of the higher alcohol amount and the very unique taste Great video, the pictures to show the different beers are very accurate!
You should, Coffee and Beer are one of the best things in this world that represents cuture other than cuisine in general. To be healthy make it a part of you daily diet, just one beer a day during meals will be fine and health beneficial. Bout time brother!!
if you ever want to, you should give beer a try. It's a very distinct taste depending on the beer type, but the more you drink it, the more you enjoy it. Just please be responsible
Fruit lambics are my favorite style of beer. I wish American breweries would develop an American style similar to lambics. I know they can’t call it a “lambic” but something similar has the potential to be the next big style
I think Allagash makes one. There are so many breweries in America now there's every kind of beer you can imagine and then some. When I lived in Raleigh there were a couple places that had over 100 taps that would get changed constantly.
Agreed on cream ale being more like lager seeing as how you are supposed to use yeast that ferments clean and doesnt leave much if any yeast flavor in the finished beer. I just put a 5 gallon batch in the fermenter ready to add the vanilla soon in secondary and then very aged with a few vanilla beans in there
As a European used to the "German Lager" being the *standard beer*. Drinking an "American Lager" (bud light / Miller) are some of the blandest tasting experiences in my life. How you like it is beyond me. I'd much rather have some water.
He never mentioned (specifically) my favorite category: “sour” beers. I understand that they may fall into the “Fruity and/or Spicy Ales” but was kind of surprised they were never explicitly mentioned!
@@oldschoolman1444 Well, the actual sours are deliberately sour by design. Not really a fan but at least it's a thing. What you're referring to are the """"sour"""" beers with as many quote marks as possible.
If you are in Czech Republic, I recommend you to get yourself a Pilsner, Radegast or Kozel. The best beers are made in the Czech Republic and those three listed are really the top.
Quite interesting for me as a German. Really cool Video! And thank you for including the "Hefeweizen" or just "Weizen" in your list. I have the feeling it is not very well known in the US but back here in Germany next to the Helles and the Pils it is very very common and the taste of this beer is completely different and hard to describe. Even when you are sick of Helles as a German, a "Weizen" still fits in ;)
Hefeweizen ist ziemlich weit verbreitet in den Staaten, wobei sich das hauptsächlich auf Bierläden beschränkt. Man kann hier problemlos Erdinger, Paulaner, Weihenstaphaner, und einige andere Weizen finden. Was ich hier allerdings fast nie finde ist Kristall- oder Dunkelweizen.
Hefeweizens are actually really popular in the microbrewing scene here in the US. I’ve had more hefes than I can count and I will say it’s one of my favorites.
Here in California, there are plenty of Hefeweizens available at craft breweries, bars, and even grocery stores. I actually see Paulaner's Hefeweizen everywhere!
My house beer is a crab-apple hefe. Hefeweizen's are very much loved in the N.America craft brew circles, maybe not so much as the lagers, pales, porters and stouts, but still a good selection available. There just isn't a better "lawn-mower" beer. Crisp carbonation, acidic wheat, creamy yeast, full head. Just clears the throat and goes down like water. Love it, but so easy to drink too much.
03:23 “One of the reasons that both American lite lager and American lager have been so successful is that they don’t have a lot in the way of identifiable flavours going on.” Meaning they don’t taste of anything. They don’t even taste like beer.
@@greenmachine5600 Well, there are a lot of people who would also claim that title, for example the Germans, Belgians, Czechs, Austrians, Danes, this list could go on for quite a while!! But the beer that you like the best is always the best beer in the world for you 😊
The English Bitter is my favorite style of beer. It’s a shame you cant get much of it across the pond in America. Since it’s traditionally served on Cask, its less common in America. The beers on cask in America seem to be mostly fruity or lactose IPA’s. Timothy Taylor’s Landlord might be one of the best English Bitters!
As a fan of craft beers who has slacked off on my brewed education - my mind is completely blown. I forgot to take notes. Would have loved to taste each style too.
This is awesome y’all! It took me two days to watch it and actually absorb all the info, but I genuinely learned a lot about beer. There was more than a handful of styles that I have never heard of or seen before. Thank y’all for making this video.
Wired editor to sound guy: "We need you to scrounge up music for a beer video." Guy: "Ok, how long?" Editor: "One hour..." Guy: "An hour?" Editor: "...and eight minutes."
Scottish professional brewer here - the difference between Light, Heavy, and Export are huge. Colour, flavour, hop additions. A Light or 60 Bob tends to be relatively pale, it could be compared to an English Mild and just like its English counterpart can be relatively more highly hopped than the name suggests. Heavy, 80 Bob, will be more malty, ruby or dark brown in colour, gently hopped compared to a Light. Export is an amped up Heavy more hops and stronger to survive export.
Tried to count how many of these styles I actually tasted, but gave up 1/3 into the video :D The video reminded me of my last pre-lockdown trip to Germany, where I tried both Alt and Koelsch, and I agree - the approach to serving them as a never-ending stream of small glasses is quite dangerous haha
This is awesome ! The 1hr length gave me pause…who can talk about beer for 1hrs? I’m not a big drinker(of beer) and I found this presentation so informative and interesting! Motivates me to drink (find ) beers outside of the typical 3 beers that I drink at my favorite sports bar(Guinness, Corona and Stella)
Just one thing on "Pils" and the Czech Republic, Pilsen is a town in the Czech Republic and for centuries the town was within the holy roman empire of german nation and then the Austro-Hungarian Empire also Pilsen had a quite sizeable german minority so they usage of a german word for a czech beer isn't that strange as one might think because Pilsen as a part of bohemia was part of a mainly german ruled country for centuries.
"German-ruled" is a weird way to put it. HRE was not a country, it was a supranational entity (sort of a medieval version of the present-day EU) and Czechia/Bohemia was part of it as a de-facto independent kingdom. Czech and German were both official languages in Czechia so using German language versions of Czech brands makes, indeed, perfect sense. Especially since Pilsner Urquell is easier to read and pronounce for English speakers than Plzeňský Prazdroj.
I find it curious that the Doppel Bock is the most drank here in Mexico during winter, as we have the "Nochebuena" which is only produced during December
Small correction on Altbier It's the local beer of the lower rhine area. So not only Düsseldorf but also Krefeld, Mönchengladbach and even small villages like Korschenbroich and Issum are well known for their Alt. For international travellers of course Düsseldorf is the most likely place to find it. Altbier is often served in quarter liter glasses and the system of consumption is the same as it is in Cologne.
Great video! 56:17 The 'Trappist Single is normally called a 'blonde beer' (blond bier / blonde Trappist, in Dutch) and are not uncommon in The Netherlands and Belgium. Some you can just get the supermarket.
I swear, people have watched TV shows and feature length films for generations. Listened to symphonies and watched plays for centuries. They did this without the ability to pause, rewind, or fast forward. We have reached the point where our attention-spans are too short to watch an hour long video even when we can stop it. Come back to it later, watch parts more than once and skip over parts. The main criticism of this video seems to be that there are no timestamps. Why do we need them?
You'll make a lot of casual beer drinking Belgians happy by mentioning Duvel and the Trappist beers... but the real Belgian crown beers are indeed the Lambics and derivatives. They are so underrated in our own country, it's unbelievable.
I appreciate there are many styles of beer and people can find what they like and drink accordingly. You don't have to be handcuffed to one style of beer with so many options. I can drink to that!
Weizenbock is my favorite of the bock family but it could go into the wheat family also as an amped-up hefeweizen. Thank you for this video, I learned a great deal!
This video is Amazing, here in Tijuana I get to go to a lot of tap rooms and everytime has some new beer style, I've tasted so many that I couldn't even tell what was the special thing with each one, thank you for this!
Is it just me or was the recently emerging sour stout style not even covered here? It really is like he says, there are so many new substyles and trends emerging all the time.
I have to applaud Wired for picking an articulate, educated, reasonable individual to explain a HUGE variety of beer styles both accurately and in a way that does not insult his audience if that audience actual knows and/or brews beer. Seriously...well done!
And the fact he coverdd Dark Mild seperately...my personal favorite, is icing on the cake.
Even if he.......does talk.....just like......Christopher Walken....
@@michaelkrenzer3296 And Red ale my favourite non black ale style. Mid ales all the way.
Lies again? Spank Bang USD SGD
AGREED! 👍
If you think this is long, just imagine the 8+ hours of filming it took to get all of it out! Definitely don't envy whoever had to go through and edit it all together. It was an absolute blast to shoot though, and I have to say, after talking about beer for that long without getting to enjoy one, that first post-shoot beer was mighty tasty!
Nice job dude. 👊
Oh hey it’s the guy
Thanks for putting it all on film! You really should have a beer in hand when talking about styles though.
Thanks so much for this video and putting all the time in! It inspires me to want to discover beers and develop a taste. I haven't had luck finding a beer I liked before, but I didn't know how much was out there.
I'm with you that American Pale Ales rock!
TIMESTAMPS FOR THE FIRST 30 MINUTES, i got bored and don't want to finish it lol. maybe later....
1:26 MALTY LAGERS
3:43 PALE, AMBER, DARK
5:11 CREAM ALE
5:44 MALTY EURO LAGERS
6:07 MUNICH HELLES
6:49 KELLERBIER
7:11 MARZEN & FESTBIER
8:32 VIENNA LAGER
9:12 MUNICH DUNKEL
10:10 SHWARZBIER
10:33 CZECH MALTY LAGERS
11:03 BOCK BEERS
11:53 DUNKELS BOCK
12:03 HELLES BOCK
12:35 DOPPELBOCK
13:09 EISBOCK
13:58 HOPPY LAGERS
14:17 CZECH PREMIUM PALE LAGER
15:52 CZECH PALE LAGER
16:05 GERMAN PILS
17:08 GERMAN LEICHTBIER
17:18 GERMAN HELLES EXPORTBIER
17:38 KOLSCH
19:06 PRE-PROHIBITION LAGER
22:16 NON-ROASTY MALTY ALES
22:40 DARK MILD
23:02 BRITISH BROWN ALE
23:15 LONDON BROWN ALE
23:25 ENGLISH BARLEYWINE
23:56 BRITISH STRONG ALE
24:18 OLD ALE
24:54 SCOTTISH LIGHT, HEAVY AND EXPORT
25:39 WEE HEAVY
26:20 IRISH RED ALE
26:51 AMERICAN MALTY ALES
27:01 AMERICAN BLONDE ALE
27:18 AMERICAN WHEAT BEER
27:57 AMERICAN BROWN ALE
28:31 WHEATWINE
28:54 BELGIAN PALE ALE
29:19 BIERE DE GARDE
29:36 HISTORICAL MALTY STYLES
29:51 SAHTI
Joseph Wasden dude, I don’t see your comment. How’s about commenting it right here?
Thanks!
No stout or porter?
THANK YOU SO MUCH
@@g0801215 30:25
He should have had to drink a version of each beer listed. That would have really amped up the fun factor.
True, but my guy would be slurring words after 10 lmao
Greedy
He would've be dead!
Oh but it would of been fun to watch
@@AlbPerNil some ppl can put it down i mean i did finish a heineken 5 l in one day its all about pace but a whole one after each i mena ur tlakin chuggin ther thne ppl complain oh hes not enjpoying lol
Who'd of thought Wired would put out one of the most comprehensive, if not THE best beer style videos on YT. Absolutely killed it.
God I love beer. I’m not a big drinker outside of beer, there’s just something about beer that amazes me. I’m not drinking beer to get drunk, I drink beer for the beer. The taste, the history, the different varieties, crazy. Nothin like a cold beer at the end of the day, especially if you can really fully enjoy it and know exactly what you’re sipping on.
Kudos to the person in charged of listening to everything he said & looking up stock footage for them.
Yeah, that editing probably took hours and hours!
No stock footage of a coolship I guess...
It took me 7 years of being sceptical to beer for me to realize that the reason it tasted bad was because the supermarket only sells the ones I dislike. After I found ale and the fresh taste of draft beer I fell in love with this drink.
Me after I discovered German beer
I can't immagine that experience. As a czech, the beer is the commodity with the most variety in the whole supermarket. Like you can usually pick one of ten different types of cheese, but more than twenty different types and brands of beer (in a small shop).
Yup. My favorite beers are the ones I brew myself.
high quality American Amber Ale and German Pils beers are superb
I had the same exact experience with wine
Whoa, they searched and used ALL the Brewery Stock Footage.
Another stock spotter....
@@andyq9669 Another stock spotter spotter.
U need a hobby
i knew it
I wonder how much they paid for that.
the mere fact that you need 69 minutes to name and shortly describe all the types of beer means that the world is a nice place to explore
Nice.
Noice
And there are more styles
I’ll drink to that 🍻
Thanks for having us talk about beer styles with you!
Really cool!
I didn't see anything about stouts.
@@shaunagustavus1317 they had a section for stouts right after the porters
You are not pronouncing dunkel correctly here. I thought is was an educational group. You need to know the correct way of how to say these words. Just put it into any translation software and here how it is pronounced.
Just saw this gem in my feed. And I'm really pleasantly surprised by your great way of describing Kölsch as more than a drink.
The thing you mentiont with how easy it is to drink is so true. Normaly when I'm out with my friends we have a couple of cold ones, play a little Schoken and be out to 3 or 4 in the moring without even realising it. And Kölsch is a part of it.
Since Kölsch is also the name of our lokal dialect, we like to say "Kölsch is the only language you can drink". So Kölsch for us is s feeling, a way of live, a language, a beer, a part of our culture.
And yes. If you ever get the chance to come to Cologne try to seek out a Brauhaus, but also at least one of the many many many Kneipen. Smaler Pup style locations where you can meet locals and find friend for the evening.
As an Irishman I’m happy to see stout being described as light. Guinness is a session beer here, for those that enjoy it
Yh, I don't know why people have this thought it's going to be strong and be super heavy. As you said, a great session beer, perhaps my favourite thing on draft
Honestly I prefer a red ale as an irish session beer over Guinness, but both do the job.
Glad I didn't let you down! Guinness definitely sits squarely as a session beer in my mind.
Think I once managed 15 pints a session haha
A pint of plains your only man.
Just a note: The second word in "Pilsner Urquell" isn't pronounced in a French way (like "urkell"), but more like "Oor-kwell". "Quell", or "Quelle" (with an additional e - pronounced like the one before - at the end) is a German word for source/spring/well. "Urquell" means something like "ancient source."
To put an even finer point on it: “qu”would be “kv” so Quell would be “kvell.”
That's great to know. Thank you !
And it taste like shite.
All pilsners taste like shite tho
@@magacop5180 yo, tell your mom I said whaddup
Ah. The quarantine algorithm figured out I'm an alcoholic.
Felt this.
Same bro
Only took a year to figure that out in regards to me. Lol
I prefer the word "Unquenchable".
I'm only 13 so uh not yet?
This dude is having a really hard time not saying that American lager beers are weak sauce
aw, that's cute!
Eh, beers beer🤷♀️
American lagers are garbage
There is a reason why there cheap .... there just meant to get you drunk or a lot of people drunk. As bad as they are they are far more profitable then some mom and pop brewery in Germany who makes a 10X better beer.
@@fuxxu7903 coors light is not beer
It might too late but, timestamps for each "style" heading would've been nice in the description, as this video will serve as a reference to a lot of viewers. Being able to click something like "25:00" for X beer category, would've been great.
Why don't you do it?
@@normalguy7898 Because they could directly add it into the video time bar, a new function. Much more convenient then a comment.
@@lennartherrmann3057 But you WANT to do it. You reeeeally wanna do it. Come on, do it! DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN!
@@sugarfish 00:00 Beer Video
Yes and a nice chart as a graphic throughout the video keeping track of all of this would have been a nice addition as well.
If i'm ever at the same bar as him, i'll have what he's having
The dude is prolly drinkni lambics that drain that wallet empty if u don't get paid to drink them.
I thought this was excellent! I appreciate how there was not a lot of judgement about which beers were crap and which were amazing. Enjoy your beer, Cheers!
Very comprehensive! One of the reasons I love beer so much is how many varied styles there are, and how each style has its own history associated with it. As much as the world sucks these days, it sure is nice to be living in a beer Renaissance.
Yep crazy thing is that there’s many more than this as well. This is a bit more American craft focused, there’s many more international styles mentioned.
@@Orielparadise I feel he skipped over the Irish red ale and mild ale a bit too fast
Lived in both Belgium and Germany in the late 1980’s and mid 1990’s. I was very impressed with the wide variety of beers in Belgium but settled on the Trappist beer as my favorites. Loved German Swartzbier like Kostritzer and the Hefeweizens.
Today in USA, the explosion of microbreweries has made beer drinking a true pleasure.
Very true
Hefeweizen ist Scheiße
And yet the 80s were a dark age for Belgian beer. You’d be mind-blown today!
@@arthursimsa9005 And Irish beer.
Unfortunately these days if I drink beer my gut swells so much I can put a beer on it but I gotta agree sometimes beers just too good to pass up
When you say "popular" what you mean is "inexpensive and mass-produced". The iron law of the market is that cheap will outsell good. Iberico Ham is the best ham in the world, but at $4,500 for a leg, it's beyond the means of the mass market.
Aaron Long here in Spain is around 150€
If it's mass-produced, surely somewhere along the line it became so popular they made it so they could produce it quicker. Although I don't particularly think some of the American pales are the best but I can appreciate it's easy to drink for people who may not regularly go out and try newer things and they're comfortable just driving the same thing all of the time.
@@jacobh01 >people who may not regularly go out and try newer things and they're comfortable just driving the same thing all of the time
I feel sorry for them. Welp, more great beer for me.
@@RCRDC_handlesarepoopoo more great beer for all of us. I always make an effort to try new stuff at the local, I think it makes the experience more enjoyable and is never the same
I hear SPAM is quite popular
I drink beers, I talk beers. If I sat down with this gentleman, all I could do would be listen. I thought I knew what I was drinking..... I’ve learned a lot.
took me 9 minutes to realize i went to high school with this guy XD
This is one of the best videos I've seen. Kudos to the creators for putting this much effort into going into such detail and really taking the time to explain each one enough.
Altbier is not only found in Düsseldorf, but in the whole Lower Rhineland and Westphalia. Although Düsseldorf has a large amount of high quality Alt breweries, you should not exclusively look there for a good Alt.
Especially the cities of Krefeld, Mönchengladbach and Münster have great Alts.
The best Alt (Bolten Ur-Alt) is brewed in a small village named Korschenbroich, which also prooves that an Alt doesn't need to be hoppy when you have softer water available.
I think he didn’t mention the Reinheitsgebot (literally "purity order") which is a law limiting the ingredients in beer in Germany. The best known version of the law was adopted in Bavaria in 1516. The basic law now declares that only malted grains, hops, water and yeast are permitted in beer brewing. No extras like fruits etc are allowed.
To add onto this, obviously beers can still be mixed with other ingredients in germany, but they can't be labeled as 'beer' anymore. It will most likely say something like 'Biermischgetränk' (mixed beer drink)
Stagnation isn't good. I prefer American craft beer
Didn't that law get abolished so they could keep up with the American craft beer industry?
@@COMMANDandConquer199 NO, it's still law here in Germany. And as for keeping up with the American craft beer industry, I would say that it's the other way round, the American craft beer industry is still trying to catch up with 400+ years of German beer brewing tradition :) But seriously, there's a significant craft beer industry here in Germany as well as in almost every European country and Australia etc. My personal estimate is that Belgium is ahead in terms of interesting new beers.
@@martinstent5339 Rheinheitsgebot is not a law. the breweries just follow it out of tradition. It's not a currently enacted law. They can violate it at any time. They just choose not to.
1:05:14 Cool that you included Grodziskie. It is really unique and interesting style
One other explanation for Bockbier in Germany is that "Es tritt wie ein Bock" (it kicks like a buck) when drinking it. Because of the higher alcohol amount and the very unique taste
Great video, the pictures to show the different beers are very accurate!
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It was invented in the city of Einbeck. Ein also means a so people thought the it to be a Beck/Bock.
As a german, the only video I would click on faster would be a video about sausage
ich bin Deutscher auch! ;) Wo kommst du her in Deutschland Flo Zim? ich komm aus Sachsen (Dresden
Best have a Bratwurst & Franziskaner while watching.
I agree about the brown ales. Super underrated, wish they were more common.
I love brown ales!
I am impressed with the research and professionalism that was put into the creation of this video!
I don't even drink but this is fascinating.
At least drink a non alcoholic craft brew for fucks sake.
You should, Coffee and Beer are one of the best things in this world that represents cuture other than cuisine in general. To be healthy make it a part of you daily diet, just one beer a day during meals will be fine and health beneficial. Bout time brother!!
@@csanton3946 alcohol is never "health beneficial".
@@bluu_ice6554 chill tf out Linda
if you ever want to, you should give beer a try. It's a very distinct taste depending on the beer type, but the more you drink it, the more you enjoy it. Just please be responsible
Fruit lambics are my favorite style of beer. I wish American breweries would develop an American style similar to lambics. I know they can’t call it a “lambic” but something similar has the potential to be the next big style
I think Sante Adarious did exactly what you describe with Don't Be So Gloomy.
American wild ale probably the closet you’ll get
I think Allagash makes one. There are so many breweries in America now there's every kind of beer you can imagine and then some. When I lived in Raleigh there were a couple places that had over 100 taps that would get changed constantly.
Agreed on cream ale being more like lager seeing as how you are supposed to use yeast that ferments clean and doesnt leave much if any yeast flavor in the finished beer. I just put a 5 gallon batch in the fermenter ready to add the vanilla soon in secondary and then very aged with a few vanilla beans in there
At 4:08 the person is an Indian Bengali bodybuilder Manohar Aich. At 4'11", he was shortest Mr Universe.
7:14 glad i could find Marzen through the transcript, having the video transcript available (and a search within the transcript) is awesome!
As a European used to the "German Lager" being the *standard beer*. Drinking an "American Lager" (bud light / Miller) are some of the blandest tasting experiences in my life. How you like it is beyond me. I'd much rather have some water.
I don't drink those, but American craft beer is the best.
As a german there is nothing more disgusting then bud light... And Americans have the audacity to call our beer pisswater... Like wtf
@@greenmachine5600 Stop spamming this crap.
I don’t mind some of them like Coors as much which do have a refreshing quality to them but Bud Light was truly awful.
Märzen überalles
He never mentioned (specifically) my favorite category: “sour” beers. I understand that they may fall into the “Fruity and/or Spicy Ales” but was kind of surprised they were never explicitly mentioned!
Ha Ha, not a fan of sour beer, for me it means poor sanitation at the end of the brew day. =)
@@oldschoolman1444 or poor temp control
@@oldschoolman1444 Well, the actual sours are deliberately sour by design. Not really a fan but at least it's a thing. What you're referring to are the """"sour"""" beers with as many quote marks as possible.
He covers them at 57:38 and touches on other wild beers at 1:06:33.
@@chrisluth4427 true, specially at 1:06:00 but still, that style deserves much more than just a footnote at the end.
Great video - love the longer format. Tired of short TH-cam videos that barely scratch the surface.
Im just impressed of how much knowledge he shared in just one hour without being boring or massive. Great video!!
The Kölsch glasses are called "Stange". And the beer is not allowed to be brewed outside of Köln for then it cant be a Kölsch.
enough talking .... let's have a Kölsch tonight .... or two ... or three ...
Or eleven. Just to stay in tradition :)
If you are in Czech Republic, I recommend you to get yourself a Pilsner, Radegast or Kozel. The best beers are made in the Czech Republic and those three listed are really the top.
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Quite interesting for me as a German. Really cool Video!
And thank you for including the "Hefeweizen" or just "Weizen" in your list. I have the feeling it is not very well known in the US but back here in Germany next to the Helles and the Pils it is very very common and the taste of this beer is completely different and hard to describe. Even when you are sick of Helles as a German, a "Weizen" still fits in ;)
I absolutely love a good Hefeweizen! It’s hard to find breweries out here that do it justice.
Hefeweizen ist ziemlich weit verbreitet in den Staaten, wobei sich das hauptsächlich auf Bierläden beschränkt. Man kann hier problemlos Erdinger, Paulaner, Weihenstaphaner, und einige andere Weizen finden. Was ich hier allerdings fast nie finde ist Kristall- oder Dunkelweizen.
Hefeweizens are actually really popular in the microbrewing scene here in the US. I’ve had more hefes than I can count and I will say it’s one of my favorites.
Here in California, there are plenty of Hefeweizens available at craft breweries, bars, and even grocery stores. I actually see Paulaner's Hefeweizen everywhere!
My house beer is a crab-apple hefe. Hefeweizen's are very much loved in the N.America craft brew circles, maybe not so much as the lagers, pales, porters and stouts, but still a good selection available. There just isn't a better "lawn-mower" beer. Crisp carbonation, acidic wheat, creamy yeast, full head. Just clears the throat and goes down like water. Love it, but so easy to drink too much.
Really enjoyed this, didn't think I would sit for the whole video in one sitting, but it was very engaging! Thanks Wired!
32:46 It is Riga, the capital of Latvia, not Sweeden.
I thought it was Lithuania
"I don't know about you guys but all this talk about beer is making me thirsty" bro I cracked one open at the 20 minute mark.
Luckily already had one open at the start! :D
I cracked one open before i hit play! Haha
Do I dare to watch this? It’s 11:30
yup made it about 1/2 way....then went to the beer fridge
I was two drinks in before I clicked on the video
03:23 “One of the reasons that both American lite lager and American lager have been so successful is that they don’t have a lot in the way of identifiable flavours going on.” Meaning they don’t taste of anything. They don’t even taste like beer.
So water pretty much is what I got 😂
When they taste like anything, they taste like corn, sometimes wheat
Credit to him that he admitted it. Most Americans will insist "American" is synonymous with good and they invented every beer style in the world.
American craft beer really is the best in the world though
@@greenmachine5600 Well, there are a lot of people who would also claim that title, for example the Germans, Belgians, Czechs, Austrians, Danes, this list could go on for quite a while!! But the beer that you like the best is always the best beer in the world for you 😊
Homebrewer here, was looking for some inspiration. I must have written down 30 different ideas for my next brew. Thanks Pat! Cheers!
The English Bitter is my favorite style of beer. It’s a shame you cant get much of it across the pond in America. Since it’s traditionally served on Cask, its less common in America. The beers on cask in America seem to be mostly fruity or lactose IPA’s. Timothy Taylor’s Landlord might be one of the best English Bitters!
Timothy Taylor’s Landlord is truly awesome.
Abbott Ale is heaven... but hard to find in the 'States. (and possibly technically not an english bitter... maybe an ESB? I forget)
@@fhqwhgads1670 Abbott's is great, but my all time favourite is Marston's Pedigree mmmmm!
As a fan of craft beers who has slacked off on my brewed education - my mind is completely blown. I forgot to take notes. Would have loved to taste each style too.
Q: What was the name of the band asking "where is the love?"
A: 48:43
Wish he listed an example for each type of beer.
for those who want to pronounce "Urquell" correctly: it's something along the lines of "oor-kwell" (the 'oo' pronounced as in the noun 'moor')
I was hoping or someone to correct him on this.
@@Titamiva depending dialectically, could also be pronounced "oor-kvell"
Definitely kvell.
germans use w as others use v. Because germans use v as f. They also have two letters for the same sound y and ü.
This is awesome y’all! It took me two days to watch it and actually absorb all the info, but I genuinely learned a lot about beer. There was more than a handful of styles that I have never heard of or seen before. Thank y’all for making this video.
Omg.... this video is perfect. I'm studying to become a brew master and this is a great little refresher on styles.
Wired editor to sound guy: "We need you to scrounge up music for a beer video." Guy: "Ok, how long?" Editor: "One hour..." Guy: "An hour?" Editor: "...and eight minutes."
Closer to 69 minutes
Scottish professional brewer here - the difference between Light, Heavy, and Export are huge. Colour, flavour, hop additions. A Light or 60 Bob tends to be relatively pale, it could be compared to an English Mild and just like its English counterpart can be relatively more highly hopped than the name suggests. Heavy, 80 Bob, will be more malty, ruby or dark brown in colour, gently hopped compared to a Light. Export is an amped up Heavy more hops and stronger to survive export.
Love me an 80 shilling
Who knew that a video about beer could get so philosophical and deep and be a commentary on todays society and peoples choices
I like to think I'm a beer nerd, then I run into guys like this and realize I still have quite a ways to go. Cheers!
Great video dude, props for having the patience to make this video, appreciated!
This is going to be my new answer when people say "I don't like any beer" *shows an hour-long video of every beer type.
...love the Saison. What a nice lager. Great video. the presenter was almost like a university professor. Very informative.
My German mother inlaw yelled at me when I attempted to pour a Weissbier into the wrong glass!
It better be that way
In Germany we call this a : "Ehrenfrau"
@@nunoluisduck8570 jo und Weißbier ist okay
Yup. Go to Probst! Pub & its relatives in Seattle area to be further taught.
Thanks, Eric Stoltz! Very informative and fun to watch.
Tried to count how many of these styles I actually tasted, but gave up 1/3 into the video :D
The video reminded me of my last pre-lockdown trip to Germany, where I tried both Alt and Koelsch, and I agree - the approach to serving them as a never-ending stream of small glasses is quite dangerous haha
This is awesome ! The 1hr length gave me pause…who can talk about beer for 1hrs? I’m not a big drinker(of beer) and I found this presentation so informative and interesting! Motivates me to drink (find ) beers outside of the typical 3 beers that I drink at my favorite sports bar(Guinness, Corona and Stella)
I highly reccommend trying to find some trappist beers, personally i dont care for dubbel but quads are among my favourite type.
This guy can talk about beer for hours.
It's literally his job.
Onky one hour, not four
Thank you for taking the time. This was really interesting.
Just one thing on "Pils" and the Czech Republic, Pilsen is a town in the Czech Republic and for centuries the town was within the holy roman empire of german nation and then the Austro-Hungarian Empire also Pilsen had a quite sizeable german minority so they usage of a german word for a czech beer isn't that strange as one might think because Pilsen as a part of bohemia was part of a mainly german ruled country for centuries.
"German-ruled" is a weird way to put it. HRE was not a country, it was a supranational entity (sort of a medieval version of the present-day EU) and Czechia/Bohemia was part of it as a de-facto independent kingdom. Czech and German were both official languages in Czechia so using German language versions of Czech brands makes, indeed, perfect sense. Especially since Pilsner Urquell is easier to read and pronounce for English speakers than Plzeňský Prazdroj.
This is one of the most informative pieces of data about beer on the Internet, very well done.
I find it curious that the Doppel Bock is the most drank here in Mexico during winter, as we have the "Nochebuena" which is only produced during December
Not a doppel bock, a Dunkles Bock to say the least
Somebody import that Nochebuena here in the states!
Small correction on Altbier
It's the local beer of the lower rhine area. So not only Düsseldorf but also Krefeld, Mönchengladbach and even small villages like Korschenbroich and Issum are well known for their Alt.
For international travellers of course Düsseldorf is the most likely place to find it.
Altbier is often served in quarter liter glasses and the system of consumption is the same as it is in Cologne.
Man the things i watch in the dead of night are so freakin random
I agree 100 % with you on the Irish Stout! I have brewed three batches (so far...) of it and it is number one!
Great video!
56:17 The 'Trappist Single is normally called a 'blonde beer' (blond bier / blonde Trappist, in Dutch) and are not uncommon in The Netherlands and Belgium. Some you can just get the supermarket.
Thanks for this! A perfect guide for deciding what to brew next.
That’s awesome that the video is so thorough but add timestamps please 🙏
This is the type of video that makes me crack open a cold one every time!
Does WIRED know that they can put marks in the progress bar? It is so annoying that they did not even put time codes in the description.
Did it.
Rene how about just shut up and watch the entire video. Learn something dingus.
I swear, people have watched TV shows and feature length films for generations. Listened to symphonies and watched plays for centuries. They did this without the ability to pause, rewind, or fast forward. We have reached the point where our attention-spans are too short to watch an hour long video even when we can stop it. Come back to it later, watch parts more than once and skip over parts.
The main criticism of this video seems to be that there are no timestamps. Why do we need them?
I honestly don’t understand can someone please explain?
This video was edited and formatted by an idiot so I am not surprised.
I watched this whole piece uninterrupted to the end. Just sucked me in. Thank you.
You'll make a lot of casual beer drinking Belgians happy by mentioning Duvel and the Trappist beers... but the real Belgian crown beers are indeed the Lambics and derivatives. They are so underrated in our own country, it's unbelievable.
GREAT JOB! FINALLY GOT TO SIT THROUGH IT, LOVE IT. I LEARNED ALOT! THANKS PAT!
I appreciate there are many styles of beer and people can find what they like and drink accordingly. You don't have to be handcuffed to one style of beer with so many options. I can drink to that!
Every Style of Beer Explained, AKA 68 minutes to fall in love with Pat Fahey. Oh one is always so charming doing things they love religiously.
"crushable is like.. . drinkable but better" - sooooo funnyyyy
Extremely happy you included Duvel and trappist beers!
I totally agree about the American Brown Ale comment. So good, drinkable, but not boring.
17:38 Umlauts aren't decorational. It is Kölsch, not Kolsch.
found Ze German
the ammount of history and beer knowlege is INSANE
I wish american breweries would watch this video. Im tired of walking into a place and seeing 23 IPAs 1 blonde ale , 2 stouts and a sour
Weizenbock is my favorite of the bock family but it could go into the wheat family also as an amped-up hefeweizen. Thank you for this video, I learned a great deal!
Not gonna lie im afternoon drinking because of this video
Palm (Belgian Pale Ale) is fantastic, over here in the Netherlands it's sold almost everywhere, good stuff :)
belgian and german beer all the way baby👌
Chimay Blue, Rochefort 10, Orval, Weihenstephaner, Schneider-Weisse..
I feel sorry for people who "enjoy" Light lagers and don't know any better.
Yes!
RCRDC X there is much better beer than Weihenstephaner
(I’m studying brewing. In Weihenstephan)
Estonian, my friends. As good as these, and often a bit odd.
American all the way
This video is Amazing, here in Tijuana I get to go to a lot of tap rooms and everytime has some new beer style, I've tasted so many that I couldn't even tell what was the special thing with each one, thank you for this!
Creek xD It is written as "Kriek", meaning cherry :D
This was excellent. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. Great history along with learning lesson
Is it just me or was the recently emerging sour stout style not even covered here? It really is like he says, there are so many new substyles and trends emerging all the time.
a 1 hour video explaining beer? lets gooo