The Shocking Reality Of German Beer

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I think one important thing about the lower drinking age in Germany is that, when you have your first drinking experience, you still live at home with your parents (as opposed to passing out in some dorm). That means you are still somewhat under the supervision of your parents. When I went to my first party with lots of drinking and came home in the morning feeling horrible, my dad just looked at me and said "so, have we learned anything tonight?" He did not scold me, we talked about it, he said "ok, so now you know that it sucks to be drunk, be more careful next time". When I moved out, alcohol was no longer that "wow, I can finally buy that and drink as much as I want!" thing, I knew how much I could handle and passing out drunk was not "cool", it was embarrassing.

If you want to buy Beer, better go to a Getränkemarkt. They have huge collections, mostly local with small breweries. In a supermarket you find the mainstream beers from big breweries.

After all these german beers You should understand why Germans think the "scandal" around bud light isn't Dilan Mulvany as a promoter, its calling bud light a beer 😋

The most incredible thing to point out about beer is how many completely different flavors can be created with those three very basic ingredients.

“1 1/2 beer and you‘re full“ is a sentence you will never hear in Germany 😂

We Germans often argue about who makes the best beer and where it's from, but in my personal experience the best beer is always the local one no matter where you are. The only better beer is free beer :) (ok I lied, Franconian beer is the best, Huppendorfer Zwickl specifically)

You can't compare Weizen, Helles and "Schwarzbier". It's like comparing spare ribs, steak and turkey.

in 11th grade we had to do projects and my group brewed beer. we were supervised by a biology teacher and partnered with a local brewer, divided into several smaller groups and each brewed a different type of beer. we taste tested this beer in school as a class, with our teacher. cant imagine that happening in any other country

It's the attitude around alcohol. I grew up in Canada to German parents. Liquor was always around the house, never locked up. My parents drank socially, would have some on special occasions and my Dad would have one glass after work almost every day. My Dad played a joke on me once where I thought he was drinking coke on a hot day so I took a sip. It was Rye and coke and was awful to me. Either way, we could have gotten into the liquor but we never really wanted to. When I hit my late teens, I went to the bars, drank with my friends. We'd go to parties on occasion and drink a bit much. Now our neighbours had the traditional North American attitude where they locked up their booze. The first time they left their kids at home alone, the kids broke into the liquor cabinet to have the "forbidden" stuff. If you hold it up as some sort of mystical special thing, kids are going to want to try it. just my opinion.

The Czech Republic took part in german culture under the name Böhmen (Bohemia). Pilsen (Plzeň) is the 2nd town to be the namesake for a type of beer (Pilsner), which dominates the german market. The first town was Einbeck (Bock).

These are mostly bigger brands. A lot of the better beers are regional or smaller breweries. The thing that struck me about beer when I came to Germany, is that if you generally like beer you can mostly buy just about anything and get something enjoyable. Definitely not the case where I come from in California.

In the city of Bamberg, breweries still produce rauchbier (smoked bier), which was ubiquitous throughout Germany before the 1800s. The flavor is somewhat like drinking a smoked ham.

Since Berliner Weisse is so sour, it is traditionally drunk with a shot of syrup (raspberrry or woodruff). It originated as a 19th century attempt of a Berlin brewery to copy Bavarian wheat beer and was not very successful at that.

The most striking point for me is: You got 10 random bottles, and you enjoyed almost all of them. THAT is the beer richness in Germany. And the one that you didn't like, you probably didn't know that it is to be drunk with a syrup (Berliner Weisse). Like a summer lemonade drink. I wouldn't say that we necessarily brew "the best" beer, as this is highly subjective and to individual taste. There are great brewers pretty much everywhere that make good stuff. A lot of beers in germany are just run-of-the-mill standard beers that have hardly any typical characteristics but also no significant weaknesses.

"Im missing Kölsch" well thank god, i wouldn't wish Kölsch upon my worst enemy

Three friends go to the bar together. One is from Cologne, one from Dusseldorf and one from Munich. The person from Cologne orders a Kölsch, the person from Düsseldorf orders an Altbier - but the person from Munich orders a sparkling water. The other two ask: “Why are you ordering a soda?” The Munich resident replies: If you two don't drink beer, I won't drink any either.

Berliner Weisse is never served alone, it's always mixed with either berry sirup or woodruff sirup, not meant to be drunken pure.

Nick, what the hell did you do? You can’t drink Berliner Weisse without Syrup (raspberry or sweet woodruff).

The Berliner Weisse is one of a few varieties of beer that naturally contain lactic acid (as part of a slightly different fermantation process). [-->You can also get some "sour beers" around Goslar. It´s...an acquired taste...) Therefore, "Berliner Weisse" is very different from Münchner "Weisse", and on many depictions you can see it depicted as green or red, because traditionally, it is served in summer with a shot of raspberry or woodruff syrup. And that´s actually really nice on a hot day.