How a Brewmaster Created a Sumac Beer People Are Obsessed With - Vendors

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  • Опубликовано: 26 сен 2023
  • Brewmaster Zahra Tabatabai is the founder and owner of Back Home Beer, where she brews beer inspired and influenced by the flavors of her family’s country of Iran and the surrounding region. She achieves this by using ingredients sourced from Iran, like blue salt and sumac.
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  • @eater
    @eater  9 месяцев назад +13

    For more on where to find Back Home Beer, check out: instagram.com/backhomebeer/?hl=en

    • @PetraKann
      @PetraKann 9 месяцев назад

      Free Iran? What does that even mean?
      The revolution in 1979 "it was widely seen as an act against the U.S. and its influence in Iran, including its perceived attempts to undermine the Iranian Revolution and its longstanding support of the shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was overthrown in the same year"
      Check out the interference of the US in Iran, 1953.
      The 28 Mordad coup d'état was a U.S and UK instigated, Iranian army-led overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, on 19 August.
      Without the US/UK backed coup d'etat in 1953 there is no Iranian Revolution in 1979.
      Lets not re-write the History of the region in a Hollywood fashion.
      Fantastic beer

  • @ultimateform8714
    @ultimateform8714 9 месяцев назад +85

    Came for the beer, stayed for the history. Good luck to her and her dreams.

  • @LindsayDaly
    @LindsayDaly 9 месяцев назад +101

    Dang she's super knowledgeable, can't believe it all started from self-teaching and trial and error! Good for her.

    • @teosoderholm96
      @teosoderholm96 9 месяцев назад +2

      shes not lol

    • @douglasthomas8513
      @douglasthomas8513 9 месяцев назад +4

      Heh ya she's fine just dumbed it down. Not a high end brewmaster but a decent homebrewer. And most current craft beer brewers started out self taught making beer in their kitchens or garages. It's a bug and once bit you're not gonna want to do much else 😂

    • @tomypreach
      @tomypreach 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@teosoderholm96very true

  • @bradyb9929
    @bradyb9929 9 месяцев назад +14

    I really respect her educated views of Iran. Would be hard to not recognize the country of your heritage. This is awesome.

  • @hauntedkunefe5070
    @hauntedkunefe5070 9 месяцев назад +83

    Lady, that was super educating. Both on the history of Iran and of course, beer. I sure wanted to try one. Good luck to you, may you sell more beers with each passing day.

  • @D3adToraX
    @D3adToraX 9 месяцев назад +21

    Finally beer from the MIDDLE YEAST!

    • @cz2301
      @cz2301 9 месяцев назад

      hahahaha good one!

  • @Bourbon101LRSD
    @Bourbon101LRSD 9 месяцев назад +17

    Protect this woman at all costs! She’s a visionary.

  • @brianmoody2549
    @brianmoody2549 9 месяцев назад +3

    Keeping tradition alive,doing the job the right way from the heart,will always lead to helping others understand what you’re trying to do,so when you get more beer out there for everyone to enjoy and drink 🍺 and enjoy.

  • @insaneshadow1
    @insaneshadow1 9 месяцев назад +11

    Wonderful video! I've been homebrewing for 8 years at this point, so It's really cool to see someone brew their traditional beer styles! For anyone wondering, she is doing a technique called "kettle souring" Typically boil happens right after mash, but with Lactobacillus it's soured, then boiled once the PH is correct.

  • @Wyntah888
    @Wyntah888 9 месяцев назад +17

    Loving the vendors series!!

  • @nsikanfriday1311
    @nsikanfriday1311 9 месяцев назад +3

    Major shoutout to the production and post-production team. I must say, the sound design is completely brilliant!

  • @antonioM6896
    @antonioM6896 9 месяцев назад +5

    This beer needs to be in every Persian restaurant in the world

  • @RandomMusingsdpecs
    @RandomMusingsdpecs 9 месяцев назад +8

    Really great to see how what might be my favorite beer brewed in NYC get made! Looking forward to exciting new things from Zahra and Back Home

  • @rankang2194
    @rankang2194 9 месяцев назад +13

    Omg I would love to get my hands on that craft beer…I don’t drink but I would definitely have some for my guests that come to my home…looks delicious!

  • @mqasemniksefat4202
    @mqasemniksefat4202 9 месяцев назад +5

    Jeez man! RESPECT! Amazing (more than sad!) to see such fascinating people still fighting for their basic liberty...

  • @straightouttagt8976
    @straightouttagt8976 9 месяцев назад +6

    I love it. From Guyana South America

  • @TheBrokenEclipse
    @TheBrokenEclipse 8 месяцев назад +1

    I really want to taste her beers, they sound so different!
    I really hope one day she can brew beer back home and ship it all over the world

  • @GCLU
    @GCLU 9 месяцев назад +14

    Have tried a few of these. Their sumac gose is different but delicious with a good sour cherry flavor.

  • @GazpachoSoupDuJour
    @GazpachoSoupDuJour 9 месяцев назад +31

    Love it!
    I hope this video increases viability for Back Home Beer so that Zahra can eventually receive funding for a brewhouse of her own.
    Too often marginalized individuals are overlooked for business loans and we end up with similar beers being brewed by similar people just because they're tried and true.
    I don't believe any true fan of craft beer wants a completely stagnant scene. Heck, I'm already experiencing burn out with the supersaturation of IPAs.

    • @avgperson25
      @avgperson25 9 месяцев назад +1

      What an awesome comment!! As a middle eastern living in a far less inviting country, if you said something similar to me IRL, i'd be in tears

    • @buffalojoe78
      @buffalojoe78 9 месяцев назад +2

      Tell me about it! I live in Texas and we have a lot of German, Czech and Polish diaspora here. Houston is also a melting pot of many different cultures. Yet all I see are IPA’s. Double IPA. Imperial IPA’s. Hazy NEIPA’s. I wanna see more Czech Lagers, Hefeweizens, Altbiers, Ethiopian Gesho etc.

    • @rumbatumblajambomambo6241
      @rumbatumblajambomambo6241 5 месяцев назад

      as a German dude, living in Germany: I agree and we have a similar scene issue here in Germany. Luckily Chzech beer is just a train ride away :D @@buffalojoe78

  • @JamesRet
    @JamesRet 9 месяцев назад +6

    This brewer is my hero! I want to drive to New York to get this beer!

  • @Sakja
    @Sakja 9 месяцев назад +16

    I love small brewers. Hard to find their brews though.

    • @juvedeef2301
      @juvedeef2301 9 месяцев назад +4

      Mee too. She will have a webshop soon. Just checked her website. Hope that she will be shipping to Europe. Very interested in the flavours.

  • @dimoolia
    @dimoolia 9 месяцев назад +3

    I remember hearing Zahra on Sporkful. Great guest and top tier series.

  • @AniruddhPatel-rt1ib
    @AniruddhPatel-rt1ib Месяц назад

    Love the story, love the passion, love those old pictures.
    I hope I can try those beers soon.

  • @BradenRowan
    @BradenRowan 6 месяцев назад +1

    Wow I LOVE this beer. I had no idea that this woman was behind it the story she gives us incredible.

  • @Romafood
    @Romafood 9 месяцев назад +1

    Molto bravi, great video

  • @sorooshmoghimi5494
    @sorooshmoghimi5494 8 месяцев назад

    RESPECT!!! OMG she is awesome.

  • @PAVEL--JAKL
    @PAVEL--JAKL 9 месяцев назад +4

    I love beer 🍺

  • @kingcherubix7064
    @kingcherubix7064 9 месяцев назад +13

    Im colombian, and not too into beer but honestly seeing everything that goes into this specific one looks so good, wish i could try some

  • @tomachi21
    @tomachi21 25 дней назад

    Beautiful!

  • @TheDd4477
    @TheDd4477 9 месяцев назад +2

    Next time I drink a beer, I'll appreciate it a bit more 🍺

  • @PhysiqueFuel
    @PhysiqueFuel 9 месяцев назад +5

    I gotta try some 🤘

    • @barrypoontang
      @barrypoontang 9 месяцев назад

      Just get a bud light add some cat piss and a handful of your granny's potpourri that she keeps in the bathroom, hey presto you've made your own.

  • @VinceW187
    @VinceW187 9 месяцев назад

    This is awesome! Wish I could taste it

  • @ForAnkhee
    @ForAnkhee 9 месяцев назад +2

    Everything 🔥🔥🔥. 💗

  • @DarwinsBeerReviews
    @DarwinsBeerReviews 9 месяцев назад

    She knows what she's talking about with beer/brewing!
    Hope Iran one day goes back to the free culture it was before.

  • @Samuelhgflax
    @Samuelhgflax 9 месяцев назад +1

    Posting from Heart of Gold in Astoria - some of the best and most creative beers I've ever had are the Back Homes! I am patiently waiting for BH to be kegged and tapped

  • @rankang2194
    @rankang2194 9 месяцев назад +5

    Would love to have seen Iran when it was a free society for all. Hoping change will come to Iran for good. Freedom for all.

  • @VathSophanin
    @VathSophanin 9 месяцев назад +1

    Good job 👍

  • @livz2laugh
    @livz2laugh 9 месяцев назад +2

    We need to try! Trader Joe’s needs to stock!!!!

  • @samwisegamgee2488
    @samwisegamgee2488 8 месяцев назад

    Man I love America. A mixed pot of cultures bringing this to the world!

  • @gab.lab.martins
    @gab.lab.martins 9 месяцев назад +2

    “When people think about alcohol, they don’t think about the Middle East”
    I think of Sumerian beer and Israeli wine. The vineyards of Israel and Judea that had been cultivated for thousands of years were destroyed in the 700s of the Roman calendar by Arab Muslim colonisers, but there were still Jews and Samaritans growing illegal grapes, and smuggling in wine throughout history. And B"H nowadays there are multiple vineyards again in the Negev, Golan, haGalil.
    Also, there are hieroglyphic mentions of beer in Egypt dating back to the First Kingdom. Again, the industry was only destroyed when the Arabs invaded Egypt, and tried to erase Copts, Nubians, and other indigenous ethnicities of Kemet. It’s uncomfortable for some people, but the Arabian rulers practiced a colonialism as terrible as the Europeans did in the 1500s of the Roman calendar.

  • @yenilopez5260
    @yenilopez5260 8 месяцев назад

    Dope!

  • @ingilizanahtar644
    @ingilizanahtar644 9 месяцев назад +2

    Seküler iranlıları seviyorum, Türkiye den selamlar

  • @hamburglar83
    @hamburglar83 9 месяцев назад +1

    How can i get this in Chicago??

  • @jon553
    @jon553 9 месяцев назад +1

    Where can I get!

  • @pedramcameronhoss4339
    @pedramcameronhoss4339 9 месяцев назад

    A true Shire Zan!

  • @hamburglar83
    @hamburglar83 9 месяцев назад +1

    Never get in the way of a Persian woman! How do i get this into Chicago?

  • @Bala.the.Baldie
    @Bala.the.Baldie 9 месяцев назад

    I really wish Iran goes back to it's original ways like before

  • @MsAngel963
    @MsAngel963 9 месяцев назад +1

    When she mentions wheat, you guys proceded on showing oats instead of the wheat grains 2:07

  • @usr604
    @usr604 9 месяцев назад +1

    Nice work. I hope she gives back to her culture and not only profit off of it.

  • @blythefair8803
    @blythefair8803 7 месяцев назад

    WHERE can I order?

  • @brentbrewer4891
    @brentbrewer4891 9 месяцев назад +1

    How long did it take from mash to canning?

  • @middleearthtroll6183
    @middleearthtroll6183 9 месяцев назад +3

    i'd drink this over bud lite thats for sure

  • @broman113
    @broman113 9 месяцев назад

    is it a day drinking beer??? no.
    its the bar inbetween sipper beer.
    7.9/10

  • @thedeeprot
    @thedeeprot 9 месяцев назад

    🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @eedwardgrey2
    @eedwardgrey2 6 месяцев назад

    The Shannameh Iran's national epic has a rather hilarious chapter where a (pre-Islamic) king bans alcohol after one of his courtiers gets so drunk crows peck his eyes out while he's passed out.
    Then a woman petitions him that her son needs a drink to get it up on his wedding night and he allows it again in moderation.

  • @faisalshahajat2872
    @faisalshahajat2872 5 месяцев назад

    🙂🙂

  • @jackwalker9492
    @jackwalker9492 9 месяцев назад +8

    I would so love to visit Iran. But, I am retired US military and American and the animal regime would lock me up for sure. Such history, the Persian Empire was one of the greatest on earth. Someday, maybe we will have peace and I can visit.

    • @nihil0bstat
      @nihil0bstat 9 месяцев назад

      They hate Americans for a reason there either way, Ami

  • @seannaesseannaes
    @seannaesseannaes 8 месяцев назад

    It would have been nicer to have the label in cuneiform, the language she used is 2000 years newer and they don’t like alcohol!

  • @philipph7911
    @philipph7911 9 месяцев назад +8

    Honestly thats why I love the German „Reinheitsgebot“. Literally only allowing hops, malt, yeast and water. Being able to make top tier bier just like that is truly and art-form.

    • @davevillaire2990
      @davevillaire2990 9 месяцев назад +6

      Under the Reinheitsgebot you couldn't call her beer BEER nor most modern beers since you couldn't introduce CO2 artificially. And the original was barley, hops and water only no added yeast or other grains, spices or fruits. So I don't understand your reference to the Reinheitgebot and this video.

    • @Matzes
      @Matzes 9 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@davevillaire2990yeast was obviously present in beer. But back in thr 1500s people didnt even know about yeast and how it worked so its not in the original text of thr reinheitsgebot. But clearly yeast need to be in there

    • @davevillaire2990
      @davevillaire2990 9 месяцев назад

      @@Matzes I wasn't claiming it wasn't.

    • @davevillaire2990
      @davevillaire2990 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@Matzes Also you didn't explain what it had to do with her video, since she violates the Reinheitsgebot so thoroughly with all the adjuncts that the law forbids.

  • @sunilpatel217
    @sunilpatel217 9 месяцев назад

    🍺🍻😘😘

  • @fritz6130
    @fritz6130 9 месяцев назад +2

    jin jiyan azadi

  • @johnny9402
    @johnny9402 8 месяцев назад

    Not really beer but still looks amazing!

  • @Rakadis
    @Rakadis 9 месяцев назад +14

    For the love of Ægir, the god of brewing, please continue to brew and buy real beer of all styles. If the megacorporation's get their way we will be drinking nothing but watery piss made with whatever can be fermented in to alcohol.

  • @JohnDoe-yu5zm
    @JohnDoe-yu5zm 8 месяцев назад

    6:23 "beautiful, free, open", don't forget highly corrupt, and dissention then as now was punished with extreme prejudice. Now by the Gasht-e Ershad (morality police among others) and back then by SAVAK.

  • @alexje306
    @alexje306 9 месяцев назад

    Women empowered.

  • @buhingkalbaryo
    @buhingkalbaryo 6 месяцев назад

    wow i wish i could try that beer here in my country🤤

  • @iamteddy87
    @iamteddy87 5 месяцев назад

    1:05 man that is not how you open a bag of malt. Alot of times these contract brewing don't let you actually brew. You just give them the recipe and they brew for you.

  • @Badonicus
    @Badonicus 9 месяцев назад +3

    Shes got that up and down tone.....like omg its sooooo sourrrrrr.The hops impart so much of the arooomaaaaaa

  • @oxvendivil442
    @oxvendivil442 9 месяцев назад +1

    The sad thing is that Beer had its origins in the middle east kinda! but because of Islam that went down the drain.

  • @AhmedHussein-sp9tq
    @AhmedHussein-sp9tq 9 месяцев назад +2

    oh please , don’t put rumi’s poetry as a cover on your beer
    he was a sufi and a respected muslim scholar which the west turned him into a joke
    do what you want to do
    but keep religion and religious stuff out of your business

  • @jessegarcia2060
    @jessegarcia2060 6 месяцев назад

    Barely beer makes me break out ..I stay away from any kind of barely beer...Plus to me it taste nasty

  • @axem.8338
    @axem.8338 9 месяцев назад +6

    Isn't alcohol considered haram?

    • @BenanaBoy
      @BenanaBoy 9 месяцев назад +2

      Depends on how you practice Islam and your interpretation of what is/isn't haram. Like one interpretation could be against drunkenness rather than alcohol itself, but just like all religions theres a bunch of different interpretations

    • @barrypoontang
      @barrypoontang 9 месяцев назад +3

      and a women owning a business

    • @augl2702
      @augl2702 9 месяцев назад +11

      That's why she specified "...One day to brew beer in a FREE Iran"

    • @fritz6130
      @fritz6130 9 месяцев назад +3

      Did you listen at all?

    • @SaltedBadly
      @SaltedBadly 9 месяцев назад +4

      Yes it is, but not all of iran are muslims.

  • @fransjosephincomio6473
    @fransjosephincomio6473 9 месяцев назад +2

    First

  • @prashmohansoni
    @prashmohansoni 8 месяцев назад

    But its haram

    • @leorospigg4520
      @leorospigg4520 3 месяца назад

      Maybe but without beer civilization wouldn't have been what we know today

  • @aniishanooreenwoomed1002
    @aniishanooreenwoomed1002 9 месяцев назад

    Muslim be producing beer, damn u zahra💀

  • @ICallBullTV
    @ICallBullTV 9 месяцев назад +3

    Middle East and Alcohol, what a great idea

    • @Qwertyuiop99833
      @Qwertyuiop99833 9 месяцев назад +1

      What do you mean by this?

    • @putumban7738
      @putumban7738 9 месяцев назад +8

      Beer was made in those regions since around 4000 BC

    • @xrry8428
      @xrry8428 9 месяцев назад

      @@Qwertyuiop99833 Haram

  • @maxmeier532
    @maxmeier532 9 месяцев назад +2

    I brew beer to remind myself of the times when my grandad used to get shitfaced.

  • @vracaze
    @vracaze 9 месяцев назад +2

    This is probably meh at best but she just has a story with it so thats why its here

  • @bobfromaccounting93
    @bobfromaccounting93 9 месяцев назад

    Last.

  • @christopherlove6402
    @christopherlove6402 9 месяцев назад +2

    Second

  • @realclassicman
    @realclassicman 3 месяца назад

    Make great beer, history and knowlegde and .. label in arabic? I would never buy!

  • @kokoba5084
    @kokoba5084 9 месяцев назад +1

    متاسفم برات... یه روز باید جواب جدت رو بدی

  • @sem6747
    @sem6747 9 месяцев назад +35

    Ridiculous to let somebody platform their incredibly disingenuous and a-hisorical view on the Shah's Iran. Only a handful of rich people lived the lifestyle that look like a "vogue photoshoot", the rest lived under a heavily repressive authoritarian leader.

    • @Judge_Magister
      @Judge_Magister 9 месяцев назад

      True and now they are “living” under a heavily repressive sharia paria state.

    • @DrCogvet
      @DrCogvet 9 месяцев назад

      So…Iran is less repressive and authoritarian today? Where only the spoiled children of the crooked Mullahs can afford luxury vehicles and clothing…

    • @jujitsujew23
      @jujitsujew23 9 месяцев назад +8

      Because it’s so much better now…oh wait 🙄

    • @flippensweet3
      @flippensweet3 9 месяцев назад

      Right lol i guess that's where culture comes from because all poor people have money for is survival.

    • @nihil0bstat
      @nihil0bstat 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@jujitsujew23 Thank you, USA for deposing of the Shah

  • @jasoncates2944
    @jasoncates2944 9 месяцев назад +7

    It is sad to think of the erosion of progress that religion causes. The muslim peoples had some of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers. They created algebra and they named the stars. They were the center of technology and education and people of different countries would come to share in their knowledge and enlightenment. And then they closed the door on all of that and cast themselves backwards into the bonds and slavery of religion. I hope those wonderful people get their freedom back someday.

    • @rosameltrozo5889
      @rosameltrozo5889 9 месяцев назад

      Interestingly enough that was more the continuation of the Persian tradition, it was once that Islam took center stage that the doors closed

  • @jmyd83
    @jmyd83 9 месяцев назад +3

    Political Beer

  • @wth5468
    @wth5468 9 месяцев назад +2

    Great video but I had to turn it off, why do Americans these days raise the intonation of the end of every single sentence? It's so grating and weird.

    • @wth5468
      @wth5468 9 месяцев назад

      the beer looks and sounds absolutely delicious though.

  • @boblogiii8869
    @boblogiii8869 9 месяцев назад +1

    Sorry to say, but the bars not very high in the US.

    • @gnomebrewing
      @gnomebrewing 9 месяцев назад +1

      American beer is tremendous.

  • @Mist3rBaker
    @Mist3rBaker 9 месяцев назад +2

    I thought islamic people don't drink alcohol nowadays.

    • @12345678abracadabra
      @12345678abracadabra 9 месяцев назад +8

      The culture existed before Islam took hold 1979

    • @ausnetting
      @ausnetting 9 месяцев назад +1

      Beer is considered Haram (forbidden) by Muslims. Not all Iranians are Muslim, but Islamic Law (Sharia) is the law of the land there now, so no one living in Iran is legally allowed to make or drink alcohol.

    • @nihil0bstat
      @nihil0bstat 9 месяцев назад +2

      Think a bit more then, you will get it eventually

  • @esra_mo
    @esra_mo 9 месяцев назад +5

    I hope this is a joke alcohol from Middle East😂😂!. I’m from Middle East. We don’t sell alcohol we don’t drink alcohol so what is that ! it’s not from Middle East you took our culture and put it into something that we don’t include in our culture at all .

    • @nihil0bstat
      @nihil0bstat 9 месяцев назад +1

      Sure thing, but Islam is a novelty religion in the middle east

    • @DKHolbrook11
      @DKHolbrook11 9 месяцев назад +6

      You mean Islamic culture, not necessarily middle eastern culture.. The are cultures in the Middle East where alcohol isn’t haram. There are Maronite and Coptic Christian’s throughout the region and wine is part of their traditions. Also alcohol was permitted in Iran before the Islamic revolution…Turkey and Lebanon as well.

    • @esra_mo
      @esra_mo 9 месяцев назад

      @@DKHolbrook11 You are right if we are talking about all the Middle East but you’re wrong if we talk about Muslim that I mean about Middle East some countries and Middle East is not a Muslim countries

    • @esra_mo
      @esra_mo 9 месяцев назад

      @@voraciousfred please if you don’t know about Islam don’t talk I don’t know who told you that, but this is wrong !

    • @esra_mo
      @esra_mo 9 месяцев назад

      @@nihil0bstat also you don’t talk

  • @nederlanditis8154
    @nederlanditis8154 9 месяцев назад +1

    A pity, it is not bottled. Still such a common thing. There is a wrong, indolent drinking culture present in the US that is not up to date with modern times, sorry. Beer, though, sounds and look as if it's utter delicious.

  • @grant1133
    @grant1133 9 месяцев назад +3

    "Finest beers in America"
    Damn that's a low bar.

  • @user-ej7kb8jz5o
    @user-ej7kb8jz5o 7 месяцев назад

    😂