I've once been to the Füchschen-Brewery in Düsseldorf, when a group of tourists entered and asked for a round of Kölsch! You could hear a needle drop while everybody was waiting what is going to happen, as the waiter puts his arm around the ordering guy: "you wanna Kölsch? ok, watch out! if you follow that street, turning left, make your way to the central station, hop onto the train S6, go to Cologne, there you could have as much Kölsch as you like AND NOW GET OUT!
Bei uns sollte man auch nicht normales Bier bestellen und ein Pils erwarten. Leider gibt es bei uns kein Altbier :( Es ist ja, als ob man beim VW-Händler einen BMW kaufen möchte.
another story: we had some foreign coworkers for a works outing with us. Late at night we went for a "Absacker" to the Uerige-Brewery. We were 10people and orderd 8 Altbier, 1 Coke, 1 Water. The Köbes (waiter) came back with 11 Altbier! no Coke, no Water and totally serious he placed the beers: "so, here you go,1,2,3...8 Alt, 1 Coke, 1 Water and one for me, cheers!" The two guys who didn't wanted a beer looked quite irritated, but the waiter just mentioned: "this is a brewery!"
@@axelundmelliunterwegs Been going there when I visit my mates, for the last forty years. That was pretty much correct and we loved trading insults with the waiters back in the eighties and nineties. Christ could they drink! They never used to sell spirits either due to an agreement with the Killepitsch next door! I'm told they sell more now. Missed it due to Covid!
When stationed in Germany (Early 90's), we used to drink the COLA and Beer with a shot of whiskey. I think we called it a "Diesel" Loved the video. I remember being school on swirling the bottom of the beer...
I once had the pleasure of watching a Danish colleague try to order a Weissbier at the Früh brewery in Cologne. The conversation went something like this: Colleague: "I would like a Weissbier" The waiter: "Nein"!
You just offended him EXTREMELY..... Cologne and especially Cologne beer has much more tradition than everything in or from Bavaria and you asked for a BAVARIAN beer in a REAL OLD COLOGNE BREWERY...... better asked for a glass of milk.....
So glad I found your channel a few weeks ago....this is the BEST channel for truly learning about Germany - love your attention to detail and cultural back stories!
@@einspruch3905 Die in Deutschland am meisten getrunkene Biersorte ist mit 85% Pils. Helles liegt mit 70% auf Platz 3. Davor kommen noch auf Platz 2 mit 73% die Biermischgetränke. Die 100% Rechnung geht hier nicht auf, weil Pils-Trinker und Konsumenten von Hellem oder Biermischgetränken natürlich auch mal eine andere Biersorte trinken. Kann man leicht googeln.
In einer Kneipe sitzen ein Kölner, ein Düsseldorfer und ein Münchner gemütlich beisammen. Während der Düsseldorfer sich ein Altbier bestellt, ordert der Kölner ein Kölsch, der Münchner hingegen, bestellt sich eine Cola. Die beiden schauen ihn verdutzt und fragen nach, warum er sich eine Cola bestellt . Da antwortet der Münchner: "Also wenn ihr kein Bier trinkt, dann mag ich auch keins trinken!" ... Jetzt im Ernst, keep up the good work! Love your videos :)... btw, Helles ist das beste Bier ;)
Working in the Gastro: there is just no time for being easy peasy … other people are waiting for their cold beer too, sooo zack-zack up your efficiency! About rivalry: sure there is rivalry about having a better beer than the next village. The same as having the bigger Maibaum, having the better football crew, having the more beautiful karneval tradition or just being more cool in general. There is even rivalry within a village as expressed in being proud of living in the Oberdorf or Unterdorf which may compete in having the bigger thanks giving fire and so on ^^
Cute video! Some additional comments from a Bavarian: Germany has more than 1.500 breweries. For example, there's a small Village Schönram in Bavaria (near Traunstein). It has 76 inhabitants and a local famous brewery. The beer market is completely different to the U.S. Small childs drink "Kinderbier" ("childrens beer"), the most famous brand is "Karamalz". It is a Malzbier (dark malt beer) without any alcohol. It tastes very sweet (you have to drink it fridge cold). Children love it, adults in common do not. My son and my daughter always drink it at the weekend before going to bed - since they were 4 years old. I was very curious about Yvonnes correct Weißbier handling, but it was OK! A good hint to avoid too much beer foam is to shortly swing out the glass with cold water. The rest at the bottom of the bottle is the Hefe (yeast). There are two kinds: The Weißbier is normally with Hefe and there's also a clear beer without visible Hefe. In Bavaria, we call the Weizenbier with Hefe "Weißbier", and if you order Weizenbier, you normally get the clear one. Completely missing in this video are Dunkelbiere (dark beers). There are normal dark beers (dunkles helles = dark bright) and dark Weißbiers (Dunkles Weißbier). It is a bit more sweeter. Dark beers are popular all over Germany, from the bavarian south (Hopf Dunkles Weißbier) to the topmost north (Flensburger Dunkel). There's a very funny Kohl-Joke (Helmut Kohl was german chancellor from 1983 to 1998, Margaret Thatcher was the english chancellor in this time.) His missing English proficiency was legendary: "Kohl and Theatcher are drinking beer in a pub. Kohl is drinking a bright 'Helles', Theatcher a dark 'Guinness'. Thatcher to Kohl: 'To your health.' (health sounds like 'Helles') Kohl to Thatcher: 'To your Dunkles'."
Thank you! I love dark beers, so I’ll be sure to seek out dunkelbiere when I visit. 😊🙏. Thank you also @simple germany I was surprised to learn of the prevalence of non-alcoholic options and of the beer-mixed drinks phenomenon. There seems to be something for everyone if you’re willing to find it!
my advice for beer drinking around Germany is always drink local...unless you are super picky. but it is also a great way to connect with the local people. Nearly every city has it's own local or regional brewery.
I am learning so much today! As a guy who came from a country where alcohol is a big taboo, I was kinda overwhelmed by the range of choices you find in supermarkets.
Funny little story: A few decades ago I was so foolish to think that the concept of 'Radler' is only known to Germans. So I sat in a Hotel on Malta and tried to explain to a waitress in broken English that I want to have a mix of 50% beer and 50% lemonade. She looked at me a bit annoyed and said: So, you want to have a shandy? Baffled I could just stutter: Oh, well, yes, please. Still a bit embarrassing.
The first time I have drunken beer was in 1965 at the age of 11 years. We used to live in the industrial area of Germany north-east of Düsseldorf. By that time the typical beer drunken was "Hellbier" which is a light lager. Pils was not actually common by that time. There was also no brewed dark beer containing alhocol. What we used to call "Dunkelbier" actually was a malt beer like Karamalz nowadays. When we went on vacation to Bavaria my parents ordered two "Hellbier" for themselves and a "Dunkelbier" for me. The waitress asked whether the boy may really drink beer. My parents answered that I drink this every day and so I was served half a liter of dark beer.
Stuttgart and Munich have this rivalry too. Oktoberfest vs Stuttgarter Wasn. Muenchen Hofbrauhaus vs Stuttgarter Hofbraeu and so on lol. 3rd comment is the charm. Also in Bavaria/ Baden Wurtemberg u order a halbe or a mass, same beer different sizes.
Fun Fact: Kölsch and Alt are basicaly the same type of Beer. Both are warm fermented. In England this is called Ale. The different colour is because of the use of roasted malt for Alt. Pils, Helles and Weizen are cold fermented. .
Weizens are ales too, are they not? Hefeweizens (Weissbiers) certainly are. Those are not cold fermented (depending on the definition of cold) and use special yeast strains that generate the banana, clove, and fruity esters that are in said beers. If I recall, Weissbiers ferment between about 55 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit (12.8 - 21.1 C). At the lower temps the yeast typically generates more clove esters; at the higher end more bubble-gum. Banana and other fruits (apricot, pear, etc) are in the middle. In the video, Yvonne described the sediment in Hefweizen as the hops or malt, but it is actually yeast (Hefe = yeast). The cloudiness after the swirl and pour at the end is the yeast in suspension in the beer. If one cannot tell, I am a beer geek. :-)
Just because both are ales doesn't make them the same (or nearly the same) beers. There are an astounding variety of ale yeast varieties, and the variations in flavors and aromas they can produce is incredible. Altbier has much more roasty malts in the grain bill which, in addition to the darker color, gives it much more malty sweetness and body due to the unfermentable sugars. Kolsch uses paler, much less highly kilned malts that ferment much more completely, and has a much paler color and much less malty sweetness. They are very different beers, and would be so even if they were fermented with the identical yeast.
I am new to your channel and just wanted to tell you how much I am enjoying your videos! I am an American, and my mom is from Germany. Our family spent a lot of time there growing up. These videos are getting me excited to take my kids to visit relatives next summer.
Girls, you did a relly good video for die Overlook of the tipical beers. I am from Halle a.d. Saale, Eastern Germany, and next time you can maybe make a video on the other german types of beer like Bockbier, Schwarzbier, Granat, Rubin, etc. I recently made my certificate as a Biersommilier and would give you good informations if needed and wanted. Also a big Rivalry between Cities is Hamburg-Bremen ( Becks and Astra ) or even in one city like Berlin ( Schultheiss, Berliner Pilsener, Berliner Kindl, ..) and so many more. I really enjoy watching your videos and please kepp going on !! Especially with the German Bierkultur, because there is so much more to tell about !! :-)
Yo, the Weißbier... it is the yeast... (Hefe auf deutsch). That is what gives it the flavor (the hops, too...). The yeast used for Weißbier is seriously old. I think some strains are a thousand years old, I believe. Weißbier has all of the yeast left in it, which is why it is cloudy... which also has tons of vitamins and minerals. You can get it filtered, which is Kristall.
Not quite - too sweet to kill the thurst, IMHO. I rather drink light Weizen (reduced on alcohol) or Weizen free of alcohol if it's REALLY hot! One variant between these is a "saurer Russe" (sour Russian), always with a smile on the pun - leave it to you to identify it!
Was in Dusseldorf in January 2013 for Kraftwerk at K20. To this day I'm still craving Fuchschen & Schumacher Alt. Watching this while drinking Paulaner Oktoberfest.
Great video. Thank you. As a regular visitor to Germany since the mid-1970s, I can vouch for the wonderful culture of beer there. I've sampled many, many types (except for the Költ) and would say that Kölsh is my favourite (having had a few visits to Köln breweries)! Thanks again.
You may get Kölsch in Berlin, too. There are some "kneipen", i.e. Gaffel Haus Berlin - Das Kölsches Konsulat, Ständige Vertretung and some more. That's (i think) because politician moved from Bonn (hi Yvonne) to Berlin and they missed the Kölsch.
Fantastic video ! Caused me to subscribe ! As a kid in DE warm bier was popular. Our parents would let us have taste. Seems to be a whole lot less alcoholism in DE then in US !? Been here in US for 63 yrs. I've had numerous so called American Pils,, my answer is give it up. Nothing better than a DE Pils.
I came across your channel a couple days ago and have really enjoyed the content. I have never liked beer but now watching this video I really want to try some German beer 😂
Very interesting video. I've been getting into German beer lately, and this is just fun. I want to visit Germany soon too, so I will follow your channel.
I was stationed in Germany in the late 70's. Hunsruck area. Love German beer. I always thought German's preferred beer at room temperature. Heading to Germany this April. Very excited!
When there were ice hockey championships in Cologne, a group of Finns entered a bar I was sitting in before the afternoon game for a pre-game drink. The waiter took the orders (well beer, of course) and the Finns were really looking forward a big glas of yummy German beer. I will never forget how the smiles in the faces faded away when the waiter put a couple of test tube - sized glases filled with Kölsch on the table. It was hilarious.
In Berlin they serve Berliner Weisse. It is said that they didn‘t manage to brew it properly so it always got sour. To cover it up they added syrup ( mostly raspberry ( red) or woodruff( green). My favorit is kellerbier (cellar beer) or Zoigl from Frankonia. Btw on festivals like Oktoberfest they serve Festbeer whichvis a little bit stronger than usual Helles. In Frankonia on the 13 breweries hike you can find 13 breweries at 34 km. We did a 5 day hike and learned a lot about Zoigl beer and culture. Families using communal brewing houses in little villages and serving it in the shed, garden or hall. We had a lot of fun.;-)
I love the wheat beers. Fravzislaner is my number one wheat beer. I have had other wheat beers as well. All are good. I would like to try a kolsch beer
The beer ring used in Cologne AND in Düsseldorf is called "Kranz" in german (collar or crown in english). It usually has 12 glass holders, but to be more efficient, waiters will stack more glasses between each glass and the stem. I've heared, that waiters in Cologne breweries purchase each beer drafted from the bin by themselves (with a kind of chip/jeton system) and are - kind of self empolyed agents - responsable for selling them to the guests and it's on their count if they do not get the right amount of money... fun fact: to tip the waiter it's quite common to buy him a drink (Kölsch of course) by saying "Schreib eins für dich auf!" ...and that 2 - 3 times at one table during a whole evening "session".... imagine the number of tables he has to serve... ;-)))
I dont know why but i "stolperte" over your Video ;) I'm not really the beer Guy but i guess to go out for just drinking beer with you to would be very funny i guess ;) nice Video and thumbs up.
Yeast was not added to the ingredients until much later. And there is a Pils glass, it's like the Weißbier glass but not as wide at the top. Yeast is in the bottom of the Weißbier, that goes into the glass.
Nice video & nice selection of beers. I've only tried 3 of them. If you don't like typical German Weizen, maybe you should try Kapuziner (Weißbier or Kellerweizen), cuz it tastes pretty different from most of the German Weizen. What do u think of Czech and Belgian beers, have you tried any of them? Belgian wheat beer (blanche) tastes better than the German Weizen imho. Perhaps you should give it a try (Corsendonk ~ Blanche is the best imho), it might be a completely new experience for u. Belgium also has many nice lambics (light fruit beer) that you girls might also like.
In Düsseldorf und deren Umgebung ist bei manchem auch das „Krefelder“ ein Begriff, das „Krefelder“ wird hergestellt aus einer Mischung aus Altbier und Coke (50/50)! Das mögen allerdings auch ohne es böse zu meinen meistens die Frauen! Grüße aus dem Östlichen Teil der schönen Stadt Düsseldorf 😊
Love you and your videos, and chuckled through this one, too 😀. Can't agree with your favourite, though, Yvonne😉. As a northerner I grew up - sort of - on Pils, Jever Pils to be precise, so I could never get used to Kölsch in the five years I lived there in my twenties. Still can't stand it! I do like an Alt occasionally- preferably in summer as Altbierbowle with strawberries (shocking, isn't it?). Nowadays, I choose by mood, sometimes a dark beer like Köstritzer, or a Pils or a Radler or one of the many craft beers that are available now.
My wife's friends used to drink that when they were students at Mönchengladbach University years ago. Horrible muck but probably the best thing you can do with Hannen. I'll stick with Uerige when I'm back in Germany and at least Jever still tastes pretty good as there's a few pubs I can get it on draught in the Ruhr. Not like many of these other big brands which have turned into bland 'eurofizz'!
As a young person in California, my favorite beer was a German beer Called Dinkle Acker Bock. Also their Dopple Bock. Delicious! Deep and dark and rich!
Radler could be called the mother of all pre-mixed beer/soda combos. However in some regions it was very common to order beer with Cola or with (alcohol-free) maltbeer...called "Schuss"... AFAK it was mainly kind of a "ladies-drink" because it minimizes the alcohol content, makes it lighter etc. Some 10 or more years ago it was popular to mix banana juice into a Weißbier to make it a "Bananen-Weizen". In the last 20 years beer consumption in Germany declines (unbelievable, but true), while wine consumption is increasing and younger people tend more to energy drinks and/or energy-drink-based-cocktails. To conquer that developement breweries started a vast variety of so called "alco-pops" based on beer adding all kinds of flavors, with a much lower alcohol percentage, sweeter in taste and easier accessable for younger people (= new customers). This niche is still raising.
In Schwaben "we" say: a good pils takes 7 minutes. This means that pils "has" to be tapped from an installation with a lot of pressure. This means that there will be a huge lot of foam. So when you start tapping, it's nearly only foam. You wait a few minutes, and continue tapping. You repeat this procedure until you filled up the glass. The foam will be really thick and have some substance. It will be higher than the edge of the sword, with a little, round hole in the middle. I think the seven minute rule is the reason why pils isn't THAT popular in Baden-Württemberg. Most people don't want to wait that long. Also: in Schwaben, there's three kinds of Weizenbier. There's "Kristallweizen" or "crystal wheat" which is a clear type that looks like pils, and two kinds of "Hefeweizen" (yeast wheat), being Helles (bright) and Dunkles Hefeweizen (dark). I like none of those. Not at all. I'd rather be thirsty all night...
What is at the bottom of the wheat beat is yeast, and malt (or barley) sediment and I believe the tegernsee hell is a different kind of lager than a pilsner. Absolutely great video, these are some really fantastic brews, Gaffel is wonderful and when we were in Koln in December my fiancee and I had 22 of them in one night. What a wonderful country and Koln had some of the most kind people Ive ever encountered while traveling!
Jen : explaining the concept of Kranz in a detailed manner Yvonne : helping herself to lecker Kölsch haha. Love it! Super underrated channel honestly, thank you for very interesting and entertaining content !
You want to know about city rivalries ? Well, there's always Hannover vs. Braunschweig. Oops. I made a mistake. No real Hanoverian (which also is a famous race of horses ;) would ever cripple his tongue by saying the name of that "other" city! It shall only be called "Peine Ost" ! Peine is a city in the middle between Hannover and Braunschweig. Maybe best known for Steel ... and really ugly. Maybe even uglier than Lehrte - which really is hard to beat for that matter... did I mention the rivalry between Lehrte and Burgdorf ? - anyways... so east of Hannover is Peine - which is ugly, as we already determined - and east of Peine is Braunschweig - f**k. I messed up again - I mean: Peine Ost. And east of Peine Ost is Wolfsburg, which shouldn't be mentioned by anyone alive and better be eradicated from any existing maps for the sake of humanity! And east of Wolfsburg is where you'll fall off the face of the earth and plunge into ... bavaria, which literally is hell, or at the least, you can see it from there, because hell is south as we all know, and south of Bavaria is Austria. Don't get me started on Austria. Don't let yourself be fooled by their really adorable accent... it's Austria! It's full of Austrians! And what's south of Austria ? Italy... well, nothing really bad to say about Italy... yeah, organized crime, nothing really works, and no real government for the last 50 years... but the weather and the wine and the language ... well, if there'd be more Italians in Peine Ost, maybe people from Hannover would come to like it. And they'd play better football ... yeah, I know, sittin' in a glas house and all that...
Having been grown up in Monheim (actually in Baumberg - kind of the same rivalty as between Düsseldorf and Cologne on a much smaller scale), there actually was a brewery in that town, the "Peters Brauerei" which to my knowladge has no connection at all to the "Beer Manifactur" which brews the Költ nowadays. They did Kölsch and Alt as Monheim was the "Altbier-Äquator", basically the "border" between Alt and Kölsch. So in a kind I did grow up not bi-lingual but "bi-beeral" ;-) Anyway, there was one curious thing in Monheim from that time, connected to the "Karneval" and a special Band for that seasion from Monheim: The "Bibi-Brunnen" - "Bibi Fountain". It had a pipe to that brewery and on occsion in the carneval seasion you could drink beer from the fountain whereas the rest of the year, it was just water...
Regarding Beer Mix drinks: If you think Beer and Coke is a sacrilege you may be interested in the "Goaß", which is Beer, Coke and Cherry liqueur. I like that a lot.
beer and coke is called "Schmutz" or "Schmutzbier" around my area (don't know if it is called that somewhere else as well). For non-german speakers, "Schmutz" would mean "dirt" and "Schmutzbier" would be "dirt bear".
Babies from the age of 3 days were fed with beer at that time. I suppose, this contributed a lot to the Reinheitsgebot The beer was mixed with mashed grains, called Papp. The babies were fed with it, hence the term "Ich bin pappsatt"
My family is from Moenchengaldbach and they are all divided over over KÖLSCH or ALT bier. Just like they are divided on which is their favorite city. Some love Köln for the food and history. Others love Dusselfdorf for the elegance and fashion. As for the beer, I am more of a Kölsch fan. We can actually buy the Gaffel Kölsch at the liquor stores here in Toronto On my last visit in 2019, we stopped at a very popular brewery in Köln, not Fruh or Gaffel, but another big one. We had been there a few times in the past and always enjoyed how the waiters kept the glasses coming. However, on this last trip we had a waitress and I do not know how she was employed there. Our beers were empty and they sat there for at least a half an hour without her coming with the tray of refills. We got one refill the entire time. She was not rude, and pretty sure that she was not doing it on purpose because the other table was dry as well. She appeared to not have a clue. Here comes the real kicker...at the end when we paid the bill my husband mistakenly gave her a 10 euro tip. He did not realize it until my daughter told him that he gave her a 10 euro tip and boy was he angry! On the other hand the waitress was thanking us so very much. And we are not novices to Europe and the German restaurant culture. We have been traveling to German for more than 30 years. LOL
Alte Regel: Ein gutes Pils dauert 7 Minuten... es wird in mehreren Schritten gezapft, um die Schaumkrone stabil zu halten. Ich habe in sehr guten Restaurants sogar elektrische Kühlfächer für Biergläser gesehen, in die die halb gezapften Gläser reingestellt werden. In englischen Pubs habe ich dagegen diesen bösen Plastikschaber gesehen, mit dem der Schaum aus dem Glas weggeschöpft wird. Baaahhh...
You're wrong! Helles is NOT the official beer of the oktoberfest. Märzen use to be, but since the 90ths, FESTBIER is the one and only beer style you will find there. More malty than a helles.
My family is mostly from Hannover, and I love Kolsch beer, which I have consumed often from a glass reminiscent of a large wine glass (is it still sometimes served like that?). As for "cold" beers, my favourite has always been Dunkel, as we often visited my family in Bavaria at Easter, and it was always served slightly chilled, from being in a storage box outside, as I was told it should be a little warmer to express all the rich flavours. Thanks for all your videos!
That does it... I've been on the fence on moving to Germany, and now, as a Texan, I HAVE to, if nothing else, to determine once and for all, what city has the best beer, Koln or Dusseldorf.
Hi Jen and Yvonne..., * Excellent video and very informative, and thank you for sharing ! ! * Beautiful couple.. Your video was so good.., I watched the video not once, but twice ! ! Your friend always.., Michael Sean O'Brien in historic Uptown Butte, Montana.. * P.S.: Once again, thank you for sharing and have a beautiful day, and a beautiful week ahead, too.. Mike :)
Ich bin in Düsseldorf geboren und in Monheim am Rhein (Peters Kölsch) aufgewachsen: genau zwischen den beiden Großstätten. Daher bin ich mit beiden Bieren großgeworden und auch mit den Eigenarten der Menschen aus den Nachbarstädten. Bei allen Rivalitäten und Neckereien ist der typische Rheinländer doch eine offene Frohnatur. Nein, man wird nicht sofort verprügelt, wenn man in Düsseldorf Kölsch bestellt... Füchschen ist natürlich absolute Spitze, aber auch Malzmühlen Kölsch und Peters Kölsch sind wirklich gute kölsche Vertreter. Prost! Funfakt: Kölsch darf sich ein entsprechend gebrautes Bier nur nennen, wenn man von der Brauerei aus den Kölner Dom sehen kann. Ein Kölschglas wird 'Flöte' nenannt. Nun trifft mich doch der Blitz: Költ kommt aus Monheim? Habe noch nie von diesem Bier gehört!!!
All the mixed beer drinks are the german equivalent of craft beers, at least in taste. So when asking "why mix beer with soda?" think about it like "why make beer with blueberries?" The non-bavarian name for Helles is Lager. I don't know if it's exactly the same as lager in english, but the roots are the same. Helles is not a Pilsner. But the main difference is that Pilsner has more hops. The yeasts might also be different, but not much.
hahahha „always following rules these latinos“as a hispanic this part made me laugh so much 🤣 The servers hahaha I would say they are dry and have like an ironic humor 😆! but not rude💖they have always been pretty nice to me and they always end up smiling because of my funny accent or bad German 😬😆. Ps: You should do a „German Bread tasting😋“
"Helles" by Chiemseer is not a Oktoberfestbier. Oktoberfestbier, by rules, must be brewed with Munich water, and the Chiemsee is far away from Munich. The small but rising brewery "Giesinger", as being part of Munich, has successfully applied for a licence to brew official Oktoberfestbier. I run half-marathons 3x a week, and to enjoy an alcohol-free Weißbier afterwards is the best natural choice to recover - forget about all the other chemical isotonic garbage that is being advertized.
"Always following rules these Latinos." ¡Jajaja! Sadly, I've been witness, within my very Catholic family, that now kid is too young to have at least sip of alcohol. But I think in general, with adult family members present, 14 is also the usual starting age for drinking here. In my personal experience, bitter tastes have always been the worst for me, so it took me years, I think until I was 23, to get used to the taste of most alcoholic beverages and actually enjoy some.
One of the most enjoyable times I have had in Europe was at Peters Brauhaus in Köln. Our Kellner was as described. bawdy and rude in a fun way. And the Kölsch was the best beer I have ever drank.
My local brewery in my village in Cambridgeshire brews a 'Kolsch style beer'. The name used for it is, 'Colne Colsch' as that's the adjoining village! They do a good job with it as it's top fermented similar to British Pale Ale and Alt Bier which is a little like best bitter. Tastes a bit like Früh from the bottle but a touch stronger?
Great video! Even with Niederrhein roots I am feeling most comfortable in Cologne. So my favourite beer is also Kölsch. But I am more a Früh or Zion kind of girl ;) I always thought that Gaffel is a little too "bitter/strong" in taste for me.
Always enjoyed a few in the smaller Brew houses like Päffgen. Trouble is my German wife doesn't drink beer and my Duesseldorf mates refuse to go anywhere near Cologne!
13:13 True. Warm beer is a no-go. And so is "Plörre" Meaning bland and largely tasteless beers. (I know a few people who say that about Kölsch, but since I haven't tried it, i am withholding judgement on that.) Worse than that would be " Warme Plörre" - basically a warm version of the aforementioned "Plörre". And beyond that there first comes a whole lot of nothing, followed eventually by the poor excuse of what Americans call "beer" such as Miller, Corona, etc. And beyond that disgusting bottled [CENSORED]-water at last comes the warm version thereof. 14:45 When it is really hot outside, alcohol-free Weizen is a surprisingly good drink to stay hydrated due to its isotonic nature. Edit: Nevermind. 33:00 That notion of "moving aborad" is similar to what is going on between northern Germany and Bavaria and (to my knowledge) is rooted in the "Free State of Bavaria" acting much like some sort of special snowflake - and is therefore often mockingly regarded as "Ausland" (foreign country) for that reason.
I asked my German language teacher what is the hellen one of my friend's ordered the other day?:) and she said, I can't beleive Im teaching beers in the class, but went over Bavarian beers for us :) cool culture.
I'm with Jen, I love an Altbier! Kölsch is not my thing. :/ Ah, I miss going to the breweries in Düsseldorf so much. Can't wait until we can do that again! Maybe we'll see you there some time! 😊
Regarding Beer and the Purity Law: Legally only bottom-fermented (eg. Pils, Lager, Helles) have to follow the german Purity law, meaning they have to contain only barleymalt, water, hops and yeast. Top-fermented beers, like ales legally are not obligated to follow the Purity Law. That is why Weizen beer is not against the German purity law even though it is made with wheat malt. Since 2005, after a 13 year long law suit by a east german brewery, it is possible to get exempted from the Purity Law for individual Beer typs like craft beers or also historic types of beer.
Fun fact No 2: During the production / brewing process a lot of other ingredients are added. Against the purity law? No, because it says (updated), that no other stuff should be in a beer when being consumed... which is the fact with technically mandatory "agents" that vanishes afterwards. 😉
Fun fact No 2: During the production / brewing process a lot of other ingredients are added. Against the purity law? No, because it says (updated), that no other stuff should be in a beer when being consumed... which is the fact with technically mandatory "agents" that vanish afterwards. 😉
But if you fill in a Weißbier before you have to wash out the glas with cold clear water! The Reinheitsgebot was also brought in because the church dont wanted beer which was brewed with drugs like Bilsenkraut,Bella Donna and other things which let a lot of parties becomes to wild!
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I've once been to the Füchschen-Brewery in Düsseldorf, when a group of tourists entered and asked for a round of Kölsch! You could hear a needle drop while everybody was waiting what is going to happen, as the waiter puts his arm around the ordering guy: "you wanna Kölsch? ok, watch out! if you follow that street, turning left, make your way to the central station, hop onto the train S6, go to Cologne, there you could have as much Kölsch as you like AND NOW GET OUT!
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That was a very polite response…
Bei uns sollte man auch nicht normales Bier bestellen und ein Pils erwarten. Leider gibt es bei uns kein Altbier :(
Es ist ja, als ob man beim VW-Händler einen BMW kaufen möchte.
another story: we had some foreign coworkers for a works outing with us. Late at night we went for a "Absacker" to the Uerige-Brewery. We were 10people and orderd 8 Altbier, 1 Coke, 1 Water. The Köbes (waiter) came back with 11 Altbier! no Coke, no Water and totally serious he placed the beers: "so, here you go,1,2,3...8 Alt, 1 Coke, 1 Water and one for me, cheers!" The two guys who didn't wanted a beer looked quite irritated, but the waiter just mentioned: "this is a brewery!"
@@axelundmelliunterwegs Been going there when I visit my mates, for the last forty years. That was pretty much correct and we loved trading insults with the waiters back in the eighties and nineties. Christ could they drink! They never used to sell spirits either due to an agreement with the Killepitsch next door! I'm told they sell more now. Missed it due to Covid!
Another great video! Perhaps we can see another video of you both AFTER all the beer was drunk...(for cultural reasons of course)!
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Strictly cultural reasons! 😂
When stationed in Germany (Early 90's), we used to drink the COLA and Beer with a shot of whiskey. I think we called it a "Diesel" Loved the video. I remember being school on swirling the bottom of the beer...
I once had the pleasure of watching a Danish colleague try to order a Weissbier at the Früh brewery in Cologne. The conversation went something like this:
Colleague: "I would like a Weissbier"
The waiter: "Nein"!
Possible conversation might be also:
Guest: I would like to have water, pls.
Waiter: A bit of soap and a towel as well?
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You just offended him EXTREMELY..... Cologne and especially Cologne beer has much more tradition than everything in or from Bavaria and you asked for a BAVARIAN beer in a REAL OLD COLOGNE BREWERY...... better asked for a glass of milk.....
So glad I found your channel a few weeks ago....this is the BEST channel for truly learning about Germany - love your attention to detail and cultural back stories!
Pils is usually served in a tulip glass!
Nevertheless, a good summary of german beer 👍🏻
IT. IS. NOT.
The most common beer is still helles
@@einspruch3905 Die in Deutschland am meisten getrunkene Biersorte ist mit 85% Pils.
Helles liegt mit 70% auf Platz 3.
Davor kommen noch auf Platz 2 mit 73% die Biermischgetränke.
Die 100% Rechnung geht hier nicht auf, weil Pils-Trinker und Konsumenten von Hellem oder Biermischgetränken natürlich auch mal eine andere Biersorte trinken.
Kann man leicht googeln.
In einer Kneipe sitzen ein Kölner, ein Düsseldorfer und ein Münchner gemütlich beisammen. Während der Düsseldorfer sich ein Altbier bestellt, ordert der Kölner ein Kölsch, der Münchner hingegen, bestellt sich eine Cola. Die beiden schauen ihn verdutzt und fragen nach, warum er sich eine Cola bestellt . Da antwortet der Münchner: "Also wenn ihr kein Bier trinkt, dann mag ich auch keins trinken!"
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Jetzt im Ernst, keep up the good work! Love your videos :)... btw, Helles ist das beste Bier ;)
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"btw, Helles ist das beste Bier" Wenn man noch nie ein echtes Alt hatte ...
Kölsch ist kein Bier, sieht man schon daran, dass man es aus Schnappsgläsern und nicht aus Biergläsern trinkt.
Hahahaha das sehen wir anders 😝
@@simplegermany wer Kölsch trinkt, ist nur zu faul zum Wasserkrahn zu laufen....😁
Working in the Gastro: there is just no time for being easy peasy … other people are waiting for their cold beer too, sooo zack-zack up your efficiency!
About rivalry: sure there is rivalry about having a better beer than the next village. The same as having the bigger Maibaum, having the better football crew, having the more beautiful karneval tradition or just being more cool in general. There is even rivalry within a village as expressed in being proud of living in the Oberdorf or Unterdorf which may compete in having the bigger thanks giving fire and so on ^^
Cute video! Some additional comments from a Bavarian:
Germany has more than 1.500 breweries. For example, there's a small Village Schönram in Bavaria (near Traunstein). It has 76 inhabitants and a local famous brewery. The beer market is completely different to the U.S.
Small childs drink "Kinderbier" ("childrens beer"), the most famous brand is "Karamalz". It is a Malzbier (dark malt beer) without any alcohol. It tastes very sweet (you have to drink it fridge cold). Children love it, adults in common do not. My son and my daughter always drink it at the weekend before going to bed - since they were 4 years old.
I was very curious about Yvonnes correct Weißbier handling, but it was OK! A good hint to avoid too much beer foam is to shortly swing out the glass with cold water. The rest at the bottom of the bottle is the Hefe (yeast). There are two kinds: The Weißbier is normally with Hefe and there's also a clear beer without visible Hefe. In Bavaria, we call the Weizenbier with Hefe "Weißbier", and if you order Weizenbier, you normally get the clear one.
Completely missing in this video are Dunkelbiere (dark beers). There are normal dark beers (dunkles helles = dark bright) and dark Weißbiers (Dunkles Weißbier). It is a bit more sweeter. Dark beers are popular all over Germany, from the bavarian south (Hopf Dunkles Weißbier) to the topmost north (Flensburger Dunkel).
There's a very funny Kohl-Joke (Helmut Kohl was german chancellor from 1983 to 1998, Margaret Thatcher was the english chancellor in this time.) His missing English proficiency was legendary: "Kohl and Theatcher are drinking beer in a pub. Kohl is drinking a bright 'Helles', Theatcher a dark 'Guinness'. Thatcher to Kohl: 'To your health.' (health sounds like 'Helles') Kohl to Thatcher: 'To your Dunkles'."
😂 love the last story! Thanks for adding more contents to the German beer culture 😊
Thank you! I love dark beers, so I’ll be sure to seek out dunkelbiere when I visit. 😊🙏. Thank you also @simple germany I was surprised to learn of the prevalence of non-alcoholic options and of the beer-mixed drinks phenomenon. There seems to be something for everyone if you’re willing to find it!
my advice for beer drinking around Germany is always drink local...unless you are super picky. but it is also a great way to connect with the local people. Nearly every city has it's own local or regional brewery.
Good advice. Franconia, around Bamberg is excellent as I'm sure you know. Most villages have at least one brewery!
I am learning so much today! As a guy who came from a country where alcohol is a big taboo, I was kinda overwhelmed by the range of choices you find in supermarkets.
Radler (Beer with lemonade) is not just popular in Germany. In French speaking countries it's called Panaché and in English speaking countries Shandy.
una clara in Spain
@@alexanderlotharson5634 de nada
Funny little story: A few decades ago I was so foolish to think that the concept of 'Radler' is only known to Germans. So I sat in a Hotel on Malta and tried to explain to a waitress in broken English that I want to have a mix of 50% beer and 50% lemonade. She looked at me a bit annoyed and said: So, you want to have a shandy? Baffled I could just stutter: Oh, well, yes, please.
Still a bit embarrassing.
If you've not said something embarrassing to a local, you've not properly been on holiday
@@mccorama In Spain, Amstel Radler is the one that I usually get. On my last trip there, I discovered the calimotxo, a mix of Coke with red wine.
The first time I have drunken beer was in 1965 at the age of 11 years. We used to live in the industrial area of Germany north-east of Düsseldorf. By that time the typical beer drunken was "Hellbier" which is a light lager. Pils was not actually common by that time. There was also no brewed dark beer containing alhocol. What we used to call "Dunkelbier" actually was a malt beer like Karamalz nowadays. When we went on vacation to Bavaria my parents ordered two "Hellbier" for themselves and a "Dunkelbier" for me. The waitress asked whether the boy may really drink beer. My parents answered that I drink this every day and so I was served half a liter of dark beer.
Prost to that! 😅
Stuttgart and Munich have this rivalry too. Oktoberfest vs Stuttgarter Wasn. Muenchen Hofbrauhaus vs Stuttgarter Hofbraeu and so on lol. 3rd comment is the charm. Also in Bavaria/ Baden Wurtemberg u order a halbe or a mass, same beer different sizes.
Fun Fact: Kölsch and Alt are basicaly the same type of Beer. Both are warm fermented.
In England this is called Ale. The different colour is because of the use of roasted malt for Alt. Pils, Helles and Weizen are cold fermented.
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That's 'obergärig' and 'untergärig', right?
@@alexanderlotharson5634 yes
Weizens are ales too, are they not? Hefeweizens (Weissbiers) certainly are. Those are not cold fermented (depending on the definition of cold) and use special yeast strains that generate the banana, clove, and fruity esters that are in said beers. If I recall, Weissbiers ferment between about 55 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit (12.8 - 21.1 C). At the lower temps the yeast typically generates more clove esters; at the higher end more bubble-gum. Banana and other fruits (apricot, pear, etc) are in the middle.
In the video, Yvonne described the sediment in Hefweizen as the hops or malt, but it is actually yeast (Hefe = yeast). The cloudiness after the swirl and pour at the end is the yeast in suspension in the beer.
If one cannot tell, I am a beer geek. :-)
Just because both are ales doesn't make them the same (or nearly the same) beers. There are an astounding variety of ale yeast varieties, and the variations in flavors and aromas they can produce is incredible. Altbier has much more roasty malts in the grain bill which, in addition to the darker color, gives it much more malty sweetness and body due to the unfermentable sugars. Kolsch uses paler, much less highly kilned malts that ferment much more completely, and has a much paler color and much less malty sweetness. They are very different beers, and would be so even if they were fermented with the identical yeast.
@@nooneatall8072 Yes, you are correct in every aspect.
I am new to your channel and just wanted to tell you how much I am enjoying your videos! I am an American, and my mom is from Germany. Our family spent a lot of time there growing up. These videos are getting me excited to take my kids to visit relatives next summer.
Exzellentes Video. Ich hatte viel Spaß. Danke!
Girls, you did a relly good video for die Overlook of the tipical beers. I am from Halle a.d. Saale, Eastern Germany, and next time you can maybe make a video on the other german types of beer like Bockbier, Schwarzbier, Granat, Rubin, etc. I recently made my certificate as a Biersommilier and would give you good informations if needed and wanted. Also a big Rivalry between Cities is Hamburg-Bremen ( Becks and Astra ) or even in one city like Berlin ( Schultheiss, Berliner Pilsener, Berliner Kindl, ..) and so many more. I really enjoy watching your videos and please kepp going on !! Especially with the German Bierkultur, because there is so much more to tell about !! :-)
Yo, the Weißbier... it is the yeast... (Hefe auf deutsch). That is what gives it the flavor (the hops, too...). The yeast used for Weißbier is seriously old. I think some strains are a thousand years old, I believe. Weißbier has all of the yeast left in it, which is why it is cloudy... which also has tons of vitamins and minerals. You can get it filtered, which is Kristall.
When I was in Germany in the mid 1980's nothing was open on Sundays.
This is so interesting and entertaining as well. Definitely deserves more subscribers and views 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Jessica!
Nothing like a Radler on a hot day. I really enjoyed this video. I learned a lot.
Not quite - too sweet to kill the thurst, IMHO.
I rather drink light Weizen (reduced on alcohol) or Weizen free of alcohol if it's REALLY hot!
One variant between these is a "saurer Russe" (sour Russian), always with a smile on the pun - leave it to you to identify it!
This is was super fun to watch. I feel more germanised than ever
Was in Dusseldorf in January 2013 for Kraftwerk at K20. To this day I'm still craving Fuchschen & Schumacher Alt. Watching this while drinking Paulaner Oktoberfest.
Great video. Thank you. As a regular visitor to Germany since the mid-1970s, I can vouch for the wonderful culture of beer there. I've sampled many, many types (except for the Költ) and would say that Kölsh is my favourite (having had a few visits to Köln breweries)! Thanks again.
This is my first Simple Germany video, but definitely not my last - so entertaining and educational. 👏👏Subscribed!
You may get Kölsch in Berlin, too. There are some "kneipen", i.e. Gaffel Haus Berlin - Das Kölsches Konsulat, Ständige Vertretung and some more. That's (i think) because politician moved from Bonn (hi Yvonne) to Berlin and they missed the Kölsch.
Fantastic video ! Caused me to subscribe !
As a kid in DE warm bier was popular.
Our parents would let us have taste. Seems to be a whole
lot less alcoholism in DE then in US !? Been here in US for 63 yrs.
I've had numerous so called American Pils,, my answer is
give it up. Nothing better than a DE Pils.
That was great. Entertaining and informative.
Im W von NRW heißt Kölsch auch Limonade.
*Gemeinheit aus* ich bin gerne in kölner Brauhäusern. Favoriten sind alle am Heumarkt😃
I came across your channel a couple days ago and have really enjoyed the content. I have never liked beer but now watching this video I really want to try some German beer 😂
Very interesting video. I've been getting into German beer lately, and this is just fun. I want to visit Germany soon too, so I will follow your channel.
I was stationed in Germany in the late 70's. Hunsruck area. Love German beer. I always thought German's preferred beer at room temperature.
Heading to Germany this April. Very excited!
When there were ice hockey championships in Cologne, a group of Finns entered a bar I was sitting in before the afternoon game for a pre-game drink. The waiter took the orders (well beer, of course) and the Finns were really looking forward a big glas of yummy German beer. I will never forget how the smiles in the faces faded away when the waiter put a couple of test tube - sized glases filled with Kölsch on the table. It was hilarious.
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Eure vids sind so unterhaltsam und hilfreich.
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"this is the october glass beer" 😂😂😂. solche Versprecher sind so klasse 😁.
Danke Ganage! 😋
In Berlin they serve Berliner Weisse. It is said that they didn‘t manage to brew it properly so it always got sour. To cover it up they added syrup ( mostly raspberry ( red) or woodruff( green). My favorit is kellerbier (cellar beer) or Zoigl from Frankonia. Btw on festivals like Oktoberfest they serve Festbeer whichvis a little bit stronger than usual Helles. In Frankonia on the 13 breweries hike you can find 13 breweries at 34 km. We did a 5 day hike and learned a lot about Zoigl beer and culture. Families using communal brewing houses in little villages and serving it in the shed, garden or hall. We had a lot of fun.;-)
I love the wheat beers. Fravzislaner is my number one wheat beer. I have had other wheat beers as well. All are good. I would like to try a kolsch beer
Krombacher was also the beerbrand, that charlie harper in two and a half man drunk.
So that’s why he died.
Opening a beer bottle with a bic lighter is Canadian in origin, learned by Deutsch panzer units and others training here since 50 years.
40 minutes! About what? ...yeah, that makes sense.
_for a cursory introduction for beginners_
Kiosk is *usually* called a "Bude" in the ruhr area or "Büdchen" in the Rheinland area :)
The beer ring used in Cologne AND in Düsseldorf is called "Kranz" in german (collar or crown in english). It usually has 12 glass holders, but to be more efficient, waiters will stack more glasses between each glass and the stem. I've heared, that waiters in Cologne breweries purchase each beer drafted from the bin by themselves (with a kind of chip/jeton system) and are - kind of self empolyed agents - responsable for selling them to the guests and it's on their count if they do not get the right amount of money... fun fact: to tip the waiter it's quite common to buy him a drink (Kölsch of course) by saying "Schreib eins für dich auf!" ...and that 2 - 3 times at one table during a whole evening "session".... imagine the number of tables he has to serve... ;-)))
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I dont know why but i "stolperte" over your Video ;) I'm not really the beer Guy but i guess to go out for just drinking beer with you to would be very funny i guess ;) nice Video and thumbs up.
Yeast was not added to the ingredients until much later. And there is a Pils glass, it's like the Weißbier glass but not as wide at the top. Yeast is in the bottom of the Weißbier, that goes into the glass.
Nice video & nice selection of beers. I've only tried 3 of them. If you don't like typical German Weizen, maybe you should try Kapuziner (Weißbier or Kellerweizen), cuz it tastes pretty different from most of the German Weizen. What do u think of Czech and Belgian beers, have you tried any of them? Belgian wheat beer (blanche) tastes better than the German Weizen imho. Perhaps you should give it a try (Corsendonk ~ Blanche is the best imho), it might be a completely new experience for u. Belgium also has many nice lambics (light fruit beer) that you girls might also like.
this video should have at least 2 hours. i was about to open a beer here and talk to you 🍻
I can remember being a child in Germany in the 1960's when all the beers were in the flip top bottles like the Alt Bier.
Really nice job explaining the beers. 💪😁🍻😎👍
In Düsseldorf und deren Umgebung ist bei manchem auch das „Krefelder“ ein Begriff, das „Krefelder“ wird hergestellt aus einer Mischung aus Altbier und Coke (50/50)! Das mögen allerdings auch ohne es böse zu meinen meistens die Frauen!
Grüße aus dem Östlichen Teil der schönen Stadt Düsseldorf 😊
My favorite beer ever was a Kolsch in Heumarkt on hot July day. Perfect summer beer. I love Cologne.
Every time I watch your videos I feel like I want you to be my best friends 😂
Awww thanks Lauren!
Good job! Very informative and entertaining!
Love you and your videos, and chuckled through this one, too 😀. Can't agree with your favourite, though, Yvonne😉. As a northerner I grew up - sort of - on Pils, Jever Pils to be precise, so I could never get used to Kölsch in the five years I lived there in my twenties. Still can't stand it! I do like an Alt occasionally- preferably in summer as Altbierbowle with strawberries (shocking, isn't it?). Nowadays, I choose by mood, sometimes a dark beer like Köstritzer, or a Pils or a Radler or one of the many craft beers that are available now.
Wow there is an Altbierbowle? That is shocking 🍓😱😂
My wife's friends used to drink that when they were students at Mönchengladbach University years ago. Horrible muck but probably the best thing you can do with Hannen. I'll stick with Uerige when I'm back in Germany and at least Jever still tastes pretty good as there's a few pubs I can get it on draught in the Ruhr. Not like many of these other big brands which have turned into bland 'eurofizz'!
As a young person in California, my favorite beer was a German beer Called Dinkle Acker Bock. Also their Dopple Bock. Delicious! Deep and dark and rich!
Radler could be called the mother of all pre-mixed beer/soda combos. However in some regions it was very common to order beer with Cola or with (alcohol-free) maltbeer...called "Schuss"... AFAK it was mainly kind of a "ladies-drink" because it minimizes the alcohol content, makes it lighter etc. Some 10 or more years ago it was popular to mix banana juice into a Weißbier to make it a "Bananen-Weizen".
In the last 20 years beer consumption in Germany declines (unbelievable, but true), while wine consumption is increasing and younger people tend more to energy drinks and/or energy-drink-based-cocktails. To conquer that developement breweries started a vast variety of so called "alco-pops" based on beer adding all kinds of flavors, with a much lower alcohol percentage, sweeter in taste and easier accessable for younger people (= new customers). This niche is still raising.
In Schwaben "we" say: a good pils takes 7 minutes. This means that pils "has" to be tapped from an installation with a lot of pressure. This means that there will be a huge lot of foam. So when you start tapping, it's nearly only foam. You wait a few minutes, and continue tapping. You repeat this procedure until you filled up the glass. The foam will be really thick and have some substance. It will be higher than the edge of the sword, with a little, round hole in the middle.
I think the seven minute rule is the reason why pils isn't THAT popular in Baden-Württemberg. Most people don't want to wait that long.
Also: in Schwaben, there's three kinds of Weizenbier. There's "Kristallweizen" or "crystal wheat" which is a clear type that looks like pils, and two kinds of "Hefeweizen" (yeast wheat), being Helles (bright) and Dunkles Hefeweizen (dark). I like none of those. Not at all. I'd rather be thirsty all night...
A Pils only takes 7 minutes when you put too much pressure. A well adjusted machine can give you a perfect Pils in under 30 seconds.
I've never liked the way this is done because by the time the beer is ready for serving, it's nearly flat.
The Masskrug is out of realy thick glass to keep the beer longer cold.
What is at the bottom of the wheat beat is yeast, and malt (or barley) sediment and I believe the tegernsee hell is a different kind of lager than a pilsner. Absolutely great video, these are some really fantastic brews, Gaffel is wonderful and when we were in Koln in December my fiancee and I had 22 of them in one night. What a wonderful country and Koln had some of the most kind people Ive ever encountered while traveling!
Wow! 22 kölsch sounds like a very fun night! Hope the next day was not so bad 😅
It's just yeast in the dregs. No malt residue makes it out of the brew kettle (if it got into the brew kettle in the first place).
Jen : explaining the concept of Kranz in a detailed manner
Yvonne : helping herself to lecker Kölsch haha.
Love it! Super underrated channel honestly, thank you for very interesting and entertaining content !
Thank you for your kind words! Glad you are having fun while learning at the same time 🤗
Guys, the beer is called Tegernseer. 'Hell' is just the style. It means 'bright' or 'clear'. Or what in the UK is called Lager.
You want to know about city rivalries ? Well, there's always Hannover vs. Braunschweig. Oops. I made a mistake. No real Hanoverian (which also is a famous race of horses ;) would ever cripple his tongue by saying the name of that "other" city! It shall only be called "Peine Ost" ! Peine is a city in the middle between Hannover and Braunschweig. Maybe best known for Steel ... and really ugly. Maybe even uglier than Lehrte - which really is hard to beat for that matter... did I mention the rivalry between Lehrte and Burgdorf ? - anyways... so east of Hannover is Peine - which is ugly, as we already determined - and east of Peine is Braunschweig - f**k. I messed up again - I mean: Peine Ost. And east of Peine Ost is Wolfsburg, which shouldn't be mentioned by anyone alive and better be eradicated from any existing maps for the sake of humanity! And east of Wolfsburg is where you'll fall off the face of the earth and plunge into ... bavaria, which literally is hell, or at the least, you can see it from there, because hell is south as we all know, and south of Bavaria is Austria. Don't get me started on Austria. Don't let yourself be fooled by their really adorable accent... it's Austria! It's full of Austrians! And what's south of Austria ? Italy... well, nothing really bad to say about Italy... yeah, organized crime, nothing really works, and no real government for the last 50 years... but the weather and the wine and the language ... well, if there'd be more Italians in Peine Ost, maybe people from Hannover would come to like it. And they'd play better football ... yeah, I know, sittin' in a glas house and all that...
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Having been grown up in Monheim (actually in Baumberg - kind of the same rivalty as between Düsseldorf and Cologne on a much smaller scale), there actually was a brewery in that town, the "Peters Brauerei" which to my knowladge has no connection at all to the "Beer Manifactur" which brews the Költ nowadays. They did Kölsch and Alt as Monheim was the "Altbier-Äquator", basically the "border" between Alt and Kölsch. So in a kind I did grow up not bi-lingual but "bi-beeral" ;-)
Anyway, there was one curious thing in Monheim from that time, connected to the "Karneval" and a special Band for that seasion from Monheim: The "Bibi-Brunnen" - "Bibi Fountain". It had a pipe to that brewery and on occsion in the carneval seasion you could drink beer from the fountain whereas the rest of the year, it was just water...
Oh wow that’s crazy! And so cool! Do they still do the beer fountain for Karnival? Love the “bi-beeral”term 🤣. -J
Regarding Beer Mix drinks: If you think Beer and Coke is a sacrilege you may be interested in the "Goaß", which is Beer, Coke and Cherry liqueur. I like that a lot.
beer and coke is called "Schmutz" or "Schmutzbier" around my area (don't know if it is called that somewhere else as well). For non-german speakers, "Schmutz" would mean "dirt" and "Schmutzbier" would be "dirt bear".
Babies from the age of 3 days were fed with beer at that time. I suppose, this contributed a lot to the Reinheitsgebot
The beer was mixed with mashed grains, called Papp. The babies were fed with it, hence the term "Ich bin pappsatt"
Great video!!!
As professional beer lovers 🍻
So spontaneous and fun!
Thanks for the tips. Heading to Frankfurt and Munich in a week!
A normal Beer with Coke is added with a shot of cherry liquor on Top and is a famous drink in Germany, at least back in the days.
goaßmaß 😎👍
For a goaß not helles/normal is used but dunkles/dark beer
More of a local thing imho. In Baden-Würrtemberg that was uncommon and I heard of it the first time when I moved to Bavaria.
I have enjoyed wonderful German Beers when traveling in Germany. But I have to admit the one I miss in the summer is berliner weisse mit schuss.
My family is from Moenchengaldbach and they are all divided over over KÖLSCH or ALT bier. Just like they are divided on which is their favorite city. Some love Köln for the food and history. Others love Dusselfdorf for the elegance and fashion. As for the beer, I am more of a Kölsch fan. We can actually buy the Gaffel Kölsch at the liquor stores here in Toronto
On my last visit in 2019, we stopped at a very popular brewery in Köln, not Fruh or Gaffel, but another big one. We had been there a few times in the past and always enjoyed how the waiters kept the glasses coming. However, on this last trip we had a waitress and I do not know how she was employed there. Our beers were empty and they sat there for at least a half an hour without her coming with the tray of refills. We got one refill the entire time. She was not rude, and pretty sure that she was not doing it on purpose because the other table was dry as well. She appeared to not have a clue. Here comes the real kicker...at the end when we paid the bill my husband mistakenly gave her a 10 euro tip. He did not realize it until my daughter told him that he gave her a 10 euro tip and boy was he angry! On the other hand the waitress was thanking us so very much. And we are not novices to Europe and the German restaurant culture. We have been traveling to German for more than 30 years. LOL
😅 oh boy! Yeah it’s not very common in brew houses to have such a slow service. 🙈
I smiled so much during this video, one day we would love to do a prost with you both!
Wichtig ist immer auch noch, die Blume zu erwähnen, denn in anderen Ländern versuchen sie diese oftmals zu verhindern.
ich dachte immer das ist Unfähigkeit 🤔
@@arnodobler1096, nee, nee. Die geben sich da tatsächlich wirklich ganz große Mühe, dass da kein Schaum entsteht.
Alte Regel: Ein gutes Pils dauert 7 Minuten... es wird in mehreren Schritten gezapft, um die Schaumkrone stabil zu halten. Ich habe in sehr guten Restaurants sogar elektrische Kühlfächer für Biergläser gesehen, in die die halb gezapften Gläser reingestellt werden.
In englischen Pubs habe ich dagegen diesen bösen Plastikschaber gesehen, mit dem der Schaum aus dem Glas weggeschöpft wird. Baaahhh...
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@@gregorrom4405 erst durch den Schaum mit den kleinen Bläschen kommt der Geschmack des Bieres heraus - wahrscheinlich deshalb! 🤣🤔
Jen you finger counting ist a hilarious international mix of forward and backward😂
next a Weinprobe please, and then Schnaps 🤣
do you want to get us drunk? 😅
@@simplegermany Yes 🤣
This is so much fun watching 😄
Biergarten is also an interesting experience, quite popular here in Berlin.
You're wrong! Helles is NOT the official beer of the oktoberfest. Märzen use to be, but since the 90ths, FESTBIER is the one and only beer style you will find there. More malty than a helles.
It is yeast in the Hefeweizen.
My family is mostly from Hannover, and I love Kolsch beer, which I have consumed often from a glass reminiscent of a large wine glass (is it still sometimes served like that?). As for "cold" beers, my favourite has always been Dunkel, as we often visited my family in Bavaria at Easter, and it was always served slightly chilled, from being in a storage box outside, as I was told it should be a little warmer to express all the rich flavours. Thanks for all your videos!
Always try an fill both sides of the beer mat when my mate and I go for a session at the Uerige!
That does it... I've been on the fence on moving to Germany, and now, as a Texan, I HAVE to, if nothing else, to determine once and for all, what city has the best beer, Koln or Dusseldorf.
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Hi Jen and Yvonne..., * Excellent video and very informative, and thank you for sharing ! ! * Beautiful couple.. Your video was so good.., I watched the video not once, but twice ! ! Your friend always.., Michael Sean O'Brien in historic Uptown Butte, Montana.. * P.S.: Once again, thank you for sharing and have a beautiful day, and a beautiful week ahead, too.. Mike :)
Ich bin in Düsseldorf geboren und in Monheim am Rhein (Peters Kölsch) aufgewachsen: genau zwischen den beiden Großstätten.
Daher bin ich mit beiden Bieren großgeworden und auch mit den Eigenarten der Menschen aus den Nachbarstädten.
Bei allen Rivalitäten und Neckereien ist der typische Rheinländer doch eine offene Frohnatur.
Nein, man wird nicht sofort verprügelt, wenn man in Düsseldorf Kölsch bestellt...
Füchschen ist natürlich absolute Spitze, aber auch Malzmühlen Kölsch und Peters Kölsch sind wirklich gute kölsche Vertreter.
Prost!
Funfakt: Kölsch darf sich ein entsprechend gebrautes Bier nur nennen, wenn man von der Brauerei aus den Kölner Dom sehen kann.
Ein Kölschglas wird 'Flöte' nenannt.
Nun trifft mich doch der Blitz: Költ kommt aus Monheim? Habe noch nie von diesem Bier gehört!!!
Na dann ran ans Költ! 😉
@@simplegermany Danke, ich hatte meinen Kommi während eures Beitrages geschrieben...ohne das Ende bereits zu kennen. Lustig
All the mixed beer drinks are the german equivalent of craft beers, at least in taste. So when asking "why mix beer with soda?" think about it like "why make beer with blueberries?"
The non-bavarian name for Helles is Lager. I don't know if it's exactly the same as lager in english, but the roots are the same. Helles is not a Pilsner. But the main difference is that Pilsner has more hops. The yeasts might also be different, but not much.
hahahha „always following rules these latinos“as a hispanic this part made me laugh so much 🤣
The servers hahaha I would say they are dry and have like an ironic humor 😆! but not rude💖they have always been pretty nice to me and they always end up smiling because of my funny accent or bad German 😬😆.
Ps: You should do a „German Bread tasting😋“
"Helles" by Chiemseer is not a Oktoberfestbier. Oktoberfestbier, by rules, must be brewed with Munich water, and the Chiemsee is far away from Munich. The small but rising brewery "Giesinger", as being part of Munich, has successfully applied for a licence to brew official Oktoberfestbier.
I run half-marathons 3x a week, and to enjoy an alcohol-free Weißbier afterwards is the best natural choice to recover - forget about all the other chemical isotonic garbage that is being advertized.
I also think the best is kölsch
Thanks! 🍻
my favorite of your selection would be the Tegernseer.
you also should try strongbeer like Salvator
EKU28, though I'm sure you can get even stronger stuff today?
"Always following rules these Latinos." ¡Jajaja! Sadly, I've been witness, within my very Catholic family, that now kid is too young to have at least sip of alcohol. But I think in general, with adult family members present, 14 is also the usual starting age for drinking here. In my personal experience, bitter tastes have always been the worst for me, so it took me years, I think until I was 23, to get used to the taste of most alcoholic beverages and actually enjoy some.
I need to make a beer run,now. Yummy video.
One of the most enjoyable times I have had in Europe was at Peters Brauhaus in Köln. Our Kellner was as described. bawdy and rude in a fun way. And the Kölsch was the best beer I have ever drank.
My local brewery in my village in Cambridgeshire brews a 'Kolsch style beer'. The name used for it is, 'Colne Colsch' as that's the adjoining village! They do a good job with it as it's top fermented similar to British Pale Ale and Alt Bier which is a little like best bitter. Tastes a bit like Früh from the bottle but a touch stronger?
Cool, also nice and creative name! 😋 -J
Guys I love you :) And German beer culture to! Keep on rocking! :) Cheers from Moscow.
Great video! Even with Niederrhein roots I am feeling most comfortable in Cologne. So my favourite beer is also Kölsch. But I am more a Früh or Zion kind of girl ;)
I always thought that Gaffel is a little too "bitter/strong" in taste for me.
Always enjoyed a few in the smaller Brew houses like Päffgen. Trouble is my German wife doesn't drink beer and my Duesseldorf mates refuse to go anywhere near Cologne!
13:13 True. Warm beer is a no-go. And so is "Plörre" Meaning bland and largely tasteless beers. (I know a few people who say that about Kölsch, but since I haven't tried it, i am withholding judgement on that.)
Worse than that would be " Warme Plörre" - basically a warm version of the aforementioned "Plörre".
And beyond that there first comes a whole lot of nothing, followed eventually by the poor excuse of what Americans call "beer" such as Miller, Corona, etc. And beyond that disgusting bottled [CENSORED]-water at last comes the warm version thereof.
14:45 When it is really hot outside, alcohol-free Weizen is a surprisingly good drink to stay hydrated due to its isotonic nature. Edit: Nevermind.
33:00 That notion of "moving aborad" is similar to what is going on between northern Germany and Bavaria and (to my knowledge) is rooted in the "Free State of Bavaria" acting much like some sort of special snowflake - and is therefore often mockingly regarded as "Ausland" (foreign country) for that reason.
I asked my German language teacher what is the hellen one of my friend's ordered the other day?:) and she said, I can't beleive Im teaching beers in the class, but went over Bavarian beers for us :) cool culture.
No one mentions dunkel any more, but if you can find a Bavarian dunkel, you owe it to yourself to try it. Magical stuff.
I'm with Jen, I love an Altbier! Kölsch is not my thing. :/ Ah, I miss going to the breweries in Düsseldorf so much. Can't wait until we can do that again! Maybe we'll see you there some time! 😊
Regarding Beer and the Purity Law: Legally only bottom-fermented (eg. Pils, Lager, Helles) have to follow the german Purity law, meaning they have to contain only barleymalt, water, hops and yeast. Top-fermented beers, like ales legally are not obligated to follow the Purity Law. That is why Weizen beer is not against the German purity law even though it is made with wheat malt.
Since 2005, after a 13 year long law suit by a east german brewery, it is possible to get exempted from the Purity Law for individual Beer typs like craft beers or also historic types of beer.
Good to know! Thanks for sharing 😊
Fun fact No 2: During the production / brewing process a lot of other ingredients are added. Against the purity law? No, because it says (updated), that no other stuff should be in a beer when being consumed... which is the fact with technically mandatory "agents" that vanishes afterwards. 😉
Fun fact No 2: During the production / brewing process a lot of other ingredients are added. Against the purity law? No, because it says (updated), that no other stuff should be in a beer when being consumed... which is the fact with technically mandatory "agents" that vanish afterwards. 😉
But if you fill in a Weißbier before you have to wash out the glas with cold clear water! The Reinheitsgebot was also brought in because the church dont wanted beer which was brewed with drugs like Bilsenkraut,Bella Donna and other things which let a lot of parties becomes to wild!