1:00 "Belgium as a very different philosophy" Yup we like ALL kinds of Beers, not only one, the more there is, the better.

There still are strict rules in belgium too on certain beer styles , take for example trappist which is under strict rules and only 11 beers in the world may call themselves a trappist, of which there are 6 in belgium.

@mad555max

8 жыл бұрын

+Laurens “Buzze” Buyse trappist is a religious order of catholic monks and the second requirement is that the beer must above all be brewed within the monestary by the monks. however trappist is not a style of beer it's a brand name of sorts. the trappist beers themselves are of various styles.

@messi5601

4 жыл бұрын

@@mad555max are you belgian ?

@paleo704

3 жыл бұрын

@@mad555max Abbey style

Great explanation and that's why they are the top 2 beer makers in the world. I'm American and we certainly do have great beers here, the problem is that the good ones are few and far between

As a Dutchman, I'm quite happy both of our neighbour countries make the best beer in the world. Don't have a favourite between them either. My favourite style is either a Hefeweizen or a Trappist Dubbel.

As a German I definitely prefer the Belgian variety of beers

@jj_on_the_way

8 жыл бұрын

For me it is more "German", to underrate everything which isn't associated with Germany. Most of them/us complain about "bad" beer in the forein country.

@pepinus9878

7 жыл бұрын

+Sucker Punch you mad because someone doesn't have the same taste as you?

@pepinus9878

7 жыл бұрын

and that's a generalization of the typical German I think +Sucker Punch

@josephcastillo6742

3 жыл бұрын

As an American I stray away from American beer. Strictly German and Belgium for me, thank you

@alannctgarcia1039

3 жыл бұрын

as a Mexican, I just like to get drunk.

Google tag manual works?

While you are right that Belgian brewers create a big variety of beers, with spices and so on. The most common and sought after Belgian beers are still ales, lagers and pils though.

@ldoumen9904

7 жыл бұрын

I'll tell you why: if you want to drink the whole night, a pils will do perfectly. But with food pairing or on special occasions, the more expressive styles (and more expensive) are in play.

I'am Belgian an you have take a unknown beer for me :') take rather the Leffe or Orval...

@josephcastillo6742

3 жыл бұрын

I like to drink Leffe here in the United States. Orval is one I’ll have to try

@simonpeeters8745

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephcastillo6742 also try La Chouffe

I went to Belgium a few months ago to test my Dutch and to see what the place was like, and it was a truly amazing experience. I drank so many different kinds of beer I was technically drinking a different type of beer every day! And they each have their signature glasses, with original and unique designs, and the glasses are actually designed for that type of beer! For example the really foamy beers get a glass with a larger opening etc. Long story short I found out how truly magnificent Belgian beer culture is and it is insane I highly recommend trying them out for sure.

As a used to be beer snob from The States. Belgian Abbey Ales are the best to me. And still drink their Lambics

Well as much as there is variety of styles everywhere nowadays... there are many consistent Belgian styles.

German beer is beer, pure and simple. The German ‘Purity Law’ exists for a reason. The Belgians do make top quality traditional lagers as well (as do the Czechs, Austrians, Dutch, Danes, Poles, and others) but some of the Belgian varieties are cocktail liqueurs - enjoyable, yes, but cocktails nonetheless.

@davgg9621

4 жыл бұрын

Cocktail Liqueurs pfff. Just because you dont like a fruity beer doesnt mean that its not a beer. Go somewhere else whith your pure german Lager, there is no problem if you dont enjoy it. But Taste will always be subjective and just because someone adds spices or fruits to his recipe it wont make his brew less of a beer...

@shibe1367

Жыл бұрын

It is amazing how unique the different German beer styles are, despite them all being limited to the same ingredients. I like Belgian beer, but I have to commend the Germans on this one.

Your take on Belgian beer and the varieties is very inaccurate I must say. While we do have a huge variety with certain breweries mixing it up, those guys are only a tiny niche within the available varieties. Most beers, even microbrews and most of our international award winners are fairly traditional in style and dont use 7 or more ingredients or stuff you wouldnt normally expect in a beer. What a terrible summary of what Belgian beer is about. It's much more about different fermentation processes than throwing in an extra spice or two.

@serialced

7 жыл бұрын

Never seen an 11year old troll before. C+ for the effort

@herodot2593

7 жыл бұрын

Now where you say it, an 11 year old may indeed be drawn to a liquid mix of orange peel, wildflower honey, cinnamon, jasmine scent, maple syrup, and malt. And if this says "beer" on the label, he probably thinks that he's drinking stuff for grownups, which may further enhance the appeal. The real stuff though he won't really enjoy before he's 17 or 18. One can only hope for him that by then, his taste buds haven't been spoiled for good.

@ldoumen9904

7 жыл бұрын

hear hear

@MrEvanfriend

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Belgian brewing doesn't always require seven ingredients, but isn't hung up on just four. Belgian brewing is all about the yeast and the fermentation process, and this is why Belgian beers (and Belgian styles brewed elsewhere) are hands down the best in the world. German beer isn't bad, but nothing out of Germany can compare to a Rochefort 10 or a Rodenbach Grand Cru.

@Cazy243

6 жыл бұрын

Evan Friend Or a Chimay Bleu

There's 1500 styles of German beer. How is that not that many styles?

@metalmichew2

4 жыл бұрын

Nono, its diffrent lagers, pilseners, wheats or Abts that they brew, they dont brew tripels, dubbels, enkels, grand cru's, ipa's dipa's or whatever other thing. German beers are not styles their more regional diffrences, most of them are Lager style beers with an Abt or wheat in between. Not that it is a bad thing tho, german lagers exceed any other lager from belgium, holland, france, italie, the uk/british isles, or poland. The only lager that is quite different is a genuine Pilsener from Pilzen itself.

He's guessing...

Belgium have the best beers.

At least these 2 countries haven't sold out to the awful Craft industry.

Whats a realy good Belgian beer? I have never had any.

@Gonzolicious

6 жыл бұрын

Ryan Stucke Hoegaarden and Stella Artois are two very good Belgian beers. But if you're ever in Belgium I recommend trying the craft beers there.

@Diggnuts

6 жыл бұрын

Aaron, Are you fucking kidding? Imitation Weizen and macro brewery pig swill?? Seriously?

@Gonzolicious

6 жыл бұрын

Diggnuts Hahaha, hey man you may not like them, but I find drink them with no problem! Suggest a better beer to me, I'm being serious, I would love to try more Belgian beer! When I visited Belgium I mainly tried the craft beers, don't really know as much about the big Belgian beer brands.

@Gonzolicious

6 жыл бұрын

I still stand by my suggestions though, I enjoy those beers, and I wouldn't call it imitation Weizen, the only thing those two have in common is that they both use wheat, other than that not much. Witbier which is the type of beer Hoegaarden is used a different type of yeast and wheat and has other ingredients in the beer that the Weizen doesn't, and some spices.

@Diggnuts

6 жыл бұрын

Look, the image of Belgium being such a super beer country is a farce. In reality only a very select portion of craft beers are suitable for human consumption. The rest just sells due to the famed ingredient "hype"! The pils/lager stuff in Belgium really is worst than the Dutch horse-pis in general, tangy lob-sided watery head ache inducing rubbish. As for "craft" there are a few Belgian beers that are exceptional, mostly due to random chance, but hey! I would suggest Duvel, Westmalle Triple, Triple Karmeliet, St' Bernardus 12. That is about it for my taste and ability to live with a throbbing head. In general, Belgian beers almost always have something wrong with them.

Reinheitsgebot vs "Can you put it in beer, do it!"

@pascalmerschaudio

3 жыл бұрын

thats not true mate, the belgians quality is very high like the germans, but we have other rules for brewing

@andvil01

3 жыл бұрын

@@pascalmerschaudio I didn't say belgian beer was of less quality. Just that belgians are more free what to put in beer. I am more "belgian" in my brewing.

Fruili is an absolutely horrible choice to represent Belgium. They import it and give that stuff to tourists that can't handle the other stuff... Belgium does have a good variety but I would argue that it is not as big as even USA or Canada.. Not to say variety is a good thing, case in point: Bud Light Apple.

@ldoumen9904

7 жыл бұрын

It's not the quantity, but the quality that matters, most certainly in Belgium. And with the ancient tradition, the craftsmanship and the love Belgians put into the brewing process, it's no wonder that the whole Belgian beer culture is internationally protected by UNESCO. USA certainly has a lot more brewers, obviously, but most of their styles started as a certain Belgian beer style copy initially, and from thereon they took it further on to a more extreme taste, making this their own version. I was not going to say anything about light beers, because that's not beer nor a variety in our book, but this disgusts me more; Bud light Apple is absolutely not a beer at all.

@SuperSnoer

6 жыл бұрын

dude, I might be late on this one, but did you really just mention Bud Light against Belgian beers? Certainly this was a joke

@FlyingSaucerEyez

5 жыл бұрын

@@SuperSnoer It was the opposite in fact. Read carefully.

@SuperSnoer

5 жыл бұрын

@@FlyingSaucerEyez wow I must have been so shocked by reading Bud Light & Belgium in the same context that I misread his sentences. Thanks for pointing this out.

@hammothw4814

11 ай бұрын

Belgium has more varieties than Canada.

Most german lagers taste allright to good for me (im dutch) but the styles from belgium makes me switch style from a Dubbel to a tripel or a grand cru or even (the abomination itself) a lambieck. Theres way more tastes to.belgian beers compared to the german lager, tho the wheats from germany exceed ALL belgian wheat beers. Except for Hertog Jan, that wheat destroys even Franziskaner in my opinion.

German beer is OK, if a bit all the same, but Belgian beer is the best in the world.

@sfoffenbach6992

7 жыл бұрын

Go To a Little brewery in bavarian in a Little village there. Drink the Beer You will see it is the best beer in World. I was also in belgium sind Drink the Beer of them there is so a bog Different. German Beer is a lot better

@MrEvanfriend

7 жыл бұрын

Heinrich Kaspar If you think German beer holds a candle to Belgian beer, you are living a very bland and deprived life.

@herodot2

7 жыл бұрын

Belgian.... what?

@MrEvanfriend

7 жыл бұрын

herodot2 Beer. You know, a fermented beverage made of grain. The Belgians make the best in the world. The Germans make a couple good ones, but they mostly make uninspired bland beers that all taste the same. There's a reason Belgians never feel the need to mix their beers with cola or lemonade.

@herodot2

7 жыл бұрын

Belgians don't make beer. Beer-like lemonade drinks perhaps, but not beer. Of course there is no point in mixing lemonade with even more lemonade.

rename this to "I am german. Buck Felgium" -_-

@pepinus9878

7 жыл бұрын

he doesn't sound German, and why did you change the first letters of fuck Belgium

@pepinus9878

7 жыл бұрын

McClelland also doesn't sound German ;p (part of channel name)

@ldoumen9904

7 жыл бұрын

I am crushed

Leffe is my favourite. 6.6 and goes down perfect! Nothing else matter!

As a Belgian, lager beer is boring to compare with strong Belgium beer 🍻

I dislike when people speak of the Reinheitsgebot as a german hangup with purity in ingredients. It's not about Germans thinking that adding cherries to beer destroys a beer. The law (which is NOT in effect anymore) was ENTIRELY a way of keeping brewers from artificially raising the prices of fruit, wheat, and other potentially fermentable foods.

@MegaLaangweilig

8 жыл бұрын

+Marcownz747 well there is a law, wich is basically the same like in 1516 it didn't change much

@MatthewSmith-si8ks

7 жыл бұрын

Just say purity law if you're speaking English... It's still in effect, it's just more liberal than it once was.

@FlyingSaucerEyez

5 жыл бұрын

It's a law from a bygone era. Lots of German brewers are starting to break away from it.

All wrong plus what are you talking about sir take a sip or something

Well, German probably the best lagers in the world? Not really, when you have the Czech Republic making the best Pilsners.

@hoangle2897

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree with that... For Pils, Czech is the best... But for Weißbier,no one can challenge Germany

@hammothw4814

11 ай бұрын

@@hoangle2897 but no one cares, because Weisbier kind of sucks.

what is the guy talking about not that many types of beer in Germany. They have 5,000 different types of beer in Germany. That would take you 23 years of drinking a different type each and every day

@lukatim9958

7 жыл бұрын

There's 80+ million people in Germany. Belgium has 1150 different beers, and has a population of ~10 million. So per person, there's far less variety in Germany.

@MarieCindy

7 жыл бұрын

Fruit juice with malt..... you don't know Belgian beers. Clearly.

@thomastijn5

7 жыл бұрын

Belgian beer is way stronger than German beer tho. Drink Belgian beer in the same amounts as German beer and you will end up dead pretty quick.

@Speedy2619

7 жыл бұрын

I live in Germany what he mean is we dont experiment so much on beer all this types are very similar because we only use weed, hop and water

@FlyingSaucerEyez

5 жыл бұрын

There are not 5000 types of beer in German lol. Not even close.

The best beer is Belgian beer.

@hoangle2897

Жыл бұрын

Depend on type of beer Weißbier, Germany is the best Pils, Czech is the best

@Ghost-by2wp

9 ай бұрын

​@@hoangle2897Should be because Pils is from Pilsen

Wtf are u saying, not true at all

Früh is a German beer not Belgium

@Bruno-hk4om

6 жыл бұрын

look it up before you're talking shit

Belgian beer quality is higher then German's , it's a fact

@mtklima

8 жыл бұрын

+MorpheusVector Belgian beers are fun to drink. That's the main difference.

@pepinus9878

7 жыл бұрын

yea :D I'm 16 but never even drank German beer I think edit: and I don't rly like all beers atm but I think my taste will change because some beers that other people like, I find them taste awful

@DemonZest

7 жыл бұрын

Pepinus yes the more you drink beer the less bitter they taste ^^ you can still start with light beer or fruity beer

@herodot2593

7 жыл бұрын

Belgian beer isn't beer. It's a fact. If there is competition for German beer it is Czech beer. Belgian "beer" isn't part of the competition. That would be like admitting a painted donkey to a horse show.

@DemonZest

7 жыл бұрын

Herodot2 lol if you like to drink urine, good for you

Belgian beer is something I might drink if I don't actually want a real beer - which is never.

@dirk2518

4 жыл бұрын

Sven Richtmann this is the definiton of narrow minded, but do continue, we can appreciate our own beer then for ourselves.

@svenrichtmann6792

4 жыл бұрын

Dirk I was kind of exaggerating my position for fun. I’m a bit of a German beer purist, but I can appreciate all sorts. Besides, even if I drank only Belgian, there would still be plenty for you!

don't want spices in mybeer

@hammothw4814

11 ай бұрын

most Belgium beers don't have spices.

Germans have more than their fair share of shit beer too. Berliner Kindl and Lowenbrau ( Munich) for starters.

Blegium beer is 100 times better than German.

The 'german philosophy' is to make the most boring beer.

@coolair9187

8 жыл бұрын

+mtklima Right...bocks, doppelbocks, sours, kolsch, pilseners, lagers, kellerbiers, eisbocks,weizenbocks, hefeweissens, altbiers,schwarzbiers, helles, dunkels,dunkelweizens, festbiers,gos, marzen, helles bock, maibock, smoked biers, and on and on.

@pepinus9878

7 жыл бұрын

+Cool Air you agree with him or not? xD

@coolair9187

7 жыл бұрын

Pepinus Of course not. German craft bier is exploding right now. Maisel & Friends various ipa, chocolate bock, Ganstaller Brau making purely exceptional craft biers, Freigeist making exceptional ancient and sours, Monarchy making extinct biers like the Methusalem Johannisburger, a 10% altbier adambier brewed with red and black currents, Schneider weisse, tons of stouts, hybrids, wheats, schwarzbier/porter hybrids, and on and on. Those are just a few that I've had in the last 2 weeks. There are tons more. More variety than 95% of countries and do it better as well.

@GrInGo48311

6 жыл бұрын

I was not gonna bother about replying something to you, but after 3 comments of you, I couldn't stop myself. Every time I read your comments, every time you look more ignorant to me. If you have no idea about belgian beer you should shut up and go taste some. If you think that Belgians beers are only with fruits, it's another proof of your ignorance. Another possibility is that you are only trolling which I hope you are doing. Otherwise, you are really but really an idiot and ignorant.

@papichulio1

6 жыл бұрын

it does not matter that Germany is catching up in how many brands they have they are all verry simular in taste

German beer is weak. Its Belgian or Czech beer that is best. Even Austria beats Germany.

Belgian beers are fantastic. Everything from Germany tastes like Becks.

@markscott554

4 жыл бұрын

You have GOT to be kidding, or you're only had generic beer. How on Earth can a wheat beer taste anything like a Becks?

belgian beer is sickly it makes you puke..

@casvandendriessche8625

8 жыл бұрын

+metamaggot you whot m8?!? Got something against the best beer in the world?????

@sealcebbor1315

7 жыл бұрын

haha all the 900 beers are sticky and make you puke... ya right

@suzukirm125ify

7 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha loooool

@ldoumen9904

7 жыл бұрын

you mix everything with Red Bull hey.

@metamaggot

6 жыл бұрын

it's shite lol