The 10 Most UNDERRATED BEER STYLES You Need to Brew!
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2024
- Feeling stuck or need inspiration to brew a new type of beer? Here are 10 styles of beer that I think are underrated -- meaning I rarely ever see them at breweries, they are overshadowed by other styles or are not talked about much, but these beers are absolutely delicious and are well worth brewing.
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0:00 Intro and welcome
0:30 Beer 1
1:30 Beer 2
2:17 Beer 3
3:07 Beer 4
3:55 Beer 5
5:19 Beer 6
5:59 Beer 7
7:08 Beer 8
7:54 Beer 9
8:54 Beer 10
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In my opinion, Vienna lager, is also very underrated.
One of my locals breweries brew a Vienna Lager and it’s so good. Wish it was easier to find
I'd agree with that!
A style that helped start the American craft brewing revolution in the late 80's and early 90's is one nearly every brewpub and many homebrewers brewed regularly is American Brown Ale. A fantastic beer that is not very common any more.
It was sort of an honorable mention in the list along with amber ale, but I totally agree they are great beers and nobody makes them any more!
Mild ale was my favourite in the UK in the 70s. Dark coloured, with an alcohol content of 3% to 3.6%. Drank quite young but used to have a nice nutty taste. Considered to be an old persons drink.
milds are totally underrated. if you poke around in homebrew forums you'll see people still making them.
I need to make one!
I often make milds…. They’re grand off my beer engines !!
Kentucky common especially this time of year is worth an honorable mention. I brewed one up using yeast we wrangled behind our brewery and had isolated by Bootleg biology. Easy drinking like it’s cream ale cousin, but with a little bump in character.
Good one to suggest!
You, sir, are a man of culture! Malt beers are the best, much more interesting than hop beers, yet incredibly rarer.
I like variety!
My wife and I have been using Asheville NC for a halfway stopping point for vacation in the south. She just said yesterday that we need to plan a vacation in Asheville I agree.
Great stopping point! Green man is the best!
_Dunkelweizen_ is my absolute favorite style of beer!! It's so true, I don't know a single american craft brewery that makes them. Thank god we have many German imports nowdays💪
Brewing beer for a tap room is totally different than running a brewery that has to package most of its beer in kegs for other restaurants or cans for stores.
If I was to brew any if these great beers the sales team at my brewery would have a heart attack.
I used to brew a czech dark lager. And everyone said they loved it, but nobody bought it.
Münchener Dunkel should be on the list. One off my favorites
Excellent and true!
As a home brewer that likes to think I brew non popular beers from here in America, I really appreciated this video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
So many styles I need to brew. Thanks for the inspiration!! I currently have your Dunkelweizen recipe in my fermentation chamber right now. Very excited about having it on tap
Glad to provide it! I hope the dunkelweizen turns out good!
English bitter is by far my favorite.
Same here. Best bitter on cask ❤️❤️❤️
Doppelbock is my absolute favorite beer style! Just kicked a keg last week. I better start brewing soon so I can enjoy at the end of summer. I brewed a Dunkelweizen with Bonanza yeast from Omega and it turned out like chocolate banana bread, so good.
Very nice! Thats an interesting yeast I have yet to try!
English Bitters are awesome. I tried one for the first time a year ago or so at Memphis Taproom in Philly (RIP) where they had a casked English Bitter on their hand pull. This style went to the top of my list and I brewed it shortly after.
They're incredible on cask!
Excellent video as always. And well done on describing English Bitter so perfectly. I'm English and East Kent born and bred so it's a style dear to my heart. Also, Doppelbock is indeed an excellent beer that I've brewed once. It became absolutely delicious when I had almost drunk it all! That long lagering time is essential to realise its full depth of flavour with those bread crust notes.
Glad you enjoyed this one! I just finished up brewing another bitter so I hope you'll enjoy seeing that one on the channel soon!
Wonderful list, some of my favorites to brew!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I ran across a local spot that had a keg of Saint Arnold Brewing: Santo, described as a Black Kolch . Very interesting, and an easy drinking beer that I was surprised it wasn't more popular
One of my favorite breweries. Have not had that beer. Sounds fantastic
Thats a really interesting idea!
I never realized doppel bocks were so hard find. As Cincinnati has Bockfest every year in early March. Pretty much every brewery in the city during that time releases a bock.
Bockfest is great and well worth traveling to.
Maybe its a regional thing here but they are not particularly common. Now that I know bockfest is a thing I may need to experience it, sounds like my kind of fest!
Great video, really inspiring, going to have to brew a bitter. I just brewed a cream ale, it’s my absolute favorite to brew, a true summer sipper
Excellent! Those are both great for this time of year!
You are right, we need more variety, in 6 years of brewing I only brewed 3 of those.
Kentucky common and dark mild are regularly in my keezer. Bitters have been known to be in there also.
I just kegged/bottled my first dunkel weizen a week ago. Looking forward to trying it. The sample that I pulled from the fermentor was promising. So I’m with you. Good call!
Very nice! Yeah dunkelweizen is fantastic!
I work at a brewery that currently has English Ordinary Bitter and Schwarzbier on tap. We also brew a Pale and Dark Czech Lager that we serve from side pull taps. Sounds like your kind of place!
Yes it does!!!
Great list. If i ever had a Czech dark lager it was many years ago, but i'd love to find one now. And I think brown ales in general are under-represented, especially currently. I'd probably add smoked lagers to the list (using a large portion of beechwood smoked malt), done right they are a wonderful experience. Really enjoyed the vid.
I completely agree on brown ales, smoked beers can be fun but they are so divisive!
A brewery by me in northern Michigan Brews an excellent Dopplebock. Silver Spruce Brewing Company
Thats fantastic!
Almost kicked an amazing smoked Scottish ale that I brewed around Christmas and aged for about a month. came out to 9.5% and is right on point for all flavors. That was the best beer i've ever brewed so far and will brew again. I don't see a lot of Scottish ales, let alone heavy smoked Scottish ales. Highly recommend.
Awesome!
I was in Florida this past week there was like 4 brewery’s that dupplebock I was on heaven first time Ive see that in a while.
Wow! Not what I would expect to pair with Florida weather!
Brewed a ESB this weekend. One of my all time favs
They are delicious!
I think you missed the California Common and the Lambic with the Framboise being my favorite.
Those are great too!
If you’re attending Homebrew Con in San Diego, you should swing by Deft Brewing as they brew most of these styles.
I'll definitely put it on the list!
Great video! I'm actually watching this video with my English Porter in hand. It was my second ever all grain brew and can highly recommend making one. It is a delicious and apparently very beginner friendly beer to make.
Deciding on my next beer, tossing up between American Brown Ale or American Amber Ale. Need some good recipe suggestions
I don't think I'm quite ready for the more complicated ones on your list.
An amber or brown is a perfect next step, I think those would be quite delicious!
Not sure if they distribute where you are, but if you’re ever back in the Capital District, (maybe visiting Ommegang also), you HAVE TO go to Wayward Lane in Schoharie, NY. They specialize in traditional Czech styles and traditional British bitters and milds. I think you’d love them!
wow, that sounds heavenly.
I'm gonna have to check it out, thanks for the recommendation, that sound like my kind of place!
I'm a Kiwi and I like all the different beers styles. A ordinary best bitter 3.5 to 4% made with Fuggles very tasty and sessionable, I Iike a Brown Ale with Fuggles as well so tasty.
Cream Ale with Gladfields malted maize over flaked so good , lots more flavour.
Sour beers have become very popular , I make a good Kiwifruit/Strawberry Sour with Rakau hops/Huell Melon hops and a Feijoa Sour with Lallamond Philly Sour yeast , German Gose another.
Enjoy a NZ Pilsner and German Pilsners another favourite.
Old school West Coast IPA and hops, as much as I like the Haze craze gone nuts over here .
Great suggestions!!
Nice video. You mention not seeing Bitters outside of the UK. I happened upon Hogshead Brewery near downtown Denver that specializes in British cask ales. Awesome place. Cask conditioned and served via beer engine. The guy I talked to there said he was aware of only one other such place in the US - don't know where or the validity of that claim, but this place is really unique and their bitters are awesome; they have all three of the major styles.
That sounds awesome!
Big fan of Bitter, been brewing it, and recently did Dunkel Heffe, excellent. If you have never had a DH, look for a Tucher four pack.
Nailed it on the styles! The doppelbock I made did not use traditional methods, and it’s still an extremely delicious beer, although I’d like to try a traditional decoction mash for it in the future. Cheers Steve!
They are tough when done traditionally but its not completely necessary. I think it adds a nice touch though!
Decoction mashing is a good time, just be sure to plan on taking a lot longer of a brew day than you normally would. Last bock I did a decoction mash on took me most of the day from setup in the garage to yeast pitched and kettle cleaned.
Spot on braj!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great list! One of my underrated styles is the Cascadian Datk Ale.
definitely, and i keep forgetting about that style. needs to be brought back to combat the damn hazy trend lol.
Oooh yes! I have to agree on this CDA/Black IPAs were delicious and then sort of disappeared.
I’ve tried most of these but haven’t brewed them yet. Thanks!
They're well worth brewing!
Kia Ora from New Zealand - Love a good Bitters, you’re right so underrated as a drinkable beer - to be fair it’s the only one on the list I have brewed😂 looks like I have some inspiration for the coming year - as always great vid
Kia Ora! Glad you enjoyed!
A Dunkelweizen was the first beer I made from a Brewer's Best Kit that got me into homebrewing!
That's awesome!
about to brew my first ESB - great vid, FYI the Amazon link is broken for me. not sure if it is me or the link! Thanks for all you do!!
Fixed! Thanks for letting me know!
Number 1 and 2 are the beers I miss most from my exchange student time in the UK and my time in the Army in Europe. The local Pub had Courage Best bitter and Archer's ordinary bitter, I usually started off with the Courage, and then to the Archer's the rest of the night because of the 50p difference in price. The Dunkelwiess, when doing our training rotation in Grafenwöhr, Germany, at the end of the rotation, we'd pack our platoon's equipment into another's container, then fill our platoon's ISU 90 8X10 storage container with enough cases of Maisel's Wiess and Dunkelwiess (brewed in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany) to make sure the load wouldn't shift.
Nice! Nobody ever told me that you could use beer cases for blocking and bracing but it sounds like a great method haha
@@TheApartmentBrewer the ENTIRE ISU was full, so yes, it was blocking and bracing itself. Only bad thing was that in order to get more, we had to return all the bottles and cases (were like milk crates but for 20 .5 liter bottles) before we could order more.
Troegs in Hershey, PA has Troegenator, a doppelbock as a staple in most of their variety packs.
Thats a great beer!
Very cool video man!!!!
😎👍🏻👍🏻🍺🍺
Thanks Tom! Glad you enjoyed it!
I started brewing 'cause I can't find good bitter where I live. Good best bitter on cask is my favorite beer 😊
i had a czech dark lager a while back and it was oh so goood! dont forget the saaz
They are truly fantastic!
Kentucky Common would be on my list. Havent brewed one myself yet but I've had a couple and they are dang good.
One I till have neither tried nor brewed before!
@@TheApartmentBrewer sounds like you've got a future episode then!
Obviously the Hazy IPA is the most underrated beer style.
Lol obviously
I suppose another underrated beer style that you don’t typically find is a Maibock. I know you brewed one a few years ago. I’ll have to make one . Nice video.
Oh good call!
Red Oak in North Carolina specializes in german lagers. But unfortunately they only sell their Amber Lager and Helles in stores. The rest of them like the Doppelbock are seasonal and only found at the brewery, and i can never make it there time before theyre out
You should probably visit Human Robot and Forest & Main in Philly. Both places brew a bunch of these mentioned in the video and some i haven't seen anywhere else.
Would have to say that Mild Ale is very underrated. It used to be the most popular beer in the U.K until about the 1970's or so. Easy to brew, but hard to make a good one that isn't on the watery side.
Absolutely!
There are some fine bitters here in Montreal, right in my neighborhood, actually! They’re my go-to beers around Hochelaga/Angus/Plateau
I need to get myself up there some time!
@@TheApartmentBrewer You’re not too far away and it’s definitely worth the visit!
There isn’t much of a cask culture here, but they’re alright from a keg of course. La Choppe in Angus has a series of bitters and they focus on English ales primarily. They are a pretty small brewery and their styles rotate by the season. For a more wide-ranging brewpub I really like Boswell, my favourite place in the city (their salmon tartare is incredible).
Altbier is great and very underappreciated. We make one at our brewery that I’m fond of, but of course I’m biased.
Thats awesome!
11. Biere de garde :)
Awaiting your video about this one !
I need to get that going!
I'm thinking a dunkelweiss is in order! Thanks! I'm a big fan of British Mild--my lawn mower/snow blower beer of choice (depending on season).
I really need to get around to making a mild!
Dark mild, Keptinis, Baltic Porter.
I had to look up what keptinis is, I had no idea and now I'm intrigued!
@@TheApartmentBrewer it is definitely something that takes time. I think you would have a lot of fun brewing it. It is truly unique and an amazing beer. Cheers!
Interesting you should start the list with Bitters... that's next on my list, after my saison clears the fermenter.
They're underrated!
The most underrated Style imo here in Germany is the Dortmunder Export.
Those are delicious!
I had a pleasure going to Germany in February, for work training, and in 10 days being there I've tried many many beers 😂 and the most memorable beer that I've had was Konig Ludwig Dunkel at a 300years old pub - that beer was phenomenal!
Unfortunately we don't have it in Canada, I wish I could make beer that is as delicious as that one was.
If I ever see Altbier or Czech Dark lager on tap at a brewery I know I'm in a good place
Same here! #lagerlife
I’m doing the cream ale this weekend using the recipe you shared. Just wondering though, I wont be adding anything to my water like you did yours. Do you think that matters? I will just be using the spring water that I usually do.
You should be just fine with regular spring water for that one
@@TheApartmentBrewer ok thanks for responding. You made this one sound so good I want to do my best in it this weekend and just wanted to make sure. I also want to get into the understanding of water profiles. Thanks again
I brewed a doppelbock following your recipe. I haven't been home much to drink it, so I guess it's lagering now. Ended up getting some heavy dulce de leche flavor, very complex.
Very nice!
Dunkel weizen definitely will be be my next beer or maybe a marzen 😂
Good choices!
I’ve made 5 out of 10 of those. Doppelbock is the hardest I’ve ever made.
It very well may be the toughest style!
Agree about Bitter, had one recently made by our local brewery and really enjoyed it. Actually friend of mine, who is not into breeding or craft beers, tried one he enjoyed it too even asked where I got that beer :) people drink light lagers and not even trying other styles
Its a great gateway beer!
Dunkel Beer is a very rare beer to brew.
True!
Take note commercial brewers. Everyone is tired of having 6 IPAs, 1 stout, 1 lager, and 1 seltzer 😂😂
Dunkelweizen - love this beer and it’s easy to brew.
Witbier - probably my favorite style of beer, but i never see any local breweries have this on tap.
Brown ales - another beer I love, but never see on tap :/
Hahaha - preach! Couldn't agree more!
Belgian single/patersbeir/einkel is delicious but almost never found. Great on to brew to get a yeast cake for a double or triple going…
Very true!
I saw Green Man wish I had bought some
English Barleywines. They're kinda like Dodge Vipers, way more balls than most people can handle.
Hahaha thats awesome!
Troegs makes an awesome Dopplebock called Troegenator
Yes they do!
Kveik doppelbock?
Rye beers?
Oh yes
What? You mean to tell me there's other beer styles than IPA/hazy IPA?
Whaaaaat
Eisbock
Yes!
My local brewery makes a beer they call a doppelbock. It is, to my palate, the best beer I’ve evhad. I’ve bought some other doppelbocks but it tastes nothing like them.
Very nice!