Actually, with the "hladinka" you get the beer very neer the line that is marking the 0,5 liter and then they will just fill the rest with the foam (also "hladinka" literally means "on level"). Also, we usually consider beer without foam as a poor quality one.
iam czech and i dont know if low quality is the exact term, more like that its old, because the foam shows the freshness and that the bartender just poured it, without foam it seems like some old forgotten beer
Hello, here is a person who drinks beer almost every week and even has a certificate for tapping beer (quite normal for a person who studies the field of hotel management, a field directly intended for customer service) let's take it from the beginning - MILK - more foam, almost no beer. I say almost none, mind you. The foam of our Czech beer is fluffy, creamy and very "firm", which means that the drink is sweeter as a result. It must be drunk as quickly as possible due to oxidation, which harms the beer and the foam. SNYT - as he said, due to the fact that there is some less foam in the beer (as it is a small beer 0.3 poured into a glass 0.5), the beer does not oxidize so quickly. It also makes the beer very pleasant and overall sweeter. ON THE LEVEL - standard beer taps in all Czech restaurants and pubs. We have glasses of size maybe 0.6 - 0-7, there is a line on this glass with 0.5 where the beer is tapped, the rest is foam which again helps against oxidation. Also, thanks to this creamy foam, the beer will slowly but surely run out, which means that within one to two minutes, 0.1 dcl of foam will turn into beer. But of course everything depends on the customer's taste and preference. We Europeans don't like UK and US beer because you don't have the right foam, because of that the beer loses its value, taste, beauty and spoils faster.
In Belgium the amount of foam and way of tapping will often depend on the kind of beer. After all while still mostly local beer in the pub there will be many kinds of beers being served, mostly because if you just search online then you'll probably find multiple breweries close by no matter where you are. Personally I've got one down the street and one on the next street, but I've never searched online so I might be able to find more in my town. And even then this is a pretty small country so you can get beer delivered on the same day from the different side of the country but that doesn't change that there are a shit ton of bears some like Stella, Jupiler, etc. which people around the world might very well know. But the really good Belgian beer is are those you probably wont find outside Belgium. Also to all Germans all I want to say is, no your beer ain't better and it never will be. I don't know why American's always think yours better but it ain't it just the same as American's thinking "French fries" are French when even the French know that it's Belgian so don't get any ideas. 👀
There one beer of the type. There is only one dark beer, one 10%, one 12%, maybe one fruit beer, and Kofola which is our version of Cola, for kids and drivers.
Never tried to mix dark and light beers, but I find dark beers to be sweeter and thicker, so I'm surprised the dark beer doesn't go to the bottom of the glass. Dark beers might look intimidating, but they are really delicious by the way.
I'll bet you that if you go to your local pub and ask for a milk, they'll just give you a literal glass of milk cause they won't have a clue what you're talking about!
In Portugal, if a bartender serves you a foamy beer, he'll get slaped 😂. We just hate it. Usually your boss teach you how to serve beer with a foam of like 1 finger height
The thing with the foam is, no one is robbing you of anything. The glasses are actually 2-3 fingers more than 1 pint (or 0.5 liter, which is the most common ordered amount) and good bartender targets the mix so that if all the foam would dissolve it would be exactly that. Otherwise the foam is natural, very thick and rich in flavor, it actually forms from a protein in a beer and the gas comes from the fermentation process, it's not pressurized or anything.
@@Ga11ifreyan I don't know what you mean. I am reacting to the UA-camr's comment about video abou beer in the Czech Republic. And I can atest that this is how it's done here.
As a czech citizen. I must say that the foam is actually very important. 1) the aesthetics of the whole thing 2) the foam protects the beer from oxidation 3) it shows the quality of service. As mentioned by several fellows, a good foam hat means clean, wet and cold glass, good beer and propper pressure in the tap system. 4) the amount of foam depends on the style of pour. But that makes a whole chapter.
Exactly an american beer without foam looks like a beer that i poured hours ago and forgot to drink it. The perfect way is that the glass is covered in condensed mist with a nice thick cap of foam.
Modern way to tap beer is under an angle and in one go. For the old guard that is a big no no. Making it in one go in order to quickly serve it after it has been order by a client. Dating back just a 10-15 years, everybody just had a couple of beers every day so the bartenders just had always 5 or more beers sitting under the tap and made it in 2 or 3 goes without ever lifting the glass from the table. That way the foam stayed nice and rich and the beer itself lost some of the air and made you less likely to burp. All the 40 year olds and older guys frown upon getting beer tapped in 1 go.
To clear a few things: - One pub usualy serves beers from one brewery, you'll usually find light one (3,5-4,5%), stronger one (4,5-5,5%) and some special (dark one, ale, wheat etc.). But on a street you'll find few different pubs, each with other beer brand (brewery). - The foam is really creamy and dense, the mlíko is about 0,2l of beer, šnyt is 0,3l, hladinka (normal beer) is 0,5l. The amount of foam changes the taste of the beer and also how much you would burp afterwards and it's contraintuitive: tho more fome, the less you would burp (the bubbles in the foam are CO2 which is naturaly in the beer, the more goes out via foam, the less in your stomach). - The head protects the beer from oxygenation from the air, thus keeping the taste of the beer intact. Just let sit a beer for a while and you'll notice the difference. As beer drinking is done usually for a few hours when you're in pub with firends, you want to stay it good for a while. - American beer uses differnet kind of barley than european deas. Its lighter (both in color and in ABV) and it makes more soap like foam, eg. big bubbles that are not so stable. The reason you blow away the foam is because it does (historicaly and sometimes even now) tastes like soap. The "european" foam is just CO2 with beer around it and it also tastes much like beer, only a little bit sweeter. Most of the biggest breweries in the US also use not a barley malt only, but they are adding corn syrup as american malt sometimes doesnt have enough sugar, further adding to the soapiness. (just to be clear, US culture of home brewing is huge and awesome and produces tons of great beers, but the biggest brands are just cheap flavoured water, sorry)
This needs upvotes. Also the size of the head in case of hladinka does not taking anything from the volume of the beer - 0,5l mark is around the upper part of the handle.
additionnaly, in Belgium at least, most American beers would actually NOT qualify as beer. In my country, beer must be made with barley malt. No barley ? You can't legally call it a beer (I'm serious it's in our law). So the American thingy with the corn malt would 1) looked at funny, 2) forbidden to call itself beer.
In Germany the foam is a sign of quality: how firm it is , without large bubbles and how long the head last. We call it the "flower" of the beer and it is important to have it. Without it we would think the beer is old, stale or the glass is dirty.
Exactly. I am drinking beer in the UK, they sometimes do a beer in pour and not even angle the glass, and I think a lot of the beer was foamy like shown here yuck
Under the communists we had the "Lenin" test - you stuck your chin in beer and if you had a chin like Lenin's, the beer was fine. The communists didn't like the comparison very much, but what could they do - we didn't say it out loud very often, but when you had a "On Lenin" beard, everyone knew right away that you were parodying Lenin. :D
You should really visit Czech Republic. They are basically experts in beer. I've tried beers around the world but nothing is compared to the original Czech ones, specially draft in pubs.
Czech guy here, German beers compare very well. We have some bad beers, they have some and we have many amazing ones and so do they. A German maltser made the first batch of pilsner type beer in Plzeň and that then spread both to Germany and Czechia as the most common beer brewed. Then Belgium makes different types of beer like trappist and is one of the best beer countries in the world in my eyes and many other's. I even traveled to Greece last month and found a pub with beers from microbreweries on tap and even though one would think that Greeks don't know how to make beer, I didn't find a single one I didn't like. Good beers can be found anywhere, it's just that you can find them more easily here. So yeah, if you want to find good beers, you don't have to necessarily travel the world for them. Find a pub with microbrewery beers local to you and go there, I'm willing to bet that you'll find beers to your liking there, since the people usually love their craft and try to perfect it. They have to drink their own beer, so they strive to make it good and at the same they are not restricted by corporate shennenigans.
Germany and Czechia have good beers, but lack variety and the will to experiment. Sure, you will find some 500 pilsners in Czechia, and you can find just as many all roughly equally good "Weisse" in Bavaria (rinse and repeat for other regions and types) - but you can't beat Belgium on being the overall best beer country. There's just something for everyone.
The restaurant is called Červený jelen (means Red Stag) and is in very city centre of Prague. And Janek was right as always - the food is amazing and the cubistic architecture combined with modern renovation is just the cherry on the top. Check also Kantýna - with own butcher shop even before entering the restaurant...
Not to be a hater, but the reason beers in america dont have head and people there dont want foam might just be the general quality of the beer. We like the foam, because the foam tastes good, because the beer is really good.
Well beer is generally seen as cheap alcohol in the US and the goal is to get drunk. In Czech Republic, the goal is to enjoy the taste of the beer and the drink itself. This is why breweries care about the way the beer is tapped and why no normal czech person would ever get a beer in a bottle in a pub - the difference in taste and quality is immense! The buzz from the alcohol content is of course a welcome side effect, but it is by no means the primary function and purpose.
They were in Prague, Czechia. Which means you cannot judge their beer because it is literally the best in the world. And tipping in Europe is not expected, but really welcome. You don't have to leave 20%, but 10% can make waiters/bartenders day a little better.
dude. you have to understand that CZECH is home of the beer. its tradition and a lot of experience pasion. the beer made for american market is not even on the same level as the cheapest beer in czech dude. trust me
Aaaaaaaaand a little FYI about the tipping in Czech republic (I am a waiter working in a pub situated quite near the Červený jelen, so I am not making anything up): It probably is not as important part of a salary of the staff here as it is in the US, but if you do not tip, waiters will think that you were unsatisfied, that they did a poor job, that something went terribly wrong. Basically leaving 10% is a nice way to show that everything was fine, more than 10% means that everything was excellent and less that there were some gaps that ruined your experience a little.
Some places actually put the glass on a weight so people could see that they get exactly (or more than) 500 ml of beer. There a two kinds of foam. One is the white, light and "hard" which is mostly air and the other one is creamy and slightly yellow, which has a much higher content of beer. Based on that, there are two main styles of pouring in the Czech Republic (depends on the brand of beer mostly). You either do the "Hladinka" (from the video) where you either pre-pour a bit of foam and finish it with beer or "Nadvakrát" ("Twofer?") when you pour the beer once in a way it foams up more and then finish it with just beer. That way adds more of the "hard" and "bubbly" foam and the beer is a little harsher. It's similar to milk coffee drinks. You have cappuccino that is 50/50 foamed milk and steamed milk and latte that is mostly steamed milk and with a little bit of foamed milk on the top. If the beer doesn't have a head, it turns bad and stale very quickly. The foam adds about 10-15 more minutes to enjoy the good flavour and also gives it another layer of taste and consistency.
i love my german beer. but if i have to choose, from which country i wanna drink beer, i say after germany only austria and czech^^ cause they are very very close to us. all other beer is piss water. sry 4 my englisch ;) greets from germany.
There are a huge number of different ways to tap.... a lot of beers have their own 'rules', even. Country specific example: in Holland the head is 2 fingers thick. In Germany they'll tap a lager in two phases; after the foam sets a bit, they'll fill up the glass, giving you a 'crown' of foam. The amount of foam above the edge of the glass needs to equal that below the edge. Guinness foam has nitrogen in it, making it dense and creamy. But as many others said, the basic rules are the same: always start with cold, wet, clean glass. If your foam dies too soon, it's a dead giveaway. Dirty rinse water, a greasy glass or some newbie adding soap incorrectly are a few possible reasons.
Youre getting the Same ammount of beer as in the US, the Glasses are just bigger so same ammount of beer just with the extra space is filled with delish foam.
in US you will have pint (or how they call it, it's like European small beer around 0.3 L) of beer, we have half liter, there is no pint of beer + foam, when foam falls down, it will turn back to beer and you should have proper half liter of beer
Beer has to be poured in a clean glass. First water with (special) soap, then clear the soap of with pure water, then DRY the glass if you are drinking high alcohol beers (Marc from Belgium). FYI, this is how it's done in Belgium: ua-cam.com/video/FAQn7yizb_U/v-deo.html
I think the foam thing is matter of different styles of beers. In America are common pale ales, while in Czech is common pilsner type beer. Usually here in pubs you can get normal, maybe Šnit and Řezané (light and dark mix) beer. And I have an experience, if you order simply "beer", they will serve you the best on tap.
@@tommerker8063 You will be able to understand that this is an intentionally tapped beer that is called milk. They pour it into a pint, but they charge 0.2 l, so it's a lot cheaper than the classic pint. And people want it because of the taste. It's different. But that is beyond your understanding.
This video is from the Czech Republic, they are professionals in brewing beer as one of the few countries that knows how to make and drink beer + they drink more beer than the Germans :D
Yes, we are a nation of drunkards, but there is one secret... The joke is that most ordinary Czechs prefer lighter beer. Mostly 10 degrees, which has an alcohol volume around 4%, so you can drink more... :)
Buddy, you know nothing about beer :D Czechs invented THE most quality beers period, it's even named by our cities where we brewed them like Pilsner (Plzeň) or Budweisser (Budvar). You won't get milk or šnyt basically anywhere but here. And there is actually two types of foam - wet and dry. You might be familiar with the dry one, you can blow off the foam, but the wet one, NOPE. There is no way you can blow it, because it is wet and heavy, like a cream :)
What he shows is s Czech thing. Us Germans like beer to have a head, too but not in this way. Most important is the the marking to which the glass has to contain beer or we would feel cheated. Another difference would be the top. Germans like a little hood, which others would remove Like they show with the dirty glass It's a quality thing, too: If in Germany you see beer without much foam, chances are the glass isn't cleaned/rinsed well, the beer isn't well/freshly drafted ("Tröppelbier") or stale. Tip: Use your napkins, don't use standard lipsticks and chapstick only sparingly, aka really only when going outside again. 😏
Yeah, its very easy to see a badly cleaned glass - the bubbles on sides are very easily noticable and the head of the beer looks much more like soap and it goes away much faster - this happened to me in july, the guy tapped the beer, put it on the counter, before I even put my money on the counter, half of the beer head was gone. Also, it is not as much of a czech thing as it is special for this 1 brewery - Pilsner Urquell. This is the most popular czech brewery and their beer is consumed the most. Because of this, they make a big deal out of this tapping culture. The dark beer they used is from a brewery owned by Pilsner, its called Kozel. But generally, this kind of tapping is not common for most breweries. There is 1 standard way to tap a beer, which is filling the glass with beer JUST UNDER the 0.5L line (like 0.45) and fill the rest of the glass with foam, meaning the total volume of beer is 0.5L. For Ryan: The function of the head is super important. You know what happens to beer, when you set it down, forget about it for 1-2 hours and come back to it. Ignoring the temperature, the tase is awful. Thats because it oxidized. Oxidized beer tastes extremely bad. The head protects the beer from coming in contact with oxygen in the air, stopping the oxidation process completely. Of course, the head will slowly disolve, but you can see the head is very thick and creamy, it wont go away nearly as fast. And also, you would be surprised how liquid the foam is. It is very drinkable.
as a czech, I feel low key offended that someone is even asking this question...it is a silly question and anyone who asks it knows nothing about beer. american beer is a bastardized version to a point where I refuse to call it beer... this was kinda painful to watch
Buddy you forgot one thing. You probably never taste good beer. Stand up from chair, visit some places in Czechia and taste our beer. And if I say domě places I dont mean Prague, Karlovy vary or Krumlov... Try Plzeň the cradle of Pilsner beer or České Budějovice where Budvar (Budweiser or Czechvar) is brewed. Than you can visit some of our "medieval taverns" one is in Písek the other in Dětenice... It is lot to see here and if you only look on PC screen or YT videos you gona miss that feel.
1) One brand usually means one brand of brewery. The brewery usually makes more types of beer according to the sweetness or kind (lower fermentation, top fermentation, 10°, 11°, 12°...18°, pale, amber or dark...rye, wheet, oat...IPA, alcoholic or non alcoholic, pasteriezed or not). I worked for a small brewery and we made 14 kinds of beer. Our pubs usually had 3 differend kind of it (some less, some more) so they asked which one you want. 2) So, beer last time see the air before just at brewhouse when is produce. Since than it is kept under it´s own CO2 or under the produced one - because it lays down and it separates it from the air to make it fresh. The air degrades the beer so it tastes bad. That´s why a good bartender starts with foam to keep it as fresh at possible. If you left here stay the beer too long on the table, a lot of men don´t drink it and want a new one. 3) And yes, the pipe has two ways to tap it - on just for beer and one to add the foam. Usualy it is set that some foam comes with the beer the normal way and the seccond way it just fot more foam - for example for mlíko (milk).
You can get a 'Schnitt' also over here in Bavaria. It's just a beer that is tapped faster causing a lot more foam and less beer. And it is of cause cheaper. In Bavaria where beer is served as 1/2 or one liter it is usefull if you don't want to go for a full glass of beer, maybe because you still want to be able to drive home with your car. You often order ''Schnitt' as you last beer of the evening.
Milk is my favorite. The fact is, that the beer is completely different in US and here in Czech, that also makes the ,,foam" tasting different. When you draft the beer correctly to the cold, wet glass, the foam really tastes like a velvet. The beer culture in Czech republic and EU in general is on a different level. Hope you have a chance to visit CZ one day and you taste all of those!
I lived and worked in Dordrecht for a year or so,I walked into a local bar and immediately realised I was in the wrong place. I couldn't walk straight out without ending up in trouble so I ordered a beer in Dutch. There were two huge dockers each side of me, they both looked down at me and one of them shouted to the barman "no froth on his beer he's English", everyone laughed, and it became my local. Best satay and cheapest beer in the town.
Simply put. That's beer. The one without foam is not. Why? Filtered beer has a hard time producing foam, which means all the good stuff is gone. You basically drink the famous Pisswasser from GTA V. Filtered beer sucks and tastes more or less like boring mineral water with color.
1 Beer Brand on tap is usuall... Tho the brand has usually 2-4 variants and they all taste different. But its rare to see 1 Pub with many brands... This style of beer (Pilsner) requires quite fast consumption of the keg... Kegs here are 13 Galons. They cant have keg opened for a long time as the beer inside will go bad so they keep 1 brand to keep the need volume pumping through the tubes :) Tho dont try the Milk draft with american or british beer... it wont work. Tho the foam bubbles are universal :)
I would trust the Czechs to know how to serve the best pilsner, just as I would trust them to make it in the first place. (I would trust the US to make something that vaguely looks like lager, render it freezing cold to hide the foul taste and then attempt to use it to get drunk at minimal cost - wildly different objectives.)
That is not EUROPEAN beer, this is definitely a czech speciality, and I'd say probably maybe even a speciality inside czech republic because I have been there and I don't remember seeing anyone drinking "milk" or anything like that. Should watch a video on german pils pouring
You know, everybody thinks, Germans, especially Bavarians are the ones, who understand beer. They drinks it from huge cups, but you know 😀 No shit Czechia is connected with the beer, as same, as Russians, and vodka. For thousand years. So no surprise for me. I live in Slovakia (maybe you guys, or your parents remembers Czechoslovakia.), and I can only recommend you going to Prague. Czech Republic is so beautiful ♥️ I was in Prague at the beginning of the September, and I'm already missing that country. J
No, go to Brno! 😆 The beer culture there is greater because all the good pubs and breweries are concentrated in the city center, it's like one big beer drinking skansen 😅There are superb pubs in Prague too, but they are far apart and there are lots of turists traps.
Surprise.... vodka is the Russian copy of dutch Jenever, when Tsaar peter the great came to visit dutch shipbuilders in august 1697 , he took home a little more then just knowledge about ships, he also took the " how to make Jenever guide" with him ( and the Brits did the same making it Gin ).... B|
Czech lager without foam makes no sense. It's either a dirty glass or beer is too warm. On the other hand sour beer, Belgian beer or ale without foam is ok. But most Czechs only know Czech lagers so for them beer without foam is a huge no no :)
@ 1:36 What you see is a full glass of beer, man. This beer foam is so thick that when it fully disintegrates, the "liquid" beer level will be reaching the upper part of the handle. This is a pretty extreme way to tap a beer and few people order it. Your mistrust probably stems from the fact that you don't know a proper beer. I have quite some doubts, whether the thin tea you think of as beer in America could be tapped this way 😉@ 7:41 He said there is only one beer on tap. But he added: "meaning a brand". As I already explained somewhere else, that usually means they have at least 3 types of beer of that brand: standard pale lager ("12°"), slightly thinner one ("10°") and dark lager 🍺 @ 8:21 They are not waiting longer, he phrased it poorly. You saw how quick it was tapped. And the beer is served immediately. What he meant was it takes some time for the dark bear foam to disintegrate. And it looks fancy. I think it might be the only way of pouring dark beer over pale one without mixing them: to pour it on top as a foam. BTW in my country (Slovakia) you would usually get this drink the other way around: pale lager on top of the dark one. But the shown one tastes better to me personally 👍
you really need to get out of america and visit europe, your eyes will be opened so much by near enough everything, we just cannot understand your lives, you say land of the free, but everything is so restricted
I guess that the video was mistakenly uploaded on your other channel? I'd definitely say it fits better here 😉 Also, it would be great if you could link all your other channels in the "channels"-area of your channels. That way, it would be much easier to find them...
Here in Belgium, pint glasses are smaller, more like a regular glass because of the richness in the beers. It's a bit of a gentleman's rule to have the foam about ¼ of the full height if you can do that, since you want people to enjoy as much of their drink without losing the flavors.
I must say that this type of pouring is not 'European' but typical for Czech Republic. In Belgium, were we also have a bit of a beer culture, you get fired as a bartender if you pour the 'milk' or a beer with no head. Around here, the head of a beer is supposed to be about 3cm thick. Anything more will cause the foam to sink in and anything under will not completely seal the beer from contact with the air. A good bartender can pour 100 beers and the height of the head will only differ a few milimeters between them.
The foam of certain beers is an integral part of their flavour. Pilsners and weissbiers especially benefit from a larger head. Ales and commercial lagers not so much, although Irish stouts also have a big head during the two-pour serve, which eventually settles into a smaller one. Beer without a head is essentially flat, and not especially tasty by and large.
Czech here: My biggest culture shock in the US was when we went to a pub, and instead of each of us getting a pint of draught Guinness, the waitress got us four glasses and a jug of draught Guinness in the middle of the table.
I haven't been to many European countries, but I' European myself (Norwegian). I have been to Norway (obviously), Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Turkey, Germany and Spain. I have NEVER seen beer served with that amount of foam!! It would leave you with like....1/8 of the beer you paid for, and it would be completely depleted of CO2. I would have been protesting LOUDLY!! :D
Normal beer /hladinka should have 0.5l after the foem settles down. Šnyt/Schnitt with much more foam is considered as a small beer (0.3l) in larger glass. Mlíko/milk is own category as well the beer with no or nearly no foam. So no, you are not getting ripped from anything you paid for, you will geat exactly what you want and like :) CO2 is not good in any beer (even some bars are using it) and a good beer place is rather pumping the using the pressured air from a tank (like you have seen on the video). It requires more often cleaning compared to CO2, but the beer tastes much better.
in the Netherlands we just measure how much foam is needed with our fingers we hold them horizontally to the glass and if our Index finger and ringfinger cover the foam part and only the foam part it's a perfect tap beer
Yes, in the Czech Republic we have a really thick beer foam. And you could say that the foam is thick like milk. Our foam is made from beer and there is not only artificially finished foam, it is just beer in a different form.
The creation of the beer foam The formation of beer foam is a natural process that basically requires two factors: Protein and carbonic acid. The basic ingredients, hops and malt, are responsible for the formation of these two factors. The carbonic acid is created in the fermentation process. Here, the yeast converts the malt sugar contained in the beer wort into alcohol and carbon dioxide. The actual process of foam formation then takes place when the beer is poured. When the beer is poured into a beer glass or mug, the carbon dioxide dissolves and gas bubbles consisting of carbon dioxide and air rise to the surface. Molecules are deposited on the surface of the carbonic acid bubbles. These are mainly proteins that form an elastic skin around the bubbles. The bubbles are deposited on the surface of the beer and combine to form a foam crown. The degree to which the beer foams when poured depends on two factors. On the one hand, the temperature is important. In principle, if the beer is too cold, it foams too little; if it is too warm, the beer foams too much. This is because the carbon dioxide is released more quickly at higher temperatures. The ideal temperature of a poured beer is six to eight degrees.
After barley is harvested and sold first thing done will be measuring protein and moisture levels. If barley isnt dry enough it will grow mold in silo. If barley has too much protein the beer will foam alot. In countries where beer foam is considered bad the high protein barley is put into fodder silo.
8:37 We do have tipping in Czech republic, however here you tip for good/exceptional service, not just for receiving the service overall. As far as I know, the mixed beer taking longer, hence being for tourists ment that unlike locals which go there for just the beer wouldn't want to wait, unlike a tourist which doesn't mind waiting for something unusual/sensational.
Definitely not a whole of Europe thing. In the UK our beer has nowhere near as much foam. I'd feel cheated if my beer had that much foam ad would look for a new watering hole if that was the norm where I was served a beer like that. I suspect the huge amount of foam is a Czech thing.
I'm Czech and normally in any Czech pub you would get 0,5 litre of a beer (there's a line on the glass) and some foam. The same as in germany or any other "beer" country. This seems like more of a fancy place where you wouldn't go all the time. When you look at their menu you'll see the normal beer "Hladinka" is only 0,48 litre so they're not trying to cheat anyone either. BUT if you asked for milk or šnyt in different pub they would probably know what it is and serve it to you. I'm not a huge beer person but I heard about it before.
@@FuFightersStudio He even mention šnyt is a small beer in a large glass. So yeah, It's not half the price, but it's cheaper. Mlíko as well. If you wait it slowly turns back into a liquid form. Otherwise no matter if you order čochtan or hladinka, it's always a pint. Hladinka may look lesser than, but then again, if the foam settles it magically returns. But if you're in a pub for an evening you're better off with nice thick beer head so that you don't need to drink so fast and beer doesn't go stale while you talk with people.
It's not a "huge" amount, when the foam settles it's pretty much exactly 0,5 l of volume, which is exactly what you pay for. Foam on a beer has its purpose, it's not just for show.
This not for all european, each country has its ways. This is not representative of Europe ! It's like saying that all american behave and talk like texan.
Never try milk with US beer. Only Pilsner :) And that double colour beer is delicious and it takes longer, but it´s about having a good time. You went for a beer, not for a race :)
In Belgium, you have markings on each brand of beer glass that marks where there's supposed to be beer, and where there's supposed to be foam. Belgium is quite the beer country, and this foam inspired video just made me dislike Czech beer. If you can't manage to drink beer properly, don't drink it at all ...
Actually, with the "hladinka" you get the beer very neer the line that is marking the 0,5 liter and then they will just fill the rest with the foam (also "hladinka" literally means "on level").
Also, we usually consider beer without foam as a poor quality one.
Or the glass wasn’t clean, that’ll also kill the foam quickly
iam czech and i dont know if low quality is the exact term, more like that its old, because the foam shows the freshness and that the bartender just poured it, without foam it seems like some old forgotten beer
@@MrMajsterixx I think they meant the quality of the pour. If it arrives with a low amount of foam, the bartender fucked up
In fact, there are pubs in Czech Republic that are older than Christopher Columbus. :D
Hello, here is a person who drinks beer almost every week and even has a certificate for tapping beer (quite normal for a person who studies the field of hotel management, a field directly intended for customer service)
let's take it from the beginning -
MILK - more foam, almost no beer. I say almost none, mind you. The foam of our Czech beer is fluffy, creamy and very "firm", which means that the drink is sweeter as a result. It must be drunk as quickly as possible due to oxidation, which harms the beer and the foam.
SNYT - as he said, due to the fact that there is some less foam in the beer (as it is a small beer 0.3 poured into a glass 0.5), the beer does not oxidize so quickly. It also makes the beer very pleasant and overall sweeter.
ON THE LEVEL - standard beer taps in all Czech restaurants and pubs. We have glasses of size maybe 0.6 - 0-7, there is a line on this glass with 0.5 where the beer is tapped, the rest is foam which again helps against oxidation.
Also, thanks to this creamy foam, the beer will slowly but surely run out, which means that within one to two minutes, 0.1 dcl of foam will turn into beer.
But of course everything depends on the customer's taste and preference. We Europeans don't like UK and US beer because you don't have the right foam, because of that the beer loses its value, taste, beauty and spoils faster.
Řezané beer is tourist thing, because if you made it for everyone, it would take ages. So it is more of a showbeer
let’s be honest beer in UK and US is absolute shit
In Belgium the amount of foam and way of tapping will often depend on the kind of beer. After all while still mostly local beer in the pub there will be many kinds of beers being served, mostly because if you just search online then you'll probably find multiple breweries close by no matter where you are. Personally I've got one down the street and one on the next street, but I've never searched online so I might be able to find more in my town. And even then this is a pretty small country so you can get beer delivered on the same day from the different side of the country but that doesn't change that there are a shit ton of bears some like Stella, Jupiler, etc. which people around the world might very well know. But the really good Belgian beer is are those you probably wont find outside Belgium.
Also to all Germans all I want to say is, no your beer ain't better and it never will be. I don't know why American's always think yours better but it ain't it just the same as American's thinking "French fries" are French when even the French know that it's Belgian so don't get any ideas. 👀
PREACH !!
There one beer of the type. There is only one dark beer, one 10%, one 12%, maybe one fruit beer, and Kofola which is our version of Cola, for kids and drivers.
As a tourist you can have a Milk while you wait for your first dark-light mix!
Never tried to mix dark and light beers, but I find dark beers to be sweeter and thicker, so I'm surprised the dark beer doesn't go to the bottom of the glass. Dark beers might look intimidating, but they are really delicious by the way.
How could you blow the foam off? It's too thick for that. It's not soap foam.
Next time you go for a pint in the pub ask for a pint with a foam head and not a bubbly head basically.
"We" brew a beer since 993 here in Czechiajust so you can belive us ;)
really good video, i think everybody learnt many things today.
Ryan, you have to visit Europe.
I'll bet you that if you go to your local pub and ask for a milk, they'll just give you a literal glass of milk cause they won't have a clue what you're talking about!
milk is a dense foam, it's almost liquid.
No, u dont understand, řezane is for tourist, because czech ppl usually dont drink it, not special for us, so thats why he said its for tourist
Wrong question, should be how has EUROPEAN beer got so much taste? I know it's getting better, but U.S. beer always seemed to be just cold!
You have to try řezaný style of Beer it,s fantastic.
In Portugal, if a bartender serves you a foamy beer, he'll get slaped 😂. We just hate it. Usually your boss teach you how to serve beer with a foam of like 1 finger height
Pils is a Czech beer. Not Portuguese...
8:43 longer show for tourists i guess :)
I recomand you this video and also whole channel : ua-cam.com/video/qmCRq8GI158/v-deo.html&ab_channel=DreamPrague
I am a European and I think that this all foam beer is super stupid.
Different cultures. Different tastes. It's not like you would drink milk every day.
Remember, unlike most American beers, Czech beer has flavour!
I was disgusted with us beer when I visited there
But I love Czech beer (and German polish Belgium serb ukranian etc etc) buy not Spain or italy😂
Estrella is not bad and im czech :)@@valcarlin2537
"only one beer on tap" it usually means 1 brand of beer (as in from 1 brewery), breweries usually make more than 1 type of beer
usually 2-3.
Usually there's 10°, 11° or 12° light beer, one dark beer and in some pubs nowadays also "pomelo" which is a non-alcoholic fruit beer.
@@moniqueriddle9339 if you want non-alcoholic beer in CZ and you like beer, go for Birell w/o fruit taste (it exists in fruit versions as well)
AFAIK here in Czechia we have more like 5 per brewery
Usual Selection for small pubs is 2 beers on Tap, one is 10-11 and other is 12. Sometimes there is a 3rd option of a dark beer as Well.
The thing with the foam is, no one is robbing you of anything. The glasses are actually 2-3 fingers more than 1 pint (or 0.5 liter, which is the most common ordered amount) and good bartender targets the mix so that if all the foam would dissolve it would be exactly that. Otherwise the foam is natural, very thick and rich in flavor, it actually forms from a protein in a beer and the gas comes from the fermentation process, it's not pressurized or anything.
That is an astonishingly ignorant sweeping generalisation because it varies from country to country and beer to beer.
@@Ga11ifreyan I don't know what you mean. I am reacting to the UA-camr's comment about video abou beer in the Czech Republic. And I can atest that this is how it's done here.
@@Ga11ifreyan context
Since when did Americans know anything about beer. Or come to that, anything
@@nilocnolnah6788 come on now that’s mean
The know very well how to shoot people
As a czech citizen. I must say that the foam is actually very important.
1) the aesthetics of the whole thing
2) the foam protects the beer from oxidation
3) it shows the quality of service. As mentioned by several fellows, a good foam hat means clean, wet and cold glass, good beer and propper pressure in the tap system.
4) the amount of foam depends on the style of pour. But that makes a whole chapter.
No konečně to tady někdo vysvětlil :D
Exactly an american beer without foam looks like a beer that i poured hours ago and forgot to drink it. The perfect way is that the glass is covered in condensed mist with a nice thick cap of foam.
Modern way to tap beer is under an angle and in one go. For the old guard that is a big no no. Making it in one go in order to quickly serve it after it has been order by a client. Dating back just a 10-15 years, everybody just had a couple of beers every day so the bartenders just had always 5 or more beers sitting under the tap and made it in 2 or 3 goes without ever lifting the glass from the table. That way the foam stayed nice and rich and the beer itself lost some of the air and made you less likely to burp. All the 40 year olds and older guys frown upon getting beer tapped in 1 go.
Yes. If you have questions about beer ... ask a czech! :)
Oxidation? Lmao dude, get real. Do you take like several hours to drink one beer?
To clear a few things:
- One pub usualy serves beers from one brewery, you'll usually find light one (3,5-4,5%), stronger one (4,5-5,5%) and some special (dark one, ale, wheat etc.). But on a street you'll find few different pubs, each with other beer brand (brewery).
- The foam is really creamy and dense, the mlíko is about 0,2l of beer, šnyt is 0,3l, hladinka (normal beer) is 0,5l. The amount of foam changes the taste of the beer and also how much you would burp afterwards and it's contraintuitive: tho more fome, the less you would burp (the bubbles in the foam are CO2 which is naturaly in the beer, the more goes out via foam, the less in your stomach).
- The head protects the beer from oxygenation from the air, thus keeping the taste of the beer intact. Just let sit a beer for a while and you'll notice the difference. As beer drinking is done usually for a few hours when you're in pub with firends, you want to stay it good for a while.
- American beer uses differnet kind of barley than european deas. Its lighter (both in color and in ABV) and it makes more soap like foam, eg. big bubbles that are not so stable. The reason you blow away the foam is because it does (historicaly and sometimes even now) tastes like soap. The "european" foam is just CO2 with beer around it and it also tastes much like beer, only a little bit sweeter. Most of the biggest breweries in the US also use not a barley malt only, but they are adding corn syrup as american malt sometimes doesnt have enough sugar, further adding to the soapiness. (just to be clear, US culture of home brewing is huge and awesome and produces tons of great beers, but the biggest brands are just cheap flavoured water, sorry)
This needs upvotes.
Also the size of the head in case of hladinka does not taking anything from the volume of the beer - 0,5l mark is around the upper part of the handle.
Also american and brittish beer usually dont contents hops, which is crucial for the taste for me.
@@branojuraj9063 I though every beer contains hops. What do they use instead?
@@moniqueriddle9339 Barley, Wheat.
additionnaly, in Belgium at least, most American beers would actually NOT qualify as beer. In my country, beer must be made with barley malt. No barley ? You can't legally call it a beer (I'm serious it's in our law). So the American thingy with the corn malt would 1) looked at funny, 2) forbidden to call itself beer.
In Germany the foam is a sign of quality: how firm it is , without large bubbles and how long the head last. We call it the "flower" of the beer and it is important to have it. Without it we would think the beer is old, stale or the glass is dirty.
Exactly. I am drinking beer in the UK, they sometimes do a beer in pour and not even angle the glass, and I think a lot of the beer was foamy like shown here yuck
Under the communists we had the "Lenin" test - you stuck your chin in beer and if you had a chin like Lenin's, the beer was fine. The communists didn't like the comparison very much, but what could they do - we didn't say it out loud very often, but when you had a "On Lenin" beard, everyone knew right away that you were parodying Lenin. :D
You should really visit Czech Republic. They are basically experts in beer. I've tried beers around the world but nothing is compared to the original Czech ones, specially draft in pubs.
Czech guy here, German beers compare very well. We have some bad beers, they have some and we have many amazing ones and so do they. A German maltser made the first batch of pilsner type beer in Plzeň and that then spread both to Germany and Czechia as the most common beer brewed. Then Belgium makes different types of beer like trappist and is one of the best beer countries in the world in my eyes and many other's.
I even traveled to Greece last month and found a pub with beers from microbreweries on tap and even though one would think that Greeks don't know how to make beer, I didn't find a single one I didn't like. Good beers can be found anywhere, it's just that you can find them more easily here.
So yeah, if you want to find good beers, you don't have to necessarily travel the world for them. Find a pub with microbrewery beers local to you and go there, I'm willing to bet that you'll find beers to your liking there, since the people usually love their craft and try to perfect it. They have to drink their own beer, so they strive to make it good and at the same they are not restricted by corporate shennenigans.
They are the World first beer consumers. So i would trust them with my beer.
Pilsner and Budvar are top, also Svijany is pretty good
@@branojuraj9063 Though many fellow Czechs disagree with me on Budvar and Svijany, yeah... my three favorite brands. :D
Germany and Czechia have good beers, but lack variety and the will to experiment. Sure, you will find some 500 pilsners in Czechia, and you can find just as many all roughly equally good "Weisse" in Bavaria (rinse and repeat for other regions and types) - but you can't beat Belgium on being the overall best beer country. There's just something for everyone.
The restaurant is called Červený jelen (means Red Stag) and is in very city centre of Prague. And Janek was right as always - the food is amazing and the cubistic architecture combined with modern renovation is just the cherry on the top. Check also Kantýna - with own butcher shop even before entering the restaurant...
Not to be a hater, but the reason beers in america dont have head and people there dont want foam might just be the general quality of the beer. We like the foam, because the foam tastes good, because the beer is really good.
Well beer is generally seen as cheap alcohol in the US and the goal is to get drunk. In Czech Republic, the goal is to enjoy the taste of the beer and the drink itself. This is why breweries care about the way the beer is tapped and why no normal czech person would ever get a beer in a bottle in a pub - the difference in taste and quality is immense! The buzz from the alcohol content is of course a welcome side effect, but it is by no means the primary function and purpose.
It's also caused by the different kind of barley that is planted in the US. You just can't make the rich foam out of that.
@@hanbanaroda Some american beer don't even contain barley and use cheap corn malt
@@Hakitosama
or rice.
PLEASE next time when you watch one of their videos stay till the end for a czech word. I would love to hear you try to pronounce some of them 😁
My bad! That sounds fun
My father told me (my grandma had a bar) that US soldiers not only blow foam off, they even scooped it out of the glass with their fingers
i dont even drink beer but i almost gagged
What an animals...
Heretics....O_O
They were in Prague, Czechia. Which means you cannot judge their beer because it is literally the best in the world.
And tipping in Europe is not expected, but really welcome. You don't have to leave 20%, but 10% can make waiters/bartenders day a little better.
AS Dutchman I have to disagree, Belgium has the best beers (trappist beers), brewed by the catholic monks since the middle ages.
Nothing against your taste but Trappist beer is not a Pilsener type of beer so it's hard (impossible) to compare @@bertnijhof5413
@@bertnijhof5413 nope, czech is best
@@bertnijhof5413 In Břevnov Monastery in Prague they brew beer since the year 993!
dude. you have to understand that CZECH is home of the beer. its tradition and a lot of experience pasion. the beer made for american market is not even on the same level as the cheapest beer in czech dude. trust me
Aaaaaaaaand a little FYI about the tipping in Czech republic (I am a waiter working in a pub situated quite near the Červený jelen, so I am not making anything up): It probably is not as important part of a salary of the staff here as it is in the US, but if you do not tip, waiters will think that you were unsatisfied, that they did a poor job, that something went terribly wrong. Basically leaving 10% is a nice way to show that everything was fine, more than 10% means that everything was excellent and less that there were some gaps that ruined your experience a little.
Czech, Poland and Germany are (as far as I know) the biggest three when it comes to beer.
@@marekkelin1181 belgium...
Try Belgian...
Czechs are number 1 in the world and double the yearly per capita consumption of beer of number 2, austria... poland is 3.
Some places actually put the glass on a weight so people could see that they get exactly (or more than) 500 ml of beer. There a two kinds of foam. One is the white, light and "hard" which is mostly air and the other one is creamy and slightly yellow, which has a much higher content of beer. Based on that, there are two main styles of pouring in the Czech Republic (depends on the brand of beer mostly). You either do the "Hladinka" (from the video) where you either pre-pour a bit of foam and finish it with beer or "Nadvakrát" ("Twofer?") when you pour the beer once in a way it foams up more and then finish it with just beer. That way adds more of the "hard" and "bubbly" foam and the beer is a little harsher. It's similar to milk coffee drinks. You have cappuccino that is 50/50 foamed milk and steamed milk and latte that is mostly steamed milk and with a little bit of foamed milk on the top. If the beer doesn't have a head, it turns bad and stale very quickly. The foam adds about 10-15 more minutes to enjoy the good flavour and also gives it another layer of taste and consistency.
i love my german beer. but if i have to choose, from which country i wanna drink beer, i say after germany only austria and czech^^ cause they are very very close to us. all other beer is piss water. sry 4 my englisch ;) greets from germany.
There are a huge number of different ways to tap.... a lot of beers have their own 'rules', even.
Country specific example: in Holland the head is 2 fingers thick. In Germany they'll tap a lager in two phases; after the foam sets a bit, they'll fill up the glass, giving you a 'crown' of foam. The amount of foam above the edge of the glass needs to equal that below the edge.
Guinness foam has nitrogen in it, making it dense and creamy.
But as many others said, the basic rules are the same: always start with cold, wet, clean glass. If your foam dies too soon, it's a dead giveaway. Dirty rinse water, a greasy glass or some newbie adding soap incorrectly are a few possible reasons.
Schnitt in Germany means cut, so half the glass beer and half foam
Youre getting the Same ammount of beer as in the US, the Glasses are just bigger so same ammount of beer just with the extra space is filled with delish foam.
in US you will have pint (or how they call it, it's like European small beer around 0.3 L) of beer, we have half liter, there is no pint of beer + foam, when foam falls down, it will turn back to beer and you should have proper half liter of beer
Czech peoples are most beer drinking state on the world ✌🏻🇨🇿
American beer sucks...Czech, Belgian and German is real.
Beer has to be poured in a clean glass. First water with (special) soap, then clear the soap of with pure water, then DRY the glass if you are drinking high alcohol beers (Marc from Belgium). FYI, this is how it's done in Belgium: ua-cam.com/video/FAQn7yizb_U/v-deo.html
yeah combined with this one from Stella (which gives a bit more explenation), it gives a better view ua-cam.com/video/0kOSAaTeG1c/v-deo.html
I think the foam thing is matter of different styles of beers. In America are common pale ales, while in Czech is common pilsner type beer. Usually here in pubs you can get normal, maybe Šnit and Řezané (light and dark mix) beer. And I have an experience, if you order simply "beer", they will serve you the best on tap.
in germany we also have a lot of pilsner, but we would never accept a beer with that much foam, a good white crown of foam
@@tommerker8063 You will be able to understand that this is an intentionally tapped beer that is called milk. They pour it into a pint, but they charge 0.2 l, so it's a lot cheaper than the classic pint. And people want it because of the taste. It's different. But that is beyond your understanding.
This video is from the Czech Republic, they are professionals in brewing beer as one of the few countries that knows how to make and drink beer + they drink more beer than the Germans :D
Yes, we are a nation of drunkards, but there is one secret... The joke is that most ordinary Czechs prefer lighter beer. Mostly 10 degrees, which has an alcohol volume around 4%, so you can drink more... :)
@@Sklepmistr99 only girls drink 10° true men drink 12° atleast :)
Buddy, you know nothing about beer :D Czechs invented THE most quality beers period, it's even named by our cities where we brewed them like Pilsner (Plzeň) or Budweisser (Budvar). You won't get milk or šnyt basically anywhere but here. And there is actually two types of foam - wet and dry. You might be familiar with the dry one, you can blow off the foam, but the wet one, NOPE. There is no way you can blow it, because it is wet and heavy, like a cream :)
What he shows is s Czech thing. Us Germans like beer to have a head, too but not in this way.
Most important is the the marking to which the glass has to contain beer or we would feel cheated.
Another difference would be the top. Germans like a little hood, which others would remove
Like they show with the dirty glass It's a quality thing, too: If in Germany you see beer without much foam, chances are the glass isn't cleaned/rinsed well, the beer isn't well/freshly drafted ("Tröppelbier") or stale.
Tip: Use your napkins, don't use standard lipsticks and chapstick only sparingly, aka really only when going outside again. 😏
Yeah, its very easy to see a badly cleaned glass - the bubbles on sides are very easily noticable and the head of the beer looks much more like soap and it goes away much faster - this happened to me in july, the guy tapped the beer, put it on the counter, before I even put my money on the counter, half of the beer head was gone.
Also, it is not as much of a czech thing as it is special for this 1 brewery - Pilsner Urquell. This is the most popular czech brewery and their beer is consumed the most. Because of this, they make a big deal out of this tapping culture. The dark beer they used is from a brewery owned by Pilsner, its called Kozel.
But generally, this kind of tapping is not common for most breweries. There is 1 standard way to tap a beer, which is filling the glass with beer JUST UNDER the 0.5L line (like 0.45) and fill the rest of the glass with foam, meaning the total volume of beer is 0.5L.
For Ryan:
The function of the head is super important. You know what happens to beer, when you set it down, forget about it for 1-2 hours and come back to it. Ignoring the temperature, the tase is awful. Thats because it oxidized. Oxidized beer tastes extremely bad. The head protects the beer from coming in contact with oxygen in the air, stopping the oxidation process completely. Of course, the head will slowly disolve, but you can see the head is very thick and creamy, it wont go away nearly as fast.
And also, you would be surprised how liquid the foam is. It is very drinkable.
as a czech, I feel low key offended that someone is even asking this question...it is a silly question and anyone who asks it knows nothing about beer. american beer is a bastardized version to a point where I refuse to call it beer... this was kinda painful to watch
Buddy you forgot one thing. You probably never taste good beer. Stand up from chair, visit some places in Czechia and taste our beer. And if I say domě places I dont mean Prague, Karlovy vary or Krumlov... Try Plzeň the cradle of Pilsner beer or České Budějovice where Budvar (Budweiser or Czechvar) is brewed. Than you can visit some of our "medieval taverns" one is in Písek the other in Dětenice... It is lot to see here and if you only look on PC screen or YT videos you gona miss that feel.
It is real here in Czech and Slovakia. But no one orders that milk.
1) One brand usually means one brand of brewery. The brewery usually makes more types of beer according to the sweetness or kind (lower fermentation, top fermentation, 10°, 11°, 12°...18°, pale, amber or dark...rye, wheet, oat...IPA, alcoholic or non alcoholic, pasteriezed or not). I worked for a small brewery and we made 14 kinds of beer. Our pubs usually had 3 differend kind of it (some less, some more) so they asked which one you want.
2) So, beer last time see the air before just at brewhouse when is produce. Since than it is kept under it´s own CO2 or under the produced one - because it lays down and it separates it from the air to make it fresh. The air degrades the beer so it tastes bad. That´s why a good bartender starts with foam to keep it as fresh at possible. If you left here stay the beer too long on the table, a lot of men don´t drink it and want a new one.
3) And yes, the pipe has two ways to tap it - on just for beer and one to add the foam. Usualy it is set that some foam comes with the beer the normal way and the seccond way it just fot more foam - for example for mlíko (milk).
You can get a 'Schnitt' also over here in Bavaria. It's just a beer that is tapped faster causing a lot more foam and less beer. And it is of cause cheaper. In Bavaria where beer is served as 1/2 or one liter it is usefull if you don't want to go for a full glass of beer, maybe because you still want to be able to drive home with your car. You often order ''Schnitt' as you last beer of the evening.
Milk is my favorite. The fact is, that the beer is completely different in US and here in Czech, that also makes the ,,foam" tasting different. When you draft the beer correctly to the cold, wet glass, the foam really tastes like a velvet. The beer culture in Czech republic and EU in general is on a different level. Hope you have a chance to visit CZ one day and you taste all of those!
honestly i dont find a beer without foam appealing at all xD 6:25 is just what i want to see
Info from person from czech republic😂 Honza and Janek are exactly same names. They are both nicknames for name Jan
I lived and worked in Dordrecht for a year or so,I walked into a local bar and immediately realised I was in the wrong place. I couldn't walk straight out without ending up in trouble so I ordered a beer in Dutch. There were two huge dockers each side of me, they both looked down at me and one of them shouted to the barman "no froth on his beer he's English", everyone laughed, and it became my local. Best satay and cheapest beer in the town.
Simply put. That's beer. The one without foam is not.
Why?
Filtered beer has a hard time producing foam, which means all the good stuff is gone.
You basically drink the famous Pisswasser from GTA V.
Filtered beer sucks and tastes more or less like boring mineral water with color.
1 Beer Brand on tap is usuall... Tho the brand has usually 2-4 variants and they all taste different. But its rare to see 1 Pub with many brands... This style of beer (Pilsner) requires quite fast consumption of the keg... Kegs here are 13 Galons. They cant have keg opened for a long time as the beer inside will go bad so they keep 1 brand to keep the need volume pumping through the tubes :)
Tho dont try the Milk draft with american or british beer... it wont work. Tho the foam bubbles are universal :)
I would trust the Czechs to know how to serve the best pilsner, just as I would trust them to make it in the first place. (I would trust the US to make something that vaguely looks like lager, render it freezing cold to hide the foul taste and then attempt to use it to get drunk at minimal cost - wildly different objectives.)
Yes, in our country "my dad left for a milk" goes to another level XD
That is not EUROPEAN beer, this is definitely a czech speciality, and I'd say probably maybe even a speciality inside czech republic because I have been there and I don't remember seeing anyone drinking "milk" or anything like that.
Should watch a video on german pils pouring
Europe is not a country!!! In the netherlands we don't drink beer like that.
The Title should be : Why do czeck"s drink foom with 1mm beer
Yeah, there are literally competitions in beer tapping in Czechia.
You know, everybody thinks, Germans, especially Bavarians are the ones, who understand beer. They drinks it from huge cups, but you know 😀 No shit Czechia is connected with the beer, as same, as Russians, and vodka. For thousand years. So no surprise for me. I live in Slovakia (maybe you guys, or your parents remembers Czechoslovakia.), and I can only recommend you going to Prague. Czech Republic is so beautiful ♥️ I was in Prague at the beginning of the September, and I'm already missing that country. J
No, go to Brno! 😆 The beer culture there is greater because all the good pubs and breweries are concentrated in the city center, it's like one big beer drinking skansen 😅There are superb pubs in Prague too, but they are far apart and there are lots of turists traps.
@@hanbanaroda Whats brno? Is that the B in LGBT?
@@hanbanaroda Yeah Prague sucks when it comes to good beer.
Plzeň, Brno and Ostrava (if you want visit big cities) are far better.
Surprise.... vodka is the Russian copy of dutch Jenever, when Tsaar peter the great came to visit dutch shipbuilders in august 1697 , he took home a little more then just knowledge about ships, he also took the " how to make Jenever guide" with him ( and the Brits did the same making it Gin ).... B|
Czech lager without foam makes no sense. It's either a dirty glass or beer is too warm. On the other hand sour beer, Belgian beer or ale without foam is ok. But most Czechs only know Czech lagers so for them beer without foam is a huge no no :)
@ 1:36 What you see is a full glass of beer, man. This beer foam is so thick that when it fully disintegrates, the "liquid" beer level will be reaching the upper part of the handle. This is a pretty extreme way to tap a beer and few people order it. Your mistrust probably stems from the fact that you don't know a proper beer. I have quite some doubts, whether the thin tea you think of as beer in America could be tapped this way 😉@ 7:41 He said there is only one beer on tap. But he added: "meaning a brand". As I already explained somewhere else, that usually means they have at least 3 types of beer of that brand: standard pale lager ("12°"), slightly thinner one ("10°") and dark lager 🍺 @ 8:21 They are not waiting longer, he phrased it poorly. You saw how quick it was tapped. And the beer is served immediately. What he meant was it takes some time for the dark bear foam to disintegrate. And it looks fancy. I think it might be the only way of pouring dark beer over pale one without mixing them: to pour it on top as a foam. BTW in my country (Slovakia) you would usually get this drink the other way around: pale lager on top of the dark one. But the shown one tastes better to me personally 👍
the first 2 minutes perfectly explains the ignorance of the average american lol. ahhhh its different it must be wrong or a joke
We would call a beer without a foam a piss... And believe me, we are much better in beer than you ;-)
you really need to get out of america and visit europe, your eyes will be opened so much by near enough everything, we just cannot understand your lives, you say land of the free, but everything is so restricted
I guess that the video was mistakenly uploaded on your other channel? I'd definitely say it fits better here 😉
Also, it would be great if you could link all your other channels in the "channels"-area of your channels. That way, it would be much easier to find them...
Yes! Haha. I thought this was in Germany at first. I'll do that! Thanks
Im going to Belgia, they rock 1500 ish beer types. It will be hard.
American beer is disgusting - water with a mild beer flavour. Ugh.
In Czechia you wouldn't just blow off the foam as you said you do it in America, because how thick it is. 🍻
It doesn't matter "if it was in America" because in America they drink water. That's not beer
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Point is that you pay for 0,5 liter beer and glasses are something like 0,65. So there is a lot of free space for foam. Nobody is trying to rob you. 😉
Heya, this is in Czech Republic
Here in Belgium, pint glasses are smaller, more like a regular glass because of the richness in the beers. It's a bit of a gentleman's rule to have the foam about ¼ of the full height if you can do that, since you want people to enjoy as much of their drink without losing the flavors.
I must say that this type of pouring is not 'European' but typical for Czech Republic. In Belgium, were we also have a bit of a beer culture, you get fired as a bartender if you pour the 'milk' or a beer with no head. Around here, the head of a beer is supposed to be about 3cm thick. Anything more will cause the foam to sink in and anything under will not completely seal the beer from contact with the air. A good bartender can pour 100 beers and the height of the head will only differ a few milimeters between them.
There is no tap for foam and tap for beer. The tap has two positions forward and backward one position is for beer and one is foam only
Most European countries have good beer.
The foam of certain beers is an integral part of their flavour. Pilsners and weissbiers especially benefit from a larger head. Ales and commercial lagers not so much, although Irish stouts also have a big head during the two-pour serve, which eventually settles into a smaller one. Beer without a head is essentially flat, and not especially tasty by and large.
It's a Czech thing only, not Europe!
Really? Have you ever been to Vienna, Linz or Salzburg, Austria?
Czech here: My biggest culture shock in the US was when we went to a pub, and instead of each of us getting a pint of draught Guinness, the waitress got us four glasses and a jug of draught Guinness in the middle of the table.
I haven't been to many European countries, but I' European myself (Norwegian). I have been to Norway (obviously), Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Turkey, Germany and Spain. I have NEVER seen beer served with that amount of foam!! It would leave you with like....1/8 of the beer you paid for, and it would be completely depleted of CO2. I would have been protesting LOUDLY!! :D
Normal beer /hladinka should have 0.5l after the foem settles down. Šnyt/Schnitt with much more foam is considered as a small beer (0.3l) in larger glass. Mlíko/milk is own category as well the beer with no or nearly no foam. So no, you are not getting ripped from anything you paid for, you will geat exactly what you want and like :) CO2 is not good in any beer (even some bars are using it) and a good beer place is rather pumping the using the pressured air from a tank (like you have seen on the video). It requires more often cleaning compared to CO2, but the beer tastes much better.
Pils is Czech/Bavarian invention. Not Spanish, Irish, Swedish etc.
the foam is the guarantee that you get a freshly brewed beer, no stale slop...hard to understand, right?
Beer is not lemonade.. It need to have foam.
in the Netherlands we just measure how much foam is needed with our fingers we hold them horizontally to the glass and if our Index finger and ringfinger cover the foam part and only the foam part it's a perfect tap beer
Beer with no head is just dishwater beer
Yes, in the Czech Republic we have a really thick beer foam. And you could say that the foam is thick like milk. Our foam is made from beer and there is not only artificially finished foam, it is just beer in a different form.
Just to clarify, it's hella thicker than milk :D
The creation of the beer foam
The formation of beer foam is a natural process that basically requires two factors: Protein and carbonic acid. The basic ingredients, hops and malt, are responsible for the formation of these two factors.
The carbonic acid is created in the fermentation process. Here, the yeast converts the malt sugar contained in the beer wort into alcohol and carbon dioxide. The actual process of foam formation then takes place when the beer is poured. When the beer is poured into a beer glass or mug, the carbon dioxide dissolves and gas bubbles consisting of carbon dioxide and air rise to the surface. Molecules are deposited on the surface of the carbonic acid bubbles. These are mainly proteins that form an elastic skin around the bubbles. The bubbles are deposited on the surface of the beer and combine to form a foam crown.
The degree to which the beer foams when poured depends on two factors.
On the one hand, the temperature is important. In principle, if the beer is too cold, it foams too little; if it is too warm, the beer foams too much. This is because the carbon dioxide is released more quickly at higher temperatures. The ideal temperature of a poured beer is six to eight degrees.
Hmmmm. This comment made me so thirsty. Even more than watching the video.
After barley is harvested and sold first thing done will be measuring protein and moisture levels. If barley isnt dry enough it will grow mold in silo. If barley has too much protein the beer will foam alot. In countries where beer foam is considered bad the high protein barley is put into fodder silo.
8:37 We do have tipping in Czech republic, however here you tip for good/exceptional service, not just for receiving the service overall.
As far as I know, the mixed beer taking longer, hence being for tourists ment that unlike locals which go there for just the beer wouldn't want to wait, unlike a tourist which doesn't mind waiting for something unusual/sensational.
Definitely not a whole of Europe thing. In the UK our beer has nowhere near as much foam. I'd feel cheated if my beer had that much foam ad would look for a new watering hole if that was the norm where I was served a beer like that. I suspect the huge amount of foam is a Czech thing.
I'm Czech and normally in any Czech pub you would get 0,5 litre of a beer (there's a line on the glass) and some foam. The same as in germany or any other "beer" country. This seems like more of a fancy place where you wouldn't go all the time. When you look at their menu you'll see the normal beer "Hladinka" is only 0,48 litre so they're not trying to cheat anyone either.
BUT if you asked for milk or šnyt in different pub they would probably know what it is and serve it to you. I'm not a huge beer person but I heard about it before.
@@kripolik Yes the price actually changes with different types as you have different amounts of beer in it
@@FuFightersStudio He even mention šnyt is a small beer in a large glass. So yeah, It's not half the price, but it's cheaper. Mlíko as well. If you wait it slowly turns back into a liquid form. Otherwise no matter if you order čochtan or hladinka, it's always a pint. Hladinka may look lesser than, but then again, if the foam settles it magically returns. But if you're in a pub for an evening you're better off with nice thick beer head so that you don't need to drink so fast and beer doesn't go stale while you talk with people.
UK beer sucks
It's not a "huge" amount, when the foam settles it's pretty much exactly 0,5 l of volume, which is exactly what you pay for. Foam on a beer has its purpose, it's not just for show.
Pivo bez pěny vypadá jako chcanky ve sklenici
This not for all european, each country has its ways. This is not representative of Europe ! It's like saying that all american behave and talk like texan.
But part of the head of Hladinka is changing quickly into beer... I love Hladinka
Never try milk with US beer. Only Pilsner :) And that double colour beer is delicious and it takes longer, but it´s about having a good time. You went for a beer, not for a race :)
In Belgium, you have markings on each brand of beer glass that marks where there's supposed to be beer, and where there's supposed to be foam. Belgium is quite the beer country, and this foam inspired video just made me dislike Czech beer. If you can't manage to drink beer properly, don't drink it at all ...