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Americans always make fun of Germans drinking sparkling water but they're doing it themselves and calling it beer.
And rest of the Europe makes fun of Germans mixing beer with sprite/coke 😂
@@Songfugeltaste it in the summer time or shut up! 😂✌️
@@Songfugel I tried that when I was in germany and it changed my opinion on it completely, fucking delicious
@@Patrick-on2ty My point was, Germans making fun of American beer since it is so watery, yet the most sold drink in Germany is beer and sprite/coke mixer 😂
Also, I have tasted it, but it was not for me
I find it quite infuriating that they put a German flag next to budweiser, even tho its not german
I remember reading a story about an American that absolutely loved Budweiser beer and wanted to get the ingredients to make his own.
He sent a sample to a laboratory for analysis.
2 weeks later he received word back.
The analysis replied that his horse had diabetes.
That's hilarious, my friend! 😂😂
Not sure why, but the bottled Budweiser tasted absolutely amazing in Japan! Quite different from how it tastes here in Northern Europe and according to my brother, who works for an US corporation and regularly travels there, tasted nothing like the US version either
ps. also loved the joke 😂
Budweiser will not share their recipe with foreign countries, but, each country sells their own version for sales of beer.
I think that applies to any American beers sold in Canada, also
Oldie but a goodie!
ha ha ha
LOVED IT When he said as American as baseball ⚾️ & Apple pie 🥧 BOTH British inventions 🤣🤣
English
And Brexit
And let us never speak of it again
Well there are different variations on apple pie all over the world. The “American apple pie” style definitely came from England. The English pie originally came from France though and they in turn got the idea from the Turks. I’m pretty sure the first apple pie came out of the Middle East since the apple itself originates from Kazakhstan.
The English version of baseball is called rounders. The Victorians developed it specifically for girls because they thought that the female brain was not capable of grasping the subtleties of cricket.
"Malz ist die Seele des Bieres"
Ohne Malz ist da im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes (oder eher des Sprichworts) "Hopfen und Malz verloren" :D
1:16 When it comes to beer consumption per capita the USA is 20th in the World. The Top5 being Czech Republic with 140L, Austria 108L, Romania 100L, Germany 99L and Poland with 97L. Per capita Americans drink about half as much beer as Czechs do.
Technically, it's much less...when you just count the actual active ingredient.
@@ashscott6068 I confirm,after a half liter beer (romanian brown Ursus),my american friend was singing under the table....meantime me and another friend,polish,we had like 7-8 more.
Czech Budweiser Budvar is a million miles away from American Budweiser. That explains a lot.
@@ashscott6068He stated “beer consumption”, not “alcohol consumption”. So “technically” you’ve made a non-point.
@@Dreyno Yeah...IF you drink it for one of the other ingredients.
how can you rank 2 in overall beer consumption if you don't have real beer? 🤣
2:14 I really don't understand why these guys talk about beer but have two glasses with what looks like lemonade on the table
They had some holes in the roof and it was raining,that's why those 2 glasses.
US is the 2nd biggest beer consumer by total volume (1rst is China) but I think its very misleading to use that number since its not adjusted for population size.
If you go by beer consumption per capita per year the US is on 20th place. (top 5 are Czech Republic , Austria, Romania, Germany, Poland)
Both about as expected.
I lived in America for a few years. Could drink any American under the table drinking American beer! I am British, so was used to real beer, so I could handle American beer all day long!
Where bouts in the UK cos a lot of people there are lightweights too depending where they're from.
There's more selection of better draught beer in England, and they drink it warm. Phooey!!
@@zelbole Nobody drinks warm beer! Everyone just accuses everyone else of drinking it. Sometimes, really pretentious craft ales are served at room temperature...a cold room.
@@zelbole Where in England did you drink warm beer? Oh, you've never been there? Could it be you're a bit of a halfwit that repeats other people's nonsense?
@@zelbole Have you tried the draught ale? Doubtful and the draught lagers will be far cooler too. You're just repeating stupid, ill informed stereotypes going back decades. If you bothered to look it's cellar temperature, @ 12 centigrade so it can be tasted. Many foreign beers are served extra cold to disguise the flavour or lack of it?
The original Budweiser is actually a Beer called Budvar from Czech Republic
american and czech budweiser are unrelated iirc., this is why american budweiser is just called "bud" in europe, because the czech own the trademark over here.
You can see an original czech Budweiser at 12:11, it is the sixth bottle in the bottom left corner. (with american logo, because they can't use their original name in the US)
'As American as Apple Pie' first baked in England ca 1390!!
It was funny when the “craft breweries“ wanted to conquer the German beer market, with prices 5€ and more per bottle, the German breweries said: all of German beer is “craft beer“ and the consumers agreed. It was a big fail in Germany because we already had good quality beer in comparison to the US.
BTW: The most delicious beer in the world is Augustiner Hell (even though I'm not a big fan of Bavaria otherwise)
Will have to try that one. My vote goes to Weigenstephaner Hefeweis though.
@@yukmsacierzorro That's with yeast in there. It feels more like a liquid meal, but nice though.
Helles (means bright in German) is not bitter at all, refreshing but still full of flavour.
@@yukmsacierzorro Hefeweizen? Gonna puke. I heard it's the northern version of a Helles but everytime i try it it tastes like shit.
It was a big fail? I beg to differ but craft beer is a big hit in many parts of Germany!
While it is not a danger for the established brands, because the normal quality was already good, it was a breath of fresh air into the market and gave birth to many small and micro breweries.
In Hamburg for example the bigger ones are Ratsherren and Landgang.
The best augustiner you will drink is in their brewery in salzburg, its so good you can drink it like water and not get nauseus, its dangerous and amazing
Generally speaking lager is brewed with a bottom fermenting yeast, while ales are fermented with a top fermenting yeast. "Top fermented beer relies on that warm weather yeast called Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Bottom fermented beer relies on the cooler weather yeast called Saccharomyces pastorianus".
It's called Lager which is storage in German. So beer that has been stored for some time to intensify taste. What's larger supposed to mean? A beer with a large alcohol content?
And isn't Ale the same word that is used in scandinavia for all kinds of beer.
Overall is not per Capita... per Capita first is Czech with second Austria and 3rd place Germany.
As an American I must admit one did not know any better as to beer quality because of what was available. Until I tried a Weihenstephaner hefe Weiss I never realized beer tasted so good!
technically a weiss bier (wheat beer) is not a beer at all... but a wheat beet ;). At least if you trust the pedantic german brewmaisters... for whom, the defintion of beer is water, yeast, hops and barley... so technically Coors lite is not even a beer (but a corn beer), is it contains also corn.
Now I get it, Bud was obviously an early example of german warfare against the US.
Bud or Budweiser is a Czech beer, not german. There for it is Czech warfare against the US.
@@Kullioking Really, than I misheard that part in the video. My apologies and respect to the Czech heroes who dared to oppose the world-power that way. I hope, the US will never respond with nuclear weapons. ;-)
@@martinhuhn7813 Well actually at the time it got to the US it was part of austro-hungarian.
Austro-Hungarian stands for "hungry Australians", right? (Just play along! We don´t really want the US to figure out, whom to direct their revenge at, do we?)
I watched it until the end and I liked it! I think its so refreshing that you don’t iron your videos until there are no personal wrinkles anymore in them. I mean - you could have cut this out, but I prefer it this way. 💖
Which is why I won't drink the US Budweiser - always used to look for the Chezch Budvar's which were fantastic.
There is the 'genuine' Budweiser made.... somewhere and the real Budweiser made only in Ceske Budejovice (formerly Budweis).
have u tries budvar dark? it's outstanding
The first comparison was "as American as apple pie" , sorry to rain on your parade, but apple pie was invented in England in the 14th century.😂
80 Breweries in 1979 in the USA? For example: in Hamburg, Northern Germany, there are alone 60 Breweries.
It does make me smile when I see Americans mocking "warm" British beer. Hmm good British ale or American water bèer your choice.
It's not warm. They just don't keep beer as cold as we do in North America.
Same with pop, milk, anything cold.
@@jeffwenberg4321 we know it is not warm. It is Americans that say this.
We like our soft drinks and milk cold too 😌
Even in UK now, most drinks have their flavour removed by chilling 😞
@mmckenzie8085 after visiting the UK, I can tell you that there is a big difference in the temperatures we keep things at. Here, cold is 1 or 2 degrees above freezing.
I never encountered that in either visit there.
@@jeffwenberg4321 ok I get it you know more than me after your "visit" lol. I just live here.
What President Obama was drinking in the photo is Guiness, a typically very, very dark coloured bitter beer, almost black, which he sampled on his visit to Ireland, in May 2011.
Several years ago when I visited the NY for the first time I wanted to try the local beer. The beer was so light I might as well have asked for lemonade. I only drink, what is known in the UK as, Real Ale or Real Ciders.
2:10 -> "Malz ist die Seele des Bieres!" 🍺🍻
By capita (according to wiki, last update) USA is rank 20 with 72.7 litres. Top is Czech Republic (hell yeah) with 140 litres.
Also although Germans are listed with names, Czech Republics influence is insanely high. In the video they mentioned that those beers are like Czech styled Pilsner and don't forget all the drama about Budweiser. American one is a steal of the original one. The name comes from german translation (Budweis) of czech city České Budějovice. The dispute about the name started at the start of 20th century...
It never stops amaze me that US citizens use nazi name for czech town and call it american😂😂
@@theoteddy9665 You mean the Prussian Name for the German speaking Prussian City in Prussian Bohemia (formerly Austrian)?
That Bohemia is now Czech doesn't change the fact that Budweis was founded 1265 under the Name Budweis.
@@DSP16569 bohemia and moravia are the only regions on a map from middle ages and still are, doesnt matter ho claims to be in rule, we always spoke czech and germans/prusians tried to rename our towns to their language, whatever you trying doesnt change the fact that in US use german word for czech town and say its american
Nope. Before 1265 there was village "Budějovice" which was established as city in 1265 by Ottokar II of Bohemia. The name Budweiser was made as a translation of the name of the city as Ottokar II was also Duke of Austria, so they needed a translation.
@@Titanium_God exactly😉
If you can get it you should try Czech beer, I really like it! And I'm from southern Germany where the best German beer comes from (In MY opinion^^).
We have the same beer in Canada, and you are correct. It's very good, but it's not Stella
I agree with your view on Czech beer, it was wonderful in Pilsen itself. However, with German beer it would depend on the beer type. Best Helles, landbier etc.... Mahr brewery pub in Bamberg, or from the many micro's in the surrounding area. Not so much from the massive industrial beer factories of Munich either. Quite partial to Uerige or Schumacher Altbier in Duesseldorf brewpubs too, however the more common Alts from Duesseldorf, Krefeld etc......they can keep!
You have really good breweries in Bavaria, for example Andechs and Kloster Weltenburg (Barock Dunkel 😍), a few beers from Faust are fantastic, and a number of small breweries . But I would like to deny that all beers in southern Germany are good. For example, I love the Franconian cellar beers. But sorry, you can get a good pilsner more often in northern Germany, your "Helles" is too "thin" for me.
the best german beers come from the lausitz and vogtland regions.
Stella is on par with American beer. Pisswater.@@zelbole
my first impression was "used dishwashing water, bottled" (Michelob, on a plane from JFK to Pittsburg PA)
Budweiser is pretty good American beer. As Dutch I very much like German and Dutch beers but Belgians make the best beer in the world. Belgians do not have any competition when it comes to beer.
Could you tell me some names to search for? Asking from czech republic
Not a larger drinkers myself, I prefer real Ale which when I was young got a few odd looks as females didn’t tend to drink pints of beer ( I’m in my sixties) I live in the Lake District and there’s over thirty breweries up here so there’s plenty to choose from. Oh and over here we have a thing called Camra Campaign for real ale which first became aware of back in the eighties when Ale was just starting to have a real resurgence.
UA-cam started a little more than eighteen and half years ago, but still, being on the platform as a creator for sixteen years is extremely impressive.
So what it's saying it that WW2 not only ruined your chocolate, along with prohibition it ruined your beer.
Less alcohol also itself means less calories as alcohol itself contains loads of calories
wheat costs rose, so they switched to rice instead.
@@UniqueBreakfastTaco wouldn't that make american beer a light sparkling rice wine?
When you were searching wheezy waiter I noticed that youtube recommends you iWrocker I would love a collab of you two reacting to something.
9:40 And to think that some Americans doubt that Jimmy Carter was the best president in living memory.
That Billy's Beer was pretty good!
That's a Guinness Obama is holding and there's a Guinness poster behind him on the wall.
Lager means storage - this means this is a kind of beer that can be stored somewhat longer than a simple Ale or a Bitter for example.
😂 the difference between lager and beer is the fermentation process
@@pauldavison7105So you are the enlightened one who decides that Lager isn't beer?
@@Dr_Klops just facts.
Lager is a type of beer but is distinctly different.
WheezyWaiter was a really good channel when I was young. You're not alone Ryan, I used to watch WheezyWaiter about 13-14 years ago..
Budweiser It's not German but the Czech Republic
Because It is mostly water! 😁 The oldest brewery in Australia - Cascade Brewery in Tasmania - uses only spring water, real local barley, malt, hops and natural yeast! 😋 We also have Bavarian influences and many craft beers, light, lagers, ale! America needs to test their taste buds and refuse the fakes! 🤨
In Germany Anheuser-Bush is known for Beck's (brewed in Bremen, Germany) which is part of the Anheuser-Bush Inbev group
Now I live in Salzburg, Austria and I found a US style diner with lots of US and canadian beer. I tried Millers once and my first thought was "did the beer run out and they filled it up with water to get it out of the barrel?" Well, I'm used to european beer...
Light could mean less calories or less alcohol. Or less darkness, but for this you need electricity...
How is American beer like having sex in a canoe? Because it’s fucking close to water.
That's funny, but not very helpful. Ryan is very concerned about it, and it might help to empathize.
Malt is the soul of beer.
Malz ist die Seele des Bieres.
Thanks for your support
you really should try some dark beers, you will be amazed at the difference in quality and flavours from your Bud Lites
Oh there are great flavourful but mild brews.
Point of order apple pie is not american the first recorded recipe for apple pie was written in 1381 in England, 😊
Neither is rounders, I mean baseball.
Your channel is a lot of fun to comment on. You aren't afraid of any " touchy" subjects. You can get awards for this. I've been trying to promote your channel, actually. American people and Canadian people really need to know each other. Booy do we ever appreciate the admission of guilt. lmao😂
I'm wondering if you have any journalist relations. You are pretty educated, I can tell by your speech.
Not a big fan of beer myself but I like a Radler (beer + lemonade) in the summer 👌 you might like it too 😝
We call that a shandy.
I don't drink alcohol, so I don't drink beer, but I know what it's supposed to look like. The beer they have on the table looks more like apple juice than beer!
Light lagers are the standard in Finland. Not as watery as Bud but close. Neither is piss water, if you ask the regular guy in the supermarket or in a pub.
Did a PCH road trip last year and found some fantastic west coast independent beers. I wouldn’t let my dog drink Bud/Coors. Come to the UK and sample some tremendous ales
Lol, I did watch to the end and had you not have scrolled to the end, I would be forced to do it myself.
I don't think they sell American beer in the UK. Only Budweiser but no one would be caught dead drinking that when we can buy the real Budweiser. Also, Apple pie isnt American, its from England. Sorry :P
There's so much more American beer available than that! You can get Schlitz, you should be old enough to recall the advert featuring Boston's 'More Than A Feeling' as the music if 1980 is your birth year. You've also been able to get Samuel Adams Boston Lager and vou've been able to get Sierra Nevada Pale Ale in Sainsbury's since *at least* 2005 for example. American beers might not be ubiquitous but you can certainly find them if you're looking.
Re: apple pie, another spurious English claim based on a written recipe being the oldest anyone can find. Given the apple originates east of the Caspian and travelled across Europe first before zrriving to England, it's *vanishingly unlikely* that the first apple pie was English. More likely the apple and the pie arrived in England around the same time, via Romans or Germanic peoples. "Here's a fruit tree and here's a tasty thing you can make with its fruit."
German beer prices are really low, compared to the US. The cheapest beer at a german grocery store is 25 cent (!) for a half liter bottle! :) *yeah&party
Pretty much the same here in Czechia, we have 2l bottle for a euro
In my city, people drink 132 liters beer per person per year.
Light beer, means watered down beer.
London
ale and lager both types of beer, ale is fermented quickly and fermented from top down, lagers are fermented at lower temperatures so ferment much more slowly, they also ferment from the bottom up. Also ales often use more hopes so will have a more bitter taste in the end product.
I'm British we've the best ales , larger your so called beer . If you can get it find mcwaians champion ale, strong without being strong taste full flavour dark ale almost ruby .
Try Yuengling Lager, if you can get it where you live. That was the only one, I liked when I visited the east coast.
0:56 Apple Pie is English btw ;)
Basically, Busch stole Budweiser from Czechia. And made an inferior version of it. Thanks to the Cold War and Czechia being stuck behind the iron curtain he convinced people his water version is the ‘king of beers’, but in fact Budweiser is the ‘beer of kings’. American beer, like a lot of stuff from the US is not allowed to be sold in the EU. Thankfully.
12:27 imagine not knowing what a Guinness is... Poor American guy. He's taste buds couldn't hack that!
You might like this about the best beer in the world (on YT): "Discover Belgian Beer" - LCBO
I'm quite surprised, I was unaware that the USA rationed anything during WWII.
Thinking about it any import would have been affected, but the USA exported heavily during the war so it's reasonable to assume rationing was light...
With that logic you could say that that it is stupid that murder is illegal. "People will do it if it is prohibitit or not"..... sure
"Malt is the soul of beer" - I would translate that to a well known german saying: "Hopfen und Malz - Gott erhalt's", which literally translates to: "God perserve hops and malt". This saying by the way suggests that the "Reinheitsgebot" (Germany's beer purity law from the early 1500s) only allows water, hops, malt and yeast to be the only ingredients allowed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lager will tell you everything you want to know - The term "lager" comes from the German word for "storage", as the beer was stored before drinking, traditionally in the same cool caves[3] in which it was fermented.
That "dark beer" (Obama) is a stout...it looked like a Guinness.
1337 is actually the acronym for "ELITE", but since we wanted to have it as short as possible and because everyday we wanted to have "elite time" on our clocks, we started using "1337" as elite. Also, because the noobs wouldn't understand everyone started calling it "leet" instead of the actual "elite"... that's a little lesson from someone who was there when leet was used for the first few times :) AYBABTU !!!!!
😂Americans like American "beer" because they are lightweight.
Decent beer... Real beer is drunk by real men !!
(& I like dry white wine, - Aussie or French or Chilean, - or Bacardi & Coke, or Guinness, or a nice German lager) 😊❤🖖
I actually enjoyed the part where you were trying to figure out how OG @WheezyWaiter is 😄
In Germany I didn't like Pils. It was very bitter. My favorite was Hefe Weizen (yeast/wheat) like Erdinger. Try it. I like Belgian white beers also like Hoegaarden. But then I like "girly" drinks when it comes to cocktails. I think the % of alcohol is a big reason why Europeans think American beer is watery. But now there are so many craft beers it's not necessary to choose weaker beers in the US.
Take the drink you enjoy. No matter if it's single malt whisky, Weizen, american beer or mango prosecco.
In Germany alone there are now more than 7,500 different beer brands. As of April 19, 2022 In the past few years since the start of the Corona pandemic, the number of beer breweries in Germany has fallen, most recently to 1,507 in 2022, after rising continuously in previous years. Craft beer breweries in Germany In 2022, there were still 865 microbreweries.
americas budweiser is originaly Anheuser-Busch and the real budweiser comes from czech republik^^
Why on earth are the German immigrants to the USA called the "German speaking" immigrants?
At a guess, because quite a lot of them came from what are now Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Switzerland, Austria or Italy, yet had German as their native language. Only a guess, but it makes sense given European demographics in the 19th century.
Oh my good its sounds so weird for me i life in a region called Fränkische Schweiz and in radius about 15 kilometers it gave more than 2o brewerys
as a belgian, i want you to try one of our beer begin with a leffe (it's a basic) and try after a tripple blond one you will taste the difference ^^ (i just hope that a bottle of belgian beer in US doesn't cost too much)
i honestly dont mind an american beer when im there and sometimes ill even buy an imported one here for the nostalgia, but i probably would hate it if i didnt have a connection to it lol
So for someone who *really* is old enough, 1337 it is actually pronounced "elite". Because that is what it referred to. Ackxtually. :-)
The term hamburger originally derives from Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany... hmmmmm 😀
The amount of alcohol makes a beer lite. A 0,5liter Beer with 2% alc. is lite in germany. We have beers with 4,4 ish % alc.
miller lite has 4.2 ABV which is only a bit lower than a regular beer with 4.9-5% ABV
No it's not. It's the calories. In other words the beer is made with less malt and hops and more fermentables which turn to alcohol - or by adding something to make more of the malt and hops ferment. You can find "lite beer" that is 4.9%, the same strength as Paulaner Munich Lager which is most definitely *not* a light beer.
12:13 look a those prices ( p. bottle?! )
We say 'Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalt's.'
(loosely translates to: May God forever preserve hops and malt)
Isaac Newton addressed his rival Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz:
»Does German beer always taste of warm piss?«
Leibniz' response: »I know not what warm piss tastes like.«
Augustiner Hell all the way! 🍺
Is that seriously the first time you've ever seen a pint of Guinness?😂😮 "Look at the darkness of that beer"
Please don’t interrupt Monty Python!😉😁
well done, Sherlock Was
Oh Ryan, you didn't know about the millions of German colonizers in the Midwest... It's ok mate, they all anglicised their names... ;)
American Beer is in German Pißwasser.
Malz ist die Seele des Bieres
Lite beer is the only kind of beer that they serve in the saloons of Hell.
There is a story runnig around in Czechia about an unsuccessful attempt to recreate one of czech brands in the US midwest. Americans bought the license with proper recipe, same hop plants, malt, copied the brewing tanks to be from the same material even the same shape.
It didn't work. The end-product was different and didn't taste as good as the czech one. Americans were to say it mildly '"unhappy". The Czech brewery insisted it provided all of the necessary stuff they could and Americans insisted they did everything to the letter in recipe. I am not sure if bremasters went to the US themselves, but discussion boiled down to a simple question and simple answer.
Q: "Where do you take your water?"
A: "From the tap."
It turns out that one thing you cannot copy is the spring from where is water taken.
Or the types of yeast particles in the air ....
@@frankpierco8826 that is also probably true.
Lager is kind of "flavour light" in the way that Lite soda drinks are sugar light.
It was introduced into pubs because they considered it a drink that women would want because the flavour wasn't as strong. They wanted to get more women into the pubs for obvious reasons.
fun fact: "light" soda is actually lighter. Or rather less dense.
You need the "Reinheitsgebot" ;)
When they say 'as American as baseball and apple pie' I'm assuming they mean NOT American ..... since baseball was first played in Canada (Beachville, Ontario in 1838) and apple pie comes from England?
Everything in America, originates from somewhere else.
"I didn't know the Germans had such an influence on our American beer."
And who did you think it should be, perhaps the original Indians or Italians?😊
xD
American beer tastes like water because all the good stuff has been filtered out of it.
You should take a look into the UA-cam channel from Travelin Young.
It's an american family living in Denmark and they have videos where they compares beers
and also other topics that you have talked about on your own channel.
Beer Purity Law, stipulating that only water, barley and hops were allowed to be used as key ingredients for beer production.
Malz ist die Seele des Bieres - Malt is the soul of the beer
Back then, when i went to school, we had a party with some American guest students. They drunk „Andechs Doppelbock“ as if it was American beer. Soon we had to carry them home…