Idk if you mean it in a way that they scam you with the foam or you say its ok, but they pour you the amount that you ordered and then the foam on top. So you actually get more, not less 😂
Czech here: It’s all in the hands. You regulate the pressure and the angle. Sometimes dads and granddads teach kinds to tap properly. That is important skill here as it is fairly simple to throw a garden party and order your own keg. Usually while roasting a whole pig. Another skill is to open beer bottle with anything. Most common item being a bic lighter.
Pils ( Pilsner type of beer) is from Czech Republic (City of Pilsen ) . Budweiser - the original one is also from Czech Republic (City of Budweis ) - you are welcome World :)
I’ll keep it at Jupiler, Stella, La Chouffe, Tripel Karmeliet, Leffe, Duvel and Gouden Carolus (last one is a hidden gem in my opinion, is less known outside of Belgium because they mainly sell it at the brewery and is harder to find in stores). ;) But other countries also have some good beers! Cheers!
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Eric: Frankly, we find that your American beer is a little like making love in a canoe. Neil: Making love in a canoe? Eric: It's ----ing close to water!!! 😁
Hi, we, the Czechs, are the worlds biggest beer drinkers, 160 litres per person per year (children included), so please believe the video creator, the foam has its reasons, it's really no cheating... Come to Prague, listed as the worlds pretiest city in the world in 2021, and you'll see.. The lager type of beer actually originated in Czech republic in the 13th century...
@@loners4life Yeah, the city does have certain kind of magic, you'll feel in love immediately.. It is the only capital in Europe, which has not been bombed during WWII, you can find architecture from the 12th century to modern therefore...It is included in the UNESCO world heritage list as well... And to the beer, aks anyone who has been to Czech republic, and they will tell you that we have the best beer... Really, we are extremely proud of it.. From the 5200 breweries and brands, I recommend the "Pilsner Urquell unfiltered", the best beer you can have..
@@viktornovomestsky3999 You're right, definitelly, just small thing - Prague was bombed during WWII, by both Allies and Nazis, just wasn't so destroyed as others.
@@janaduskova8694 I know Jana, f.e. a hospital and a building where these days the Dancing house is standing (by mistake, as the Allies were thinking they're bombing Dresden) during the uprising in May 1945.. I just wanted to simplify my answer for them
@@loners4life Regarding beer visit more likely Pilsen(too Czech city), there is famed bewer which know abroad, Pilsen region called the region of beer and rightly there makes beer Pilsner Urquell, Kozel etc. and are there tours. If my English is bad, so sorry 🙂
The foam you get by just changing the angle of the pour. If you just let the beer drop into the glass you get a lot of foam. If you let it slide down the side of the glass you get no foam. I dont think dark beer is more bitter. Its sweeter heavier and contains more alcohol. Its awesome to make pork roast - like the gravy instead of wine.
Not really with the foam. This oldschool taps like this one - you can open it more, so beer comes, or less, than it's foam. In newer, it depends if you pull od push. This sliding works mostly when pouring from can or bottle, not on tap. But with dark beer you're right. It's mostly sweeter (by taste, not sugar - the same with winegrapes - sugarly make les sweet wine).
Belgium here…foam yes, but only max an inch like sean from north UK mentioned. Am a fan of the dark abbey beer here though (Leffe, Kasteelbier) or from the blonde ones tripple karmeliet or a Duvel. That last one you can buy here 10.5 € (this for a pack of 8x 33cl bottles - normal Duvel bottle VAT included) I know you can also get that in the US…but at a different price. Jupiler for instance crate of 24x 25cl cost around 15€ In the summer a LIefmans kriek can be tasty once in a while (sour cherry taste beer).
As someone who grew up drinking beer without foam, and now living in Prague, I've got to say the foam is the way to go. We're converts. The Czech's invented pilsner......so they know! It's a fresher taste, you feel less bloated, it's magnificent! The Czechs/Slovaks know.😄
Our taps have different stages of opening when you want to pour just foam you can. You open it just little and the beer is moving at a higher pressure making the foam. But then you open it all the way to pour beer without foam
worked lots hotel bars. light beer / larger start the pour with a good distance as start to fill more the angle and distance changes as it fills , if not enough foam lot taps you can push forward. like drinks Guinness id rest the glass on drip tray and start to pour till about 2/3 then let it settle, then move glass closer to finish off normally slow pour with nozzle in drink. the last bit, at a small distance from pump nozzle push tap forward very slow pour and add 4 leaf clover in printed in the foam, quite easy its back to front how to draw basically. ive spent way to much time behind bars serving and as a customer, enjoyable at times but not when you started a night shift so your breakfast time your serving beer few hours after waking up. but fun running a bar, weekly line cleaning my fav day as excuses to been drinking as better make sure no taste chemicals so that one day a week it be a tipsy shift or normally wait till night staff arrive work few extra hours an drinks, customers say you been drinking have to make sure beers safe after cleaning, and easy add a few free drinks from so called spillage
High foam is a guarantee of freshness of the beer. If the beer is stale, the foam will drop or even disappear completely. We don't drink beer like that anymore.
Not a scam at all. Beer foam is beer, and for me it’s even the most delicious part of it. The ice in American soft drinks is water. But most importantly: It’s not a scam when you know what you get and the price is accordingly. That being said, in Germany, it takes seven minutes to tap a beer if it‘s done right. You tap, put the glass aside so that the foam sets, then tap again, etc. Unfortunately, you don‘t always get a good seven-minutes-beer in Germany, but that’s the way it should be. This way, you end up with less and thicker foam that builds a crown. Please note: That’s just how a German beer should be tapped, so don’t get me wrong - I am not saying that other countries do it wrong. I love Czech beer and the Czech beer tradition, too!
I wouold say that 2 inches of foam is standard for these glasses from beer manufacturers like Pilsner Urquel or Kozel because 0.5L mark is like 5 inches under the top, but when you order some beer in totaly random place where they don't have these special glasses, there won't be that much foam as you see in the video, in some places (like more snobish restaurants) you can even get beer in wine-like glass, which feels weird for a Czech person.
Creating a head also helps release the carbonation bringing out flavours and helps with not burping around. Typical minimum head rule of thumb is two fingers. Also I was taught to avoid standard US “beers”, and that turned out to be true, they are sad, horrible, and downright offensive. Instead one must seek out highest quality craft beers to get close to European basic standards…but I didn’t even dare think about beer back then, if the most basic beer is that horrible one shouldn’t hope much more from alleged top quality given the widely acquired baseline preference for bad beer. I realise I still should have tried to give that reasoning some substantiation beyond pure logical conjecture, and I will do if I get the chance in the hope of having it thoroughly shattered rather than confirmed.
In America they use 6 row barley, because it has a higher yield than 2 row barley. In Britain 2 row barley is used for beer because of its superior taste, while 6 row barley is used for animal feed.
@@JarlGrimmToys I'm not gonna bother researching whether that's correct because it explains so much of what I've heard about American beer. Weirdly it makes me want to try it, if only just to lament the sad state of affairs the poor yanks are having to deal with hehe :)
@@Zabiru- from the American Homebrewers Association website… “Two-row or six-row? It’s a very American question. Most of the rest of the world uses six-row barley only for livestock feed, not for beer”
Im from Pilsen in Czech (yeah all beers called Pilsner originated in my city), to your question its same pipe same beer but all pipes in Czech have valve on it so its basically combination of technique and valve position, no separation of foam and beer whatsoever.
Here in Prague, the vast majority would be hladinka but yesterday my friend had enough beer and simply ordered the Šnyt as he wanted the small beer in a large glass (foam indeed is very very important). No scam in any way as the pricing reflects the volume of beer. Mlýko or milk is rare but you'll be paying much less than a regular full glasss of beer. The volume is very strict per serving and heavy fines are given if any drink is served even with a milliliter less than what's on the menu. The good thing about Czech beer is that there are purity laws, so using Czech hops (one of the most expensive there is), yeast and water and no other additives are allowed. Plus sending regards from my hometown Budweis (yep we brew the real stuff) that's close enough to Pilsen (that makes the real Pilsner ua-cam.com/video/EN5QwWCWz60/v-deo.html) ;) You're welcome to visit ua-cam.com/video/ffxGB2j9ADo/v-deo.html and beer is on me .. but that's not an issue as beer is often cheaper than water here 😄😉🍻 And on the topic of men or women... gals here drink as much as any dude and would put many to shame, however the drinking culture here thankfully has respect for beer so its a very enjoyable atmosphere... Na zdraví
I'm late to the party here, but the different pours depend on two things: 1) the skill of the bartender and 2) the type of tap. In the Czech Republic they use a special side-pull tap made by a company called Lukr. These special side-pull taps give the bartender a tremendous amount of precision when pouring because the tap handle swings side to side 90° - as opposed to a traditional tap that just pull forward. Opening the tap all the way will pour just beer, opening the valve part way will pour foam - there's a bit of a learning curve to this tap but once you master it you can pour the perfect Czech beer.
Beer tanks are quite sophisticated. The beer in tanks is unpasteurized so the taste is fuller. The beer is stored in stainless steel tanks in a special leak-proof polypropylene bag. To maintain perfect hygiene, a new, absolutely sterile bag is used for each batch of beer. The beer is forced into the pipes by air blown between the tank wall and the bag. The air from the compressor does not come into contact with the beer. The entire tank room is cooled to the correct temperature, including all piping and the tanks themselves. The entire beer supply is permanently cooled to the appropriate temperature, so that even with a large tap there are no cooling problems.
What you guys are watching here works on tap, you cannot recreate it from glass or can... Also, the type of "faucet / tap" and use of it allows for different carbonation, foam versus liquid etc.. and literally changes taste of beer with different types of pours. The tapster is a huge part of the taste of your beer, in Czechia people generally know these things (beer-clean glass). Americans seem to focus on other part of the beer culture... Enjoyed the episode!
The beer has gas mixed in the liquid so because the beer is pumped using gas and literally squirted into the glass it has the gas released from the liquid. In the UK (again) where the beer used to be in real wooden barrels and to get it into the glass it was hand pumped with a lever on the bar. Oh and no refrigeration of the liquid, sorry
iam czech and what most people that are from countries where they dont like foam dont understand is the foam is actually a lot of beer, just with air, you could maybe call it whipped beer, here in czechia they usually bring beers that are under the half liter line and like 2/5 or 1/2 of the glass is foam, they do it because we actually like the foam as its smoother and its a sign of freshly drafted beer beside that they want to bring it fast and they have a lot of people ordering beers but if u let the bubbles pop up u will see your getting half litre of beer as u ordered.
In germany , just like in austria - the glasses have a half liter mark, and if there is any foam, it has to be above it. making a glas of beer takes 7 minutes - its beeing said. That is the agreed upon time a good glas can take and people are willing to wait from order to enjoyment to get their 7 minute glasses of beer. Foam levels coming from the tap varies depending on whether the keg was just atached , or whether it is almost empty and the brand and type of beer as well. --- now if you go to england, they fill up the pint glas to the brim so you are hardly able to transport it without spilling. europe is not europe - like texas is not new york.
It's the same here in Czechia, mark is mostly like 2 inches under the top of glass. In some places, you will wait a long time for beer, it depends on type of their tap, but today pubs mostly have modern taps where it doesn't take that much time. When I visited Vienna, I didn't notice any bigger difference compared to Czech beer tradition, they even count amount of your beers with those marks on paper, that's something very Czech.
Honestly, every time i watch some americans talk about beer i cry laughing, i mean, that piss you drink in america you are the only one calling that "beer" the rest of the world call that for what it is: piss!
I'm not a massive beer guy, but the only beer I really pay attention to how I pour is Guinness. A Guinness without a head is a travesty. I find stouts at the same time bitter but also somehow sweet, almost chocolatey, but they fill you up like nobody's business. I remember describing it as drinking a sweet loaf of bread when I first tried it when I was like 19.
Some beers can make more foam than others but basically when you don't want foam you just push the tap under the surface of the beer that you are spilling, in this way you won't generate any foam... And I think that when he said 'women beer' and 'men beer' he meant to say that the beer is more sweet and delicate and not that women are 'delicate', probably he was describing the beer, in the way to 'dedicate' that beer to women, I don't think he really meant to divide the genres, I'm pretty sure of that :) It's the same when he said 'beer for tourists' it's a good thing btw... And if you ever come to Italy you can taste a lot of different kind of very dry or 'fruit' white wine, you can find a lot it 👌
Yes, he also probably said that it's women beer or it's men beer based on the real life experiences, women here really like sweeter beer. Dark beer is also more preferred by women, or at least the women I know.
American here. A good head on a glass of beer is infinitely better than a glass without any froth/foam. It would be like having a latte without foam. Just my two cents 😉
re glass cleaning - you don't have the pressure washers for beer glasses in US? (you put the glass on a "sprinkler" that sprinkles with high pressure water)
How can it be a scam? You ask for it, you get it. Their glasses also have a mark on them so you can tell how much liquid you are actually getting. And their beers and beer foam tastes nice.
In US cold drinks are sold with plenty of ice - FYI you buy Coke, Ice tea or whatever diluted by the companey = plenty of ice! Less real drink. I don't know have you a to ask "two cubes" or such??
I absolutely hate when they put icy into my drink without asking, McDonnalds does it always and I always forget about it when I order something there. When it's summer, it's like 33°C outside and then you start drinking ice cold coca-cola, I will get headache from that + it's watered by that ice.
As a greek who has lived in === Holland ireland luxembourg and greece...I have never seen this beer in my life hahah all the beesr I have seen which are thousands of beers all had lime 1.5 or 2 inches of foam
Welcome to a long, long disagreement between England end, well, pretty much the rest of Europe. Foam, or no foam. Joking aside, Some beers are better without the foam. Those tend to be the darker ones. Once the foam is gone on the beers with foam, and you wait a bit, you can seriously taste the difference. Beer goes 'stale' rather quickly once exposed to air. I've never put that much foam on the beers I poured, though I only did some standard stuff. My guess is that it's different per glass. How wide it is, how much beer is in there, temperature of the glass, etc. It's a science
As we talking about drink as you know if from the UK, a drink so popular them days as it got banned in scotland, well no so much banned, they would not sell it as it was deemed to be to strong which, im sure other countries do it. But i started drinking about 16 years old, the drink of the day, used to foam nice head, was SNAKEBITE which was half larger half cider, it got to the point we had to trick pubs, one would buy pint of larger, my wife would buy pint on cider, and ask for a half glass, as ladies did not drink out of pint glasses, more lady like to drink from a half pint glass, that the gave us the oppertunity to mix it, we also drank in them days, im talking 80s. was black velvet, half cider and half guiness, or black and tan, which was half stout and half beer
Its not a scam because it is ordered by free will and price of mliko, snyt and hladinka is totally different. Believe me, in a country that has beer culture older than US existence as a country, they know what they are doing, lol. Beer is as important here as rice to Asians and nobody would allow for scam sticks.
Their are some many different beers and pils brands. In Belgium and The Netherlands every city has it’s brand, mostly small local breweries. Me and some fiends us an app (untapped) to keep track of what we tried (I have tried already 209 different beers/pils)
I’ve said this on one of their previous videos and I’m sorry but the title says “European” but this doesn’t represent all of Europe, besides the dirty glass.
Noone orders "Milk" or "Šnyt" versions of beer in Czech Republic, thats Prague thing for tourists.. I am 43 years old and I have never seen anybody to drink "Milk" or Šnit in the pub....Normal is to have 3-4 centimetrs of foam...
those foam differences are because of tapping technique, fast tapping or slower, angels of glass etc. There is nothing special you should try it and bartender showed you how to do that.
I know most people when thinking about beer think Germany (Oktoberfest). But beer culture in Chech Republic is much bigger. And I personaly found them tasting better than German too. Kozel (meaning Goat) is great. I think the best dark beer I tasted (and it is more porter like than stout). It is not hard to find both Chech and German beers in Polish shops. But nothing beats going there and taste it at the source.
You Americans have no idea of the actual stable consitency of that kind of beer foam Czech´s tab beer is providing, it´s almost kinda like cotton candy...the foam will stay covering the beer like a cap, simply because it is an actual foam per definition and it is definitively not "solely carbon bubbles" which will of course disappear and which you Americans are used to....just saying
Didnt watch the video but to answer your question. Cause it protects the beer from oxidation...that means air (just in case). Or let me rephrase, why doesnt yours ?
Depends on where in Europe you are I'm from the Netherlands and if you serve a 'milk' beer would give you a bar fight. 2 fingers of foam is what we serve always.
It's not like somebody would bring you milk if you didn't ask for it. If you ask for just "a beer" anywhere you will get hladinka. If you ask for milk or šnyt you will pay for it as if it was a small beer in most places (because it technically is).
Going to be perfectly honest here. If that glass of foam was served to me, for money, it’s going to get launched in the general direction of the barman!
Every City , sometimes villages have there own beer. The czechs and germany know what they do, so many different tasty beer🥰.I drink beer in the US it was foul🤢, like p...water
Yall not offensive but ignorant, but not by your own fault. The quality of beer in Czech is so high that draught tastes completely different from bottle which also is different from can. The foam itself is a also part of the beer and indicates the quality of the beer. Also the full foam tap is priced cheaper than the other taps.
Swede here. After visiting Plzen once and Prague twice, I have to agree: Czech beer culture is superior! Lovely country over all, hope I'll visit soon again.
Yes, true...followed by Austria on rank 2 in behalf of beer culture and consumption per capita.....and only then comes the rest including the Germans ;-D
Sorry, but drinking lots doesn't mean superior beer culture. 1/ Belgian beer culture is deemed by Unesco as an intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. 2/ Whenever there is a top 10 of best beers (flavor) in the world, there is always at least 1 if not several Belgian made beers. Care to remind us how often actual Czech brewed beers are in the top 10? 3/ Czech's make 80 Czech beers. Hmm....cute. Austria (±9mil pop) makes 600 different beers. Whoa, nice. Belgium (±11mil = similiar in population size to Czech republic) makes close to *1500 different beers*. FYI, every half way decent city in Belgium has at least 1 pub that serves more than a 100 different beers, including beers from other countries. From the 13 trappist breweries, 6 are in Belgium and none are in the Czech republic.
@@PDVism You're comparing apples and pears. Czechs love their bottom-fermented beer and have a hard time getting used to top-fermented or spontaneously fermented beers, so typical of Belgium. Czechs also drink beer at lunchtime and Czech cuisine is more suited to bitter lagers than sweeter beers, which makes it harder to market them. Czechia is at the top not only in consumption but also in the number of microbreweries per million inhabitants. There are over 40 in Czechia while Belgium has less than 20, which is an interesting drop considering that Belgium had over 3,000 breweries in the 1800's (around 300 today), while the Czech lands only had around 1,000 at the time (over 500 today). Today, Czechia is only just discovering other types of beer as thanks to 50 years of socialism, the Czech small brewing industry almost disappeared and the state breweries did not develop anything new. In 1993 there was only one microbrewery left, which even the communists dared not close down, and yet today we have twice as many microbreweries as Belgium. Of course, the Czech breweries cannot yet match the Belgian ones in terms of diversity, because unlike the Belgian brewing industry, the Czech one had to start from scratch and could not afford to experiment so much, which has been slowly changing in recent years.
@@PDVism You compare uncomparable.I love Belgian beers yet I love sitting on a terrace in the summer sipping pilseners all evening long not getting drunk. that is something you cant do with a Belgian beer that I love, too. I USA these days there are even more brands. But it does not make it a better beer culture. everyone likes something else. By the way these days there are definitelly more Czech beers than just 80.
No offense taken of the foam scam. I consider a glas full of ice with your drink inbetween a scam😊
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Idk if you mean it in a way that they scam you with the foam or you say its ok, but they pour you the amount that you ordered and then the foam on top. So you actually get more, not less 😂
Full glass of ice is definitely a SCAM. Back in 90's when I visited first McDonalds I was so excited of getting Coke full of ice, now I know better.
Czech here: It’s all in the hands. You regulate the pressure and the angle. Sometimes dads and granddads teach kinds to tap properly. That is important skill here as it is fairly simple to throw a garden party and order your own keg. Usually while roasting a whole pig. Another skill is to open beer bottle with anything. Most common item being a bic lighter.
Pils ( Pilsner type of beer) is from Czech Republic (City of Pilsen ) . Budweiser - the original one is also from Czech Republic (City of Budweis ) - you are welcome World :)
Meanwhile the most popular Pilsner are Heineken from Netherlands and Carlsberg from Denmark 😆
@@YekouriGaming Maybe , but both Pils :D
I’ll keep it at Jupiler, Stella, La Chouffe, Tripel Karmeliet, Leffe, Duvel and Gouden Carolus (last one is a hidden gem in my opinion,
is less known outside of Belgium because they mainly sell it at the brewery and is harder to find in stores). ;)
But other countries also have some good beers!
Cheers!
We are gratefull!!
Thanks XD
@@YekouriGaming Yes, but that's only because of 40 years of communism here, when we couldn't export the original Pilsner... -_- fkin commies
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
Eric: Frankly, we find that your American beer is a little like making love in a canoe.
Neil: Making love in a canoe?
Eric: It's ----ing close to water!!!
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Haha this is hilarious! 🤣
Hi, we, the Czechs, are the worlds biggest beer drinkers, 160 litres per person per year (children included), so please believe the video creator, the foam has its reasons, it's really no cheating... Come to Prague, listed as the worlds pretiest city in the world in 2021, and you'll see.. The lager type of beer actually originated in Czech republic in the 13th century...
We will definitely go to visit Prague! It looks amazing and we love beer also so I think we will fit right in 😂
@@loners4life Yeah, the city does have certain kind of magic, you'll feel in love immediately.. It is the only capital in Europe, which has not been bombed during WWII, you can find architecture from the 12th century to modern therefore...It is included in the UNESCO world heritage list as well... And to the beer, aks anyone who has been to Czech republic, and they will tell you that we have the best beer... Really, we are extremely proud of it.. From the 5200 breweries and brands, I recommend the "Pilsner Urquell unfiltered", the best beer you can have..
@@viktornovomestsky3999 You're right, definitelly, just small thing - Prague was bombed during WWII, by both Allies and Nazis, just wasn't so destroyed as others.
@@janaduskova8694 I know Jana, f.e. a hospital and a building where these days the Dancing house is standing (by mistake, as the Allies were thinking they're bombing Dresden) during the uprising in May 1945.. I just wanted to simplify my answer for them
@@loners4life Regarding beer visit more likely Pilsen(too Czech city), there is famed bewer which know abroad, Pilsen region called the region of beer and rightly there makes beer Pilsner Urquell, Kozel etc. and are there tours.
If my English is bad, so sorry 🙂
The foam you get by just changing the angle of the pour. If you just let the beer drop into the glass you get a lot of foam. If you let it slide down the side of the glass you get no foam. I dont think dark beer is more bitter. Its sweeter heavier and contains more alcohol. Its awesome to make pork roast - like the gravy instead of wine.
Not really with the foam. This oldschool taps like this one - you can open it more, so beer comes, or less, than it's foam. In newer, it depends if you pull od push. This sliding works mostly when pouring from can or bottle, not on tap. But with dark beer you're right. It's mostly sweeter (by taste, not sugar - the same with winegrapes - sugarly make les sweet wine).
@@janaduskova8694 yup, those 180 degree taps in cz are a patent design used to regulate it easier
Also I think that in US, it's actually illegal to put tap into the beer like it is common in Europe.
Short answer: because a glass of beer without foam looks like a glass of piss.
6:50 Its a custom tab made in Czech republic that can pour foam or straight beer depending on how much you open it
6:34 „is it different beer?“ no, it’s the technique of the tab-master, to get you, want you prefer. ONE TAB, adjusted different. Same tab, same beer.
Belgium here…foam yes, but only max an inch like sean from north UK mentioned.
Am a fan of the dark abbey beer here though (Leffe, Kasteelbier) or from the blonde ones tripple karmeliet or a Duvel.
That last one you can buy here 10.5 € (this for a pack of 8x 33cl bottles - normal Duvel bottle VAT included)
I know you can also get that in the US…but at a different price.
Jupiler for instance crate of 24x 25cl cost around 15€
In the summer a LIefmans kriek can be tasty once in a while (sour cherry taste beer).
Clearly, belgium are the best for beer IMO.
@@va8392 it’s a completely different drink from the czech version of it so it’s hard to say
As someone who grew up drinking beer without foam, and now living in Prague, I've got to say the foam is the way to go. We're converts. The Czech's invented pilsner......so they know! It's a fresher taste, you feel less bloated, it's magnificent! The Czechs/Slovaks know.😄
This guy gets it
6:55 he uses the same tap. It´s all about the technic. For example, a different angle of the glass helps you with the foam
Our taps have different stages of opening when you want to pour just foam you can. You open it just little and the beer is moving at a higher pressure making the foam. But then you open it all the way to pour beer without foam
worked lots hotel bars. light beer / larger start the pour with a good distance as start to fill more the angle and distance changes as it fills , if not enough foam lot taps you can push forward. like drinks Guinness id rest the glass on drip tray and start to pour till about 2/3 then let it settle, then move glass closer to finish off normally slow pour with nozzle in drink. the last bit, at a small distance from pump nozzle push tap forward very slow pour and add 4 leaf clover in printed in the foam, quite easy its back to front how to draw basically. ive spent way to much time behind bars serving and as a customer, enjoyable at times but not when you started a night shift so your breakfast time your serving beer few hours after waking up. but fun running a bar, weekly line cleaning my fav day as excuses to been drinking as better make sure no taste chemicals so that one day a week it be a tipsy shift or normally wait till night staff arrive work few extra hours an drinks, customers say you been drinking have to make sure beers safe after cleaning, and easy add a few free drinks from so called spillage
High foam is a guarantee of freshness of the beer. If the beer is stale, the foam will drop or even disappear completely. We don't drink beer like that anymore.
Not a scam at all. Beer foam is beer, and for me it’s even the most delicious part of it.
The ice in American soft drinks is water.
But most importantly: It’s not a scam when you know what you get and the price is accordingly.
That being said, in Germany, it takes seven minutes to tap a beer if it‘s done right. You tap, put the glass aside so that the foam sets, then tap again, etc. Unfortunately, you don‘t always get a good seven-minutes-beer in Germany, but that’s the way it should be. This way, you end up with less and thicker foam that builds a crown. Please note: That’s just how a German beer should be tapped, so don’t get me wrong - I am not saying that other countries do it wrong. I love Czech beer and the Czech beer tradition, too!
A pils (lager) in Belgium is served with two fingers of foam... the better beers have more foam. Duvel f.i. is served with a lot of foam.
two fingers foam is standard also here in Czech Republic and yes, same as in Belgium by some beers is better to have higher foam.
I wouold say that 2 inches of foam is standard for these glasses from beer manufacturers like Pilsner Urquel or Kozel because 0.5L mark is like 5 inches under the top, but when you order some beer in totaly random place where they don't have these special glasses, there won't be that much foam as you see in the video, in some places (like more snobish restaurants) you can even get beer in wine-like glass, which feels weird for a Czech person.
Creating a head also helps release the carbonation bringing out flavours and helps with not burping around.
Typical minimum head rule of thumb is two fingers.
Also I was taught to avoid standard US “beers”, and that turned out to be true, they are sad, horrible, and downright offensive. Instead one must seek out highest quality craft beers to get close to European basic standards…but I didn’t even dare think about beer back then, if the most basic beer is that horrible one shouldn’t hope much more from alleged top quality given the widely acquired baseline preference for bad beer. I realise I still should have tried to give that reasoning some substantiation beyond pure logical conjecture, and I will do if I get the chance in the hope of having it thoroughly shattered rather than confirmed.
In America they use 6 row barley, because it has a higher yield than 2 row barley.
In Britain 2 row barley is used for beer because of its superior taste, while 6 row barley is used for animal feed.
@@JarlGrimmToys I'm not gonna bother researching whether that's correct because it explains so much of what I've heard about American beer. Weirdly it makes me want to try it, if only just to lament the sad state of affairs the poor yanks are having to deal with hehe :)
@@Zabiru- from the American Homebrewers Association website…
“Two-row or six-row? It’s a very American question. Most of the rest of the world uses six-row barley only for livestock feed, not for beer”
Im from Pilsen in Czech (yeah all beers called Pilsner originated in my city), to your question its same pipe same beer but all pipes in Czech have valve on it so its basically combination of technique and valve position, no separation of foam and beer whatsoever.
Here in Prague, the vast majority would be hladinka but yesterday my friend had enough beer and simply ordered the Šnyt as he wanted the small beer in a large glass (foam indeed is very very important). No scam in any way as the pricing reflects the volume of beer. Mlýko or milk is rare but you'll be paying much less than a regular full glasss of beer. The volume is very strict per serving and heavy fines are given if any drink is served even with a milliliter less than what's on the menu. The good thing about Czech beer is that there are purity laws, so using Czech hops (one of the most expensive there is), yeast and water and no other additives are allowed. Plus sending regards from my hometown Budweis (yep we brew the real stuff) that's close enough to Pilsen (that makes the real Pilsner ua-cam.com/video/EN5QwWCWz60/v-deo.html) ;)
You're welcome to visit ua-cam.com/video/ffxGB2j9ADo/v-deo.html and beer is on me .. but that's not an issue as beer is often cheaper than water here 😄😉🍻
And on the topic of men or women... gals here drink as much as any dude and would put many to shame, however the drinking culture here thankfully has respect for beer so its a very enjoyable atmosphere...
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wait wot? separated tubes for foam and for beer? na na na ma boyz there is only one tube but on tap is valve where they can reduce air
The way of pouring is really important!
It changes the taste of the final product
Damn, I'm trying to not drink for 2-3 months to lose weight and get better health, and then I see this...
I'm late to the party here, but the different pours depend on two things: 1) the skill of the bartender and 2) the type of tap.
In the Czech Republic they use a special side-pull tap made by a company called Lukr. These special side-pull taps give the bartender a tremendous amount of precision when pouring because the tap handle swings side to side 90° - as opposed to a traditional tap that just pull forward. Opening the tap all the way will pour just beer, opening the valve part way will pour foam - there's a bit of a learning curve to this tap but once you master it you can pour the perfect Czech beer.
Hold your bartenders accountable! You deserve a clean beer! 😂
Beer tanks are quite sophisticated. The beer in tanks is unpasteurized so the taste is fuller. The beer is stored in stainless steel tanks in a special leak-proof polypropylene bag. To maintain perfect hygiene, a new, absolutely sterile bag is used for each batch of beer. The beer is forced into the pipes by air blown between the tank wall and the bag. The air from the compressor does not come into contact with the beer. The entire tank room is cooled to the correct temperature, including all piping and the tanks themselves. The entire beer supply is permanently cooled to the appropriate temperature, so that even with a large tap there are no cooling problems.
What you guys are watching here works on tap, you cannot recreate it from glass or can... Also, the type of "faucet / tap" and use of it allows for different carbonation, foam versus liquid etc.. and literally changes taste of beer with different types of pours. The tapster is a huge part of the taste of your beer, in Czechia people generally know these things (beer-clean glass). Americans seem to focus on other part of the beer culture... Enjoyed the episode!
I love white wine. But the smooth/ sweet one-superior grade german white vine from Frankonia. Yummy!
The beer has gas mixed in the liquid so because the beer is pumped using gas and literally squirted into the glass it has the gas released from the liquid. In the UK (again) where the beer used to be in real wooden barrels and to get it into the glass it was hand pumped with a lever on the bar. Oh and no refrigeration of the liquid, sorry
iam czech and what most people that are from countries where they dont like foam dont understand is the foam is actually a lot of beer, just with air, you could maybe call it whipped beer, here in czechia they usually bring beers that are under the half liter line and like 2/5 or 1/2 of the glass is foam, they do it because we actually like the foam as its smoother and its a sign of freshly drafted beer beside that they want to bring it fast and they have a lot of people ordering beers but if u let the bubbles pop up u will see your getting half litre of beer as u ordered.
In germany , just like in austria - the glasses have a half liter mark, and if there is any foam, it has to be above it.
making a glas of beer takes 7 minutes - its beeing said. That is the agreed upon time a good glas can take
and people are willing to wait from order to enjoyment to get their 7 minute glasses of beer.
Foam levels coming from the tap varies depending on whether the keg was just atached , or whether it is almost empty
and the brand and type of beer as well.
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now if you go to england, they fill up the pint glas to the brim so you are hardly able to transport it without spilling.
europe is not europe - like texas is not new york.
It's the same here in Czechia, mark is mostly like 2 inches under the top of glass. In some places, you will wait a long time for beer, it depends on type of their tap, but today pubs mostly have modern taps where it doesn't take that much time. When I visited Vienna, I didn't notice any bigger difference compared to Czech beer tradition, they even count amount of your beers with those marks on paper, that's something very Czech.
Honestly, every time i watch some americans talk about beer i cry laughing, i mean, that piss you drink in america you are the only one calling that "beer" the rest of the world call that for what it is: piss!
I'm not a massive beer guy, but the only beer I really pay attention to how I pour is Guinness. A Guinness without a head is a travesty. I find stouts at the same time bitter but also somehow sweet, almost chocolatey, but they fill you up like nobody's business. I remember describing it as drinking a sweet loaf of bread when I first tried it when I was like 19.
Some beers can make more foam than others but basically when you don't want foam you just push the tap under the surface of the beer that you are spilling, in this way you won't generate any foam... And I think that when he said 'women beer' and 'men beer' he meant to say that the beer is more sweet and delicate and not that women are 'delicate', probably he was describing the beer, in the way to 'dedicate' that beer to women, I don't think he really meant to divide the genres, I'm pretty sure of that :) It's the same when he said 'beer for tourists' it's a good thing btw... And if you ever come to Italy you can taste a lot of different kind of very dry or 'fruit' white wine, you can find a lot it 👌
Yes, he also probably said that it's women beer or it's men beer based on the real life experiences, women here really like sweeter beer. Dark beer is also more preferred by women, or at least the women I know.
Yes, a glass of foam will turn into ~ a quarter of a glass of beer
Confirming it, czech dark beers are typically sweeter comoared to light ones
American here. A good head on a glass of beer is infinitely better than a glass without any froth/foam. It would be like having a latte without foam. Just my two cents 😉
re glass cleaning - you don't have the pressure washers for beer glasses in US? (you put the glass on a "sprinkler" that sprinkles with high pressure water)
How can it be a scam? You ask for it, you get it. Their glasses also have a mark on them so you can tell how much liquid you are actually getting. And their beers and beer foam tastes nice.
well... why american cola has sooooo much ice?
In US cold drinks are sold with plenty of ice - FYI you buy Coke, Ice tea or whatever diluted by the companey = plenty of ice! Less real drink. I don't know have you a to ask "two cubes" or such??
I absolutely hate when they put icy into my drink without asking, McDonnalds does it always and I always forget about it when I order something there. When it's summer, it's like 33°C outside and then you start drinking ice cold coca-cola, I will get headache from that + it's watered by that ice.
As a greek who has lived in === Holland ireland luxembourg and greece...I have never seen this beer in my life hahah all the beesr I have seen which are thousands of beers all had lime 1.5 or 2 inches of foam
Pilsner is a Czech/Bavarian invention. You are welcome.
Glass is in the tank to keep it cold, mug should be cold and wet, before tap
Welcome to a long, long disagreement between England end, well, pretty much the rest of Europe. Foam, or no foam.
Joking aside, Some beers are better without the foam. Those tend to be the darker ones. Once the foam is gone on the beers with foam, and you wait a bit, you can seriously taste the difference. Beer goes 'stale' rather quickly once exposed to air. I've never put that much foam on the beers I poured, though I only did some standard stuff. My guess is that it's different per glass. How wide it is, how much beer is in there, temperature of the glass, etc. It's a science
Let me know when you'll be heading to Prague, first round is on me. Regards from Prague
The foam (milk) is for the kids here :D
The way the foame is produced ist just the angle between the Glass and the Bear.
U are aware of the fact that europeans have been drinking beer for thousand yres ?? Americans have been doin it for a short period .🤣
We definitely are not the most experienced beer drinkers in the world haha 😅
As we talking about drink as you know if from the UK, a drink so popular them days as it got banned in scotland, well no so much banned, they would not sell it as it was deemed to be to strong which, im sure other countries do it.
But i started drinking about 16 years old, the drink of the day, used to foam nice head, was SNAKEBITE which was half larger half cider, it got to the point we had to trick pubs, one would buy pint of larger, my wife would buy pint on cider, and ask for a half glass, as ladies did not drink out of pint glasses, more lady like to drink from a half pint glass, that the gave us the oppertunity to mix it, we also drank in them days, im talking 80s. was black velvet, half cider and half guiness, or black and tan, which was half stout and half beer
Its not a scam because it is ordered by free will and price of mliko, snyt and hladinka is totally different.
Believe me, in a country that has beer culture older than US existence as a country, they know what they are doing, lol.
Beer is as important here as rice to Asians and nobody would allow for scam sticks.
Their are some many different beers and pils brands. In Belgium and The Netherlands every city has it’s brand, mostly small local breweries. Me and some fiends us an app (untapped) to keep track of what we tried (I have tried already 209 different beers/pils)
"In Belgium and The Netherlands every city has it’s brand" only one brand in one city? 😀
I’ve said this on one of their previous videos and I’m sorry but the title says “European” but this doesn’t represent all of Europe, besides the dirty glass.
People, the Czecks have a great experience in beer. They have a lot of different tastes.
Noone orders "Milk" or "Šnyt" versions of beer in Czech Republic, thats Prague thing for tourists.. I am 43 years old and I have never seen anybody to drink "Milk" or Šnit in the pub....Normal is to have 3-4 centimetrs of foam...
those foam differences are because of tapping technique, fast tapping or slower, angels of glass etc. There is nothing special you should try it and bartender showed you how to do that.
I know most people when thinking about beer think Germany (Oktoberfest). But beer culture in Chech Republic is much bigger. And I personaly found them tasting better than German too. Kozel (meaning Goat) is great. I think the best dark beer I tasted (and it is more porter like than stout). It is not hard to find both Chech and German beers in Polish shops. But nothing beats going there and taste it at the source.
You Americans have no idea of the actual stable consitency of that kind of beer foam Czech´s tab beer is providing, it´s almost kinda like cotton candy...the foam will stay covering the beer like a cap, simply because it is an actual foam per definition and it is definitively not "solely carbon bubbles" which will of course disappear and which you Americans are used to....just saying
This is interesting! We will make sure to head over to Prague to get the real beer experience 💪🏼
Didnt watch the video but to answer your question. Cause it protects the beer from oxidation...that means air (just in case).
Or let me rephrase, why doesnt yours ?
OMFG, sit half an hour with just only one beer? No way for most of the Czech drinkers :D
The foam is the beer! There isn’t foam and beer! Beer is foam and foam is beer
The foam is usually from a tank of carbon dioxide forced into the pasteurised beer.
Depends on where in Europe you are I'm from the Netherlands and if you serve a 'milk' beer would give you a bar fight. 2 fingers of foam is what we serve always.
It's not like somebody would bring you milk if you didn't ask for it. If you ask for just "a beer" anywhere you will get hladinka. If you ask for milk or šnyt you will pay for it as if it was a small beer in most places (because it technically is).
Okey 3:02 I want Mlíko (and orhers) only in the place where is bear made. For example in Plzeň (Pilsen).
Hladinka is best 😁😁
Going to be perfectly honest here. If that glass of foam was served to me, for money, it’s going to get launched in the general direction of the barman!
In the Netherlands is the foam 2 fingers thick
Pilsener is a Czech/Bavarian invention. Definitely not Dutch.
the glass will be clean but not beer clean, its oils that will make the foam not stable. he didn't explain that well about clean glasses.
Girl is based as hell for already pouring her beer with lots of foam to lessen bloating. Foam is beer, foam is your friend.
Anywhere in Czech Republic you would get “hladinka” and they would have no idea what the others are
That's not really true though.
The first beers are exactly the same, it is just the he taps it to make more or less foam.
Yet they have a different name.
Every City , sometimes villages have there own beer. The czechs and germany know what they do, so many different tasty beer🥰.I drink beer in the US it was foul🤢, like p...water
european beer has foam because we dont add any chemicals to our beer to get rid of........
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Yall not offensive but ignorant, but not by your own fault. The quality of beer in Czech is so high that draught tastes completely different from bottle which also is different from can. The foam itself is a also part of the beer and indicates the quality of the beer. Also the full foam tap is priced cheaper than the other taps.
Just watch clip for TATRA and 30 s after that i see notification for that hahahahahahahaha
Czech here. Our beer culture is superior. That's also why we are number 1 in beer consumption per capita in the world.
Swede here. After visiting Plzen once and Prague twice, I have to agree: Czech beer culture is superior!
Lovely country over all, hope I'll visit soon again.
Yes, true...followed by Austria on rank 2 in behalf of beer culture and consumption per capita.....and only then comes the rest including the Germans ;-D
Sorry, but drinking lots doesn't mean superior beer culture.
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Belgian beer culture is deemed by Unesco as an intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
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Whenever there is a top 10 of best beers (flavor) in the world, there is always at least 1 if not several Belgian made beers. Care to remind us how often actual Czech brewed beers are in the top 10?
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Czech's make 80 Czech beers. Hmm....cute.
Austria (±9mil pop) makes 600 different beers. Whoa, nice.
Belgium (±11mil = similiar in population size to Czech republic) makes close to *1500 different beers*.
FYI, every half way decent city in Belgium has at least 1 pub that serves more than a 100 different beers, including beers from other countries.
From the 13 trappist breweries, 6 are in Belgium and none are in the Czech republic.
@@PDVism You're comparing apples and pears. Czechs love their bottom-fermented beer and have a hard time getting used to top-fermented or spontaneously fermented beers, so typical of Belgium. Czechs also drink beer at lunchtime and Czech cuisine is more suited to bitter lagers than sweeter beers, which makes it harder to market them.
Czechia is at the top not only in consumption but also in the number of microbreweries per million inhabitants. There are over 40 in Czechia while Belgium has less than 20, which is an interesting drop considering that Belgium had over 3,000 breweries in the 1800's (around 300 today), while the Czech lands only had around 1,000 at the time (over 500 today).
Today, Czechia is only just discovering other types of beer as thanks to 50 years of socialism, the Czech small brewing industry almost disappeared and the state breweries did not develop anything new. In 1993 there was only one microbrewery left, which even the communists dared not close down, and yet today we have twice as many microbreweries as Belgium. Of course, the Czech breweries cannot yet match the Belgian ones in terms of diversity, because unlike the Belgian brewing industry, the Czech one had to start from scratch and could not afford to experiment so much, which has been slowly changing in recent years.
@@PDVism You compare uncomparable.I love Belgian beers yet I love sitting on a terrace in the summer sipping pilseners all evening long not getting drunk. that is something you cant do with a Belgian beer that I love, too. I USA these days there are even more brands. But it does not make it a better beer culture. everyone likes something else. By the way these days there are definitelly more Czech beers than just 80.
milk - no way
schnitt - sometimes
regular - yeah
čochtan - no way
It is always the same beer, just tap with a special technic!
It's not foam, it's a head... Plus a pint is 20% bigger in the rest of the world... As is a gallon.