Welcome to the Craft Beer Channel. Join Jonny and the Brad every Wednesday as we travel the world to discover the best craft beers, brew collaborations with breweries, cook or match food with beer, teach you to homebrew and generally geek out about craft beer.
When we say craft we mean good stuff, made with care by passionate people. We necessarily don't mean small batch, we don't mean independent, we don't mean keg, or cask. We just mean GOOD BEER.
Learnt a lot! Really interesting about the history. Not sure if I missed it, but there was (is) a historical beer style called gruit that used botanicals rather than hops.. Can't say I've had one, but I think stinging nettles may have also been used? Very close heritage to hops too, of course!
I've just finished catching up due to work etc. I'm not a massive stout fan, imperial stouts even less so, but Trees of Endor is incredible. Stunning stunning beer. No stout will come close to that for me, ever again
I have never seen a single person go into a pub, order 1 of these beers and smell it, swirl it around a glass and discuss it which just goes to prove that this is a pointless exercise. I'm glad I watched it for the pure comedy factor but let's not take it too seriously. This is the equivalent of watching a heap of 10's walk into a pub and you and the lads discuss which is the hottest and ranking them, again a pointless exercise when you're just going to go home and pull the stomach out of yourself while doing a bit of belly boxing!
This is a horrible comparison, but if I ignore that - no one does it in the pub. I don't. But I can tell you that the people who made this beer and decide it is good enough to sell to you 100% do this with every batch they send out. Whole teams are dedicated to it. This is how beer is appraised and recorded and is vital to you just being able to neck a few pints and not think about it in the slightest.
Sorry, couldn’t be around for the live show because I was at our hops and harvest festival here in Lewiston New York. So I’m joining you now with “kings county birding club”, a 7.2% fresh hop ipa from a collaboration of strange bird and KCBC. cheers!👍🏻🍻❤️
I'm gonna blow some minds with this revelation, put keystone light and coors light in identical cups. Taste one then the other, it's the same exact beer
My cousin was in the marketing department that launched Magners@@TheCraftBeerChannel. And we come from where they claimed there was a tradition of making cider. He came home very chastened the day of the launch. You've never seen such an embarrassed soul.
Well done! This is a fantastic video, and this is why I love beer. One element can bring so much variety and create so many different styles-now multiply that by the other ingredients of beer, from just the water type to the multitude of grains and then the yeasts to bring it all together in all its combinations. The cross-pollination of geography, and what I guess will be brought by the next episode with New World hops, makes the drink we love so varied and exciting. For all the pomp and celebration it gets, wine really has nothing compared to brewing 🍻
I live in Maryland and a few years ago a unique hop (Monocacy) was found on a veterinarian's chicken coop. It works well in older beer styles (ESB, Altbier, Marzen). Breweries are playing with it, growers are crossbreeding it. Hopefully something comes of it. Great video by the way. I do enjoy beers made with Kent Goldings.
Let's not forget about the hop growing juggernaut that is eastern Canada! LOL. Nothing to rival anyone else, but we do have probably a half dozen or so hop yards here in the Maritimes.
Hops were added to the beers in India for the officers, to hide the flavour. The "hopped for travel to India" has been a myth for too long now really...
@zeveroarerules I have no idea where this has come from but it is easily disproved through....hundreds of written accounts from the time. For one, hops were added to beers in great quantities long before IPA was created (in porter). Second, we have countless recipes from British brewery records showing the hopping rates. Thirdly, where would they have got the hops from in India? They were not grown there at the time. They have had to ship them WITH the beers, which would make no sense at all.
Interesting aroma descriptions, i enjoyed your summaries. I hadnt heard of the Mandarina before, makes me want to brew a Vienna lager with Mandarina, or even a Kolsch maybe
Doesn’t hurt to feature a North West beer for North West Chinook hops. Just a suggestion (East Coast IPAs have a place too). It’s like using hops from the UK and featuring a beer in Italy using those hops
I understand the point but I chose this beer (although don't talk too much about it) because it was one of the earliest beers to use Citra, and is one of my fav presentations of it.
Incredible video mate. Loved it. So helpful to know why or what I’m drinking lol. Do the hops have actual anti sceptic qualities or is it the brewers are using hops themselves instead of other ingredients that are sceptic?
They are actually antiseptic in themselves, and could be used to preserve anything really - but most things wouldn't suit the fact that those antiseptic acids are so bitter.
I take your point but it's undeniable that marijuana also has its own distinctive smell that goes across all varieties - just as hops, apples, Grapes, barleys do. If someone said their marijuana smelled liked hops I'd probably be like "I know what you mean!"
I don’t really care. I love Madri and i actually like it in spite of being Spanish. In fact i avoided it for a while because i’m not really a fan of Spanish lagers (Estrella etc) then someone gave me a sip and i thought it was good (probably because it isn’t Spanish). It’s the same as ‘Fosters’ not being Australian or James Caan not being Italian. We all know but don’t really care, its a bit of marketing fun… by the way did you know UM BONGO isn’t made in the jungle?
When I lived in the UK 16 years ago I would hear 3 things ordered at the bar, Lager, Bitter and Cider. Which was strange to me because at that stage I have tried hundreds of beers and there were many verities of each, how do you know which Lager you're getting? Then I tried "British lager" which was basically a tiny step up from American lager.
Just had mine bought from Hop Burns and Black Deptford, love this beer big mouth feel, lovely subtle flavours and complex, nice to be drinking it along with you and your first tasting.
They are saying this years Paulaner isn't quite up to scratch? I have just done my own in depth comparison and was amazed to find I preferred Hofbrau to Augustina
Always makes me laugh seeing these 'experts' swill beer around in the glass. It's carbonated, you don't need to "release the aroma" or whatever you think you are doing.
@Any1FancyAPint I can assure you everyone who made this beer is doing so. Yes carbonation kicks aroma out, but not enough to appraise the beer completely. You don't do it when drinking casually, but you sure as he'll do it when judging and it makes a world of difference.
