Battle of Berlin: Germany's craft beer scene | The Craft Beer Channel 

Germany and beer....well, it turned into a belated rant on my side. Passion I guess. Sorry. ;) As a German homebrewer and beer nerd (who now lives in Sweden though), I must say that you did a good representation of the situation, the problems, and the possibilities. This is not often done when discussing modern German beer, so thank you. To me the main issue seemed to be that the basic quality is so high. I can see why the Americans with their macro lager were quick to grab on to anything else. In Germany things like Weihenstephan are common, and those usually do well even with craft beer folk as great examples of classic styles. Why change a running system? That however started to be turned around slowly. I am from the "real" north, Berlin is south to me....heck I grew up closer to Denmark than to Hamburg, and there a brand called Störtebecker started to appear in supermarkets. They did not do anything experimental, but they did classic styles at a craft level. Their Bernstein Weizen is to this day my favorite Weizen (looooads of ripe banana) and their Atlantic Ale, a dry and partially wheaty pale ale, was what kicked me into the craft beer world. That beer that changed everything. Now you got people like Crew Republic, Hopfenstopfer, etc. which are starting to get things done and seem to exponentially grow with a lot of bigger breweries trying their luck and churning out really proper stuff. In the end our high base standard is slowing us down, but just until that tipping point. After that all the good stuff takes over. By that I mean a good beer culture and mostly a bloody great experience in brewing quality beer. If you can do the standards on a world class scale you can quickly catch on. Finally, Germany grows brilliant hops. With the US and NZ it is one of the top hop nations on earth. Extremly strong and underapprechiated classics plus new mindblowing stuff. Mandarin Bavaria tastes like Mandarin. Huell Mellon has taste of Mellon and Strawberries. I have done it, and even in my homebrewer hands it works. Now imagine the skilled German Pros getting at it. I´ll leave you at that. Cheers!

Hey The Craft Beer Channel, I strongly recommend coming to Munich and have a look! There's the "Braukunst Live Festival" on a yearly basis with almost 6000 visitors last year, there's the Munich Tap House (where they serve more than 200 craft beers from tap and bottles), there's Crew Republic/Crew Ale and even the big boys, e.g. Paulaner and Schneider Weiße, are releasing craft style beers. The game is changing!

Cool vid! As a Spaniard living in Germany I gotta love German beers (well, actually, i really enjoy only some to be honest!) but it's a struggle to get any quality craft beer, particularly in smaller cities. It's great that now such a big brewing nation is starting to appreciate craft beer. Keep up the hard work boys!

Awesome Job! Well done, Jonny and the Craftbeer Channel! i can spot myself ;)

I was in high school when this video came out and now I homebrew and work for a major beer distributor in Indiana. Wow! I need to go to Germany

One problem is that the big breweries have exclusive contracts with the bars in return of paying the inventory. It shuts the door in the face of craft brew.

great vid ! Been to Berlin myself and must admit they have pretty decent beers down there :)

Thanks for this interesting video!

So cool you came to our Germany ;)

I love traditional German lagers, but applaud those who are trying to push the envelope with new and different styles of beer as well.

Those guys celebrating at the end are from my city, Valencia! They are Birra&Blues.

Next time I'm in Berlin, I'm gonna go see what that Markthalle Neun is all about. It's right between to very nice craft beer bars too :) And yes, they really need to revise the Reinheitsgebot, that law is in every possible way SO much last century.

After seeing this vid for the second time I still love the video and feel it was a needed segment. However, having been a beer geek before living in Germany and then trying their beers I must say I was blown away with the quality. The quality was soooo much better than that of the states. Also, having spent considerable time in Belgium, UK and Ireland I have found that they each have their own version of exceptional quality beers for good reason and should highlight that. America is still figuring out where we lie in the brewing world so while we figure ourselves out just let the regions of the world that have perfected a style or styles of beer brew it. Call everything your experimenting with “American” or “New World” even though that isn’t a thing and help us figure ourselves out. Brew dog made themselves different and hip from learning from U.S. brewers so maybe give credit where credit is due? We have German, Belgian, English, Scottish, and Irish inspired brewers in the U.S. It’s ok if you are a European brewer and gain inspiration from the United States. Anyway, love the channel! Just stick to non political stuff. Thanks!

You guys should check out the South African Craft Beer scene! It is heating up seriously quickly!!

It's also worth noting that some of Germany's big traditional breweries like Schneider Weisse like to experiment and come out with great new beers

Love Berlin what a great city I miss it

I love drinking German Beer and really enjoyed this video, Whats everyone's opinions on the supermarket stuff you can find in the UK? And what are you all drinking? :) Steve

I wanna visit Berlin ! And soon, Stone will be there.

I want to go there to taste some fresh German beer. For now, I'll enjoy some great American craft brews. :)

04:00 GTA Vice City ^^.

It’s nice to see that a place like Germany had the same attitudes to beer as Australians did. Safe and boring! It’s changing now, lots of great breweries here so nice to see Germans branching out too!

Nice video but the sound makes it hard for me to understand anything

I have been to Germany a few times and to be honest their brewing styles are superb and unique in a league of there own.. 1516 law shouts to me there's no crap in that stein..

great, though it'd have been easier to follow if the voices sound level was a bit clearer... a bit difficult to grasp what the Germans were saying due to the general urban and music background noise.

When I'm in Germany, all the beers are good, even the cheapest ones. That's why I don't feel the need to spend money on expensive craft beer.

The Reinheitsgebot is really only a marketing tool these days. There are dozens of additives used in German beer these days for filtration, colouring and preserving. Mass produced corporate pilsner is very boring and all tastes the same but still your average German beer drinkers favourite unfortunately!!

horrible audio...please carry proper recording gears with you next time

germany is still top dog in the beer world they are originators

Oh great the Americanization of the worlds best beer country. Sorry Germany.

Münchner Reinheitsgebot 1487 btw.

Basically what I mean man is if you put more alcohol in and beer and everything into it more than you talk you would f****** I would give you a hundred percent rating

I disagree. Once you add other shit - its not beer. Call it somethibg else.

Not matter Germany lose two wars, Germany rules the world with products❗☝️🙂🇩🇪🌎

Hey man nothing personally or anything I like some of your videos not all the reason why is you talk too much if you can do less and show more of the alcohol that would be great