Beck's Lager Beer Vs Paulaner Munich Lager | German Lager Battle 

The UK Lager industry is getting embarrassing 😂😑

I feel betrayed. The UK are demolishing some of the World's best beers by brewing here. I didn't realise until I found your channel. I went from drinking slop, to Premium to find most Premium brands....sold out! UK, the destroyers of....everything, including our culture!

No contest really. Becks was a revelation for me in the 1970s when it was first imported to the UK. I drank Becks (4.9%) when I worked briefly in Bremen in 2012 as well as its domestic 4.7% cousin Haake Beck beer, both very good beers. However, I stopped drinking it in the UK when it began to be brewed under licence in Luton. I bought a bottle thinking it was still German and it tasted like cabbage water! Yuk! You might still get imported Becks in some corner stores but its hard to find. Advertising standards should prohibit beers like Becks masquerading as the "original" - it should be called "Becks English Lager" and that would be fine by me. After all no one associates Carling with its Canadian original any more because its marketed as a British beer. Bitburger is now a decent replacement for Becks.

I live in the Netherlands and I drink Becks (5%abv) every Friday at my local. The last beer of the evening tastes as good as the first... every time. Clean Crisp and full of flavour with a slight bitter after taste.

So glad Paulaner is sold Aldi in Sydney (where I live)! Becks was my dad's favourite beer and now its another ruined brand.

UK Becks is worse than cat urine. I went to Bremen a few years ago and the Becks there was ok. Fortunately, here in Cyprus we get the German version. Paulaner Munchner Hell is tremendous. It used to be widely available here but disappeared about a year ago. A couple of days ago I was in a shop that had it stocked so I've got some chilling in the fridge for tomorrow. I'm loving your beer reviews!

Paulaner Munchner Hell is a great beer. 3 x 500ml bottles for £5.50 at Tesco's, you really can't go wrong.

Paulaner !!! I used to drink it on draught after work, in a pub near Charing Cross ice cold on hot summer evenings. I always recommend it to friends. Fabulous just fabulous!

Becks in Ireland has been discontinued as it's not the original recipe. We used to have Amstel too until 2018 and as soon as it dropped down in percentage it disappeared because nobody bought it anymore. A small population will find flaws quicker and sales will drop. Beck's 0% is still going strong though. Update: Nov 2023. Amstel brewed in the Netherlands is back in some CarryOut Off Licences in Ireland at 5% ABV for about €2 a can.

No contest there easy win for Paulaner. I used to drink Becks many years ago had a bottle last year at a party and its was horrid. Do enjoy the occasional bottle of Paulaner in the summer

Have noticed that Paulaner hells is a very reliable beer. 4X500ml cans at Aldi in Oz for $15. Beats most of the other lagers on offer. The fresher it is the more citrus and lemon on the aroma, as it gets a bit oler it has a more bready aroma but the flavour is consistently good. The Beck in Oz is ok but bland as is yours. Cheers!

One a fantastic German beer in Paulaner, the other what used to be a very decent German beer at 5%+ which is now watered down UK brewed rubbish.

You should have compared the Paulaner Munich Lager with Spaten Münchner Hell.

At first I was a bit disappointed that you weren't comparing two decent beers but it was actually really interesting to see just how bad Beck's has become compared to a respected German lager. I haven't touched Beck's in so long that I hadn't realised it is now only 4% as well as being UK brewed tat. Oh dear

😂😂😂 great review mate and that canoe comment was absolute gold! Love it 👍🍺

Paulaner, one of my favourite beers, Hacker-Pschorr is also up there. In general I find German beers at least one level above the overrated Czech beers

I believe that Paulaner, while owned by someone very wealthy, has thus far evaded the clutches of the big three (Heineken, ABInbev, Molston Coors). However, Heineken seem to be selling/distributing it on license in the UK. Probably explains why it appears quite often now in Heineken stocked pubs, and on the Sub/blade of course as well.

Becks, Sol and Stella. 3 beers I used to enjoy before they got butchered.

To make good beer you have to have good water. Sulfer smell is from deep driled wells water that has not been purified.

For me as someone from Bremen (Beck's town), I'd rather drink anything else but Beck's (or Haake Beck - liquid headache for me) - both mass produced cat piss imo... the Beck's Unfiltered tho is pretty good, that one is how Beck's should be in the first place! They also had a range of Beck's "craft beer" (Pale, IPA and another one I forgot) - they were even worse than the standard Becks, nothing to to with craft AT ALL.

Tried Paulaner for the first time last night after seeing this video. Delicious!

“It’s like having sex in a canoe” can’t say I can speak from experience, Si 😂😂

Becks absolutely used to be one of the world's best beers. I remember drinking it back in the late 90's and it was absolutely flawless, flavourful and as delicious as Pilsner Urquel though only a little less dry with a slight honey note I remember. You cannot find that same brew anywhere now, not even the real German stuff is as good as it used to be.

I have tried Becks 4.9 percent from beers of Europe it was not bad drink

Back in the days Becks was a great north german pils. Now you should buy Flensburger instead.

No contest, Paulaner wins hands down.

I have a 5 litre keg of paulaner hells for this weekend im hopeing it will taste even beter than it does in a bottle ? Cheers 🍻 mate 👍

Augustiner Helles in my opniion is the best german light lager

Beck's sold in the US is brewed in St. Louis by ABInbev. It really has gone downhill. Wikepedia says that Heineken owns 30% of Paulaner.

Paulaner Munchner Hell - one of the best. Great review!

I saw the thumbnail and immediately thought this is a bit like Real Madrid v Cowdenbeath

Decided to hear your comments on Pauliner as I sit drinking the stuff. Yes, it's really good stuff. I've no interest in Beck's tho, I knew years ago that it's dreadful. 10/10 for your adjudication!

Non alcoholic Becks blues are really refreshing taste great and mix great with alcoholic Becks half and half makes it taste better!

I'm not convinced that it is the UK water quality that's the issue. There is a wide variety of different geology in the UK, which surely results in a wide range of different water qualities. Yet all mass market UK brewed lager is the same. I suspect it is more a result of either the artificially short brewing process, cheap ingredients or chemicals they add to homogenise/preserve each batch of the beer. Various smaller UK breweries manage to make excellent lagers.

RWC is coming up Simon - it could be time for Beer Rugby World Cup,. Best beer from each nation slugging it out - might have to go for a common style (lager) Harp vs Tenants, Carling vs Steinlager

Only ever 1 winner. That sex in a canoe comment made me laugh out loud Great analogy 😅

Uk Becks is now almost indistinguishable from Becks Blue, my go to cheap beer is now Perlenbacher pils but normally I spend more than that so usually I’ll have a Schneider Weisse or Veltins.

Diebels Alt Beer 🍺 is the most popular Alt Beer 🍺 It’s good. Bolten and Uerige Alt maybe the Best you can get

Yeah, used to love an ice cold 5% becks , but being becks & a green bottle, it had to be frosty, get a warm, lighty chilled one & it's horrid.

The only good thing about the Becks was the bit of smoke on the bottle opening 😂😂😂😂

buy paulaner regulalary from majestic works out at about £1.80 a bottle. not my favourite munich beer....that stands alone with augustiner, but it suits me just fine on a hot sunny day in my very own beer garden. reserved a seat in paulaner tent for oktoberfest....so will let you know what the 6% stuff is like.

Love Paulaner great beer. Always a bit of a treat buy from m&s this one where I live. Had it on draft on occasion on my travels usually a little pricey but still great.

Not a fair review. You should have used German 5% abv Becks to make it a proper head to head contest. Alternatively you could have did a UK Becks 4% vs German Becks 5% review to compare the differences.

Have had their Beck's Sapphire which wasn't too bad, but I don't think they brew that anymore.

i prefer spaten over becks. it's owned by AB Inbev so its cheaper than other imports but still brewed in Munich.

Just one quick and important question, you may have already covered on here, but there's a heck of a lot of videos to get through. Which wins for you, Hofmeister Helles or Paulaner Munchen? I am crazy for them both.

From memory when Becks used to be acceptable it also came in a 710ml bottle too.

I avoid brewed in UK beer. Staropramen and a few others like asahi and singing Thai are UK brewed. Yet to try paulaner but like krombacher and urquell

Paulaner All the Way my lager of choice ! Becks is now brewed in St. Louis. If you live in the usa

I've not watched this yet but surely this isn't a fair comparison! 😂

Not even a competition this one 😎

Good review, used to love Becks but no more.

Recently bought some 5% abv Becks - 500ml cans - in my local independent and was still disappointed. Becks used to be sold in 275ml bottles and was "krausened". The natural carbonation might have made a difference. It was never cheap either. I'd rather have one decent lager than two Becks.

Just a flint ‘vier’ is pronounced ‘fear’ the German for four!

Love the battles pal but maybe a more even contest next time? 😂

Tried my first Franziskaner Weissbier last night, WOW!! really different taste from our Swedish beer! A wonderfull taste. I worked for STENA LINE for many years and Becks was the brew we drank a lot of, I think Becks was more in line with the Scandanavian beers, maybe because its from Northern Germany and closer to Denmark/Sweden. I know you have been here testing Swedish beer....your thoughts Simon?

We tried the Becks made in Germany this summer at the beach in Albania...expensive, the smell was interesting ...aroma was like the Lowenbrau with foil on the neck imported into NYC late 1979..the taste was awful...No go Around with Becks

Becks used to be a solid beer when it smelled like weed. It's Just another generic low quality drink now.

Becks was the best "off the shelf" supermarket lager in 2011 - I remember because i drank a fuck load of the stuff!! It's not anywhere close these days - awful beer. Why have all the imported continental beers been ruined?

I used to have many a good night drinking Becks back in the 2000s in Germany. I'll have to take a look at what the ABV is in Norway. People up North would give it a lot of shit because it was from Bremen (Schließlich ist es bundesweit bekannt, dass alle Bremer stinken, weil sie aus der Weser trinken.) They got even more disdain from people when they brought out their mix drinks like green lemon and gold. I wouldn't turn down a Helles today though after mowing the grass between thunder showers.

I know I'm late with this but I've been on holiday (Switzerland Austria and Germany). I like a lot of Munich Helles but honestly Rothaus Tannenzäpfle pils is THE best lager ever. Absolutely superb. Augustiner Tegernsee and Chiemmseer are better than Paulaner Hellesdon. Hacker Pschorr, Maisel and G. Schneider wheat beers are all better than Paulaner

good old INBEV another good beer hits the dust

Maissels Weiße is great too german beer 🍺

It's beer o'clock also in St. Petersburg / Russia: Would you invite me for 1 month or so to teach you the correct spelling of all of those German beers? I must admit "Weihenstephaner" and friends, that is not so easy! Many greets, Paul

Here in America Becks is still at 5% however, it has the same problem most american brewed beers have in that it's overly carbonated and doesn't hold a head at all. I wish American breweries would get that sorted. There's nothing worse than a beer that goes flat within minutes

Close to water 😂 I’ll remember that one and pass it off as my own

I think Becks has been brewed in Luton from 2014, that's southern water, even if you drink it from the tap its scummy. I get it entirely describing UK brewed beers being 'farty'. So many good original beers ruined by brewing it in the UK.

No, it‘s not really better here in Germany. Although it still has 4,9% it doesn‘t taste or smells good. It was and is very mild, simple, aqueous. Not comparable to Paulaner Hell or almost any other Lager here. I would say it is definitely one of the worst beers you can get from Germany

Flensburger and Jever are great.more a bitter Taste Beer 🍺

Only ever brewed in Bremen, Germany used to go the advert. Another beer ruined. One I used to buy regularly along with Staropromen that I won't touch now. I fear it's only going to get worse as breweries are already lowering abv's to avoid paying extra tax as the useless government is changing the tax system for beer in August here in the UK It's enough to get you back on the wagon.

Smashing out the content! Love it

Oh, heck: another lager (Beck's) that I remember only from a few decades ago. I'm feeling especially old. 😒

Got a box of beck's a few years ago for a family party 🤮 and moaned to MRS at every bottle,,,she did pay for the stuff 😂

If it's a 'Continental Lager' brewed in the UK(!) you just know it's goona be sh*te.

Veltins and Clausthaler are good Beers too

Paulaner all the way. I also am a big fan of the weis beer! The germans know how to brew beer/lager!

Here are some other cool "Vs battles" I've thought of for you Simon: Corona v Sol Sharps Atlantic v Icebreaker Abbott Reserve v Old Crafty Hen

If you're looking for content ideas, I'd love to see you do Beamish vs Murphy's vs Guinness draft please. I'll send you the real deal from Ireland if you give me a PO box

It's a shame they ruined Becks beer in the UK with less abv than Bud Light, Coors Light and Miller Lite at 4.2% abv in the states.

Absolute no contest, this is like if I asked you who was better at darts, me in the pub ten pints deep or Phil Taylor?

Paulaner vs Hacker-Pschorr Muncher Gold - votes please!

No lager brewed in the UK can even come close to competing with a German Helles.

Love the channel warsteiner vs paulaner would have been a fairer comparison as both are brewed in Germany and becks is now shite. Also one thing i would say if your going to judge things like the head or carbonation then you should use the same glass for both. It does make a difference

Paulaner a top Lager😀 Beck's a big no no👎

Paulaner Münchner Hell is a solid Helles, even in Germany.

Hardly a fair comparison.

Great review.

Its all about the brewing water

Try Paulaner vs Weihenstephaner vs Franziskaner!

Becks gives German Beer a bad name in my opinion compared to a Paulaner or a Lowenbrau, so many great German Lagers they are the Benchmark for me.

Becks from the UK should be called Becks Pissner

Paulaners £ 2 just now in asda in Glasgow

This is like putting a lamb in a cage with a tiger

German Beck's is okay, far better than the licence brewed version (I tried the Hungarian brewed one, but I can imagine, the British one is similar), but you shoould definitely try the unfiltered version, and, even better, the unfiltered Haake Beck beer (called Haake Beck Kräusen). They are really good.

This is a North v South Germany bier battle. Bremen v Munich I thought the Beck's 4% was called Beck's Vier!

Wow, I had no idea about Beck's 5%>4%, it's been a few years since I had Beck's, it had always seemed decent to me, a high 6 maybe.

If anyone from München saw this they would truly laugh. Paulaner is a proper beer, you should see the hops outside the city, a fairer contest would be against one of the other major Bavarian beers like Augustiner

I’m trying to remember the beer review where it was so good you cried, can you remember which one it was?

You should take a sensory course on beer, you confuse hop notes with malt notes, you make up some story with munich water. In another film, out of 4 Polish beers, the worst one, which has such a nasty aroma, won. Becks is a lager with Pilsner bitterness, so you didn't like it, and Helles is the least hoppy and weakest version of the lager, very watery, it also shows your taste palette.

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