Just started watching your channel. Really like the streamlined format, it's the perfect amount of time to bit in a quick beer and a snack! :D Keep em coming. Would like to see you do a video on food diplomacy at some point

Should make a video about the Norwegian William Copeland that founded Kirin brewery, good story.

Your KZfaq channel name was really nice. Curious why you changed it.

Wow, this video is awesome!

I see you went to Brussels and Munich, i did that last year and had lots of fun

Really interesting channel, I'm subscribing! It would be great if u visit Poland at some point and make a video there

Great video

German beer is alive in the US you can get hefeweizens, bocks and dunkels all over the country. Sam adams is one major brand that has popularized bock beer. the future of German beer is international beer. While beer is downward trending in Germany, in the US it is as strong as ever.And the US is the cultural head of the west an arguably the world outside of the middle east and a few isolationist nations. Almost all major US brands were founded by german immigrants or people of german ancestry as well.

Can’t stand beer… but it’s Matthew Li filming abroad so I gotta be there

The sewage-drinking water stuff is mostly a myth. Cholera wasn't a thing in medieval Europe. Public fountains for drinkable water were a thing in the middle ages. You cannot make beer with dirty water either, so that is bullshit. It is more that beer is cleaner because you cook it. Also water gets stale fast and artificial cooling wasn't a thing either. It isn't because of sewage. You literally show two pictures of people drinking water. Abgekochtes Wasser "boiled water" and Quellwasser "spring water" being sold on the street. The history of the purity law is also a bit different. The thing is that it was a regulatory measure motivated by the Bavarians as well. Before that people made beers with all kinds of herbs and spices, after that only hops was allowed. And yes they also used hallucinogenic plants in beer, though it isn't like everyone was always drunk or high. The thing is hops is cultivated en masse in Bavaria, while it is not really profitable in the north of Germany, where at the time many larger breweries came from. So it was on the part of the Bavarians to even out the competition there. The big irony is that the Bavarians mostly drink wheat beer, which kinda defeats the price regulation and purity law both. As for the comparison to US craft beers. The US experienced a major die off of breweries due to the prohibition and never recovered afterwards. German beer in itself has had some break downs if you consider how prevalent Pils just is. Most other styles are regional, like how you find Gose mostly in two cities, but Pils is everywhere.

the water thing is a myth you need clean water to make beer

German beer is the best in the world. They should expand their global exporting and replace poor, big brand beers. I'd much rather drink most of the established German pilsners over Heineken, Bud etc.

Czech Republic Beer culture is a loooot more fascinating, like they literally drink it on a very werid ways...

compare to the other country is german beer one of my favorite beer and also portuguese

Lets goooooo

Great video but i think doing one on Czech beer culture would be even better.

Can someone explain that red comment?

Arguably its not the most influential beer country, Czechia, Belgium and the Netherlands have a lot to say as well. Modern beer is based in Germanic tradition and does not find its origin only in Germany but all Germanic, Nordic and even Slavic countries.

simple , just make Coca-Cola or Pepsi buy all the breweries and see , the German Beer culture will be risen again