I started drinking years ago as a teenage, got addicted to alcohol. Spent my whole life fighting alcohol addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

If you think this is long, just imagine the 8+ hours of filming it took to get all of it out! Definitely don't envy whoever had to go through and edit it all together. It was an absolute blast to shoot though, and I have to say, after talking about beer for that long without getting to enjoy one, that first post-shoot beer was mighty tasty!

I have to applaud Wired for picking an articulate, educated, reasonable individual to explain a HUGE variety of beer styles both accurately and in a way that does not insult his audience if that audience actual knows and/or brews beer. Seriously...well done!

TIMESTAMPS FOR THE FIRST 30 MINUTES, i got bored and don't want to finish it lol. maybe later.... 1:26 MALTY LAGERS 3:43 PALE, AMBER, DARK 5:11 CREAM ALE 5:44 MALTY EURO LAGERS 6:07 MUNICH HELLES 6:49 KELLERBIER 7:11 MARZEN & FESTBIER 8:32 VIENNA LAGER 9:12 MUNICH DUNKEL 10:10 SHWARZBIER 10:33 CZECH MALTY LAGERS 11:03 BOCK BEERS 11:53 DUNKELS BOCK 12:03 HELLES BOCK 12:35 DOPPELBOCK 13:09 EISBOCK 13:58 HOPPY LAGERS 14:17 CZECH PREMIUM PALE LAGER 15:52 CZECH PALE LAGER 16:05 GERMAN PILS 17:08 GERMAN LEICHTBIER 17:18 GERMAN HELLES EXPORTBIER 17:38 KOLSCH 19:06 PRE-PROHIBITION LAGER 22:16 NON-ROASTY MALTY ALES 22:40 DARK MILD 23:02 BRITISH BROWN ALE 23:15 LONDON BROWN ALE 23:25 ENGLISH BARLEYWINE 23:56 BRITISH STRONG ALE 24:18 OLD ALE 24:54 SCOTTISH LIGHT, HEAVY AND EXPORT 25:39 WEE HEAVY 26:20 IRISH RED ALE 26:51 AMERICAN MALTY ALES 27:01 AMERICAN BLONDE ALE 27:18 AMERICAN WHEAT BEER 27:57 AMERICAN BROWN ALE 28:31 WHEATWINE 28:54 BELGIAN PALE ALE 29:19 BIERE DE GARDE 29:36 HISTORICAL MALTY STYLES 29:51 SAHTI

He should have had to drink a version of each beer listed. That would have really amped up the fun factor.

Who'd of thought Wired would put out one of the most comprehensive, if not THE best beer style videos on YT. Absolutely killed it.

This dude is having a really hard time not saying that American lager beers are weak sauce

Ah. The quarantine algorithm figured out I'm an alcoholic.

Kudos to the person in charged of listening to everything he said & looking up stock footage for them.

Whoa, they searched and used ALL the Brewery Stock Footage.

the mere fact that you need 69 minutes to name and shortly describe all the types of beer means that the world is a nice place to explore

As an Irishman I’m happy to see stout being described as light. Guinness is a session beer here, for those that enjoy it

Thanks for having us talk about beer styles with you!

It took me 7 years of being sceptical to beer for me to realize that the reason it tasted bad was because the supermarket only sells the ones I dislike. After I found ale and the fresh taste of draft beer I fell in love with this drink.

God I love beer. I’m not a big drinker outside of beer, there’s just something about beer that amazes me. I’m not drinking beer to get drunk, I drink beer for the beer. The taste, the history, the different varieties, crazy. Nothin like a cold beer at the end of the day, especially if you can really fully enjoy it and know exactly what you’re sipping on.

Just saw this gem in my feed. And I'm really pleasantly surprised by your great way of describing Kölsch as more than a drink. The thing you mentiont with how easy it is to drink is so true. Normaly when I'm out with my friends we have a couple of cold ones, play a little Schoken and be out to 3 or 4 in the moring without even realising it. And Kölsch is a part of it. Since Kölsch is also the name of our lokal dialect, we like to say "Kölsch is the only language you can drink". So Kölsch for us is s feeling, a way of live, a language, a beer, a part of our culture. And yes. If you ever get the chance to come to Cologne try to seek out a Brauhaus, but also at least one of the many many many Kneipen. Smaler Pup style locations where you can meet locals and find friend for the evening.

If i'm ever at the same bar as him, i'll have what he's having

Just a note: The second word in "Pilsner Urquell" isn't pronounced in a French way (like "urkell"), but more like "Oor-kwell". "Quell", or "Quelle" (with an additional e - pronounced like the one before - at the end) is a German word for source/spring/well. "Urquell" means something like "ancient source."

Lived in both Belgium and Germany in the late 1980’s and mid 1990’s. I was very impressed with the wide variety of beers in Belgium but settled on the Trappist beer as my favorites. Loved German Swartzbier like Kostritzer and the Hefeweizens. Today in USA, the explosion of microbreweries has made beer drinking a true pleasure.

When you say "popular" what you mean is "inexpensive and mass-produced". The iron law of the market is that cheap will outsell good. Iberico Ham is the best ham in the world, but at $4,500 for a leg, it's beyond the means of the mass market.

It might too late but, timestamps for each "style" heading would've been nice in the description, as this video will serve as a reference to a lot of viewers. Being able to click something like "25:00" for X beer category, would've been great.

I thought this was excellent! I appreciate how there was not a lot of judgement about which beers were crap and which were amazing. Enjoy your beer, Cheers!

Very comprehensive! One of the reasons I love beer so much is how many varied styles there are, and how each style has its own history associated with it. As much as the world sucks these days, it sure is nice to be living in a beer Renaissance.

This is one of the best videos I've seen. Kudos to the creators for putting this much effort into going into such detail and really taking the time to explain each one enough.

As a European used to the "German Lager" being the *standard beer*. Drinking an "American Lager" (bud light / Miller) are some of the blandest tasting experiences in my life. How you like it is beyond me. I'd much rather have some water.

I drink beers, I talk beers. If I sat down with this gentleman, all I could do would be listen. I thought I knew what I was drinking..... I’ve learned a lot.

"I don't know about you guys but all this talk about beer is making me thirsty" bro I cracked one open at the 20 minute mark.

took me 9 minutes to realize i went to high school with this guy XD

03:23 “One of the reasons that both American lite lager and American lager have been so successful is that they don’t have a lot in the way of identifiable flavours going on.” Meaning they don’t taste of anything. They don’t even taste like beer.

I don't even drink but this is fascinating.

I wish american breweries would watch this video. Im tired of walking into a place and seeing 23 IPAs 1 blonde ale , 2 stouts and a sour

As a german, the only video I would click on faster would be a video about sausage

I think he didn’t mention the Reinheitsgebot (literally "purity order") which is a law limiting the ingredients in beer in Germany. The best known version of the law was adopted in Bavaria in 1516. The basic law now declares that only malted grains, hops, water and yeast are permitted in beer brewing. No extras like fruits etc are allowed.

My German mother inlaw yelled at me when I attempted to pour a Weissbier into the wrong glass!

Wired editor to sound guy: "We need you to scrounge up music for a beer video." Guy: "Ok, how long?" Editor: "One hour..." Guy: "An hour?" Editor: "...and eight minutes."

I am impressed with the research and professionalism that was put into the creation of this video!

This is going to be my new answer when people say "I don't like any beer" *shows an hour-long video of every beer type.

I agree about the brown ales. Super underrated, wish they were more common.

1:05:14 Cool that you included Grodziskie. It is really unique and interesting style

Altbier is not only found in Düsseldorf, but in the whole Lower Rhineland and Westphalia. Although Düsseldorf has a large amount of high quality Alt breweries, you should not exclusively look there for a good Alt. Especially the cities of Krefeld, Mönchengladbach and Münster have great Alts. The best Alt (Bolten Ur-Alt) is brewed in a small village named Korschenbroich, which also prooves that an Alt doesn't need to be hoppy when you have softer water available.

This guy can talk about beer for hours.

The Kölsch glasses are called "Stange". And the beer is not allowed to be brewed outside of Köln for then it cant be a Kölsch.

Fruit lambics are my favorite style of beer. I wish American breweries would develop an American style similar to lambics. I know they can’t call it a “lambic” but something similar has the potential to be the next big style

He never mentioned (specifically) my favorite category: “sour” beers. I understand that they may fall into the “Fruity and/or Spicy Ales” but was kind of surprised they were never explicitly mentioned!

32:46 It is Riga, the capital of Latvia, not Sweeden.

Scottish professional brewer here - the difference between Light, Heavy, and Export are huge. Colour, flavour, hop additions. A Light or 60 Bob tends to be relatively pale, it could be compared to an English Mild and just like its English counterpart can be relatively more highly hopped than the name suggests. Heavy, 80 Bob, will be more malty, ruby or dark brown in colour, gently hopped compared to a Light. Export is an amped up Heavy more hops and stronger to survive export.

Wish he listed an example for each type of beer.

Great video - love the longer format. Tired of short KZfaq videos that barely scratch the surface.

Q: What was the name of the band asking "where is the love?" A: 48:43

At 4:08 the person is an Indian Bengali bodybuilder Manohar Aich. At 4'11", he was shortest Mr Universe.

This is awesome y’all! It took me two days to watch it and actually absorb all the info, but I genuinely learned a lot about beer. There was more than a handful of styles that I have never heard of or seen before. Thank y’all for making this video.

"crushable is like.. . drinkable but better" - sooooo funnyyyy

Quite interesting for me as a German. Really cool Video! And thank you for including the "Hefeweizen" or just "Weizen" in your list. I have the feeling it is not very well known in the US but back here in Germany next to the Helles and the Pils it is very very common and the taste of this beer is completely different and hard to describe. Even when you are sick of Helles as a German, a "Weizen" still fits in ;)

When your video is this long, it needs timestamps in the description.

Really enjoyed this, didn't think I would sit for the whole video in one sitting, but it was very engaging! Thanks Wired!

Im just impressed of how much knowledge he shared in just one hour without being boring or massive. Great video!!

for those who want to pronounce "Urquell" correctly: it's something along the lines of "oor-kwell" (the 'oo' pronounced as in the noun 'moor')

Does WIRED know that they can put marks in the progress bar? It is so annoying that they did not even put time codes in the description.

Agreed on cream ale being more like lager seeing as how you are supposed to use yeast that ferments clean and doesnt leave much if any yeast flavor in the finished beer. I just put a 5 gallon batch in the fermenter ready to add the vanilla soon in secondary and then very aged with a few vanilla beans in there

If you are in Czech Republic, I recommend you to get yourself a Pilsner, Radegast or Kozel. The best beers are made in the Czech Republic and those three listed are really the top.

One other explanation for Bockbier in Germany is that "Es tritt wie ein Bock" (it kicks like a buck) when drinking it. Because of the higher alcohol amount and the very unique taste Great video, the pictures to show the different beers are very accurate!

Man the things i watch in the dead of night are so freakin random

I like to think I'm a beer nerd, then I run into guys like this and realize I still have quite a ways to go. Cheers!

28:53 - Ommegang makes a BPA. I realize they're an American brewery; but the specialize in Belgian stype brews and only recently really branched out past their Belgian roots with their Game of Thrones series of brews. Their BPA was the best example of the style I've had (only had two other ones, and admittedly both of them were also American's doing the BPA style).

You'll make a lot of casual beer drinking Belgians happy by mentioning Duvel and the Trappist beers... but the real Belgian crown beers are indeed the Lambics and derivatives. They are so underrated in our own country, it's unbelievable.

...love the Saison. What a nice lager. Great video. the presenter was almost like a university professor. Very informative.

7:14 glad i could find Marzen through the transcript, having the video transcript available (and a search within the transcript) is awesome!

The English Bitter is my favorite style of beer. It’s a shame you cant get much of it across the pond in America. Since it’s traditionally served on Cask, its less common in America. The beers on cask in America seem to be mostly fruity or lactose IPA’s. Timothy Taylor’s Landlord might be one of the best English Bitters!

Not gonna lie im afternoon drinking because of this video

Who knew that a video about beer could get so philosophical and deep and be a commentary on todays society and peoples choices

Great video dude, props for having the patience to make this video, appreciated!

That’s awesome that the video is so thorough but add timestamps please 🙏

Omg.... this video is perfect. I'm studying to become a brew master and this is a great little refresher on styles.

As an Irishman this is one of the best A-Z Alcoholic Documentary,s. You have to watch this.

Thank you for taking the time. This was really interesting.

Just one thing on "Pils" and the Czech Republic, Pilsen is a town in the Czech Republic and for centuries the town was within the holy roman empire of german nation and then the Austro-Hungarian Empire also Pilsen had a quite sizeable german minority so they usage of a german word for a czech beer isn't that strange as one might think because Pilsen as a part of bohemia was part of a mainly german ruled country for centuries.

Wait a minute, this is just a hidden German lesson!

This is the type of video that makes me crack open a cold one every time!

Thanks, Eric Stoltz! Very informative and fun to watch.

My dad is a microbiologist who did his Msc in yeast genetics who has his own microbrewery, gonna need to send this to him.

17:38 Umlauts aren't decorational. It is Kölsch, not Kolsch.

This was excellent. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. Great history along with learning lesson

As a fan of craft beers who has slacked off on my brewed education - my mind is completely blown. I forgot to take notes. Would have loved to taste each style too.

This is awesome ! The 1hr length gave me pause…who can talk about beer for 1hrs? I’m not a big drinker(of beer) and I found this presentation so informative and interesting! Motivates me to drink (find ) beers outside of the typical 3 beers that I drink at my favorite sports bar(Guinness, Corona and Stella)

Tried to count how many of these styles I actually tasted, but gave up 1/3 into the video :D The video reminded me of my last pre-lockdown trip to Germany, where I tried both Alt and Koelsch, and I agree - the approach to serving them as a never-ending stream of small glasses is quite dangerous haha

sitting here drinking paulaner and learning bout german beers as an american, what a time to be alive.

This is one of the most informative pieces of data about beer on the Internet, very well done.

Didnt realise this was going to be an hour until I was at 55 minutes

69 minutes of beer trivia? Nice.

Different beers for different occasions. I love it

GREAT JOB! FINALLY GOT TO SIT THROUGH IT, LOVE IT. I LEARNED ALOT! THANKS PAT!

If I understand correctly... American light lagers are a lot like american popular music. Devoid of flavor, made quickly to be all similar and appeal to a wide public, mainly comprised of people who don't really appreciate the product.

"And we're gonna start wit a style that's one of the most widely-available beer styles in the world. That's American light lager". Let me tell you, not a single person besides an American would think the rest of the world sees that as beer. ;) Lovely video, thank you for taking all the effort!

the ammount of history and beer knowlege is INSANE

This was a really awesome video, its not often that this much cool stuff would be packed into one video. So glad it was made!

I totally agree about the American Brown Ale comment. So good, drinkable, but not boring.

27:57 I'm with you on the American Brown Ale! Definitely one of my favorite styles.

When I went to Greece in 2018, we had a layover in Munich, I was 16 at the time on a school trip. During the layover I went to this little “burger” restaurant where I had 3 steins of helles. And it was the best beer I’ve ever had

I didn’t see myself watching this whole video...until I realized I’d been watching it for an hour and 3 minutes🙄

I find it curious that the Doppel Bock is the most drank here in Mexico during winter, as we have the "Nochebuena" which is only produced during December