German beer is absolutely overrated. This was awful, along with Franziskaner

So you're an expert because you tried 2 shitty beers?

>t. elitist snob who thinks beer is remotely worth the effort of going through the ritual he made up for it

>using a glass is considered snob
Holy moly.

>carefully pop the top off with a gold plated glove because bottle openers somehow dilute the end result and ANY OTHER MATERIAL would simply be too barbaric for your glorified pisswater
>while waiting for the foam to dissipate and the beer to air out, acquire the finest crystal mug washed with the servants' tears
>pour while rotating the bottle clockwise because it helps evenly mix what settled to the bottom
>add a rose petal to garnish
>sip with pinky sticking out and wearing the finest suit and fedora

>anime reaction pic
>only way to argue is to exagerate
>doesnt like good beer
How is puberty going?

Csíki sör. Google it and try it if you have the chance. Best beer I've ever had.

Ended about 8 years ago my dude. How's trying to compensate for your diminishing masculinity going?

Damn you almost got me but you forgot one thing. A smug anime picture. Then you would really have put me in my place.

>posts on a mongolian throat singing site
>gets a salted anal crevice when someone posts a mongolian throat singer
By all means continue to drink your subpar beverage and watch your leggy blonde fucbois kick a ball around.

Gay

I had no idea that food and cooking meant anime. Thank you random faggot.

Schneider Weisse is better.

Debatable. You could argue Weihenstephaner does basic core beers better than anyone else in the world though.

Veeky Forums itself was born of anime. Whether you like it or not, that carries over elsewhere because it is part of the site's identity. But do tell me more, I am sure your two years of experience could teach me oh so much.

Go on Reddit's r/foodporn or whatever if you want pure discussion with no possibility of anime.

I was strictly talking hefes desu. They are my go to German import brand though. Paulaner is solid as well

Kek, you've put way too much effort in your post. I liked it tho.

You are in a minority among beer drinkers, minorities are inferior.

You put 10x more effort into writing this nonsense than people put into actually just pouring their beer into a glass.

>50 boards that are anime

>better virtue signal my Asperger's on this one!

>I like worse things better than better things!
>I am so tragically honest!
>Look at me shit on things I don't understand!
>Look at me come off as more pretentious than the people I am trying to mock for being pretentious!
>I am hipper than any hipster alive (and I hate them all, fucking glass users) because I have the courage to do life at a 5/10 all the time!

The problem I have with W. Is that they're too good at being basic. Stylistically pure but the taste doesn't really kick in. The exceptions being their stronger beers like Vitus or Korbinian. Those are great.

So this thread proves once again that people who post anime pics on non anime related boards have nothing interesting nor clever to say, and simply post for attention or to show off their smug anime girls. OP is as always, a faggot.

Moving on, let's make this a good beer thread. I saw Weihenstephaner mentioned, their dunkel is fantastic, as is their weissbier. What are some other good German beers anons?

Their pils, helles lager and hefe are all pretty much perfect examples of each style without pushing any boundaries, then you have Korbinian and Vitus as you mentioned for the enthusiasts which are both fucking dope and prove they can do more too. Then you have the inbetween stuff like their awesome hefe dunkel. I have a lot of respect for that.

Everyone knows that this is the list:

>1. Austrian Pils
>2. Czech Pilsner
>3. Belgian Trappist
>4. German Pilsner
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>9999. Bavarian subhuman Hefeweizenkacke

If you're talking the hefeweizen or Dunkel, yes.

Schneider Aventinus though is better than weihenstephaner Vitus.

Maybe German beer is a bit overrated, but it's still really good and deserves respect

>i drank two beers from germany so i will now swear them all off

surely you've had at least two american beers you didn't like. if those had just happened to be the first two you had, would you have sworn off all american beer?

I feel the problem is that many Americans only have access to these beers in bottles that aren't all that fresh anymore having been shipped over the Atlantic and probably sat at a liquor store for a couple of months.
I'd say it's the same with American craft beers in Europe, but then there aren't too many of those available over here to begin with.

Bavarian here, I recommend Kuchlbauer and Gutmann are for Weizen

>underrated where 99% of German beer is the same copypasta lager
We have by far the largest and most accessible craft market in the world, it isn't 1990 anymore. When confronted with this Europeans tend to resort to a non argument such as "muh IPAs" "b-but it has to be shit because it's American" etc

For the record this is coming from someone who went to a ton of German [Berlin anyway] bars and got highly rated tap beers recently

>austrian pils

sorry but I'm swiss and tried all your shitty beers. they're as bad as ours.
bavarians make good beers, sadly the "reinheitsgebot" cripples them from making any variety. but that's why they also perfected their few beers.

and don't get me wrong, nothing beats belgium beers.

gg, I tried to write an even-handed post saying beers are hard to judge in bottles imported from another continent and you use it to piss on my leg

Also:
>muh IPAs
I thought it was Americans doing that. Europe is lager country.

I wasn't shitting on you but using the post as a jumping off point to ramble. I also meant the "muh" as something yuros say to criticize IPAs

If you're ever around North Rhine-Westphalia you should look for Moritz Fiege, their stuff is great, especially Bernstein.
Other than that, Hopfensünde is probably the best beeer I've ever had the pleasure of tasting.

German beer is fine, definitely not deserving of its positive reputation, but its fine.
The main good thing about Germany is most of the bad beer isn't nearly as bad as the bad beer in other places, they are fairly weak when it comes to mid and high tier beer

damn nigger, schneider is literally the best weißbier

i guess the misconception is that everybody wants to think about their beer and spend top dollar on it, here in germany most people consume beer like americans drink shitty softdrinks, and thats where german beers shine - you know what you get, and you get it at a great quality, sure it lacks the variety of craftbeer, but thats arguably an entirely different beverage. its like arguing about different grapes and regions when the other person just likes wine but isnt freaky about it. what im trying to say is, you can make every single kind of food into a science, but dont be shocked if someone doesnt want to come along for the ride

>German beer is absolutely overrated

No shit, Sherlock. This cu/ck/ explains why:

>the "reinheitsgebot" cripples them from making any variety

For some reason, eurotrash still thinks that the only American beers are Budweiser, Coors, and other cheap, macro trash. If you compare any German lager to any American made, macro-brewed, cheap pilsner lager, the German beer will seem superior.

However, most Germans don't realize that there is an entire world of ales that have a variety of flavors that American micro and mid-size brewers have been making for 30+ years. It's not hard to find an American ale that tastes better than most German lagers. The fact that Germans cling to "muh purity laws" limits their ability to innovate and make better beer. Technology and creativity have left the German beer makers stuck in the past, as they now lament their existence as anachronistic deniers of progress. This is why German beer today is overrated.

Unfortunately, a lot of American brewers have fallen into the trap of equating hops flavor with good flavor. That's why the "craft beer" market in America is currently over-saturated with pales ales, IPAs, and other over-hopped trash. It's like those brewers forgot that there is an upper limit to how much hops flavor belongs in a beer. Hops in a beer is just like salt or sugar in any food: adding some can enhance the taste and balance other flavors, but at some point you can add too much and spoil the experience.

tl;dr Germans can't innovate bc of "muh purity laws"; 'muricans can make good beers, but too many brewers over-hop their shit

They've perfected subtle styles. They don't have huge flavor profiles, but they can still be extremely complex to someone with experience in beer.
Saying they're "fine" is, in my opinion, someone stating they only drink big flavor beer and can't appreciate the subtlety of a well made lager.
That being said, I prefer American beer most of the time.

>They've perfected subtle styles. They don't have huge flavor profiles, but they can still be extremely complex to someone with experience in beer

bullshit. they don't have "subtle style." German beers have antiquated style because of the outdated "laws" about beer making. There's nothing complex about the flavor profiles, because the "purity laws" prevent them from creating complex flavors. Any "complexity" you've experienced in a German beer has been psychosomatic. It's all in your head, kid.

You want true complexity in flavor? go find a good American porter or stout; all kinds of flavors from variety of ingredients. The Germans literally can't match the flavor profiles of American beers because they are forbidden from using the same ingredients.

>but then there aren't too many of those available over here to begin with.
Here in Norway we have loads of American craft beers, stop speaking of Europe as one entity

>what is altbier, schwarzbier, bock, doppelbock, eisbock, rauchbier

So spaghetti carbonara the Italian way is shit and overrated because they just use 5 ingredients? Need some heavy cream in it, right? Otherwise it's boring and the same shit.

The popular and large breweries might make "simpler" beers that taste similar because they want to appease to the largest market possible, but there is still a lot of variety overall. We have over 1500 breweries in Germany, more than 600 in Bavaria. Trying to get good in one thing is not a weakness. We also have a large variety of wheat beers.
Different hops, different barley, different water, different yeast. Roasting, storing, brewing and even the glass and temperature, all of those things influence the taste of beer.
If you add things outside the purity law than it's no longer really beer, it's something new, which is not necessarily something bad, but the purity law allowed for a focus on one thing and one thing only.

The brewer of the beer OP posted is the oldest wheat beer brewery in the world and it's close where I live.

You can have a hell of a variety with only the ingredients in the purity law.

This is an anime website you fucking newfaggot. fucking /r/the_donald refugees really need to go back.

>They've perfected subtle styles
No they haven't. They just sell a lot of watery beer

Things that are mostly easier to find good examples of in America

There certainly is some good, complex beer in Germany, but it is an absolutely tiny portion of the market. Boring macro lager makes up an absurdly high portion of the beer germans make and consume, and yes their boring macro lager is much better than the boring macro lager that dominates most other countries in the world, but thats probably part of the problem, their shit was never bad enough to motivate people to do better. Germany wallows in mediocrity because of it, it is the country of "good enough" beer

>it's close where I live
greetings user

t. Erdinger

well, but you get a case of 20x0,5 for 10$, i dont know what the great american micro brews cost, but i imagine its a big difference

>If you add things outside the purity law than it's no longer really beer
Except this is wrong.
Beer is not defined by some 16th century feudal lord who was only interested in limiting the quality and variety of beer in order to keep bread prices lower

Beck's is good. It's available all over the US, it's relatively cheap, and they actually do drink it in Germany.

American craft beer is considerably more expensive than that (generally starting at $7.5 per 355mL 6 packs), but its still cheap enough that anyone with a job can afford it, plus it often has quite a bit more alcohol so you generally aren't drinking as much of it at once

t. Amerifatski hipster nu-male millenial who is into IPA "culture".

the best IPA is absolutely better than the best German style lagers

>Yes, it's all about limiting the quality of beer. USA USA USA!
You can add as much stuff to your beer as you want, if you don't like the taste of beer and you want something else, that is fine.

You can't compare wheat beer and normal beer, you can't compare craft beers and normal beer. It's something of it's own and if you prefer your beer with other stuff in it, so be it.

The entire point of of the reinheitsgebot was to handicap brewers to only using barley because it wasn't useful for bread making, increasing the supply of wheat and rye for bakers. Not much scared mid and low tier feudal lords more than the price of bread getting too high leading to peasant riots

Kolsch is my favorite type of beer
I wish more north american breweries made it

I'm but it's true. stop comparing different sorts of beer with each other. that's plain stupid.
every group has it's own ranking.

I feel like kolsch is super common amongst craft breweries in America. Pretty much everyone wants to make a boring light beer for the people who don't usually drink craft beer and Kolsch is usually a top choice for that part of the portfolio

Maybe it's because I'm a leaf but I hardly ever see any, even if we get a lot of burger microbrews

But not great examples.

I disagree. I think its much easier to find great examples of obscure German styles in America these days than it is in Germany itself

>uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
also the glass was like $1.50 at kroger

well, i think you get the point im trying to make, good german beers cost less than many brands of water in germany. beer is not something we are willing to spend much more on, theres wine,spirits and a milion other things for that. the us doesnt have the same naturalness when it comes to drinking beer, its legal with 16 years and its just part of our culture, not some conaisseur luxury good

Not him, but I only tasted kölsch when visiting Köln a few years ago on a hot summer day. Got a meter of small glasses you're supposed to drink bottoms up and I have to say I agree with you. It's great for refreshing purposes, but the taste is far from overwhelming. I wouldn't drink this during a cold winter day.

Mühlenkölsch is best kölsch

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If you don't think this is the best doppelbock you're probably gay and/or circumcised.

American beer is absolutely overrated. This was awful, along with Michelob Ultra.

>It's duh best beer, because it has a little toy!!

I appreciate these whenever I can find them

Then you are literally retarded

Someday I will have a christmas tree where every ornament is just goat figurines

do they still sell this in germany? had it a few years back but never seen it since.

I generally prefer German beer, because too many American craft beers are hopped to the nines.
I will drink Leinenkugel's, because it's readily available and not too hoppy.

kill yourself reddit

>spaghetti carbonara the Italian way is shit and overrated because they just use 5 ingredients?

basically, yes this is true. Italian style carbonara is a fine and tasty dish when its made the traditional way, but there are much better pasta dishes out there. FFS, even the classic American spaghetti and meatballs is better than carbonara; more and better flavors in the sauce, even more flavor in the meatballs, and everything comes together with a nice dusting of Parmesan cheese, fresh from the can.

Now I want spaghetti!