What's the difference between different brand of beers?!
What's the difference between different brand of beers?
Famous brands must have something to have them fomous. Can u guys list some famous brands and tell me what make them famous?
Answers:
The differences of the beers listed and indeed all beers are ingredients and processing. All beers use malted barley (except Sake which uses all rice), hops, water, and yeast. Some use adjuncts to produce other flavors in their beers. Some of these include malted and unmalted wheat, rice, corn, sugars, spices, fruit. With the four traditional ingredients they may use a variety of barley or hops to produce unique flavors and aromas. Barley and malted barley may be roasted to darker color. This roasting gives flavor and color to the beer. Some of these are brown or black color, choclate, coffee, toffee, sweet flavors. For hops some are more bitter and others more aromatic. The world famour Pilsener Urquell (the world's first pilsner) uses the wonderfully aromatic Zatec Red or Saaz hops. Yeast is also (and highly unreated) flavor contributor to beer. In some famous German wheat beers the yeast strain used imparts clove-like note to the beer.
By varying the ingredients and processing the brewer creates a unique beer.
I will list just a couple of beers that I enjoy:
Chimay
Duvel
Budvar (original Budweiser from the Czeck Republic)
Pilsener Urquell
Sam Adams
Anchor Liberty Ale Guinness Extra Stout
What makes them famous is/are quality, history, marketing, and uniquness. Pilsener Urquell the first ever Pilsner and great beer indeed. Guiness for flavor. On and on...
Never trust someone who says, "trust me."
From Kevin:
"The major brewers spend more money in advertising their product then they do making it. The oldest brewery in the United States is Yuengling, and to me is the closest tasting beer to what it was meant to be, but it is not mass marketed as Budweiser or miller... Trust me, it's not based on taste."
Taste as it is in all foods/beverage subjective.
It is true that they spent more on marketing than the production of their beers. However, they spend more on making their beers than does Yuengling. Although, Yuengling makes good beer(s) none of them ranks even in the top 100 of the great beers of the world. To knock on the big brewers just shows ones ignorance about beers and brewing. And in Kevin's case I add ignorance of the high quality of ingredients and processing of Bud & Miller beers.
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