Why Does European Beer Have So Much Foam??? | Americans React | Loners #41
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- In this video, we look at why certain European beer has so much foam! This one was actually more eye-opening than we imagined it would be. We hope you enjoy this as much as we do! Please don't forget to like and subscribe :)
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I am from Austria, our glasses ALL have marks (a line with the quantity indication, 1,0:0,5; 0,3:0,2...) so the beer is until marking, the foam is over it!!! Its funny for me when americans think about fraud bc. of the foam, but drink/pay their limonades, coffee in glasses full of ice cubes, having a lot of frozen water and only a little bit limo, coffee....!😂
Lol. How very true... ice cubes and 2 drops of soft drink ;)))))
Yeah, marks on glass actualy has to be according the law also here in Czech Republic, its very simmilar to Austria, which is not surprising as we are the neighbours and we have common history and Wienerschnitzel (invented by Czech marshall in imperial army von Radetzky) wouldn´t be the right one without Czech beer ;)
@@davidpelc The Wiener Schnitzel Story about Radetzky is a very nice story to tell but unfortunately just a fairytale.
The recipe of "Wiener Schnitzel" was already in a cook book about "Traditional Southern German Cuisine" = about "already existing traditional food" released in 1831 so it was written and printed and then released short before Radetzky was stationed ranked as Fieldmarschall in Italy in 1831 - 1857. The Timeline simply doesn´t fit for the claim Fieldmarshall Radetzky invented Wiener Schnitzel when it already existed in a cook book.
@@michaelgrabner8977 Of course that the story about Radetzky can be a legend, but its nice legend and it has some logical ground. As i know Italians still consider Wienerschnitzel as bad copy of Cotoletta milanese. ;)
@@davidpelc I know the Italian´s claim.
But it is ridicolous and every serious source says "possible BUT it is not confirmed". And in the original recipe the coat is different as well because of the use of Parmesan cheese
There are also old Viennese documents about certain town feasts in the 15 century where meat with breadcoat was already mentioned as well..not called "Wiener Schnitzel" of course but "eingebröseltes Schnitzchen/ translated kinda like "cutlet in crumbles" but it was basically the same thing...also a possibility from where the "Wiener Schnitzel" origins..basically the same recipe and even from 15th century Vienna itself, which is even more plausible for an origin claim.
No offense taken of the foam scam. I consider a glas full of ice with your drink inbetween a scam😊
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Idk if you mean it in a way that they scam you with the foam or you say its ok, but they pour you the amount that you ordered and then the foam on top. So you actually get more, not less 😂
Full glass of ice is definitely a SCAM. Back in 90's when I visited first McDonalds I was so excited of getting Coke full of ice, now I know better.
Hi, I'm from Slovakia. (in the past Czechoslovakia) And it is definitely a huge difference. (materials for beer production in CZ is different than in America.)
-The thing with the foam is, no one is robbing you of anything. The glasses are actually 2-3 fingers more than 1 pint (or 0.5 liter, which is the most common ordered amount) and good bartender targets the mix so that if all the foam would dissolve it would be exactly that. Otherwise the foam is natural, very thick and rich in flavor, it actually forms from a protein in a beer and the gas comes from the fermentation process, it's not pressurized or anything. One pub usualy serves beers from one brewery, you'll usually find light one (3,5-4,5%), stronger one (4,5-5,5%) and some special (dark one, ale, wheat etc.). But on a street you'll find few different pubs, each with other beer brand (brewery).
- The foam is really creamy and dense, the mlíko is about 0,2l of beer, šnyt is 0,3l, hladinka (normal beer) is 0,5l. The amount of foam changes the taste of the beer and also how much you would burp afterwards and it's contraintuitive: tho more fome, the less you would burp (the bubbles in the foam are CO2 which is naturaly in the beer, the more goes out via foam, the less in your stomach).
- The head protects the beer from oxygenation from the air, thus keeping the taste of the beer intact. Just let sit a beer for a while and you'll notice the difference. As beer drinking is done usually for a few hours when you're in pub with firends, you want to stay it good for a while.
- American beer uses differnet kind of barley than european deas. Its lighter (both in color and in ABV) and it makes more soap like foam, eg. big bubbles that are not so stable. The reason you blow away the foam is because it does (historicaly and sometimes even now) tastes like soap. The "european" foam is just CO2 with beer around it and it also tastes much like beer, only a little bit sweeter. Most of the biggest breweries in the US also use not a barley malt only, but they are adding corn syrup as american malt sometimes doesnt have enough sugar, further adding to the soapiness. (just to be clear, US culture of home brewing is huge and awesome and produces tons of great beers
Good to know
Totally true! (I'm from Prague)
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
Eric: Frankly, we find that your American beer is a little like making love in a canoe.
Neil: Making love in a canoe?
Eric: It's ----ing close to water!!!
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Haha this is hilarious! 🤣
Czech here: It’s all in the hands. You regulate the pressure and the angle. Sometimes dads and granddads teach kinds to tap properly. That is important skill here as it is fairly simple to throw a garden party and order your own keg. Usually while roasting a whole pig. Another skill is to open beer bottle with anything. Most common item being a bic lighter.
Hi I am from czech republic and i live in prague. I'm a bartender and I can gurantee you that the way you tap the beer it will affect the taste of the beer so yeah just try it and see for yourselves, but probably try it in czech republic or in german.
For us people in czech republic our beer really matter to us (it's literally our pride) and how we drink it, so i recomend not to comment the beer too much in pubs where others are truly enjoing it, they can get pretty violent 😅
I'm sorry for any mistakes by the way great video 😁
Hi, we, the Czechs, are the worlds biggest beer drinkers, 160 litres per person per year (children included), so please believe the video creator, the foam has its reasons, it's really no cheating... Come to Prague, listed as the worlds pretiest city in the world in 2021, and you'll see.. The lager type of beer actually originated in Czech republic in the 13th century...
We will definitely go to visit Prague! It looks amazing and we love beer also so I think we will fit right in 😂
@@loners4life Yeah, the city does have certain kind of magic, you'll feel in love immediately.. It is the only capital in Europe, which has not been bombed during WWII, you can find architecture from the 12th century to modern therefore...It is included in the UNESCO world heritage list as well... And to the beer, aks anyone who has been to Czech republic, and they will tell you that we have the best beer... Really, we are extremely proud of it.. From the 5200 breweries and brands, I recommend the "Pilsner Urquell unfiltered", the best beer you can have..
@@viktornovomestsky3999 You're right, definitelly, just small thing - Prague was bombed during WWII, by both Allies and Nazis, just wasn't so destroyed as others.
@@janaduskova8694 I know Jana, f.e. a hospital and a building where these days the Dancing house is standing (by mistake, as the Allies were thinking they're bombing Dresden) during the uprising in May 1945.. I just wanted to simplify my answer for them
@@loners4life Regarding beer visit more likely Pilsen(too Czech city), there is famed bewer which know abroad, Pilsen region called the region of beer and rightly there makes beer Pilsner Urquell, Kozel etc. and are there tours.
If my English is bad, so sorry 🙂
Pils ( Pilsner type of beer) is from Czech Republic (City of Pilsen ) . Budweiser - the original one is also from Czech Republic (City of Budweis ) - you are welcome World :)
Meanwhile the most popular Pilsner are Heineken from Netherlands and Carlsberg from Denmark 😆
@@YekouriGaming Maybe , but both Pils :D
I’ll keep it at Jupiler, Stella, La Chouffe, Tripel Karmeliet, Leffe, Duvel and Gouden Carolus (last one is a hidden gem in my opinion,
is less known outside of Belgium because they mainly sell it at the brewery and is harder to find in stores). ;)
But other countries also have some good beers!
Cheers!
We are gratefull!!
Thanks XD
@@YekouriGaming Yes, but that's only because of 40 years of communism here, when we couldn't export the original Pilsner... -_- fkin commies
Czech Republic, beer paradise.
The foam you get by just changing the angle of the pour. If you just let the beer drop into the glass you get a lot of foam. If you let it slide down the side of the glass you get no foam. I dont think dark beer is more bitter. Its sweeter heavier and contains more alcohol. Its awesome to make pork roast - like the gravy instead of wine.
Not really with the foam. This oldschool taps like this one - you can open it more, so beer comes, or less, than it's foam. In newer, it depends if you pull od push. This sliding works mostly when pouring from can or bottle, not on tap. But with dark beer you're right. It's mostly sweeter (by taste, not sugar - the same with winegrapes - sugarly make les sweet wine).
@@janaduskova8694 yup, those 180 degree taps in cz are a patent design used to regulate it easier
The dirty glass thing is HUGE in beer loving Europe. And the Czechs are some of the best known beer lovers (as they are the biggest consumers of it, yes they out-drink the Germans)
The spray thing you mentioned before they tap the beer in the glass is actually not to clean the glass, it should be clean before they do that anyway, it is to cool the glass. Cold beer in a warm glass.... Not done! 😡 Some bars in mediterranian country's are known to serve it in glasses that are kept in a freezer. Which in turn may cause your beer to freeze (quite annoying 🙄🤣)
A dirty glass will with some beers (pils(ener) especially) make the foam vanish in minutes or less. That effects the quality of the beer as the aroma will fade fast. That is why most European (mainland) beers require some foam on it.
I've never tried all foam beer, so can't really comment on that, but I think I'm gonna pass. 🙊
And of course Heineken is a very common beer in this small part of the continent (Belgium, Germany, most parts of the UK, it is a BIG NOPE!) and we like to have two fingers of foam (Horizontal! for the barbarians out there reading this) on our beer as it comes from the tap. That ensures that the aroma's are locked in and the beer tastes fresh. As long as it doesn't take you 30 minutes or more to finish it... 🤪
Cheers 🍻
According "out-drink the Germans"
The Germans are just on place 4 in the statistic "beer consumption per capita" and that place is also just because of the Bavarians while the rest of Germany actually don´t drink - that much - beer in order to keep up on that high rank, because Bavaria´s beer consumption is round 3 times higher than in the rest of Germany.......just saying.
On top in that list is of course the Czech Republic with a huge gap to the next followed rank 2 by Austria then there is a little gap and 3rd place is now Romania...but the 3rd place is always changing between Romania, Germany and Poland..those 3 are always very close together in behalf of their beer consumption per capita..
160 liters of beer per head per year in Czechia. No.1 in the World.
Short answer: because a glass of beer without foam looks like a glass of piss.
A "Schnitt" was a thing in Germany in the past too
Foam is taste
Even here in Czech Rep. is it more old fashion and you have specialy ask for a Schnitt. ;)
The way I was taught to know if a beer glass was really clean was if you notice the foam forms rings at different levels of the glass as you drink it. (Given that you'd only be able to see that while you're already drinking from it - probably not as useful as the bubbles at the top.)
I love beer, but I will keep a closer eye on the bubbles from now on 😀 🍺 Greetings from Sweden 👍
6:50 Its a custom tab made in Czech republic that can pour foam or straight beer depending on how much you open it
Belgium here…foam yes, but only max an inch like sean from north UK mentioned.
Am a fan of the dark abbey beer here though (Leffe, Kasteelbier) or from the blonde ones tripple karmeliet or a Duvel.
That last one you can buy here 10.5 € (this for a pack of 8x 33cl bottles - normal Duvel bottle VAT included)
I know you can also get that in the US…but at a different price.
Jupiler for instance crate of 24x 25cl cost around 15€
In the summer a LIefmans kriek can be tasty once in a while (sour cherry taste beer).
Clearly, belgium are the best for beer IMO.
@@va8392 it’s a completely different drink from the czech version of it so it’s hard to say
6:34 „is it different beer?“ no, it’s the technique of the tab-master, to get you, want you prefer. ONE TAB, adjusted different. Same tab, same beer.
Czechs have really good beer and best burgers in Europe, Naše maso in Prag
Not gonna reason with the Coors Light crowd. As a brewer, I'll tell you that foam does a few things: 1/ Acts as a foamy bottle cap, keeping out the oxygen which can very quickly oxidize your beer. Since bland beers don't have much flavor to lose, you don't notice. 2/ Adds a creamy, smoother mouthfeel to the beer. 3/ Is a sign good quality malts and processes are used (and with no corn or rice used). Pour a Miller Lite with foam and watch how quickly the foam dies. Pretty quickly. 4/ A beer poured with enough foam to release 2 or 3 inches of foam releases more aroma/flavor compounds. So.....a more enjoyable beer. To each his own.
Dark beers have many varieties. Stout is quite dry but the Kozel referred here is a Lager beer and certainly is sweeter than the Pilzener below. By the way - each tap has a separate lever for adjusting the aeration of the beer during pouring. This is so you can control the amount of foam.
High foam is a guarantee of freshness of the beer. If the beer is stale, the foam will drop or even disappear completely. We don't drink beer like that anymore.
Beer,lager,is poured down the side as its poured to keep the bubbles as it returns to the upright position,the head or foam is about half inch ontop to trap the bubbles
Here in Prague, the vast majority would be hladinka but yesterday my friend had enough beer and simply ordered the Šnyt as he wanted the small beer in a large glass (foam indeed is very very important). No scam in any way as the pricing reflects the volume of beer. Mlýko or milk is rare but you'll be paying much less than a regular full glasss of beer. The volume is very strict per serving and heavy fines are given if any drink is served even with a milliliter less than what's on the menu. The good thing about Czech beer is that there are purity laws, so using Czech hops (one of the most expensive there is), yeast and water and no other additives are allowed. Plus sending regards from my hometown Budweis (yep we brew the real stuff) that's close enough to Pilsen (that makes the real Pilsner czcams.com/video/EN5QwWCWz60/video.html) ;)
You're welcome to visit czcams.com/video/ffxGB2j9ADo/video.html and beer is on me .. but that's not an issue as beer is often cheaper than water here 😄😉🍻
And on the topic of men or women... gals here drink as much as any dude and would put many to shame, however the drinking culture here thankfully has respect for beer so its a very enjoyable atmosphere...
Na zdraví
Not a scam at all. Beer foam is beer, and for me it’s even the most delicious part of it.
The ice in American soft drinks is water.
But most importantly: It’s not a scam when you know what you get and the price is accordingly.
That being said, in Germany, it takes seven minutes to tap a beer if it‘s done right. You tap, put the glass aside so that the foam sets, then tap again, etc. Unfortunately, you don‘t always get a good seven-minutes-beer in Germany, but that’s the way it should be. This way, you end up with less and thicker foam that builds a crown. Please note: That’s just how a German beer should be tapped, so don’t get me wrong - I am not saying that other countries do it wrong. I love Czech beer and the Czech beer tradition, too!
Hold your bartenders accountable! You deserve a clean beer! 😂
1:53 this is the exact reason why pouring the beer like that is the only right way. Not getting bloated ;)
your headache is from dehydration body is naturally dehydrated after night sleep and then when u add alcohol to it. you basically drying your brain and i understand that some alcohol can give you more or less headache. people drink your water after alcohol :D
This is a habit we need to get into more often!
A pils (lager) in Belgium is served with two fingers of foam... the better beers have more foam. Duvel f.i. is served with a lot of foam.
two fingers foam is standard also here in Czech Republic and yes, same as in Belgium by some beers is better to have higher foam.
I work in a pub in London, and I wish we served beer the European way. It makes way more sense to have more foam to keep it fresher for longer. Over here people want quantity over quality. I’ve been to Czech Republic 3 times and they genuinely do have the best beer!
Damn, I'm trying to not drink for 2-3 months to lose weight and get better health, and then I see this...
That tap have two different settings, one pour beer and by turning it on other side that beer get mixed with air or gas and create foam. After that it depends on skill how good you can use these settings to pour really great glass of beer.
The Mliko or Snyt is not priced the same as a normal full size beer, it's cheaper because it is in fact less beer. Also, even tho our normal beer has a lot of foam, the glasses are larger to compensate for this and bartenders make it a point of pride to get the 0.5l amount perfectly right every time. You're not getting scammed. At least not in the good pubs. There are obviously tourist trap scams but locals definitely wouldn't go there, so wherever there's czechs having a beer, you don't have to worry about being scammed.
The way of pouring is really important!
It changes the taste of the final product
you might also find this interesting, im from the north east of england sunderland newcaslte area. what still goes on from my days are the pub crawls, drink in one pub, go to the next and so on, this is usualy a friday saturday night thing. there are 265 palces selling drink in newcasle not sure how many is in sunderland. but alot. what was a big thig through 60s 70s 80s, but dieng out now was or wormans clubs, i will post another comment, as it will be long, this was normal in the north east on a sunday, i think you will find it facinating
beer heaven here in frankonia, we have several private brewerys and the most dense brewery per square meter in the world. we drink our beer direktly from the brewery the foam is normaly 3-5 cm thick. i love wheat beer.
In germany , just like in austria - the glasses have a half liter mark, and if there is any foam, it has to be above it.
making a glas of beer takes 7 minutes - its beeing said. That is the agreed upon time a good glas can take
and people are willing to wait from order to enjoyment to get their 7 minute glasses of beer.
Foam levels coming from the tap varies depending on whether the keg was just atached , or whether it is almost empty
and the brand and type of beer as well.
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now if you go to england, they fill up the pint glas to the brim so you are hardly able to transport it without spilling.
europe is not europe - like texas is not new york.
The American pint is smaller. Now that's a scam!
Where i live we have a beer with a thick foam and you can put a cent on it and it will stay on the surface of the foam without sink
6:55 he uses the same tap. It´s all about the technic. For example, a different angle of the glass helps you with the foam
Our taps have different stages of opening when you want to pour just foam you can. You open it just little and the beer is moving at a higher pressure making the foam. But then you open it all the way to pour beer without foam
worked lots hotel bars. light beer / larger start the pour with a good distance as start to fill more the angle and distance changes as it fills , if not enough foam lot taps you can push forward. like drinks Guinness id rest the glass on drip tray and start to pour till about 2/3 then let it settle, then move glass closer to finish off normally slow pour with nozzle in drink. the last bit, at a small distance from pump nozzle push tap forward very slow pour and add 4 leaf clover in printed in the foam, quite easy its back to front how to draw basically. ive spent way to much time behind bars serving and as a customer, enjoyable at times but not when you started a night shift so your breakfast time your serving beer few hours after waking up. but fun running a bar, weekly line cleaning my fav day as excuses to been drinking as better make sure no taste chemicals so that one day a week it be a tipsy shift or normally wait till night staff arrive work few extra hours an drinks, customers say you been drinking have to make sure beers safe after cleaning, and easy add a few free drinks from so called spillage
Creating a head also helps release the carbonation bringing out flavours and helps with not burping around.
Typical minimum head rule of thumb is two fingers.
Also I was taught to avoid standard US “beers”, and that turned out to be true, they are sad, horrible, and downright offensive. Instead one must seek out highest quality craft beers to get close to European basic standards…but I didn’t even dare think about beer back then, if the most basic beer is that horrible one shouldn’t hope much more from alleged top quality given the widely acquired baseline preference for bad beer. I realise I still should have tried to give that reasoning some substantiation beyond pure logical conjecture, and I will do if I get the chance in the hope of having it thoroughly shattered rather than confirmed.
In America they use 6 row barley, because it has a higher yield than 2 row barley.
In Britain 2 row barley is used for beer because of its superior taste, while 6 row barley is used for animal feed.
@@JarlGrimmToys I'm not gonna bother researching whether that's correct because it explains so much of what I've heard about American beer. Weirdly it makes me want to try it, if only just to lament the sad state of affairs the poor yanks are having to deal with hehe :)
@@Zabiru- from the American Homebrewers Association website…
“Two-row or six-row? It’s a very American question. Most of the rest of the world uses six-row barley only for livestock feed, not for beer”
Confirming it, czech dark beers are typically sweeter comoared to light ones
0,5L of foam translates to 0,3L of of beer without foam
So, this is all the same beer. The faster you let the beer float (tap wide open) and depending on the angle of the beer mug, you get more ... or less foam from the beer tap. This is also depending on the carbonation amount of the beer itself. You can tweak the amount of carbonation and foam with several factors, though... temperature being one of them. You want it cold, so the CO2 stays liquid longer and the foam is lasting longer, because it gets refreshed from the beer itself when it gets warmer.
That dirt bubbles come from more particles that can act as points for the CO2 to turn from liquid state into gas, therefore bigger bubbles on top.
Beer is science. And food.
Best regards from the second most beer consuming country. Yupp. Germany. We don't drink as much as the Czech. Because we want to have a little bit more control on our way home. 😀
PS: Of course for every type of beer and different usual sizes there are the perfect glass designs, that differ a lot. These are used to hold the perfect amount of foam as long as you usually need to drink the beer in this size, depending on carbonation, amount of alcohol etc, so the aroma lasts for that time in the best way ... Yeah. Science, baby.
PPS: The Czech are funny people. Don't take the versions of tapping with the huge amounts of foam seriously. These are not usually tapped and you will never get these as beers that you fully have to pay. All glasses have a marking for the volume they are intended for, the beer is always filled up to this, foam above, so you can easily control if you are scammed. Germans are perfectionists. And when it comes to beer, all Europeans are.
I had a good laugh when Lynda smelled SCAM. HAHAHAHA.
As for the clean glasses, beer glasses need to be cleaned by hand, not in a dishwasher, that's not enough. It is also almost impossible to clean a beer glass when something else was in (coke for example). Also look closely, the glasses are cleaned in one sink and kept under clean cold water in another. The beer is always poured into a cold wet glass. If you take a dry glass from the shelf, you'll have bubbles all over the sides. That's very wrong. A well poured pilsner has no visible bubbles and the foam is liquid and creamy. In fact, if you order mlíko (foam only), there's about 0,3l of beer - half of the glass when dissolved (that's what we call a small beer here) hidden in the foam.
I'm late to the party here, but the different pours depend on two things: 1) the skill of the bartender and 2) the type of tap.
In the Czech Republic they use a special side-pull tap made by a company called Lukr. These special side-pull taps give the bartender a tremendous amount of precision when pouring because the tap handle swings side to side 90° - as opposed to a traditional tap that just pull forward. Opening the tap all the way will pour just beer, opening the valve part way will pour foam - there's a bit of a learning curve to this tap but once you master it you can pour the perfect Czech beer.
Their are some many different beers and pils brands. In Belgium and The Netherlands every city has it’s brand, mostly small local breweries. Me and some fiends us an app (untapped) to keep track of what we tried (I have tried already 209 different beers/pils)
American here. A good head on a glass of beer is infinitely better than a glass without any froth/foam. It would be like having a latte without foam. Just my two cents 😉
I love white wine. But the smooth/ sweet one-superior grade german white vine from Frankonia. Yummy!
Glass is in the tank to keep it cold, mug should be cold and wet, before tap
hi guys,I live in the UK, the north, we tend to like the head on beer, about an inch, south they tend not to like the foam
I wouldn't drink a beer without proper foam, i would just leave the pub without paying :D
Nice. At least an inch.
@@hhhhhbztb Czech spotted.
Beer in the UK is mostly top fermented, so nothing like European bottom fermented beer. Most European beer is pasteurised (boiled) to kill the yeast, then CO2 is added to make the bubbles. In the UK, the bubbles (foam) is natural.
@@RoyCousins WoW another thing that you do better!
English exceptionalism again XDD
Girl is based as hell for already pouring her beer with lots of foam to lessen bloating. Foam is beer, foam is your friend.
iam czech and what most people that are from countries where they dont like foam dont understand is the foam is actually a lot of beer, just with air, you could maybe call it whipped beer, here in czechia they usually bring beers that are under the half liter line and like 2/5 or 1/2 of the glass is foam, they do it because we actually like the foam as its smoother and its a sign of freshly drafted beer beside that they want to bring it fast and they have a lot of people ordering beers but if u let the bubbles pop up u will see your getting half litre of beer as u ordered.
wait wot? separated tubes for foam and for beer? na na na ma boyz there is only one tube but on tap is valve where they can reduce air
I'm not a massive beer guy, but the only beer I really pay attention to how I pour is Guinness. A Guinness without a head is a travesty. I find stouts at the same time bitter but also somehow sweet, almost chocolatey, but they fill you up like nobody's business. I remember describing it as drinking a sweet loaf of bread when I first tried it when I was like 19.
The reason why you feel bloated is because you're pouring the beer wrong. You need to make it form to release the air from the beer, which contains the gasses. Most people probably pour it so it won't foam, which is wrong.
re glass cleaning - you don't have the pressure washers for beer glasses in US? (you put the glass on a "sprinkler" that sprinkles with high pressure water)
The beer has gas mixed in the liquid so because the beer is pumped using gas and literally squirted into the glass it has the gas released from the liquid. In the UK (again) where the beer used to be in real wooden barrels and to get it into the glass it was hand pumped with a lever on the bar. Oh and no refrigeration of the liquid, sorry
As someone who grew up drinking beer without foam, and now living in Prague, I've got to say the foam is the way to go. We're converts. The Czech's invented pilsner......so they know! It's a fresher taste, you feel less bloated, it's magnificent! The Czechs/Slovaks know.😄
This guy gets it
In US cold drinks are sold with plenty of ice - FYI you buy Coke, Ice tea or whatever diluted by the companey = plenty of ice! Less real drink. I don't know have you a to ask "two cubes" or such??
The way the foame is produced ist just the angle between the Glass and the Bear.
Let me know when you'll be heading to Prague, first round is on me. Regards from Prague
As we talking about drink as you know if from the UK, a drink so popular them days as it got banned in scotland, well no so much banned, they would not sell it as it was deemed to be to strong which, im sure other countries do it.
But i started drinking about 16 years old, the drink of the day, used to foam nice head, was SNAKEBITE which was half larger half cider, it got to the point we had to trick pubs, one would buy pint of larger, my wife would buy pint on cider, and ask for a half glass, as ladies did not drink out of pint glasses, more lady like to drink from a half pint glass, that the gave us the oppertunity to mix it, we also drank in them days, im talking 80s. was black velvet, half cider and half guiness, or black and tan, which was half stout and half beer
How can it be a scam? You ask for it, you get it. Their glasses also have a mark on them so you can tell how much liquid you are actually getting. And their beers and beer foam tastes nice.
U are aware of the fact that europeans have been drinking beer for thousand yres ?? Americans have been doin it for a short period .🤣
We definitely are not the most experienced beer drinkers in the world haha 😅
Some beers can make more foam than others but basically when you don't want foam you just push the tap under the surface of the beer that you are spilling, in this way you won't generate any foam... And I think that when he said 'women beer' and 'men beer' he meant to say that the beer is more sweet and delicate and not that women are 'delicate', probably he was describing the beer, in the way to 'dedicate' that beer to women, I don't think he really meant to divide the genres, I'm pretty sure of that :) It's the same when he said 'beer for tourists' it's a good thing btw... And if you ever come to Italy you can taste a lot of different kind of very dry or 'fruit' white wine, you can find a lot it 👌
Yes, he also probably said that it's women beer or it's men beer based on the real life experiences, women here really like sweeter beer. Dark beer is also more preferred by women, or at least the women I know.
The foam (milk) is for the kids here :D
Yes, a glass of foam will turn into ~ a quarter of a glass of beer
What you guys are watching here works on tap, you cannot recreate it from glass or can... Also, the type of "faucet / tap" and use of it allows for different carbonation, foam versus liquid etc.. and literally changes taste of beer with different types of pours. The tapster is a huge part of the taste of your beer, in Czechia people generally know these things (beer-clean glass). Americans seem to focus on other part of the beer culture... Enjoyed the episode!
Welcome to a long, long disagreement between England end, well, pretty much the rest of Europe. Foam, or no foam.
Joking aside, Some beers are better without the foam. Those tend to be the darker ones. Once the foam is gone on the beers with foam, and you wait a bit, you can seriously taste the difference. Beer goes 'stale' rather quickly once exposed to air. I've never put that much foam on the beers I poured, though I only did some standard stuff. My guess is that it's different per glass. How wide it is, how much beer is in there, temperature of the glass, etc. It's a science
The foam is the beer! There isn’t foam and beer! Beer is foam and foam is beer
The foam is usually from a tank of carbon dioxide forced into the pasteurised beer.
Noone orders "Milk" or "Šnyt" versions of beer in Czech Republic, thats Prague thing for tourists.. I am 43 years old and I have never seen anybody to drink "Milk" or Šnit in the pub....Normal is to have 3-4 centimetrs of foam...
People, the Czecks have a great experience in beer. They have a lot of different tastes.
Just watch clip for TATRA and 30 s after that i see notification for that hahahahahahahaha
Didnt watch the video but to answer your question. Cause it protects the beer from oxidation...that means air (just in case).
Or let me rephrase, why doesnt yours ?
Okey 3:02 I want Mlíko (and orhers) only in the place where is bear made. For example in Plzeň (Pilsen).
Hladinka is best 😁😁
the glass will be clean but not beer clean, its oils that will make the foam not stable. he didn't explain that well about clean glasses.
Czech here. Our beer culture is superior. That's also why we are number 1 in beer consumption per capita in the world.
Swede here. After visiting Plzen once and Prague twice, I have to agree: Czech beer culture is superior!
Lovely country over all, hope I'll visit soon again.
Yes, true...followed by Austria on rank 2 in behalf of beer culture and consumption per capita.....and only then comes the rest including the Germans ;-D
Sorry, but drinking lots doesn't mean superior beer culture.
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Belgian beer culture is deemed by Unesco as an intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
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Whenever there is a top 10 of best beers (flavor) in the world, there is always at least 1 if not several Belgian made beers. Care to remind us how often actual Czech brewed beers are in the top 10?
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Czech's make 80 Czech beers. Hmm....cute.
Austria (±9mil pop) makes 600 different beers. Whoa, nice.
Belgium (±11mil = similiar in population size to Czech republic) makes close to *1500 different beers*.
FYI, every half way decent city in Belgium has at least 1 pub that serves more than a 100 different beers, including beers from other countries.
From the 13 trappist breweries, 6 are in Belgium and none are in the Czech republic.
@@PDVism You're comparing apples and pears. Czechs love their bottom-fermented beer and have a hard time getting used to top-fermented or spontaneously fermented beers, so typical of Belgium. Czechs also drink beer at lunchtime and Czech cuisine is more suited to bitter lagers than sweeter beers, which makes it harder to market them.
Czechia is at the top not only in consumption but also in the number of microbreweries per million inhabitants. There are over 40 in Czechia while Belgium has less than 20, which is an interesting drop considering that Belgium had over 3,000 breweries in the 1800's (around 300 today), while the Czech lands only had around 1,000 at the time (over 500 today).
Today, Czechia is only just discovering other types of beer as thanks to 50 years of socialism, the Czech small brewing industry almost disappeared and the state breweries did not develop anything new. In 1993 there was only one microbrewery left, which even the communists dared not close down, and yet today we have twice as many microbreweries as Belgium. Of course, the Czech breweries cannot yet match the Belgian ones in terms of diversity, because unlike the Belgian brewing industry, the Czech one had to start from scratch and could not afford to experiment so much, which has been slowly changing in recent years.
@@PDVism You compare uncomparable.I love Belgian beers yet I love sitting on a terrace in the summer sipping pilseners all evening long not getting drunk. that is something you cant do with a Belgian beer that I love, too. I USA these days there are even more brands. But it does not make it a better beer culture. everyone likes something else. By the way these days there are definitelly more Czech beers than just 80.
As a greek who has lived in === Holland ireland luxembourg and greece...I have never seen this beer in my life hahah all the beesr I have seen which are thousands of beers all had lime 1.5 or 2 inches of foam
Pilsner is a Czech/Bavarian invention. You are welcome.
You Americans have no idea of the actual stable consitency of that kind of beer foam Czech´s tab beer is providing, it´s almost kinda like cotton candy...the foam will stay covering the beer like a cap, simply because it is an actual foam per definition and it is definitively not "solely carbon bubbles" which will of course disappear and which you Americans are used to....just saying
This is interesting! We will make sure to head over to Prague to get the real beer experience 💪🏼
those foam differences are because of tapping technique, fast tapping or slower, angels of glass etc. There is nothing special you should try it and bartender showed you how to do that.
Depends on where in Europe you are I'm from the Netherlands and if you serve a 'milk' beer would give you a bar fight. 2 fingers of foam is what we serve always.
It's not like somebody would bring you milk if you didn't ask for it. If you ask for just "a beer" anywhere you will get hladinka. If you ask for milk or šnyt you will pay for it as if it was a small beer in most places (because it technically is).
OMFG, sit half an hour with just only one beer? No way for most of the Czech drinkers :D
I wish Americans wouldn't get their britches all in a tangle over the foam. For crying out loud we are clueless over what is good beer. The foam makes the beer better and you still get .5l on a normal pour in the Czech Republic (best beer !!)
Its not a scam because it is ordered by free will and price of mliko, snyt and hladinka is totally different.
Believe me, in a country that has beer culture older than US existence as a country, they know what they are doing, lol.
Beer is as important here as rice to Asians and nobody would allow for scam sticks.
Hi! My dad didn’t like foamy beer either, beer in the UK was not particularly foamy for years and years then the Danish beer arrived and the younger generation decided it was trendy and not so bitter (British beer used to be in two sorts Mild and Bitter). There were other types like Guinness or other sorts of Stouts (dark, thick and frothy) but not Lager yellow thin and could only be drunk when cold. He hated the foam so much he had a spoon when he went to the pub so he could stir the beer and artificially dissipate the gas.
Cheers both and a happy new year
Every City , sometimes villages have there own beer. The czechs and germany know what they do, so many different tasty beer🥰.I drink beer in the US it was foul🤢, like p...water
Summer in Prague...? :-D
I’ve said this on one of their previous videos and I’m sorry but the title says “European” but this doesn’t represent all of Europe, besides the dirty glass.
european beer has foam because we dont add any chemicals to our beer to get rid of........
greetings
It's not foam, it's a head... Plus a pint is 20% bigger in the rest of the world... As is a gallon.
In the Netherlands is the foam 2 fingers thick
Pilsener is a Czech/Bavarian invention. Definitely not Dutch.
Budvar, Pilsner Urquel. These are beers, not the stuff in the US,
No SCAM, if u let MLIKO sit and wait it becomes 0,3liter beer
You didn't offend anyone by thinking it's a scam. It just make me feel sad for you...
You saying the foam is a scam, well your icecube mentallity in the USA is worse, 1/3 to less the 1/3 filled with liquid, now that's a scam! :D
Bloated? Yes. More foam means less burping and farting
one beer different tap
It is always the same beer, just tap with a special technic!
The first beers are exactly the same, it is just the he taps it to make more or less foam.
Yet they have a different name.