Beer 101 | Your 2 Minute Beer Crash Course

what's a beer taster is Danny here and this is your two-minute crash course on the basics of beer so let's get to it beer is made out of four ingredients malt hops water and yeast malt usually provides sweetness and beers and beer styles that are dominated by malt will have usually like biscuity toasty or bread dough like aromas and flavors any grain can make up a beer but usually barley is the preferred grain hops are what gives us bitterness in beer to balance out the sweetness coming out of the malts now hop started being used in beer to increase the microbiological stability of that beer in simple terms a beer that's brewed with hops is going to last longer than anything that is not brewed with hops water is what makes up about 90% of your glass of beer and that's why it's super important and finally yeast is our fourth ingredient beer and in my opinion probably the most important because it's the whole reason that alcohol exists there are two styles of yeast out there ale yeast and lager yeast and that's going to ultimately determine the style of beer that we're going to have when it comes to styles of beer there's four countries that we study and that is Germany Belgium England and the fourth would be US America Germany is known for lagers and their beers are just very clean and very straightforward England historically was known for malts and the government was pretty influential with what beer styles they could brew so you're gonna see that in a lot of our English style ales Belgium is one of my favorite countries to study because historically they didn't follow any rules and they did whatever they wanted to their beers so there's a lot of complexity in their beers and in general they're dominated by the style of yeast that the Belgians use and finally there's America which let me tell you we might be new to the beer scene but we are the land of experimentation and we have a lot to offer we take the beer styles from Belgium England and Germany and make them our own we've got our own hops here in this country and we're really pushing the boundaries as far as beer styles go and that's what's so fun about America now when it comes to tasting beer there's four things you want to do look at it observe the color smell it taste it and think about it so there you have it this was your crash course in a beer 101 I hope it was super helpful let me know in the comments below else you want to learn about if you want to join the libations Academy community make sure to hit subscribe because I post videos about beer wine and spirits all the time and we can keep learning together I'll see you next time bye [Music]

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Length: 2min 25sec (145 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 02 2017