Learnt a lot! Really interesting about the history. Not sure if I missed it, but there was (is) a historical beer style called gruit that used botanicals rather than hops.. Can't say I've had one, but I think stinging nettles may have also been used? Very close heritage to hops too, of course!

Well done for calling this out, actually lying to the consumer and should not be allowed to be marketed in this way, ASA anybody?

Uk citizens comtamstly ripped off

Nice video. Looking forward to the next instalment, as well as seeing the power turned on to those conicals behind 🎉

More mild would be a good thing in today's world. I brewed a pale mild earlier this year and it was lovely. I need to make another.

I've just finished catching up due to work etc. I'm not a massive stout fan, imperial stouts even less so, but Trees of Endor is incredible. Stunning stunning beer. No stout will come close to that for me, ever again

This feels like a lie...

My soul was a bit sad after the Love & Beet fest.. but also buoyed by all the great times. So.. balance ⚖️ ?

Hemp! Hallelujah 😘 Aģape

Can someone please timestamp and identify the different pours in this video?

I have never seen a single person go into a pub, order 1 of these beers and smell it, swirl it around a glass and discuss it which just goes to prove that this is a pointless exercise. I'm glad I watched it for the pure comedy factor but let's not take it too seriously. This is the equivalent of watching a heap of 10's walk into a pub and you and the lads discuss which is the hottest and ranking them, again a pointless exercise when you're just going to go home and pull the stomach out of yourself while doing a bit of belly boxing!

Your guest needs to try some Aberfeldy 18 year finished in French wine casks. A truly sublime single malt

What does your guest think of the goose island bourbon county stouts ?

Sorry, couldn’t be around for the live show because I was at our hops and harvest festival here in Lewiston New York. So I’m joining you now with “kings county birding club”, a 7.2% fresh hop ipa from a collaboration of strange bird and KCBC. cheers!👍🏻🍻❤️

I'm gonna blow some minds with this revelation, put keystone light and coors light in identical cups. Taste one then the other, it's the same exact beer

“Uses classic Spanish ingredients, glucose syrup” I’m dying 🤣🤣🤣

where is the recipe?

I am a certified beer snob. If I were at a ball game and those were the only beers on sale, I will drink liquor!

Great video! Love this type or beer content!

Very good video

The blue is my favourite. Love these!

Awesome video guys. I had the big guy for my 40th birthday recently. Great stuff!

Tourist trap. Nothing authentic about it atall

Saw your T-shirt and searched for it and just bought one from TMM. Was trying not to beer shop but couldn’t resist that one. 👍

But the Irish cider industry was exactly the same!

Well done! This is a fantastic video, and this is why I love beer. One element can bring so much variety and create so many different styles-now multiply that by the other ingredients of beer, from just the water type to the multitude of grains and then the yeasts to bring it all together in all its combinations. The cross-pollination of geography, and what I guess will be brought by the next episode with New World hops, makes the drink we love so varied and exciting. For all the pomp and celebration it gets, wine really has nothing compared to brewing 🍻

I live in Maryland and a few years ago a unique hop (Monocacy) was found on a veterinarian's chicken coop. It works well in older beer styles (ESB, Altbier, Marzen). Breweries are playing with it, growers are crossbreeding it. Hopefully something comes of it. Great video by the way. I do enjoy beers made with Kent Goldings.

Let's not forget about the hop growing juggernaut that is eastern Canada! LOL. Nothing to rival anyone else, but we do have probably a half dozen or so hop yards here in the Maritimes.

Hops were added to the beers in India for the officers, to hide the flavour. The "hopped for travel to India" has been a myth for too long now really...

My supplier in Switzerland just started stocking Harlequin, cant wait to try it!!!

So glad to finally see this video! It was 100% worth the wait. Thank you for putting this hop tour togther.

Interesting aroma descriptions, i enjoyed your summaries. I hadnt heard of the Mandarina before, makes me want to brew a Vienna lager with Mandarina, or even a Kolsch maybe

Doesn’t hurt to feature a North West beer for North West Chinook hops. Just a suggestion (East Coast IPAs have a place too). It’s like using hops from the UK and featuring a beer in Italy using those hops

Incredible video mate. Loved it. So helpful to know why or what I’m drinking lol. Do the hops have actual anti sceptic qualities or is it the brewers are using hops themselves instead of other ingredients that are sceptic?

I object to the use of ‘marijuana smell’ as hemp like hops produces many terpenes, and therefore the smell of marijuana can vary a lot as well.

Yes

I don’t really care. I love Madri and i actually like it in spite of being Spanish. In fact i avoided it for a while because i’m not really a fan of Spanish lagers (Estrella etc) then someone gave me a sip and i thought it was good (probably because it isn’t Spanish). It’s the same as ‘Fosters’ not being Australian or James Caan not being Italian. We all know but don’t really care, its a bit of marketing fun… by the way did you know UM BONGO isn’t made in the jungle?

Hi how can I get it,am in South Africa

Can you make a video about amber ales and red ales or separate videos someday??

When I lived in the UK 16 years ago I would hear 3 things ordered at the bar, Lager, Bitter and Cider. Which was strange to me because at that stage I have tried hundreds of beers and there were many verities of each, how do you know which Lager you're getting? Then I tried "British lager" which was basically a tiny step up from American lager.

A maß is the measure of beer in the glass, and a maßkrug is the glass that holds a maß.

In Scotland we have Tennents , which gets slaughtered by anyone under the age of 25, but if you slapped a Spanish label on it everyone would lap it up

Just had mine bought from Hop Burns and Black Deptford, love this beer big mouth feel, lovely subtle flavours and complex, nice to be drinking it along with you and your first tasting.

They are saying this years Paulaner isn't quite up to scratch? I have just done my own in depth comparison and was amazed to find I preferred Hofbrau to Augustina

Go track down some Der Weizen from Tilman's Brauerei for the next one

Anyone who swills beer cannot be considered an "expert".

Always makes me laugh seeing these 'experts' swill beer around in the glass. It's carbonated, you don't need to "release the aroma" or whatever you think you are doing.

Listening while brewing my very first batch...and, just so you know it, I blame you for it!😉