How To Identify Beer Flavors

[@tylerhenson801]

Wow! I could listen to Richard talk about beer and tasting ALL DAY. Fascinating!!! I love your videos.

[@plasterofparisify]

The title isn't what is offered.

[@李云蛇]

mNqHOgjJsY I hate the title guy!

[@JustinRumbach]

Not sure why this two year old vid just popped in my feed but glad it did. I've been wanting to host an off flavor tasting with my club but haven't had much luck finding the off flavors online. I found one kit but was very expensive and for a group of 60. I believe BJCP offers one as well but for class use. Any idea where they got the off flavors used here? Thanks!

[@davidjohnlewis]

I wish there was something like this I could go to!

[@dirtyblond2332]

A link to the spiking kit would have been helpful...

[@alecdiaz]

Name of the first song of the video please !

[@MusicThumper]

I would love to go to one of these group brewers meetings. I could get ideas from a lot of people.

[@wonbae86]

more videos please! keep them coming!!

[@dirtymindbadthoughts3032]

It is a good time to be a beer drinker, the narrator is right. Cool stuff! A song to listen to after this video is our posted song "2 Shots 2 Beers You're Good"

[@bubberification]

Great video, but doesn't really meet the title.

[@MarkWoodChannel]

The yeast comments at the end are spot on, only bad beer I've made was a pilsner fermented too warm, bananas.

[@OneEyedKeys]

Not enough info. As an ex-sommalier, now beer man, I can tell you that the tasting steps are the same. First: We must know how to identify styles. This gives us an idea of what to look for and a criterion by which to judge how the brewer accomplished his task. Second: Observe the beer. Hazy, clear, light bubbles, fast bubbles or slow, and how thick and what texture is the head. This will tell you about it's level of carbonation and possible sweetness-dryness. And whether is has been filtered properly, or not at all. Depending on style, this was done deliberately by the brewer, or it is a fault. Third: Sniff. What aroma's are there? It is complicated, but in general, ales and more fuller bodied beers, like Porters and Stouts should have more going on in the nose than pilsners or Helles, or general American Lagers. The scent prepars your mouth for what to expect, and it can discern conguence in the beer. Does it taste like it smells? Are they matched in some way, or completly different? Is it an interesting Ale, or Stout? It is a crisp, classy Pilsner, or does it have off scents....smell tells us often about not only the hop profile, but also the age of the beer, the oxidation level, hints as to the body size, and malts used. It even gives us a precipitation of the alchohol level and many other qualities I can't get into now. Fourth: Taste. Where does your palate light up? Sides of mouth, top, bottom, throat,? This is how we learn about hops, malt, body, crispness, sourness, sweeetness, and overall enjoyment. It can take time to get to know a beer. Especially if you are trying a Scottish Ale, or Belgian Trappist, or German Smoke beer for the first time. Beer is wild and crazy in it's spectrum. At first what might seem offensive can prove enjoyable. The opposite may also be true. Thin about where your taste buds are lighting up and where they are not. Know where your taste buds are....for sour, sweet, and beyond. It is readily available online. Think of the lingering finish, and the attack at first sip. Think about the balance. Or maybe it is deliberatley out of balance. Anyway, I could go on and on, but THIS is how you REALLY taste beer. This video is lacking. Too much talk, and not accurate information.

[@hughschick3001]

Folks: perhaps this was mistitled. It seems to be primarily about Rich Higgins and the homebrew community of SF than a how-to-taste. Kevin, to assail Rich is just stupid: he is one of seven master ciccerones in the world and has brewed professionally for ten years. I suggest you learn about beer in case you ever cross paths. That said, after living in Germany during my teens I can definitely say that Germany is not where it's at. The American craft beer revolution is just now forcing German brewers to reconsider non-factory modes of production. btw: Pilsner is from Plzen. Why just get on here and bash? Do you guys not have one good thing to say about the video?

[@drewkantos]

You should write a book about this. I would buy it. Anyone else?

[@raiderrob672]

In almost all of the beer's I have been brewing over the last couple years there is and aroma and flavor that I can not figure out what it is. the best way I can describe it is.....Dirty water with a big kick of what the yeast trube at the bottom of the fermentor smells/tastes like. I have only brewed 3 beer's that did not have this. a Black IPA, an American blond and a Hef.

[@aliivibes3045]

hmm might be... dun dun dun... dirty water.

[@serjstoned]

Good video but didn't exactly teach how to taste a beer

[@jkuva]

Kevin is not homebrewer as per to his comments. Any one knows fresh ingredients and proper yeast, with it started will produce a great beer. Yes there is more to it than this video states, but really? bashing a four min video?

[@redline29]

This is way esoteric. Anybody new to the arena of craft brew is going to have no idea what in the hell they just watched. Hell...while I am about a year and a half into the world of Craft beer, and I know guys that know damn near everything...they would say the same thing. This is beer snobbery taken to the next level. From a newly minted beer snob.

[@ThousandSunAnger]

Okay, so what they're doing here that isn't immediately obvious is they're discussing very specific chemical components that imbibe flavor into the myriad styles of beer available--going beyond the water, hops, barley, yeast breakdown. They probably already assume that you know how beer is made. The whole thesis of this being, that you should know what the individual chemicals taste like, so you can better understand what's going on when they're together in a beer. And, yes... While this video does lack any sort of clear didactic substance, and I would even add that it was a bit of a self-congratulatory circle jerk, they are discussing beer on a quasi-collegiately scientific level bordering on the obsessive-compulsive that has positively made American Craft Beer what it is today.

[@aliivibes3045]

psh he's a beer consultant and clearly says his goals are to "highlight the amazing context that beer can be apart of." See: dictionary to determine scientific principles and/or methods.

[@ChadzBeerReviews]

What happened to this channel? Every video got tens of thousands of views. Then they just disappeared.

[@JohnnyReverse]

welp, ive learned nothing

[@awinter2945]

total bs, don't waste your time

[@glennhorvath879]

go to Germany if you really want to know about real beer.

[@xUnnamedx44]

or just about anywhere else in the world

[@coppercloud]

xUnnamedx44 America has some great craft beers, particularly on the west coast!

[@glennhorvath879]

i like the flavor of pure beer, not sweet or herb-y .There is nothing comparable to fresh German pilsner on a summer afternoon.(I live in Germany) ex-pat

[@coppercloud]

That's my point. The world changes and what was true a generation ago no longer stands. See for yourself: I live in Portland, Oregon - and breweries here are numerous and amazing with variety. Check the number of breweries in a small town, like Bend, Oregon, and you'll see the respect here for beer, including some excellent pilsners that get respect at international competitions (even from Germans). Like was done with French wine in the 1970's, here in America we will show that anyone, nearly anywhere on Earth, can with love and motivation produce a product a fine product that is worth respect. (However in fine American style - mass production of crappy product masks the world from seeing anything but dross!) Lastly, "pure beer" and "real" are subjective terms, and the Egyptians who drank a sweet beer for centuries and centuries before you might disagree on how much a pilsner meets their definition of a "real" beer. Glenn, you limit yourself, and show the same single-mindedness (albeit with good taste) that made Budweiser "the king of beers". For me: I'll start with whatever tasting sampler that is offered, but I prefer a dry Irish stout from a nitro tap!

[@glennhorvath879]

True a beer expert I'm not. My favorite is pilsner, not ale or stouts or peppermint basil beer :) If you have never tried a german (even east G) beer than please do! Even Czech republic beer( in Prague ) Is fantastic. Simplicity and clear dry taste is what I like. -Not bottled but fresh from the keg, preferably at a beer garden with huge mugs( With a big creamy head)

[@CaliK83]

Poor way of tasting..you leave out process, style, aging,hops,malts.. aka, all the the other things that factor an amazing beer... to focus on just yeast... anybody who knows beer and its production, will know... this is shit. spend less money in your production quality... start leaning about beer.