What Color Means in Beer

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Ivan and we are here with Expert Village and in this clip we are going to learn about beers, different kind of beers. Let's summarize a little bit what we are pouring out in the past couple of ten minutes. As you can see from the color already you can discern what sort of beer it is. The lighter as from pale as a wheat beer we go to golden amber as we go through lager, ale, and then porter as a red to stout, which has the dark brown color, which is the Guinness. As we move from a lighter color to a darker color the malt content is getting lower and the hop content is getting higher. Also, we pretty much touched on most of the beer producing regions begin the Czecks, Germany, and Belgium and Europe, also American, which I said in the beginning is the largest beer producing country, with brands such as Millers, Coors, and Bud. And don't forget the Asian countries, we have one example here, Singha, from Thailand and they very recently have big production. They actually have Czeck and German influence. In early 1920's they started beer production there. There are specialty beers to every country. We talked about Mexico and Corona, which is a distinctive taste, bottling and drinking. German beer dates back to 1420's when the Germans figured out the larger of method of brewing, hence, mass production. Also, don't forget, as I mentioned pasteurization in the 1800's that started the bottled beer. They used pasteurization22 years on beer before they used it on milk. Just to show you how much more important beer is to society than pasteurized milk. Also, I talked about the Bavarian beer guild that established what are the ingredients of a pure beer and what is to be classified as beer. So you can see the Germans are very strict about their beer, how they produce it and what they drink."