The German Beer Guy

Day of the German Beer

4/23/2016

Hello my beer friends,

Today is a special day...it's not just April 23th...it's the "German Beer Day" (Tag des Deutschen Bieres). And everyone who read my last post should know what happened that day...and if you haven't yet...now is the time.

This year is special because it is actually the 500th anniversary of the German Beer purity law. We Germans celebrate the beer on April 23th and hope that a lot of you guys will join us. But the day is not just randomly made up...no...it's the day when the beer purity law was issued in 1516.

So if you haven't tried a German beer yet, today is the day! Put your Lederhosn and Dirndl on and have a delicious German beer...PROST!

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The German Beer purity law of 1516

9/15/2015

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Hello my beer friends,

Have you heard about the German beer purity law of 1516...??..
No?!..

Ok, let me educate ya'll...
Is this law just a German fairy tail, a marketing tool or another one of many German laws...??

I'll start from the beginning...

The German "beer purity law" (Reinheitsgebot) was issued by the Bavarian Duke Wilhelm IV and Ludwig X on April 23th, 1516 in Ingolstadt (50 miles north of Munich, where Audi cars are produced). There are only 3 ingredients that are allowed to be used in the production of beer: water, barley and hops. (The existence of yeast had yet not been discovered.)

The two main reasons for this law are...

1.) To protect the health of beer consumers by only using pure ingredients...

Hundreds of years ago water was polluted, so only drinking water was allowed in the beer making process, and some of the ingredients (mushrooms and roots) used to flavor beer turned out to be toxic.

2.) To reserve grain for baking during the famine.

The German beer law is the world’s oldest food and beverage standard, and still is up to date. There have been some changes...
- yeast is now allowed as an ingredient
- you can sell beer with different ingredients as long as you don't label it as beer

Beer companies are using the phrase "gebraut nach dem deutschen Reinheitsgebot" (brewed according to the purity law) to label their beer as a marketing tool, especially internationally...and it works!

In Germany you are not allowed to brew beer with rice or corn...but a lot of mass produced beer in the world are produced with such ingredients. Budweiser and Corona among others are brewed with these ingredients and are not considered beer in Germany.

In a time where all of our nutrient filled good are made from gmo's and other modified products and food made from toxic ingredients you can trust German beer because it is pure, with no artificial flavors or additives.

So let's put everything together...the three most important ingredients you need to survive are barley, hops and water... With this being said you should know that German beer is the purest, most natural, most flavorful and refreshing drink on the face of the planet. There should be a law against mixing beautiful, pure, and clean beer with different flavors with shit like pumpkin and blueberry.
Now don't get me wrong, we do mix beer too... but most of the time you use the pure beer and mix it on your own. Like banana wheat beer or beer and soda but I will go into that in one of my future blogs.

So...If you haven't had a German beer yet....you are definitely missing out on something spectacular ...what are you waiting for???!...go and get yourself one!!...the real taste of beer!!!...pure beer!!!....German beer!!!...PROST!

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The wait is over...The German Beer Guy is here!

7/22/2015

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I love beer, and I'm from Germany, so naturally I enjoy good beer. I know the U.S. has come along way in the beer world, especially in the last few years with the craft beer industry growing. Which is super cool, there are all kinds of excellent beers being brewed here, but there is something missing. 1. Serving, 2. Technique is being over looked. I'll get into all that later...

The German Beer Guy was founded in 2014. After a few bad beer experiences in the U.S. So I've decided to help beer have a better life here in the U.S. Some of my bad experiences have been beer served in a plastic cup, wheat beer (Hefeweizen) in a pint glass, or a regular Helles served in a wheat beer glass, orange slices in my beer, and I've been served old flat beer with no foam head... This isn't what beer deserves! People care about their wine, you aerate your wine, serve red wine in a red wine glass, and white wine from a white wine glass, which makes the wine taste its best. Same goes for pouring and food pairing. And this is exactly what you should do with beer too!
So this makes me The German Beer Guy!

More about me…
I grew up close to the black forest area...yes, where they sell those coo coo clocks...and the Swabian alp, also Porsche and Mercedes come from this region. Then studied in Franconia where they have the highest brewery per capita and then settled down in the 'beer Mecca', Munich known for Oktoberfest! Now I'm living in the USA, dreaming about German beer and writing this blog. My grammar might be sometimes a bit off so don't judge me for that. Could be because English is my second language or I'm just a little drunk. And finally please drink responsible or as we would say in german: "Eins geht noch!"
PROST!

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Hello Beer Friends

Day of the German Beer

The German Beer purity law of 1516

The wait is over...The German Beer Guy is here!

PROST !