Hi Drinks Tube! I'm Sarah, I spend my days talking about beer for a living and today
i'm going to talk about some of the finest canned craft beers. Now you make think that
canned beers tends to be the domain of terrible, boring, fizzy, yellow lager but actually,
er... you are wrong. Canned beers are fantastic for taking to festivals and parks, so i'm
gonna show you six of my favourites. So, Camden Hells. Camden town brewery based in Camden,
in north London. This is a fantastic beer if you are a big fan of lagers, so as you
see it's really bright, really sunny, totally refreshing, it just hits you in the face with
a massive handful of hops. It's exactly what you want on a bright summers day, in the middle
of a park. This would be perfect with something like a hotdog, the mustard and the ketchup,
that's gonna really nicely with this beer and that's gonna cut through and cleanse your
palate, alternatively something like some pretzels if you're just taking a small snack
to the park this is gonna be great with that. Next up with have Punk IPA by Brew Dog. So
these guys are based in Scotland and this is a fantastic IPA for taking to festivals,
again as it's in a can no ones gonna kick you out. So it's pretty typical of an IPA
in colour, beautiful frothy head on there. On the nose, it's a massive fistful of hops
on your face! So it's full of pine, full of tropical fruits, really citrusy. This is an
IPA, spun 360, amped up, remixed, really refreshing. This is gonna be fantastic for having with
something like jerk chicken, something spicy, this is gonna refresh your palate and make
you ready for the next bite. Here we have Maui Brewing's Coconut Porter. This is a fantastic
version a porter, but taken by a Hawaii based brewery and added some coconut, so it's gonna
make it a bit more exotic. So it pours a really beautiful dark, amber. I've poured it really
badly, so I apologise for that. This tastes like a dark chocolate bounty. It just smells
so coconutty, it's fantastic. If you love porters, you are gonna absolutely adore this.
This would be perfect drinking on the beach. It's gonna be fantastic to have with an ice
cream. This is gonna be a really nice, sort of, bitter, chocolate base and then if you
add that to something really creamy, that's gonna balance out really nicely. This is Dale's
Pale Ale by Oskar Blues, who are based in Colorado, so right by the Rocky Mountains.
So you can see this has got a bit more of an amber colour to it. It's got much more
sort of bready, maltiness on the nose, and something like a Punk IPA. You've still got
that hoppy hit there, but it's definitely got more of like a syrupy scent to it. This
is gonna be really nice with something like ribs, something quite sticky and sweet, maybe
some marshmallows around the camp fire? That'd be fantastic. Here is Ska Brewing's Vernal
Minthe Stout, with a very scary looking Gwen Stefani on the can. Ska Brewing you might
not of heard of, they are another Colorado based brewery. So this pours really dark,
it's pretty much black. Smells hugmouglesy minty, it's like candy canes, it's like after
eight mints, it's like peppermint creams; the sort you make as a kid. It's fantastically
minty. It's just like mint chocolate chip ice cream, which is perfect for summer and
it's my favourite ice cream. This beer would be fantastic to drink having a little stroll
down Brighton pier, it's just that sort of ice creaminess just lends itself really nicely
to that sort of occasion. I'm a big fan. This is Sierra Nevada's Torpedo Extra IPA. Sierra
Nevada, they're pretty much considered pioneers in craft beer brewing. Their fantastic, their
from Chico in California? If you can get hold of any of their beers, grab it with both hands,
especially the Torpedo, it's a fantastic version of an extra IPA, on the whole it's a really
massive beer. This is a big beer, this is the sort of beer that you end the night with,
this is your night cap, this isn't something to be drinking midday, in the brilliant sunshine.
It's got massively malty aromas to it, but it's got that sort of slightly resinous hops,
and then it's got a hell of a lot of fruit up front as well. This beer would be awesome
with something like a humungous American cheeseburger, topped with, bacon and cheese and deep fried
onion rings. The sort of thing that would make Elvis weep. So that was six of my favourite
canned craft beers, now it's time for you to find yours, so head down your local craft
beer shop or craft beer bar, pick up some cans and tell me in the comments what was
amazing. I'll see you back here soon and please subscribe to Drinks Tube! Cheers!