Hi guys, welcome to Drinks Tube I'm Jonny from the Craft Beer Boys and today I'm sandwiched
between two Lean Machines. Hello.
So your guys channel is all about helping people get fit right?
Absolutely, we like to show people that it's not as intimidating and it's not
as tough as you think it has to be. So on my annual visit to the gym, afterwards I like
to go for a beer afterwards is that the wrong thing to do? It's probably not the best to
do. If it's not the best thing to do I've come up with a solution, and that's low alcohol
beer. How do you feel about that? That's a much better option yes for sure. I've got
three normal beers and I've got three low alcohol beers and I want to see if you guys
can tell the difference. So round one, dive in chaps. The first round is all pale ales
they should be hoppy, bitter, a little bit fruity. That one smells so much different,
I think i've got it. So what do you think of them? I think A is a lot fruitier a lot
lighter to drink. This one smells so much different and it smells really strong as well.
John what say you? I think that A is the regular beer and B is the low alcohol beer. John says
B is low alcohol, what say you? I switch it around I say A is low alcohol and B is regular.
So you disagreed. We have, as usual, I can reveal that A is a beautiful alcoholic beer
by Siren brewery. Which means we have a winner John. The other beer was by Brewdog, it's
there Nanny State, it's 0.5% alcohol. So that means we've got a successful low alcohol beer
there from Brewdog and they've added loads and loads of hops to give it a fruity bitter
character that's compensating for the loss of flavour. So on to round two, dive in. This
round is the Pilsner, the larger, it should be biscuity and light but a nice crisp bitter
finish. What do you think Leon. I think that A is the alcoholic beer and B is the non-alcoholic
beer. Purely just because I got it completely wrong last time. Ok he's learnt from the first
round, alright I'm going to go opposite again, so, A is much smoother, I think B is the alcoholic
beer, normal beer and A is the low alcoholic beer. Let's see if he's right, I can reveal
that B is the non - alcoholic beer. Leon you are correct, so that's by Krombacher again
a successful low alcohol beer compared to Jever which is one of my favourite pilsners
really nice popcorny kind of thing going on. That would be a really nice beer in my eyes
now. Well there you go. So you've lost a point but gained a beer. That's 1 all, let's move
on. So we're on to round three, things are really heating up. John what do you make of
our porters. Let's have a look. So porters are a dark toasty roasty style with a little
bit of fruit as well. He's a fan of porters. Oh wow, that is a whole new meaning to like
the earthy taste. It's like coffee and dirt. That one I can deal with, that one, not if
you paid me. I'm going to say that there's some crazy enough people out there to drink
B so I'm going to say B is the real alcoholic beer and A is the non-alcoholic beer. So what
do you think Leon? Let's tuck in and have a look. So A, it's not too bad, let's try
the one that John calls Earth B. Very dirt tasting. No I'm getting fruit in there, like
a really dark fruit, the most annoying thing, I have to agree with him, I'm going to say
that B is the regular alcoholic beer and A is the low alcoholic beer. You're saying it's
B because it's nice I'm saying B because someone is crazy enough to drink it. Exactly that,
I like that, and me. So I can reveal that you are both absolutely wrong, this was the
lower alcohol beer, the other beer that is was up against was Anchors beautiful beautiful
porter from the west coast. It's a beautiful bottle. I should say this was the hardest
round, because actually this is a 2.8% it's not a low alcohol beer it's what's called
a table beer. So that means we've got a dead heat. But it's ok because we haven't ran out
of beer, and we have got a final round, yes I need something to wash this down anyway.
We've had to add an extra round, it's tense, your muscles can't save you now boys. No.
Right, we've got wheat beers dig in, wheat beer is made half malt, half wheat. It's got
more body, it's a bitter sweetness and the yeast and bananryness. Maybe that's what you
just picked up? Or tar, or tar. Starting with you John, what do you think? Looking at them
to start with I would have said this one, B looks more like a typical beer but then
when I tried it, A was a lot sweeter but it also tasted a lot more kind of bitter. I'm
going to say A has the more alcohol in it. Do you agree? For me, I'm going to go back
to the days when we first started which was about more flavour, more strength to over
compensate for the fact that it had less alcohol so I'm going to go with B being the alcoholic
beer. So the time of reckoning is upon us, these two best of friends have disagreed,
as always. I can reveal for the win that Leon is the winner. Yesss! I knew it, I knew it.
Did you know it?I just knew it straight off the back. I should point out a slight caveat
though. They are both low alcohol beers. This ones got to be higher right? Well yes, because
you just won. The Erdinger is at 0.5% the Mikkeller, very respectable craft brewery
they're down at 0.3%. There was 0.2% in it, 0.2% in it. So that just goes to show that
you can get amazing flavour from low alcohol beers. So much so that I tricked both of you.
Yes. I'm going to stick to my normal beers though, so if you want to see some videos
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