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Pilsbier
Posted by Nick B. on 2012-08-21 23:23:08
Was the show discussed here? I've got it on the computer and it's probably still available at the ZDF library and/or youtube. Ah, here 'tis: < http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/beitrag/video/1667608/Hopfen-und-Malz-verloren%2521#/beitrag/video/1667608/Hopfen-und-Malz-verloren! > The show isn't perfect, but is admirable for presenting the issues of megabeerfactory consolidation, cost-cutting, and skirting the useless Reinheitsgebot to the general German public. We've discussed it at the Bierkeller, and the first thing that came up after the obvious Reinheitsgebot issues was how the world's best Pils brewed at Sierra Nevada in California must've been chosen as a matter of personal taste. Right. Then, how SN brewmaster Ken Grossmann is obviously of German extraction. It does, unfortunately, skip over the fact that the remaining good traditional German beers are mostly brewed at small, family operations in the Franconian countryside. The thing it does play up as a positive for German brewing are the new, over-priced trendy beers like Schneider Hopfenweiß(?) for 15€(?) and various "noble beers", like a bottle of American-hopped pale ale sold for ridiculous prices like 7€ or so, most of which get exported. An aside: The show ran on TV without the hearing-impaired subtitles, so when I captured it, there were no subtitles in the .ts file. This makes the work of creating English subtitles for it a much bigger project, easily 3x the time spent just translating an existing subtitle file. But the online version does have subtitles available in text form...if anyone knows how to capture them to a file, please speak up!
 
Followups:
             Pilsbier by Mike B. on  2012-08-22 04:40:14
               Pilsbier by Nick B. on  2012-08-22 06:51:55
                 Pilsbier by Nick B. on  2012-08-22 07:01:52
                   Pilsbier by Nick B. on  2012-08-22 07:36:22
                 Pilsbier by Mike B. on  2012-08-22 07:57:28
                   Pilsbier by Nick B. on  2012-08-22 08:15:05
                     Pilsbier by Mike B. on  2012-08-22 08:17:25
                       Pilsbier by Uncle Jimbo on  2012-08-22 10:20:17
                         Pilsbier by Mike B. on  2012-08-22 11:19:14
                         Pilsbier by Nick B. on  2012-08-22 22:59:17
                           Pilsbier by Peter Alexander on  2012-08-23 01:37:10
                           Pilsbier by Uncle Jimbo on  2012-08-23 09:26:01
                           Pilsbier by Mike B. on  2012-08-23 09:43:43
                             Pilsbier by Nick B. on  2012-08-23 11:38:32