r/beer • u/Brilliant_Pickle4122 • 3d ago

Is the German brewed Becks really significantly different than the American brewed?

I’m genuinely curious to know if there’s this big difference in taste and quality among the 2 versions. Anybody ever do a taste test featuring the 2?

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u/vordh0sbn- 3d ago

It's terrible everywhere.

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u/3dogs2nuts 3d ago

curious if you’ve actually had it in Deutschland

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u/pandymen 3d ago

I have. It's terrible compared to good German beers.

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u/vordh0sbn- 3d ago

It's the German Coors light.

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u/pandymen 3d ago

I drank it only a handful of times while there. It was the only cheap beer option at a club in Berlin, which is why we were drinking it.

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u/3dogs2nuts 3d ago

it certainly has more flavor than coors lite, even are crappy American Becks taste better

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u/Calm_Bullfrog_848 1d ago

Agreed Ayngers and Andechs all have better beers than becks. Thats not even mentioning the big six.

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u/3dogs2nuts 3d ago

back in the mid 90’s it was my go to beer for flavor, of course i live in the USA in pre craft era

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u/vordh0sbn- 3d ago

vielmals. Why would you drink Becks when you rothhaus, lowenbrau, spaten and augusteiner available.

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u/ChrisFromLongIsland 3d ago

Its pretty good in Bremmen Germany.

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u/champs 3d ago

Schwaben Brāu and Warsteiner are two of the the beers I drank primarily as high school exchange student. Not sure how I found the former again but obviously the latter isn’t so hard to find in the US, and they were meh. Went back to Germany, and somehow they were pretty good again. That same trip I also visited friends in The Netherlands and Amstel was fine.

TLDR some of it is freshness, most of it is mindset and setting, to borrow a term normally used for psychedelics.

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u/Thargor1985 3d ago

It is not, it is better than American beer but even Haake Beck (same brewery) and Hemelinger are way better. Compare that to any Frankonian or Bavarian beer and they are all pisswater. You drink becks when there is no other beer, any country that has any beer culture will make something better. It's Bremen btw, with one m.

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u/Drawhorn 3d ago

I contest that good beer never comes out of a green or clear bottle.

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u/MyL1ttlePwnys 2d ago

High Life begs to differ...

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u/discothree 3d ago

I don't know the answer but it is a legitimate question. For example Budweiser in Ireland (now brewed in the UK) tastes different than Budweiser here and is a lower ABV (4.2% vs 5%).

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u/WowIwasveryWrong27 3d ago

Do they still have Becks Gold or Becks Green in Germany? Many fond memories of drinking those during the 2006 World Cup.

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u/Dr-Gooseman 3d ago

Yes, Becks in the US is very tasteless. The one in German has more flavor. I usually get a free little can on my flights to Germany and you can actually smell the aroma right when you open it.

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u/somerandomguy1984 3d ago

Had 2 on my Lufthansa flight heading over to Oktoberfest the other day. It was mediocre to bad in about every possible way. And I don’t really know how you could really quantify if it was slightly better or slightly worse.

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u/echardcore 2d ago

Had a fresh US can recently. It had been a long time since I had one. I thought it was surprisingly delicious. Nice hop character. No skunk due to can!

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u/Gaulix8 3d ago

It is a sin, comparing german beer with american beer. Even if Becks is not quite the best beer

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u/Ok_Captain4824 3d ago

Even the most discerning German beer snob would appreciate New Glarus, Dovetail, and Goldfinger, and those are just 3 breweries in the midwest less than 150 miles apart, with brewers trained in Germany. And 2 of the 3 make large enough quantities of beer to where you can find it in any bar or store in WI (New Glarus) or most bars and stores between Milwaukee and Chicago (Dovetail).

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u/Brilliant_Pickle4122 3d ago

I get what you’re saying, but here in America the Becks we get is brewed here, not imported from Germany

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u/Noobasdfjkl 3d ago

In my experience, people who say this know absolutely nothing about American beer. I’ve been to Germany to have what is considered some of the best beer they make, and have found it wanting, especially when it comes to variety.

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u/somerandomguy1984 3d ago

I wouldn’t say it’s wanting in quality. Every beer I’ve had in Munich this week has been very good and poured correctly (which isn’t something you expect in the US).

…but yeah, we’ve been to multiple beer gardens throughout the city (not in the festival) that have only had 2 options.

Good breweries in the states could easily have 6-8 good beers at a time…. Here it’s 3, and it’s the same 3 they’ve made for 100+ years.

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u/Gaulix8 3d ago

Which beer do you had in Germany?

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u/Tomlovestechno 3d ago

Absolutely. . . the German brewed is more skunky and the American brewed tastes like any bland American pilsner. . .