The Best Beer in the World

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2012

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

If you’re a beer nerd, or have a friend who’s a beer nerd, you’ve heard of Belgian beers. Belgians take beer very seriously. Amongst the 200 Belgian breweries, there’s a very specific sub-type: Trappist beers.

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0:00.0	We get support from UC Davis, a globally ranked university working to solve the world's most pressing problems in food, energy, health, education, and the environment.
0:10.0	UC Davis researchers collaborate and innovate in California and around the globe to find
0:14.2	transformational solutions.
0:16.1	It's all part of the university's mission to promote quality of life for all living things.
0:20.1	Find out more at 21st century.
0:21.9	UC Davis. edu. edu. edu. find out more at 21st century dot ucdd ucdd u. this is 99% invisible I'm
0:30.8	Roman Mars. Sirous Faravar is on a mission.
0:37.0	He's trying to get a case of beer called West Flaterin.
0:40.0	West Flaterin, I'm not Dutch, so I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's West Flaiterin.
0:44.0	It's not easy to get, but apparently it's worth it.
0:47.0	Oh, yes.
0:48.0	If you're a beer nerd or have a friend who's a beer nerd, you've probably heard of Belgian beers. Belgians take their beer very seriously.
0:55.4	There are about 200 breweries in a country about twice the size of the Bay Area,
0:59.4	where I'm from. Now amongst these Belgian breweries and Belgian ails there's a very specific subtype
1:05.1	Trappist beers anyone who knows anything about beer will probably start to get
1:10.1	glassy-eyed and have a warm delicious feeling whenever they talk about them, myself included.
1:16.5	Sentences will be punctuated with superlatives and exclamations.
1:21.1	Now I'm a person just like you, but I don't actually drink beer.
1:24.0	So I'll have to take Siruse's word for it.
1:25.9	Or the word of one of the many beer reviewers on YouTube.
1:28.5	It's a beautiful thing.
1:30.9	It's all dried fruits, it's boosy, it's earthy.
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