Mns wrote:
A blend of generations of tradition, strict regulations, and the proper climates to create good products and ingredients (ex. hops can't be grown in warmer regions).
There are also generations of tradition in other countries than the ones you listed. Regulations seem irrelevant unless you think that people can only make fine foods if the government tells them how. Proper climates for growing ingredients are found in far larger areas than in the countries you listed, and where ingredients don't grow well locally they can often be imported without a loss of quality.
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Not necessarily, they just haven't had a proper German beer yet. My first beer in Germany was honestly the first day of the rest of my life. Its really hard to explain if you haven't had a massive food epiphany like it before, but I imagine Tuhl had the same reaction when he had his first glass of wine in France.
That's a product of you thinking that German beers are superior. If you had thought that Czech pilsners were the finest beers ever produced, your first glass of beer in Prague would have had an equally mind blowing effect. There's nothing wrong with thinking like that, and it probably adds to your enjoyment of the products you're snobby towards. It just isn't in any way objective, and pretending that it isn't pretentious is silly.