Why does everybody hate lagers?

Optical illusion or one big ass glass of beer? Looks like looks like Fest has already started.

 

Good eye - ‘cause that glass looks smaller in the pic to me than it did in person. It’s a nice big 1 liter glass and a beer well-suited for it.

 

Lager — yes, lager

• "D.C. Beer Week's first official event, Sunday at City Winery, is its inaugural Lager Fest, with at least 30 breweries pouring craft lagers, pilsners and other easy-drinking summer beers. The official D.C. Beer Week brew, featured on tap and in cans at bars and shops around town, is Solidarity Pilsner (Lager Fest), a collaboration between 10 local breweries. And Right Proper Brewing is hosting a home-brew contest where amateur brewers from around the region show off their take on German-style pilsner"

 

This topic is worthy of it's own thread!!

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I suppose I could get in with the spirit of solidarity there (although, in general, I think there could be a hell of a lot less looking at the beer world through the bottom of a sampler glass happening).

 

Excellent timing for me, since I just got myself settled into DC.

 

I think one of the first beers that really *grabbed* me and made me interested in trying different styles was Paulaner Salvator. That and Ayinger Celebrator are just tried and true favorites. Most of my favorite beers have that estery richness to them, and so that is probably why I tend to like ales more. But my point is that for this same reason, baltic porters and doppelbocks are way up there at the top too, for me.

Then again, I enjoy a nice crisp helles or pilsner, too. Or American or Japanese or whatever adjunct lagers. I definitely find light, crisp lagers to be more refreshing than IPAs.

 

Agreed, lager is not a style. Although tasteless light lagers still dominate most lager production and certainly not just in the US. The tasteless light lager is what you will commonly find in most bars and restaurants around the world. It is easy to see why people get it confused.

On that note, I think "American Adjunct lager" AAL is a bit misleading term. Maybe it should be called "worldwide tasteless bland light lager"!

For most "craft beer drinkers" there is not much difference between a bud, miller, coors, stella, molsen, corona, asahi, fosters/vb, castle etc. For me it's stella (belgian bud) thats the real mystery. Why anyone would think that it is something special is beyond me!

 

I can drink this all day long.

 

Completely disagree, ALL AALs are crappy yellow water and should be destroyed!

 

I'm shifting away from IPAs, I find a nice Pils about all the hops I need most of the time. A nice fresh Urquell or Prima is always on point and I never tire of them. We get FW here but I can't find Pivo.

 

Only Union Jack and Easy Jack, and some old Luponic Distortion 9 is still around.

 

You may not be a fan of Yuengling Traditional Lager but that beer is by no means "yellow water".

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A time and place for everything, I'm glad my palate isn't so jaded that a cold Bud or its equivelent doesn't work for me anymore. That would be a sad day.

 

*Ron Howard narrator voice*

He wouldn't be.

 

20-30 years ago, another popular abbreviation for it was "ILL" - for "Industrial Light Lager" but, I guess, calling it "American" is fair, since it was American brewers (of German heritage, with help from other central European brewing scientists like Anton Schwarz*) which popularized the style.

* "It was Anton Schwarz who first advised the employment of rice and subsequently of Indian corn, which is so abundant in this country. The stubborn perseverance with which he sought to convert the conservative brewers to his ideas and finally succeeded in so doing and, last, not least, the discovery of suitable methods for scientifically applying them, entitle him to be called the founder of raw cereal brewing in the United States."
--- Wahl & Henius American Handy-Book of the Brewing, Malting and Auxiliary Trades (1902)

 

Yuengling TL is not in the AAL catagory here on Ba (Is it an all malt brew?). It is a bit light for my tastes but I would certainly drink it over any AAL.

 

*shrugs* You're a product of your generation. My father has stuck to the same two macros for decades, and I can't see that changing ever.

 

Not me. Lagers are wonderful. It's how (and with what) it's made, that counts. Miller Lite is a lager. But so is Augustiner Oktoberfest Märzen. The former is swill (IMHO), the latter is one of the best drinks on the planet.