Why does everybody hate lagers?

"ILL" - for "Industrial Light Lager" That term fits so much better than AAL!

 

A "cold bud" will never work for me, and it has nothing to do with being jaded. Why would I drink that swill when there are so many alternatives? A refreshing glass of water is miles above any AAL!

Looking at the list of AAL: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/style/38/
I can't find one of these I would drink over a glass of water/tea/soft drink etc.

 

I started drinking craft beer when I walked into Ballast Point homebrew mart near the campus of USD in 2004. This drinking journey (and, yeah, I'm fine with calling it a journey) has led me to some wonderful beer experiences: Side Project, Allagash, Hill Farmstead, tasting cellared bottles at Toronado and DFH, private tours of great breweries.

But I'm really glad that I never once reached a point in my life where I'd turn down a Miller Lite or a Bud at a party because "I don't drink that crap."

To add to the original post: If I had a fridge full of Suarez Palatine, HF Mary, and Jack's Abby Dinkel Herb and it stayed that way forever, I'd never drink another ale again.

 

This beer now flanks my homestate to the south. I'm so hopeful we get Yuengling next. We're right on the divide.

Long gone are the days of college team mates from Pennslyvania hauling back a backseat full of the stuff, it's now available within a 3 hour one-way drive. In fact, I may be in Arkansas for Labor Day weekend and a spot of camping. May pick up a case of cans for that journey.

Cheers!

 

Man, if I had a fridge always full of those three it would be amazing!

Of course, in my case, I'd also have to have another fridge, or two, for the ales, saisons, and wilds made by Suarez, Hill Farmstead, and Jack's Abby (Springdale).

 

Yuengling Traditional Lager is not an all malt brew; it is brewed using adjuncts (corn).

Cheers!

 

Surprisingly it’s not one of the AALs in my rotation. Amber beers really aren’t my thing , they usually come off as being a tad sweeter than their pale brothers. But I’ve had a ton in my day and hit NC like a hurricane back in the day. I wouldn’t be shocked if it’s the top selling beer in its class without getting into beers like Bud Light. It’s definatly not fizzy yellow water. But there’s a few AALs that are quite good in and by themselves.

 

Dale, I agree with you here. I enjoy drinking a Yuengling Lager from time to time but it definitely is on the sweeter side for my palate. My favorite AAL from Yuengling is Lord Chesterfield.

Cheers!

 

"American Adjunct Lager" seems to me to be mainly a BeerAdvocate term. I'm not saying BeerAdvocate invented it or is the sole user of it, although I do bet much of the modern usage of the term outside of this site stems from its frequent employment here. I long have been active at the other site, and, over there, we never spoke of "American Adjunt Lagers" or "AALs" unless we were making a specific reference to this site. At the other site, the preferred term for both AALs and what this site calls "American Pale Lagers" is "Pale Lagers," with the presence or absence of malt adjuncts being irrelevant to the definition.

 

I'd take several of those over basically any drink that isn't coffee or tea (and I'd take coffee or tea over most beers, to be honest).

PBR, Hamm's, Miller High Life, Coors Banquet, Narragansett, Upland Champagne Velvet, Surly #Merica, Sierra Nevada Sierraveza, Urban Chestnut Urban Underdog (which is categorized under American Pale Lager, though it should be under American Adjunct Lager on this site), and even Founders Solid Gold are all good to great beers, and they definitely don't all taste the same.

To each their own, of course, but AALs are woefully underrated in my opinion.

 

I think the term "swill" is the beer discussion corollary to Godwin's Law.

 

There's a time and place for most everything, and I'd certinly say AAL are far better than just lawnmower beers. I think guys get caught up in the "I'm a craft guy" and everything else is lousy. There's bad beers out there, but Budweiser and Miler are not among them, actually besides Steel Reserve some of the worst beers I've ever had were from craft breweries. AALs are simple harmless, and just easy to drink, I don't think anyone thinks they'll compete with Prima or Urquell, but I don't see anyone saying that either. Sometimes I'd rather buy a $12 case of Hams vs a $15 12 pack or Pils Urquell.

 

I agree with everything you said right up to the last sentence. Pilsner Urquell is remarkable, Hamm's isn't bad but shouldn't be compared to PU.

 

In the post-Repeal US brewing industry the term was occasionally used, as in this example of "malt-adjunct beers" and "malt-adjunct ales" - "beer", of course, for most of the same period in the US understood to mean "lager beer".

(Hopefully the above chart won't upset some posters with the by-then US industry convention of listing "porter" and "stout" under "ALES" ).

But, until the "craft era", since it was pretty much a given that a US beer or ale was brewed with adjuncts unless otherwise stated, it is more common to find the term "all-malt beer" to describe the few exceptions that existed.

When proposing the Federal labeling regulations in the years immediately after Repeal, the brewing industry objected to the original Government definition of "MALT BEER" for beers brewed without adjuncts:

 

You misread, I separated out the AALs from great beers like Urquell and Prima.

 

I like Lagers, and Pilsners. I drink as much of them or more than I do other styles. This present season, is Marzen heaven to my palate in a sea of Double Nuclear IPA or higher hop bombs (I like them occasionally)

 

My question is why isn't Yuengling in the AAL catagory???

 

Because it is an amber-colored beer that uses some darker malts. AAL tends to imply pale-colored lagers. Similarly, Dos Equis Ambar and Negra Modelo both are categorized as Vienna Lagers but also have adjuncts.

 

This is Yuengling's AAL - YUENGLING PREMIUM (their flagship beer before creating the Traditional Lager in the late 1980s).

Now, the next question should be "...why isn't Yuengling Premium in the AAL catagory?" since the American Pale Lager category description clearly says: