Poll: Ale or Lager?

Which is a type of ale. So Greywulfken isn't off the mark by calling you an ''ale man''.

Anyway, I'll go with... BOTH!

Both styles have their merits. I love beer, regardless of which family it belongs to.

 

Ales are not a style or umbrella style, it is a process.

 

Wish more people would understand this because stouts and porters deserve a place too

The name "India Pale ALE" should provide a clue................

Moot point. Kolsch is top fermented and lagered.It's regarded as a lager in Germany and as that's the only place it can be brewed that should be enough.

This will be lost on many people. But beer includes porter which gets left out in the "ale vs lager" division.

A lager in its place of origin and they should know.

 

Ales are just one family of British top fermented brewing.

 

Depends on the porter, or it depends on who you ask. (I'm also just having some fun with him.)

 

I prefer equal opportunity drinker.

 

I jerked the other guys chain, now you jerk my chain.

You might agree that the process is a little different from Fullers to Ayinger

 

I agree

 

Ales for sure, Not hating lagers though.

 

Seeing how popular ales are...

Should be pretty obvious. There aren't many breweries that focus solely on lagers.

 

This is exactly the conversation I use to have with folk in the the 80s and back then most couldn't even explain the difference. And if you have told me then that in a 2015 poll 88% would be in favour of ale I would never have believed you.

 

This brewery seems misinformed. Look up the definition of ''Porter'' anywhere else, and you'll see that I am right.

Porter is top fermented at warmer temperatures(except for some Baltic ones) making them a member of the Ale family.



To get back on topic:

Ales have awesome styles such as Stouts, Porters, IPAs, Wits, Belgians, Hefeweizens, Scotch Ales, and Brown Ales.

Lagers have awesome styles such as Dopplebocks, Eisbocks, Dunkels, Marzens, Viennas, and Rauchbiers(yes, a few RB's are ales, but 90% of them are lagers, and all the ones I've had the opportunity to try are lagers).

By choosing ale over lager, or vice versa, you have to ignore atleast six-seven styles that are superb, making the only logical choice both.

 

No. The brewery got it right. Ales should not be taken as simply another word for top or warm fermented beers. Porters and stouts have a different history from ales, even to the point of separate guilds and barrel sizes.
Similarly the Germans do not call any of their beers ales, thay regard ales as a type of British beer.They are pedantically correct and call them simply top fermented.

Canada

United Kingdom

 

One qualification of an IPA is that the A stands for ALE

 

I really enjoy Lagers and the diverse range of styles within the category but to say I like them more than Ales would be a blatant lie.

 

India Pale Ales are lagers.

 

Lager I said it without misconstruance. For everyday, with so many natural variations in strenght and flavor, because they are the most beautiful to look at, because I can drink so much of them... How do I put this? I want a big honkin' mug of beer.

 

I drink more SNPA than any other brew, but overall I drink more lager beer than ales.

 

Lol, i really love how once aigan, a discussion about the definition of ale and lager is provoked.....
Most beer I consume is bottom fermented. And most of the top-fermented styles I enjoy I would not classify as "ale".

 

I see what you are saying from a marketing point of view and maybe the semantics at the time, but I'm with kholdstare93 as far as the brewing process. Porters and stouts are ales based on the yeast type. Saying ales should not be taken as simply another word for top or warm fermented beers ignores the very definition of the word.