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Could some one explain the difference between Pilsner and Lager?

Does it have anything to do with how it is made, or is it only where it is made and/or the color?

Beer is divided into two main categories, ales and lagers. What separates them is the type of yeast used during the fermentation process.

Ale yeast works at a warmer temperature than lager yeast, and the growing mass of yeast floats at the top of the fermentation vessel.

Lager yeast works at a cooler temp, and it has a bottom fermenting action.

Pilsner is a style of lager originating from the Czech Republic. There is a lot of "Pilsner" brewed elsewhere, some an accurate representation and some not.

That is as close to a description I have read, but could you go into 'a style of lager' in more detail?

Pilsner Urquell is one of the better beers, in my opinion.

For a US beer, I always buy Yuengling Lager or their Black and Tan. Brewed in PA near where I grew up and hasn't been swallowed up by the big guys...hope it never does. If I'm traveling, I always try something local if I can.

Outside the US, there are just too many goods ones to try to list them. The only place that ALL the beer sucked was Egypt...even Burkina Faso has better beer.

RH

Since you're drinking Pilsner Urquell you've experienced the archetype. The color, head, flavor and body/mouthfeel set the standard for the style.

When the temps are pushing 85-90, nothin' much beats a cold Sam Adams Summer Ale while you nurse grilled corn and steak tips on the grill......sometimes life really sucks.....

You can have all of that stuff. I don't want lemon zest, grains of paradise or any of that other stuff in my beer.

For hot weather an unadulterated Bavarian wheat beer is the ticket.

That's good,too!So long as it's cold...I am not fussy!

But the Sam Adams is pretty tasty......I like Paradise....

As a kid on the ranch it was a 6 hour ride to Boquillas Mexico and the only cantina for 500 miles..I developed a taste for Tecate with lime and salt..And its available these days in Twin Falls, Id.

Spending a lot of time in Tanzania I opted for that wonder Tusker beer.

In So. Africa I really like that stuff in the yellow and red can.:)

Tecate isnt bad either. The list of beers to try is getting longer and longer, Im gonna need to get on the liver donor organ list now.

Magic Hat #9, Anchor Steam, Sierra Nevada (anything by them).

A couple of friends and I have tried that one and we find it to taste weird. We can't figure out what the flavor is. Around here we call it Asshat #9.

Asshat? That bad? Really?

I've tried a lot of beer, and it's definitely a funky one.

BTW, the friends I mentioned are serious beer enthusiasts.

Damn Ray, 500 miles? I thought you grew up in Big Bend country? El Paso and Odessa are within 250 miles of Presidio which is pretty far south and Del Rio is only 290 miles from there.

Maybe you grew up on the moon which is 238,857 miles from earth and that would make sense to me considering most of your stories are "out of this world".

Hell we are all still anxiously awaiting pics of those giant mule deer. I'd bet you were drinking a few of those tecates with lime when you came up with those scores. I know you called me a troll and took your ball and went home so to speak a month or so ago when you had people asking questions about your outlandish claims. Since your back post em up

Drum

Erdinger Dunkel Weizen

Franziskaner Hefe-Weissbier

Those are a couple of my favorites. Just about any hefe-weizen tastes pretty good to me.

[bleep]' hippie swill....

Their Russian Imperial Stout is simply Other Worldly....

I'd tap it...

Figure that pic must have been taken at Radford.....