Lager
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Lager beers are alcoholic beverages of German and Czech origin, taking their name from the German lagern ("to store").
Lagers are brewed principally from malted barley, hops and water at low temperatures (usually between 5°C and 15°C) that cause bottom-fermentation. The yeast, Saccharomyces uvarum, ferments at these cool temperatures, and flocculates (forms a cloudy mass) on the bottom of the vat.
After fermentation, lagers are then stored in refrigerated cellars for lagering (maturing and clarification). Lagers are stored at a low temperature (as low as 0°C / 32°F) for several weeks to several months, clearing, acquiring mellowness, and becoming charged with carbon dioxide.
Lager beers run the gamut from sweet to bitter, and from pale to black. Most lagers are of pale to medium colour, with high carbonation, medium to high hop flavour, and alcohol content of 3–5 percent by volume. Some are considered session lagers.
Common varieties of lager
Popular brands of lager
- Beck's: Germany's most popular pilsener, brewed in the German state of Bremen.
- Budweiser: Light American lager, the best-selling beer in the world.
- Carling: English.
- Carlsberg: Danish, standard international lager.
- Castle Lager: Most popular beer in South Africa.
- Dos Equis: Popular Mexican lager.
- Flensburg Pilsener: Very bitter pilsener, brewed in Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost German state.
- Foster's Lager: Light Austrailian lager.
- Harp: Irish, standard international lager.
- Heineken: Dutch, standard international lager.
- Jever: a popular North-German pilsener, brewed in Lower Saxony.
- Lion Lager: a South African lager.
- Löwenbräu, a Helles.
- Paulaner: Munich brewery who makes a popular example of the Oktoberfest/Marzen style. Also makes a well known doppelbock called Salvator.
- Pilsner Urquell: the "original", Bohemian, malty, aromatic noble hops.
- Samuel Adams: American microbrewery whose most popular product is a unique-styled lager.
- Stella Artois: Belgian, standard international lager. The most popular lager in the UK.
- Stienlager: New Zealand.
- Tennents: Scottish.
- Tiger beer: the main beer of Singapore.
- Warsteiner: The number one pilsner in Germany.de:Lagerbier