Where is lager beer from

Here the trend for pale, light-bodied lagers would be continued, culminating in when the Miller brewery produced Clear Beer, a drink with the colourless appearance of lemonade. Most of the pale lagers that are drunk today are based on Pilsner style beers, and are produced worldwide. Modern developments in fermentation control mean that lagers can be mass-produced and stored for much shorter periods, typically weeks, and the characteristic carbon dioxide can be added to mimic traditionally brewed lager.

Many would argue modern day mass-produced lagers come nowhere near the delights of traditionally brewed beer, and any one who had sampled a stein of real lager in the beer kellars of Munich would agree. There are a wide rage of lager varieties to choose from all of which are available in England from supermarkets, specialist off-licences and pubs and bars that specialise in supplying quality Export lagers:.

You must be logged in to post a comment. Menu Home About All Articles. Dortmund: A clean lager, with a malty taste. Pilsner: A goldeb light beerwith a slight syrupy taste. During that period, beer could only be brewed in the cooler months of the year, typically September through May, and was fermented and stored in as cool an environment as could be found. The old train of thought was that Cerevisiae gradually evolved into Pastorianus over the centuries as it adapted to this environment.

In any event, sometime in s, German brewers had a new yeast to work with that was ideally suited to cool fermentation and aging. But where did this new yeast really come from? It had been known that Cerevisiae was one parent strain of Pastorianus , but what was the other one?

No one was really sure — until recently, that is. A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on August 22, identifies the other parent strain of Pastorianus as Saccharomyces Eubayanus.

Eubayanus is native to, of all places, the Patagonia region of Argentina. The timeline for Eubaynus to hitch a ride back across the Atlantic in the mid s to get friendly with Cerevasiae fits, and as with other exchanges, the Europeans got the better part of the bargain. Source: utexas. Moving right along here, we find that by the midth century the early versions of lager in Germany were gradually evolving from primarily dark beers to paler brews, although dark lagers survive to this day.

During that period there was also a major migration of Germans and other Northern Europeans to America. It should be noted here that Germanic emigrants as a whole were arguably the most successful ethnic group in America at that time.

They established cities, schools, industries, and maintained much of their cultural roots for generations, and among their industries and culture was, of course, beer and brewing. Even the most casual perusal of brewing history in America turns up German names at every glance — many of them still familiar today. And not just America.

The German diaspora of the 19th century, of which my ancestors were a part, also took brewing to Mexico, South America, and even China. And what were they brewing? The history of Anchor Brewing Company is the story of German emigrants and lager beer.

Being an organized and industrious lot, Germans built major industries. They organized cold transportation for their products, modernized their production techniques, and developed the first practical mechanical refrigeration plants — all for lager.

Refrigeration was the big one here. It made year-round brewing a practical reality. Ice production made cold rail transport possible in an age preceding refrigerated rail cars. Lager from the large breweries in the Midwest could be shipped to the South. West coast breweries shipped east. Lager was the beer of the day. An early refrigerator car design. Hatches in the roof provided access to the ice tanks at each end. Source: wikipedia. The availability of transportation brought about a homogenization of styles as regional breweries were able to compete outside of their home markets.

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