Lager beer is a drink made using grassroots fermentation. It matures at low temperatures during storage. Beer is notable for its small strength, light amber or golden color and light taste. This variety, judging by the reviews, is ideal for quenching thirst, as well as to enhance the taste of various dishes.
Campers
Light lager - beer that is drunk most of all from bottles and is poured in all bars. At the same time, he is opposed by ale - another world view of this drink. The whole difference is yeast. The Lager beer is a dry, light and light Czech-German-style drink. It was coined in 1842 in Bohemia. No one knows when ale was invented. This is the oldest way to make beer - malt, hops, wild yeast, water.
Everyone knows that beer is fermenting. Bottom fermentation is the German and Viennese lager - beer typical of Europe, as well as generally accepted in the rest of the world. Its production is a high-tech process: the drink wanders for a very long time, with temperature control, cooling. Top fermentation is a process when a cap of yeast floats just on the surface of a drink at its room temperature. This method is more archaic - in this way ales are fermented.
It is striking to many that the bars serve beer quite warm at room temperature. This is not just a fad: a drink fermented in warmth will reveal all the beauties of its aroma and taste in this form. Camps always drink only chilled. In the main number of Moscow pubs, while English beer is also poured cold into mugs. Even in winter.
Lager beer can be of different types. About 5 years ago, lagers from the USA were very fashionable, of which there are three or four varieties, including the universally famous Miller beer. Now this mod has passed. Everyone again returned to the Pilsner, namely, to the lagers, the emphasis of which is on hops.
Residents of the Czech Republic quite rightly believe that a true Pilsner can only be cooked in their city of Pilsen, where, in their opinion, the best hops on the planet grow. But envious brewers from other regions already thought differently in the 19th century, after which the German Pilsner (the most popular at the moment - Beck's) and the American one appeared. Today, the Czech Pilsner is cooked even in Kaluga, while it is sold in the best Moscow restaurants.
It should be noted that German camps are very diverse, it makes no sense to list them. The Germans are making seasonal beer at Oktoberfest — dark Bavarian and Munich beers, including Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier — an unusual smoked drink. But all this is particular. The main world camps are Carlsberg, Foster's, Corona, Beck's, Kronenbourg, Stella Artois, Heineken, produced in different corners of the Earth without reference to any one country.
Light and dark lager
Dark and light beer has nothing to do with the struggle between good and evil, the matter lies in its main component - malt. The hue is determined by the amount of dark malt used during cooking, and the degree of roasted malt. The most common types: chocolate, caramel, burnt - all of them can be found on the label of Baltika No. 6, familiar to many Russians. It should be noted that both lager and ale are dark. About the same story with a discussion about "unfiltered" and "filtered" beer - the first or second is absolutely any. In addition, wheat beer can be filtered and dark, for example, a drink from Maisel's Weisse (a well-known Bavarian producer), which can be purchased in almost every supermarket.
Wheat camps
The drink, which is made from malt and hops, mainly happens with an emphasis on hops or malt. Although it occasionally happens that the latter is replaced by another grain - rye, wheat or rice - it is put in beer in China, in addition, in large breweries, thereby cheapening the process. Wheat is being boiled actively in Bavaria, most likely due to an overabundance of grain. For example, Schneider Weisse, produced in Upper Bavaria and very popular in our supermarkets, is the best example.
In Moscow, as noted in the reviews, for Belgian beer you need to go to Birmarket or Beer Cell. It is so unusual that before you purchase, you should try it - experienced buyers advise.
Wheat lagers made Hoogarden from Belgium with the addition of orange popular around the world. By the way, Belgian beer is the strangest on the planet. They put raspberries, cherries, other fruits and even vegetables in it. These are Bellevue or Raspberry Lindemans Framboise. These varieties are rather closer to ales. In our country, Kruger (lager) is becoming more and more popular - beer produced by the Tomsk Beer brewery.
It so happened that here in the 19th century a private brewery, R.I. Kruger, a great connoisseur of a foamy drink, a respected person in society. He developed a beer culture by opening quality establishments. The whole local intelligentsia came here for beer: writers, scientists, architects, industrialists, students of Tomsk universities and doctors. It was a time when gold was mined in the Ushayka River in Tomsk. Only it quickly ended, and the main wealth of the city was beer brewed at RI Brewery Kruger.
Now consider the best offers that are in the ocean of this foamy drink.
Pilsener
Beer (lager) Pilsener (“Pilsener”) was first brewed in the Bohemian city of Pilsen in 1842 by Joseph Groll (an invited Bavarian brewer), who used slightly fried malt for this. This drink is quite dry and has a tangible flavor of hops.
Today, Pilsener is one of the most popular types of Bavarian beer.
Dortmund Export Beer
Lager Dortmunder Export (Dortmund export beer) is now produced in Munich. The term "export" is used to indicate the strength of the drink. But beer brewed in the Bavarian capital is sweeter. It has a greater strength compared to the rest of the Bavarian varieties: the alcohol in it is 4.8-6.0%.
White beer
Weissbier (white beer) appeared several centuries ago. It got its name because of the color, which is much lighter than the widespread dark drink. It is made from wort, which consists of 40% barley malt and 60% wheat. Weissbier is generally not filtered, therefore, the yeast left in it makes it a little cloudy. White beer has a rich taste, and the bitterness of hops in it is felt very weakly.
Filtered wheat beer is called Kristall Weizen ("crystal clear"). Also in Bavaria, low alcohol and stronger varieties of the drink are made.
Black beer
Schwarzbier ("Schwarzbier") got its name because of the dark brown deep color. For its preparation, roasted malt is used. The drink has a malt aroma, viscous structure, rich soft taste. It contains approximately 5.0% alcohol.
Reviews
Reviews about the camp can be found very different. Someone is not able to understand how you can drink beer warm, and they cool it. Others find it too easy. Still others appreciate its subtle rich taste and ability to cope with thirst.