How to pronounce “lager” in English

We have a lager strain that we use for the Lux-- those of you that had Lux, we sent that yeast to space and back.

in the lager direction.

It's a Helles Lager.

an amber lager, a porter, a stout, often promoting the idea that we're making bitter by the Reinheitsgebot,

It's like a lager.

And people tasted Brooklyn Lager and said, my god, it's so dark and bitter.

And it's called lager, because that's the word for aging.

It's Brooklyn Lager.

is also a lager; and that would be like having one kind of wine for the rest of your life.

ale or lager. So, there are ale yeasts and there are lager yeasts. If a beer is a lager it uses a lager yeast,

Ales from England or Lagers from Germany.

Then-- it used to be LAGER, by the way.

That takes a lot longer with lagers, too, to make a proper lager because of the cold temperature or the whole metabolism of the yeast is slowed down.

A six-pack of Brooklyn lager in Australia is $38.

Because the recipe for Sam Adams Boston Lager came from my great great grandfather's brewery in St.

is actually a beer made with a lager yeast but fermented at warmer temperatures like an ale.

So everyone has heard of ale and lager, but we find that people don't necessarily know what that means because they will come up and ask us, I think I want an ale, but they,

And then underneath ale and lager are all the styles you have heard of. So, pilsner is a lager; um, a porter is an ale; uh, you know, so that's, those are like the two big

And so we were seeing flavorful lagers.

and make flavorful ales and lagers on your own terms, and not just follow what had become mass-produced beer.

If you're trying to make a light lager, like our Over The Line Lager, we want that to be very dry, little very little residual sugar.

You don't want to taste it in your lager.

You don't want to taste skunk in your Dutch lager as well.

Probably the best example I can give people is Boston Lager.

Well, Boston Lager is already too hoppy for me.

He actually wrote the recipe for Sam Adams Boston Lager.

If you can get a really well made lager like Craftsman here in Pasadena, their 1903 Pre-Prohibition Lager is awesome.

you know, a light Lager or light wheat beer, light wheat ale takes about 10, 12 days to brew, this beer doesn't even go into the bottle till it's about 2 months so as an engineer

So today we have three of our beers-- our Over The Line lager.

It's a Munich style, Helles style lager.

You have to be very careful when we're burying like our Over The Line lager, because we want a lighter, softer water for that.

The lower fermentation, fermenting a lager at 48 or 50 degrees, you're going to have much less fruitiness from that, and the malts and hops are going to be

It is the number two specialty beer in the market just behind Budweiser Amber Lager-- I don't know who's drinking that crap,

They drank dark beer, not lager.

was a particular kind of beer, a lager beer actually brewed at warmer temperatures like an ale

And actually Jim ended up hiring Owades to develop the recipe for Sam Adams Boston Lager.

Then we have Bud Lite, Winter Lager, and Miller Lite.

this country make some slight variation of the same style of light lager.

It's ales and lagers.

It's got a little bit more oompf than some of those other lagers that you might see out there.

That's where I first got the taste of beer other than like your typical light American lager.

But it's difficult for us to brew all styles of beer, especially lager.

But they won't ferment below into the 50s, whereas lager yeast will continue to ferment down into the 48, 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

So instead of taking 15 to 20 days like an ale, a good lager is going to take 35 to 40 days at least.

As well as the temperature, because that really changed whether you use lager or ale yeast, because there's a big difference there.

So we didn't to brew like a blonde ale, or like American standard light lager, or something that would be not that drinkable four months later.

So starting to see a lot of people internally starting to move into some of the lager beers and lighter beers that we're making now just as a nice sort of easy drinking,

And a six pack of Lux or a lighter lager is just as happy next to an IPA six pack

And this to me is what an American lager should be these days, in the promise that it can have.