What's the difference between a lager and a beer?!
What's the difference between a lager and a beer?
Answers:
all lagers are beers, but not all beers are lagers.
There are two families of beers, which are differentiated by the type of yeast that is used during fermentation. Lagers are brewed using a bottom fermenting yeast. They are also usually aged for a couple weeks before final bottling. Ales are brewed using top fermenting yeasts, and are usually aged for a period of less than a week.
The type of yeast and production method may be used to classify beer into ale, lager and spontaneously fermented beers
Lager is stored in barrels for several weeks or longer before being served
Beer is fermented quickly
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la・ger
NOUN:
A type of beer of German origin that contains a relatively small amount of hops and is aged from six weeks to six months to allow sedimentation. Also called lager beer .
beer
NOUN:
1: A fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and flavored with hops.
2: A fermented beverage brewed by traditional methods that is then dealcoholized so that the finished product contains no more than 0.5 percent alcohol.
3: A carbonated beverage produced by a method in which the fermentation process is either circumvented or altered, resulting in a finished product having an alcohol content of no more than 0.01 percent.
4: A beverage made from extracts of roots and plants: birch beer.
5: A serving of one of these beverages.
Lager refers to 2 processes in brewing.
1. The type of yeast used in a lager beer has the characteristic of growing toward the bottom of the wert (unfermented beer) in the fermenting vessel. Lager yeast also grows at a lower temperature than Ale yeast. Most lager yeasts will grow from 40-60 F.
2. After primary fermentation, lager beer is removed from the primary fermenting vessel and moved to a "secondary" fermenter. Most of the yeast is left behind in the primary fermenter, and the beer is allowed to age in a low temperature for 1-2 months.
Beer is broken down into two categories: ales and lagers. Ales and lagers are each broken down to some seventy other types of beers.