What's the difference between Beer, Ale, Lager and Bitter?!
What's the difference between Beer, Ale, Lager and Bitter?
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Ale, lager and bitter are all types of beer:
There are basically two categories of beer: lagers and ales. Lagers use lager yeast and ferment at cool temperatures. They tend to be clearer, lighter in body and color, and lower in alcohol, ranging between 3.2 and 4.0 percent alcohol by weight. Most beers produced in the United States are lager beers. Ales use ale yeast and ferment at warmer temperatures, then age for a short time. They tend to be less carbonated, fuller bodied. Some may have a higher alcohol content than lagers.
LAGERS
Ameican-style pale lager: A pilsner style of beer, the common American lager is highly carbonated and light in body and color. Pilsner accounts for about 90 cent of the beer consumed in America
Pilsner. Pilsner is a beer made from neutral and hard water, now the basic requirement for all lagers and ales. Pilsners tend to be pale, golden hued, and effervescent, with a dry, crisp, and somewhat more bitter flavor.
Light: In Europe, a light lager means one that is light in color. In the United States, it tends to mean a beer with fewer calories than a regular beer. Made with a reduced amount of malt and grain, the alcohol content is slightly less than that of regular beer.
Dark: These chocolate-brown beer are richer, maltier, sweeter, and fuller in body than pale lagers. Dark lagers, including dunkel beer from Munich, are colored and flavored with roasted barley or malt.
ALES
Brown: This dark ale has a copper or ruby color, a full body, and a medium sweet flavor.
Porter: Typically dark and full bodied, porter has a mild hops taste and a bittersweet chocolate flavor that comes from roasted barley or barley malt.
Stout: This is a type of porter ale. Stout ale is darker, fuller bodied, maltier, and hoppier than other ales.
Bitter:The Bitter style came from brewers who wanted to differentiate these ales from other mild brews, enter pale malts and more hops. Most are gold to copper in colour and are light bodied. Low carbonation. Alcohol should be low and not perceived. Hop bitterness is moderate to assertive. Most have a fruitiness in the aroma and flavor, diacetyl can also be present. These are traditionally served cask conditioned, but many breweries have bottled versions.
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Ales, Lagers and Bitters are all types of beer, according to me.
Ales are brewed with malts, hops and are heavier than typical beers and lagers.
Lagers are originally German, contain less hops and are typically aged from 6 weeks to 6 months.
Bitters have pale malts and a lot more hops, gold/copper in color, low carbonation, and low alcohol that usually isn't perceived.
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Ale, Lager and Bitter are all beers. Ales and Bitters differ in the mix of malt, barley and hops. Largers differ from Bitters and Ales because a different yeast is used and this yeast (originally developed by Carlsberg) ferments differently from yeasts used for other beers.
Most often these days larger is also pasteurized and pressurised where as there are still some pubs (in the UK) that serve traditional bitter.
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Well THeres Diffrent Amounts of alchhol and The recipie
All of those fall under the catagory of BEER.
ALE is beer that is made with "Top fermenting yeast" that is yeast the floats at the top of ther fermentation tank and does is job at @ 70-80 degrees F.
LAGER in made with "bottom fermenting yeast" witch as you might have guessed sinks to the bottom of the fermentation tank and does its job between 45-65 degrees
BITTER is in the ALE family and usually refers to the beers known as IPA(india pale ale) theese types of beer are bitter because the HOPS(the flower used for bitterness and aroma in beer) have been boiled for at least and hour and the amount used is slightly more than normal beers.
If you want to know more about beer google, malted barley and Hops. Know the ingerdients,know the product.
All brewed to different recipes,with different malt,barley,hops etc,also water can make quite a difference to the taste of these
after 3 pints there is no difference
Ok Phil -lets scrub Ale as in the UK ale has not been brewed in the UK for 100yrs. Beer covers a multitude of sins from Light ale/Bitter/IPA/Strong ale/Barley wine and the various variants of Brown/Newcastle/ Stouts and Lager as either kight or Heavy. You will know a heavy lager by its alcohol 7%+ and the flavour of malt/hops/dms
If u are in the UK there is a beer evening in Luton later this year which will concentrte on the lighter side of Victorian recipes let me know.