Ales Or Lagers?, Which Do You Prefer?

[Doc]

Mods, can we add a poll to this thread as Trent intended.

This done.

Doc

 

[Bizarre]

I'm pretty flexible really - doesnt matter what it is I like it - bitter, lager or ale I like em all. If someone were to hold gun to my head and say "Choose one" I might have to plump for a bitter - hang on maybe a lager - but then ales are nice too :blink:

Now Im just completely confused lol..........................

 

[Bizarre]

Mods, can we add a poll to this thread as Trent intended.

This done.

Doc

Doc can I vote for both seeing I cant make up my mind?

Hehehe

 

[normell]

Mods, can we add a poll to this thread as Trent intended.

This done.

Doc

Doc can I vote for both seeing I cant make up my mind?

Hehehe

Yeah, Doc, can we have a "Both or either"

 

[big d]

A typical biased poll.Where is the one to tick if your a beer enjoyer like me who loves both ales and lagers in no particular order.I havent voted due to this

Cheers
Big D

 

[Doc]

Mods, can we add a poll to this thread as Trent intended.

This done.

Doc

Doc can I vote for both seeing I cant make up my mind?

Hehehe

Yeah, Doc, can we have a "Both or either"

No. I've voted in the poll so can't change it now.

Doc

 

[Bazza]

Ales mainly in winter
Lagers mainly in summer (along with a good wheat beer or two)

No real preference but I tend to brew ales more than lagers as they are easier...
Baz

 

[goatherder]

I'm an ale drinker and brewer. I thought ales would be all that I would brew, but I am thinking again.

I recently had my first taste of some really good lagers - Paulaner Octoberfest, Budvar, Trumer Pils, imported Urquell. Now I'm not as much of an ale nut.

I picked up a 2nd fermenting fridge the other day. My new lagering fridge.

 

[andrewl]

Personally I'd say I'm a lager man, but I can never knock back a good ale... Best of both worlds!

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[Uncle Fester]

I'm with Bazza.... Brew Lagers in winter for consumption in summer (If I last that long), and brew Ales in summer for drinking in winter.


I guess at the end of the day, I like BEER!

M

 

[AngelTearsOnMyTongue]

Mods, can we add a poll to this thread as Trent intended.

This done.

Doc

Any room for a "both", or "No Preference"?

ATOMT

Edit: Sorry, didnt realise that there were other similar posts.

 

[Ross]

Have never let the weather dictate my drinking - love a stout as much in summer as winter- never really understood this lager in summer, stout in winter mentality.
Brew more ales than lagers, but a craft brewed lager can be every bit as enjolyable... :chug:

Cheers ross

 

[Barry]

Good Day
Drink both, brew both, love both.
When some say they don't like lagers which lagers do they mean. Huge difference between German pils and a doppelbock, a helles and a schwarzbier, an oktoberfest and Bohemian Pils. Malt, hops, chocolate, toast, roast, everthing and anything in lagers just like ales.
Will brew an Oktoberfest and rauchbier on the weekend and I will just have to put up with the lack of flavour.

 

[bindi]

Nice wun Batz "

I agree Duff

"your not a real brewer until you have brewed a good lager" .

I love ales but I have beer suprised what good results you can get brewing lagers my lagers seem to have a lot of flavour which I enjoy .

Pumpy

I have brewed lagers others have liked but they were not to my taste had one on tap for ages as I did not drink it, the inlaws/outlaws and friends drank it and loved it not me.
I worked in a large megaswill brewery making yellow fizzy stuff they called lager [no names] maybe that's the reason. <_<

 

[devo]

I can never make up my mind about this cause I swing b/w the 2 equally. :blink:

When I'm hankering for Ale, I make a heap of it, drink it for a while then start getting the urg to make and drink lagers and vise versa.

 

[Steve]

Im the same as Tony. I like both and brew both. Being an ex Pom I grew up drinking ales - hardly ever drank lagers unless it was really hot (like I said hardly ever). I prefer drinking lagers in summer and ales in winter. Last summer in I missed timed my lager brewing schedule and ended up having nothing but ales n stouts to drink in 40 degree heat. Just doesnt cut it like a clean fresh quaffing lager.
Cheers
Steve

 

[mje1980]

Hmmm some intereting responses. I guess for me ales are much easier and quicke to make, and are more forgiving. However, i do like lagers, especially pilsners, and helles, and dunkels, and haha etc !!. Im really enjoying a blonde i just made with 1007, so i guess its kind of a hybrid, as due to weather, it fermented at 12c.

Next brew will be a pils by the way, mostly pils malt, a little carapils, NB hops, 2278, and 25g ( the last ) of my spalt dry hopped in the keg.

Cheers people

 

[PostModern]

Huge difference between German pils and a doppelbock, a helles and a schwarzbier, an oktoberfest and Bohemian Pils.

Good point. But look at the range of ales: weizen, koelsch, mild, bitter, alt, wit, stout, barleywine, porter, summer ale... If extremety of character you seek, ale is the path.

I likes me ales, but I've really enjoyed some great lagers too. I don't have the patience for 6 weeks grain to brain, either. Nice when others brew them, tho. I wish I could pull back my ale vote now and join the abstainers.

 

[tangent]

i used to bag "lager-lovers" but at the moment i'm tasting the hydrometer samples of #2 of 3 Bo-Pilsners and I'm bloody hooked again. It's opened up another world of brewing and opened my eyes to the differences in these beers.
I still have a fortnightly ale to keep me in easy drinking beer but I reckon you haven't lived until you've decocted a bag of Pilsner malt and used a few packs of Saaz plugs.

 

[Asher]

Lager.... yep.... Saccharomyces uvarum... my favourite.... This class of yeasties most probably just mutated from an ale yeast 100's of years ago anyway. Its had a lot less time to develop the variety that ales strains have and probably never will now due to strain isolation & microbiologists...

I remember a beer here in the West called "seven seas pale ale". It was made by the Sail & Anchor and served on a hand pump.. A truly great "Real Ale"...funny thing is it was actually brewed with a lager strain

Asher for now