American lager

Budweiser

, an American lager

American lager or North American lager is

hopped, pale lager developed as a modestly hopped beer, and sometimes used adjuncts such as rice or corn

Worldwide, the best-known American lager is

Kokanee, Carling Black Label, and Old Style Pilsner, and imports such as Budweiser and Coors are very lightly hopped pale lagers. This is by far the largest-selling style in Canada.^[1]

Just as in the United States, Canadian microbrewers typically do not produce North American-style pale lagers.

Other terms for this type of beer, or sub-categories within it, include "adjunct lager", "American-style light lager", "American-style low-carbohydrate light lager", "American-style lager", "American-style premium lager" (a term used at the

Canadian Beer Awards

).

History

Both Canada

barley malt mash. However, the beer was brewed to full-fledged European strength and to the practices of a pale lager style. Later, rice gained popularity in the domestic brewing market during World War II, due to grain rationing on the home-front. Most breweries were unable to afford the necessary amounts of barley required for production and so began using rice as a filler. After the war, the process was not changed^{[citation needed}

].

Canada had

near-beer" during prohibition.^[2]

Currently, the only large-scale representatives of the pre-Prohibition lager style in the United States are

D.G. Yuengling & Son with its traditional lager; Genesee Brewing Company with its Genesee beer; and August Schell Brewing Company with its Original.^{[citation needed]} In recent years a number of smaller American breweries have also reintroduced it, such as Victory Brewing Company with its Headwaters Pale Ale, North Coast Brewing Company with Scrimshaw Pilsner, and Full Sail Brewing Company with its Session Lager.^{[citation needed}

]

References

Fix, G. 1994. Pre-prohibition lagers. Brewing Techniques. May/June
Jankowski, B. 1994. Bushwick pilsners. Brewing Techniques. Jan/Feb

^ Rubin, Josh (2012). "Canada". In Garrett Oliver (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Beer. Vol. 1 (1st ed.). New York, New York: Oxford University Press Inc. pp. 386–392.
^ ^a ^b JohnnyBarman (2011-02-20). "Matt's Beer Den: Matt's Beer Den Book Review! – "Brew North" by Ian Coutts". Mattsbeerden.blogspot.ca. Retrieved 2013-06-04.

External links

Reviving the Classic American Pilsner
Hop Heaven – Philadelphia Citypaper article about Victory Brewing developing a pre-Prohibition style lager (archived 29 April 2005)
a recipe of a pre-Prohibition-style American lager using corn as an adjunct (archived 3 February 2007)

[1] Rubin, Josh (2012). "Canada". In Garrett Oliver (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Beer. Vol. 1 (1st ed.). New York, New York: Oxford University Press Inc. pp. 386–392.

[blogspot1-2] JohnnyBarman (2011-02-20). "Matt's Beer Den: Matt's Beer Den Book Review! – "Brew North" by Ian Coutts". Mattsbeerden.blogspot.ca. Retrieved 2013-06-04.

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