Late Night Lager

Cutting it close on today's post! Literally just got back from an event for work and sat down with another Bells beer. Today I'm sippin' on the Bells Lager Beer.

It's a very crisp beer, and super clear. The closest comparison I can think of is a Bud Heavy, although I don't condone such beverages on this blog. Just trying to give a comparison on style. There is a flavor note in this one that I can't quite pinpoint, but I think it is coming from the malts that were used. It gives the beer a unique bitterness that I haven't had in most of the beers that I've featured so far. A little digging led me to find the descriptor of 'grassy', but I think that is gross and don't want to associate my beer with grass. But it is kind of close.

One reason I was excited to get this beer on the blog is because of it's style: its a lager. Most people out there can tell you that lagers are what the Big 3 make, and that Ales are pretty much everything else. For the most part they are right, but not for the correct reason. The difference between Ales and Lagers comes from one thing. Yeast.

Homebrewers can easily make ales with very little equipment because the yeast that is used likes to do its thing at temperatures close to room temp. You put the beer in a bucket, let it sit in a closet, and a couple weeks later you've got beer. Lager yeast, on the other hand, needs to work its magic at much colder temperatures (around 45* F) So to make this you have a couple of options: -Get big fancy equipment, -get a mini-fridge, -live up north and but the beer in your basement during the winter months. Seeings how I don't have the luxury of 2/3 of those choices, everything I've churned out has been in the ales category. [For now.]

And no, I'm not moving up north any time soon...

Bell's
Lager Beer
Lager
5.0% abv
"Lager of the lakes"