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Originally Posted by Aldous9
I love beer. I love craft beer. My favorite kind of beer is lager. I'll take the occasional ale but if I'm going out drinking I prefer my session beer to be a lager. For the most part they have less abv and I just prefer the taste. I cannot stomach IPA's or any type of beer that is too hoppy.
I find myself disappointed a lot when I go out on pub crawls to find that many drinking establishments don't even bother to have a lager on tap. This is usually the case with gastropubs. They'll have 10 taps, half of them will be IPA's and the rest will be stouts, hefs etc, but no lager. I recently went to a new beer hall/gastropub that had forty taps and not one lager! Now, I can name off the tap of my head a dozen great craft lagers. So what gives? I hate yelp but it's gotten to the point I want to join yelp just to leave 1 star reviews for bars that don't have any lager on tap.
Any other lager drinkers feel my pain?
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There is a much greater variety of styles and flavours on the ale branch of the beer tree. Nothing wrong with lagers or liking them. But, many craft beer brewers, especially in the US, like brewing ales because of the creative possibilities associated with ales, and the preference currently for highly-hopped beers.
If you'd like a nice lager on tap at the place you frequent, go ahead and voice your opinion to the proprietor. He/she may be happy to include one or two lagers on tap.
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