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2007-05-04 08:11:15 · 2 answers · asked by Capt. Jack Sparrow 1 in Food & Drink Beer, Wine & Spirits

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Ale is a top fermented beer. Lager is a bottom fermented beer. It's where the yeast does its thing.

2007-05-04 14:06:50 · answer #1 · answered by dogglebe 6 · 2 0

"The earliest ales were all "top-fermented" in open vessels, but this term did not creep in to our beerspeak vocabulary until after the Germans had developed the first so-called "bottom- fermented" beer circa 1420 (the first documented mention of "bottom-fermented" beer). It was the brewers in the Bavarian Alps who discovered that beer lost its natural cloudy appearance when stored in mountain caves. They were unaware of the reason, that the ice-cold temperature caused the yeast and other sediments to fall to the bottom of the vessel. In fact, they did not even know about the existence of yeast in beer or its role in the fermentation process. They did, however, know that when beer was being made they could see the frothy effect of fermentation on the top of the liquid, which bubbled away ferociously, but at colder temperatures this activity was much less noticeable, produced a starbright beer (not necessarily pale, as some lagers are quite dark in colour) and when the beer was removed, they discovered a residue of fermentation matter collected at the bottom of the vessel, from which they concluded it was "bottom- fermented"."

2007-05-04 08:29:30 · answer #2 · answered by Kobie 2 · 1 0

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