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Canned draught is beer served from a pressurised container featuring a widget. [8] Smooth flow (also known as cream flow, nitrokeg, or smooth) is the name brewers give to draught beers pressurised with a partial nitrogen gas blend.
A glass of lager from Bitburger, a German brewery. Lager (/ ˈ l ɑː ɡ ər /; German: ⓘ) is a style of beer brewed and conditioned at low temperature. [1] Lagers can be pale, amber, or dark. Pale lager is the most widely consumed and commercially available style of beer. [2]
Many beer styles are classified as one of two main types, ales and lagers, though certain styles may not be easily sorted into either category.Beers classified as ales are typically made with yeasts that ferment at warmer temperatures, usually between 15.5 and 24 °C (60 and 75 °F), and form a layer of foam on the surface of the fermenting beer, thus they are called top-fermenting yeasts.
In England the bottled counterpart of basic bitter; in Scotland, "Light" is the lowest gravity draught beer (normally dark in colour). [4] Session or ordinary bitter Strength up to 4.1% abv. This is the most common strength of bitter sold in British pubs. It accounted for 16.9% of pub sales in 2003. [5] Best or special bitter
Campaign Live also ranked it at number 5 in their list of the "Top 10 Funniest TV Ads of All Time" in 2008. [6] Carling was Britain's best selling draught beer between 1985 and 2024. Black Label has been dropped from the brand name and logo in Britain since 1997. [3]
Old English: Beore 'beer'. In early forms of English and in the Scandinavian languages, the usual word for beer was the word whose Modern English form is ale. [1] The modern word beer comes into present-day English from Old English bēor, itself from Common Germanic, it is found throughout the West Germanic and North Germanic dialects (modern Dutch and German bier, Old Norse bjórr).
Beer may also be mixed with other beverages such as pils or lager and carbonated lemonade: Radler (lit: cyclist), Alsterwasser (lit: water from the river Alster). German Riesling. Since a beer tax law was changed in 1993, many breweries served this trend of mixing beer with other drinks by selling bottles of pre-mixed beverages.
A number of bars specialise in imported beer, with food and decor to match, Belgian and Bavarian themes being the most common. The Moon Under Water, 44 High Street, Watford. A J. D. Wetherspoon's pub named for Orwell's description. In 1972, Martin Sykes established Selby Brewery as the first new independent brewing company in England for 50 ...