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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
Nastro Azzurro is a 5.0% alcohol by volume pale lager. Launched in 1963, it is the Peroni Brewery's premium lager brand. [10] The name means "Blue Ribbon" in Italian, in honor of the Blue Riband won by Italian ocean liner SS Rex in 1933. [11] Nastro Azzurro has also sponsored teams in Grand Prix motorcycle racing.
The Old English dragan ("carry; pull") developed into a series of related words including drag, draw, and draught. By the time Bramah's beer pumps became popular, the use of the term draught to refer to the acts of serving or drinking beer was well established and transferred easily to beer served via the hand pumps. In time, the word came to ...
Beer has been brewed by Armenians since ancient times. One of the first confirmed written evidences of ancient beer production is Xenophon's reference to "wine made from barley" in one of the ancient Armenia villages, as described in his 5th century B.C. work Anabasis: "There were stores within of wheat and barley and vegetables, and wine made from barley in great big bowls; the grains of ...
Germany's most popular style in the 1950s and 1960s, it is now becoming increasingly rare. Helles is a malty pale lager from Bavaria of 11–12° Plato, 4.5–5% ABV. Maibock is a pale, strong lager brewed in the spring. 16–17° Plato, 6.5–7% ABV. Märzen at Oktoberfest, served in the traditional 1-litre Maß
Most were gradually repealed over subsequent decades. [23] The First World War measures had a particularly dramatic effect upon mild ale. As the biggest-selling beer, it suffered the largest cut in gravity when breweries had to limit the average original gravity of their beer to 1.030. In order to be able to produce some stronger beer – which ...
Carling Light is a lighter variation of Carling Lager. Carling Premier is a cream-flow lager with an alcohol content of 4.7%, introduced to celebrate Carling's sponsorship of the FA Premier League in 1992. In cans it is sold with a nitrogen widget, similar to those used in some canned ales. Unlike most lagers, Premier needs time to settle.
Steinlager (sometimes known as Steinlager Classic) is a lager-style beer brewed by Lion in East Tāmaki, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. It has won several prizes, notably at beer competitions in the United States [ citation needed ] , and is New Zealand's biggest export beer.