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Forum: Lager, Lager, Lager...: Unfiltered Lagers
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11/01/2010 at 12:58:23 AM GMT
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Subject: Unfiltered Lagers
I had an interesting discussion with a young, American craft brewer over the weekend (he actually initially studied wine making in Adelaide!)

The upshot of the conversation was that there is very little excuse for not brewing a lager with tonnes of flavour, enticing colour etc. The only discernible difference between a full flavoured ale and lager should be the finish - lagers short dry sharp and crisp, ales - full, coating and long.

We both agreed that lagers may very well be one of the next areas that craft brewers look to "pumping" up their flavour profiles - and I can't wait.

A few months back I had a Fishers Ghost Unfiltered lager and was pretty happy with the amount of flavour and the finish. Over the weekend I tried a Tommy Knocker Oaked Butthead Bock. Really interesting and quite tasty. 

The Germans are stars at making full flavoured lagers.

I think its time to "exercise" some lager demons and go on the hunt for the world's best lagers.
Any recommendations gladly received! 
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19/01/2010 at 1:07:13 PM GMT
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I had a look back through my tasting notes. There aren't many lagers in there which I haven't described as watery tasteless crap. Most of the decent lagered beers I have tried have actually been dark lagers/schwarzbiers/rauchbiers which don't really have the clean finish of a straight lager. I haven't had a German lager in Australia that didn't taste just like all the Australian lagers.

Amongst the best of the lagers I've tried that are easy to obtain in Australia are Samuel Adams Boston Lager which has some good malt sweetness balanced with a decent amount of hops, Holgate's Big Reg Lager which has a strong toasty/biscuity malt character well balanced with hops, Knappstein Reserve Lager from Clare Valley Brewery which has a decent amount of bitterness and lots of passionfruit notes from Nelson Sauvin hops.
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19/01/2010 at 11:03:32 PM GMT
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I always enjoy a good bock beer, some traditional mai bocks (though I can't think of any off the top of my head) may be nice as something less heavy than their doppel brothers. But I get the feeling bocks are not what we are talking about in regard to lagers. I too enjoy a good rauchbier or dark lager, but if looking for standard lagers they aren't really suitable.
 
The ones Dan listed are good, particularly the Knappstein for something a little more unique, I was really suprised when I tried that one, and I also enjoyed the Boston lager. The Christoffel Nobel which was in the Private Stash pack I believe that is a lager, and that was very nice. For a nice, easy to drink and refreshing lager some of the Oktoberfest brews by German brewers aren't bad.
 
I'm more of an ale person, or a lambic person these days, I really don't think I have had a lager "moment" outside of the more unusual lagers, as mentioned above, so i too welcome any suggestion of highly flavoursome lagers for my own "research"
 

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