Description
Pale lager is a very pale-to-golden-colored lager beer with a well- attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness.
The brewing process for this beer developed in the mid-19th century, when Gabriel Sedlmayr took British pale ale brewing and malt making techniques back to the Spaten Brewery in Germany and applied them to existing lagering methods. The result was a more stable and consistent but still dark beer. This technique was applied by Josef Groll, the famous Bavarian brewmaster, in the city of Pilsen, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) using less- roasted grains, resulting in the first pale lager Pilsner Urquell in 1842.
The resulting Pilsner beers—pale yellow or golden colored, lean and stable—gradually spread around the globe to become the most common form of beer consumed in the world today.
