Try This Beer: Anchor Brewing California Lager

This is the first lager beer I’ve posted about. Not because I don’t enjoy or like lagers, but rather we just don’t get a whole lot of them in Hawaii. Sure, there are a handful of great German lagers available year round, but I’m really interested in stuff made domestically. Lager beers got lost in the initial rush of craft beers with so many breweries focusing on big and bold ale styles. I couldn’t be more happy to see craft breweries starting to focus on brewing excellent lagers because they are just so damn enjoyable.

It takes a bit more commitment from a brewery to brew and sell lagers. First, the turn around time on lagers is a bit longer than ales, so it costs breweries more to make them. To make a really good lager it requires weeks of cold conditioning, where an ale can be bottle in less than 2 weeks from brewing. Second, there is still some negativity around the term lager because of it’s association to big macro beers like Miller, Coors, Budweiser, etc. Hopefully as people ga

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