Are Lagers The Uncool Craft Beer?

I recently wrote an article in the Star Advertiser about how lagers really don’t get the respect they deserve in the craft beer world. The limited word count and general audience of that publication kept me from really diving into the subject in more depth.

Sure there are a number of craft breweries that are now producing a few lagers. Sam Adams has built their entire company on a lager. It seems like every day a brewery is releasing a lager. Maybe they are the next hip style like IPAs, sours and barrel aged anything, but I highly doubt it.

But for the most part, the craft beer revolution in America has ignored classic lager styles. I get why most breweries never really focused on making lagers. They’re expensive to make and really hard to make well. Most craft breweries were started by homebrewers and lagers typically are not high on the list of beers a lot of homebrewers make. So when you start a production brewery you stick with what you’ve always been doing, ales. I get it. It mak

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