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So does that mean that Zima is a lager? Or am I reading that wrong?
 
Gameface said:
There are some hybrid styles, like California common (Anchor Steam) that uses a lager yeast fermented at ale temps. But mixing yeast isn't very common. Basically the conditions will most likely favor one strain over the other and that strain will choke the other one out.
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What about like mixing lagers and ales together at some point in the process. Just curious. I am sure a lot of this has been tried or whatever but since I don't drink beer I admittedly know virtually nothing about it, but I am finding this interesting.
 
LogGrad98 said:
What about like mixing lagers and ales together at some point in the process. Just curious. I am sure a lot of this has been tried or whatever but since I don't drink beer I admittedly know virtually nothing about it, but I am finding this interesting.
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People do blend beers, although I'd say it's not terribly common. Blending used to be a pretty common practice in English breweries where they'd age beer for years and then serve it blended with fresh "running" beer at the time of service to the customers desired taste. Eventually people just preferred the fresh beer and the practice of extended aging times went away. But all of those beers were ales.

I don't know nearly as much about the history of German brewing as I do English brewing, but I'm not aware of any traditional practice of blending ales and lagers.
 
Looks like the makers of Zima classify is as a clearmalt or malternative beverage. It is brewed as a lager and then filtered so fine that the color is removed. At least that's what i just read.
 
Gameface said:
Looks like the makers of Zima classify is as a clearmalt or malternative beverage. It is brewed as a lager and then filtered so fine that the color is removed. At least that's what i just read.
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Interesting
 
You guys realize that BoJack Horseman has a thing for Zima, right? Just making sure we're all on the same page. ****'s getting trippy.

Gameface, bravo old chap. I have learned a lot from you. That graphic was helpful!

And to respond to LogGrad, I might have come out swinging in regard to your comment earlier. While I cannot offer an apology for my reaction to your post, for these always occur in spontaneous reaction to the stimluli that we perceive immediately and effortlessly, I take accountability for that one. I think I was a bit offended by your offhand reference to this thread ("best beers for bras or whatever"). That ticked me off a bit. Just wanna clear the air. And thanks for the wiki reference to transference. I know a bit about psychoanalytic language, and I think a better term to capture the essence of my inflammatory post would be "projection." I interpreted your above-referenced comment as a slight about people who drink beer, which I assumed was from a moral high ground (I don't know if you're LDS or what, but quite a few LDS folks exhibit a palpable disdain for people who drink alcohol. As a "non-member," that schtick has grown tired, and I don't really tolerate it too well). I think the point of me saying your post was passive-aggressive -- and why I offer the term projection here -- is that your separate thread seemed to spawn from a reaction to something you truly wish you could take part in, but are forbidden to partake, given the religious-moral code I prejudged you for having. The projection really seemed to come from your language in your poll: your position seemed clear, and I wasn't really struck with the impression that you really wanted to understand the "other" side's perspective. Again, please accept this effort to reconcile my misinterpretation. I meant what I said when I wrote, "No offense..."

Beer is terrific. Alcohol makes beer taste nice, but without a savvy undergirding, a ****ty beer is just ****ty, regardless the alcohol content (see: St. Ives, Colt 40, and other ***-tasting malt liquors). Especially for craft beers, there is a sense of ownership that the drinker can experience when that lovely liquid touches the lips: "Someone cared enough to make a delicious brew, hard-earned through myriad trials and errors, and it now blesses my tastebuds. Thank you, beer-Jesus for brewing for my sins."
 
Gameface said:
Looks like the makers of Zima classify is as a clearmalt or malternative beverage. It is brewed as a lager and then filtered so fine that the color is removed. At least that's what i just read.
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That is interesting. I got the idea from that graphic you posted and I seemed to remember an ad for Zima claiming it was a "malt liquor".
 
So what is mead? I thought it was a type of beer or at least made through a similar process. GF any wisdom about mead?
 
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