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🗓️ 19 November 2024
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Contributor Alex Shanks-Abel joins Marshall to chat about the crushably delicious style known as American Light Lager as well as what tasters thought of a version made using Short & Shoddy methods.
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0:57.3 | It may surprise some to learn that American Light Lager is one of the most popular beer styles in the world based on overall consumption. |
1:04.5 | What makes this all the more interesting to me at least is the fact American Light Lager is widely believed to be rather difficult to brew. You're |
1:12.1 | listening to the Brewlossophy podcast. I'm your host, Marshall Schott, and joining me on this |
1:15.6 | episode to discuss the style that so many love to hate is contributor Alex Shanks Abel. |
1:21.2 | Yeah, we Americans have this reputation, probably earned, frankly, for making everything bigger and more extreme. |
1:29.8 | You know, we weren't satisfied with already big English styles like barley line, stout, porter. |
1:36.5 | We had to add more hops, more malt, more alcohol, more attenuation. |
1:42.5 | But despite this, light logger feels like the quintessential American beer. |
1:49.2 | And yet, yeah, I can't think of a style that gets more hate except for maybe pastry stout. |
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