What is the difference between lager and pilsner beer?
Pilsner is lager, but lager may not be pilsner. A rottweiler is a dog, but not all dogs are rottweilers. Lager beer is bottom fermented – most of the yeast is down there in the depths – as opposed to the top fermentation of the original beer production. Pilsner is a rather meaningless term unless the contents of the bottle actually come from Plzeň in the Czech Republic. Elsewhere, it can mean a lager with more hops (which on the whole means more taste than the usual rubbish marketed in the UK and USA by the big brewers has) – or may mean nothing more than ‘we’re charging more for this line’.
