What is the difference between lager, bitter, ale, and stout?
The Yahoo! directory contains a surprising number of categories pertaining to the malted, hopped, and somewhat bitter alcoholic beverage known as beer. We selected the non-commercial Alcohol and Spirits > Beer category, and reached for Real Beer, a web site acclaimed both for quality and popularity. The wealth of real content was astonishing — beer news and views, beer and brewpub tours, beer journalism for amateurs and brewery insiders, and more. The only thing we couldn’t find was a quick glossary for types of beer. No doubt it was somewhere on the site, but we decided to move on. Beershots, another popular site, offers microscopic view of beers around the world. We compared the distinctive rainbow patterns of
