A movie "LAGER" looking back on the history of beer from the birth of lager to reigning on the market top

There are various kinds of beer such as lager, pilsner, ale, etc., which is one of the most drunk alcoholic drinks in the world, but since the 19th century the lager has become mainstream beer market. How was a lager, a relatively newcomer in beer history, born and reigned at the top of the market, a movie reviewing with the history of beer "LAGER"Is on sale.

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◆ 1: Lager vs ale


If you divide beer into two broad categories, you can classify it into two types, lager and ale.


It is a big difference between the two that the ale is top fermented at warm temperature while the lager is brewed by cold temperature under fermentation.


Ale isSaccharomyces serbisierIt is calledBudding yeastIt is fermented at 15 degrees to 24 degrees using.


In addition, Yale's brewing season is limited, only in spring and autumn.


In the German Bavaria region where only soft water is available, instead of hard water, yeast which is active at low temperature instead of soft water even if soft water is used instead of yeast, so as to brew beer using a special storage method Become.


The special storage method is to store ice together in the cave at the end of autumn and take out it in the spring of the following year. Storage is called LAGERUNG in German, and beer brewed in this style is called lager.


◆ 2: The birth of a new species


A lager that can be stored even at cold temperatures is brewed by bottom fermentation.


Characteristics of beer brewed by bottom fermentation include light weight, dry, slight faint scent.


A new type of beer that was born in Germany was using a dark barley malt, so it was in a black color unlike the current lager.


However, unlike German colorful lager, Austrian Anton Dreher starts to brew something close to the current color laggers.


Mr. Dreher's beerPale LagerIt was called.


◆ 3: Origin of Pale Lager


In 1842, Josef Groll at Plzeň in the Czech Republic brewed a beer that developed Pale Lager with new technology.


Beer brewed by Mr. Groll, after the place name "Pilsner"It was named.


Currently, the majority of beer brewed around the world is the pilsner style of light-colored bottom fermentation.



◆ 4: The beginning of export


A pilsner suitable for storage is born, and export business of beer begins in earnest in Europe. Among them, the first person who started exporting beer to the world is Emil Christian Hansen of Denmark.


The beer that Mr. Hansen started exporting is a well-known "Carlsberg"


Following Carlsberg and the Netherlands ......


German Dortmund beer companies also began exporting to the world one after another, and Pilsner 's name spread all over the world.


◆ 5: New beer maker


Besides beer, technology of brewing also landed in the USA beyond the sea from Europe. German-American immigrant David Gottlob is the oldest beer company in the United StatesYuenglingWe will start business in 1829.


In 1876, Adolphus Busch, a German-American immigrant, also said that the most drinking beer "BudweiserWe will release a lot of beer brewing companies in the US as well.


◆ 6: Dark Age


Many beer brewing companies were born in the United States after beer import started, but in 1920 after the First World War, the abstinence regulation prohibiting the manufacture, sale and transport of alcohol was enforced in the United States , American beer brewing company is almost bankrupt.


Although the American beer industry was hit hard by the prohibition law, some companies survive by selling beer with alcohol degree less than 0.5%.


Since then the impact of World War II, the number of domestic brewing companies continued to decline until the mid 1980's, the beer industry is long, dark days to spend.


◆ 7: Resurrection of a huge beer company


For the beer which is a luxury item, the winter era continued, but after the end of World War II the beer maker surviving the inconvenient era will grow to become a large company.


Anhaiser · Bush, which sells famous Budweiser in Japan, became the largest beer brewing company in the United States in 1957.


Founded business in 1855mirrorIn 1973, we now start selling the company's flagship product, Miller-Light, and we are running a path to big companies at once.


◆ 8: Multinational beer


Belgian liquor maker "Anheuser · Bush · Invev"Acquired America's Anheuser-Busch in 2008, beer's share reached 25% in 2010, sales revenue reached 360 billion dollars (about 4 trillion yen) in the world.


Anheiser · Bush · Inbev sells beers such as Budweiser and ...


Beer that is brewed in various countries such as the Mexican corona is included.


Also, it was merged with South America Breweries in South Africa in 2002,mirrorSelling overseas beers extensively.


Carlsberg in Denmark.


CzechPilsner Urquell


British curling is also sold from the mirror beer.


◆ 9: beer brewing with supplemented sugar material


The main ingredients of lager are water, malt, beer yeast and hops.


The two-row barley cultivated in Europe is suitable for brewing because of its high sugar content and low protein content.


However, it seems that the six rows of wheat in America are unsuitable for brewing because of less sugar and a lot of protein.


Therefore, in the United States, rice is used as an additive saccharide raw material to replenish sugar.


Corn and rice, which is malt-free grain, is mainstream, and the cost of brewing is also reduced. Currently, most beers brewed in the United States say that they are using supplemented saccharide raw materials.


◆ 10: Beer trend


As the beer industry becomes huge, the variety of beer is increasing, calories are lower than normalLight beerWill appear.


Bud Light is one of America's best-selling light beers.


In the latter half of 1980, Japanese beer maker "Asahi beer"Is the first in the worldDraft beerWe began selling beer in the field of.


Dry beer which has alcohol degree higher than usual and dry is popular in the United States, and we will start selling dry beer from various companies such as dry version of Budweiser "Bud Dry".


Ice beer appeared in the 1990s.


Ice beer is made by cooling until the ice crystals are formed in the manufacturing process, impurities are removed together with the ice, and the beer features distinct aftertaste.


Ice beer also rises in popularity as well as dry beer, and "Bud ice" will be released as well.


◆ 11: Renaissance period of American beer


Anheuser · Bush · Inbev and Miller monopolize the beer market, while the American small beer maker starts brewing a limited-volume brewed beer in a specific area.


Sierra Nevada Brewing CompanyWas a great success, selling American pale ale using traditional ale brewing methods.


However, as long as it has large-scale facilities, it seems that lagers account for most of the world's beer production, not to the power of lagers that can be produced in large quantities in a short period of time.