List of oldest companies: Before 1300

Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by _geke on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:29PM (#16188492)

My mistake. I've always incorrectly grouped them with lagers in my mind, but it does indeed look like they are top-fermented beers.

I'm actually surprised, there are quite a few beer variants that I assumed were lagers that are actually ales, including Berliner weisse, kölsch, and gose [0].

[0] https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/style/

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by cypherpunks01 on Friday January 19, 2018 @02:27PM (#16188975)

Kölsch is actually a weird one. It's true that Kölsch is an ale and Kölsch yeast is a top-fermenting ale yeast, however the style also calls for lagering the beer at cooler temperatures at the end of fermentation, which is the same process that all true lagers undergo. This is why Kölsch has a clean lager-like taste, and is often mistaken or debated as a lager.

See also: California Common / Steam Beer, which is sort of the opposite case (lager yeast fermented at ale temps)

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