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Lager

Pale Lager

The world's default beer. Pale, clean, cold, consistent — engineered after the Second World War for national distribution and shelf stability rather than for character.

Central Europe, then everywhere
Origin
4–5.5%
Typical ABV
1,768
In the archive
4.5%
Average ABV here

The most-produced beer style in history, and the one the craft revival defined itself against.

Covered in Era 8 — The Post-War Macro Era.

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1394 breweries across 102 countries

Pale Lager in the archive

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