page_title: Lager
section_title: Dark lager
hierarchical_section_title: Lager / Variations / Styles / Dark lager
caption_attribution_description: English: Paulaner Dunkel
context_page_description: Lager is a type of beer conditioned at low temperature. Lagers can be pale, amber, or dark. Pale lager is the most widely consumed and commercially available style of beer. Well-known brands include Asahi, Carlton Draught, Pilsner Urquell, Molson Canadian, Miller, Stella Artois, Beck's, Brahma, Budweiser Budvar, Corona, Snow, Tsingtao, Singha, Sapporo, Kirin, Quilmes, Heineken, Kingfisher, Carlsberg, Birra Moretti and Tennents.
  As well as maturation in cold storage, most lagers are also distinguished by the use of Saccharomyces pastorianus yeast, a "bottom-fermenting" yeast that also ferments at relatively cold temperatures. It is possible to use lager yeast in a warm fermentation process, such as with American steam beer; while German Altbier and Kölsch are brewed with Saccharomyces cerevisiae top-fermenting yeast at a warm temperature, but with a cold-storage finishing stage, and classified as obergäriges lagerbier.
context_section_description: Lagers would likely have been mainly dark until the 1840s; pale lagers were not common until the later part of the 19th century when technological advances made them easier to produce. Dark lagers range from amber to dark reddish brown, and may be termed Vienna, amber lager, Dunkel, tmavé, or Schwarzbier depending on region, color or brewing method.
  Tmavé is Czech for "dark", so it is the term for a dark beer in the Czech Republic - beers which are so dark as to be black are termed černé pivo, "black beer".  Dunkel is German for "dark", so is the term for a dark beer in Germany. With alcohol concentrations of 4.5% to 6% by volume, Dunkel is weaker than Doppelbock, another traditional dark Bavarian beer. Dunkel was the original style of the Bavarian villages and countryside. Schwarzbier, a much darker, almost black beer with a chocolate or licorice-like flavor, similar to stout, is brewed in Saxony and Thuringia.
caption: German Dunkel beer
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