Minnesota Craft Lager Fest

A Craft Brewery experience focusing on CRAFT LAGERS! Join us for our 2nd Attempt at the 1st Annual MN Craft Lager Fest – the first Saturday after Memorial Weekend. The perfect time to showcase the best summer brews – Lagers!

Why Lagers?

There are two types of beer, ALES and LAGERS. What’s the difference? YEAST! Generally speaking, ale yeasts prefer warmer temperatures (roughly 60-75 ℉ ) and are considered “top fermenting” based on the location of the fermentation activity in a fermentation tank. i.e. they ferment while sitting on top of the beer in a tank. Lager yeasts prefer cooler temperatures (roughly 42-55 ℉), ferment more slowly, and are considered “bottom fermenting.”

Because Ale Yeasts ferment warmer, they tend to provide more spicey and fruity notes. Lager Yeasts, on the other hand, tend to create clean, crisp flavors that showcase beer’s other main ingredients: grains and hops. This makes Lagers difficult, as you cannot hide any beer faults with added flavors.

A common misconception is all lagers are light in color. NOT SO! Yeast has no impact on the color of beer – both ales and lagers can be light or dark. The color of beer comes from the different levels of toasting or malting on the grains used to brew the beer.

At LAGER FEST you’ll experience MANY different colors and styles of this versatile style of beer!