In the simplest terms, a dark lager is exactly what the name suggests. First brewed in the Czech Republic and Germany, it’s a broad category of lagers known for its darker, maltier, bready, and ...

Dark beers get unfairly stereotyped by the loudest among them, like today’s trendy, Instagram-friendly pastry stouts. These are brawny, occasionally terrifying beers—like a 14 percent bourbon-barrel ...

Autumn is in full force. If you live somewhere with noticeable seasons, this is abundantly clear. The red, yellow, orange, ...

Before I dive into the full list of the best lager beer, let me start by saying this is a ranking of the best lager beer you can get from the grocery store. It might shock you to hear it, but I ...

At the crux of darkness and drinkability you’ll find them: Dark lagers. They may be described as “schwarzbier,” or “dunkel,” or “baltic porter” or “rauchbier,” but they share a certain rarity and ...

This list is part of a Paste series of bottom shelf liquor and craft beer style tastings. Click here to view all entries in the series. We could hardly blame you if you hadn’t yet noticed, given the ...

We are about midway through Lent, the pre-Easter time of fasting, reflection and repentance, so it’s appropriate that I make a confession: For years, I had maintained that doppelbocks, a dark and ...

Part of why we enjoy the changing of the seasons is that we can finally drink darker beers. And while we’re very close to going all-in on stouts, porters, and scotch ales, we can still get behind ...

A mystery — a dark, wonderful mystery — has been unfolding on Chicago’s beer store and supermarket shelves in recent months: Where did all of these dark lagers come from? A year ago, the odds of ...