When you compare Budvar and Budwieser, allegedly the same style of beer then you begin to realise what a catchall name lager is.
I can drink the Chekoslovack style lager/pilsner beers till the cows come home, but Carling Harp and Tennant's, and other big brewers lagers made in the UK are crap, and give me a bad stomach.
I like a proper hand made bitter like Fiddlers Elbow, or Wychwood, of the draught beers I like Youngs Special,and Courage Directors amomg others, with my favourite being Gale's HSB.
However, to sum up, Lager is a good beer but not well done outside Eorope, and good British bitter beer with malt and hops in the right proportions takes a lot of beating.
Giok