Sorry Alec, I will try to type slower in the future.

Ale is beer. Lager is beer. Ale and Lager are beers. If Dave's distinction were true what you would be drinking would not contain hops. It does.

From what I am reading in thses posts, it seems that most of you folks living in the UK feel that "beer" is lager. Lager is merely a type of beer, just as ale is.


"I didn't say anything about 'ale' being 'better' than 'beer', and I can't see that Dave did"
Scrump, I realize that you are saying that ale and beer are the same thing, but the others do not seem to be saying that at all. No one would call keg lager an ale, that would not make sense. No one would call a keg of ale a lager either. Both are kegs of beer.

There still seems to be a reluctance to that fact when people say things such as "beer and ale are not necessarily the same."   Ale is beer.