This style, Paulette said, accounts for 85 percent to 90 percent of American beer consumption. Pilsener is a light lager originally made in Bohemia. This was, obviously, a light, not heavily carbonated beer. Next we tasted what many beverage publications have called the finest beer in the world, the Czech Republic's Pilsner Urquell. Paulette made another wine-related comparison.
Beer is like wine when it comes to food.
Either it complements the food, or it goes with foods prepared with that beer. If ignorance is bliss, I've always been a happy camper. But at least when I asked him the next question, he didn't laugh. And they're made with different kinds of yeasts. Then we segued to one of Paulette's products, the Shiner Honeywheat Ale.