What is the difference in Lager Beer and Pilsner Beer?

Torrie Weissenbach: (1.) A Pilsener is a lighter-version (color and texture) of a Lager beer. They contain fewer calories and a smaller alcohol %. (2.) Ales are one of the two types of beer...the other type is Lager. Both styles contain hops (contrary to the previous poster). The main differences are that lagers are fermented at a lower temperature than ales, and lagers use bottom-fermenting yeast (where as ales use top-fermenting yeast)....Show more

Cassey Hollinghurst: NonePilsner is simply a lager style originally brewed in the region of Pilsen in the Czech Republic.As for ale & beer, the difference is that beer has hops added, ale doesn't.EDIT: The other answerer is using flawed information.On PILSNERPilsner specifically originated in the region of Pilzen, and while they are mainly very pale you can also get dark pilsners, so to claim that the difference is the colour only is a vast oversimplification.On ALE/BEER/LAGERI don't care what the modern, American,! definition of Ale & Beer is, the true, historically based, difference is the addition of HOPS --- (Though the misnaming of the heavily hopped IPA doesn't help get this over very well).ALSOThe Ale/Lager definition he is using is so flawed as to be laughable.Ales, and beers other than lagers, can be made with lager (AKA bottom fermenting) yeasts, the same as lager style beers can be made with top fermenting yeasts.The term lager comes from the fact that true lagers, you can forget things like Bud, are stored for a long time before drinking (lager being an anglification of the german word for storage).So, as it has hops, lager is a type of beer.For example, take a look at Belgian beers.The trappist monks don't add hops to their product, which is why they are referred to as trappist ALES.Lambic producers, who use wild yeasts that blow into the breweries fermenting rooms naturally (so are neither an ale or lager by the other answerers criteria) , add hops that have been dried f! or several years (to remove the flavour but keep the preservat! ive properties) - strangely enough Lambic styles, Geuze, Kreik, Frambozen etc, are referred to as BEER...Show more