Your Questions About Beer Origins

Brian answers:

St Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland in the catholic Church. As the Irish love beer celebrating his feat day usually means drinking a lot of beer.

Brian answers:

Top beers are Coors, Bud,Miller,and Heineken.
I have no time to answer all of your many inquiries.

Brian answers:

Stella Artois-Belgium
Newcastle-England
Czekvar-Czech Republic
Guiness-Ireland
Sam Adams-Boston USA
Berkshire Brewing Company or BBC-Microbrew in Western Mass (awesome brews)

Brian answers:

Ale and beer are one in the same. Beer breaks down in to a couple of very broad categories, one being ale the other being lager you could argue a third breakdown of hybrid styles too I suppose. The distinction between the two is loosely based on the yeast strains used. Lagers are fermented at colder temperatures (for a longer period of time) with a “bottom fermenting” yeast strain while ales ferment warmer with “top fermenting” yeast strains. As a guesstimate “ale” encompasses 90% of all beer styles.

Pilsener is a very specific variety of lager originating in Pilsen Germany. It’s well known for the use of Saaz hops and it’s overall clean and crisp flavor profile.

Stouts are a rich beer which results from the use of “high kilned” malts which is basically like the French roast (coffee) of the barley malt world. These high kilned malts lend rich burnt and roasted flavors to the beer as well as its dark color. Stouts have greatly diverged in the last 10-20 years though, American varieties are generally more robust and hoppy whereas English varieties tend to be a little more subtle.

EDIT:
Jalford gets and “A” for effort but a lot of that information provided was slightly innaccurate.

Beers from Belgium are also Belgian beers, not Belgium beers. Sorry that’s a little pet peeve of mine.

EDIT:
I tell you what a lager is at the beginning of my answer.

Brian answers:

The explanation is “The two eleven mark, based on the medieval symbol for steel, appears only on Steel Reserve high gravity lager.

Brian answers:

I’m not German but lived in Germany for many years, and to answer you question, yes they do have the boots to drink from, and I think they originally drank out of a riding boot when hunting, and through the ages it changed to glass, which is now a popular pub-drink-game, which is also used many times at weddings and nights out, I have tried it but always ended up soaked, until I was told the secret of how to drink it, I’ll leave you to find that out yourself. Ha ! Ha!. Or you will lose out on all the fun.