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Best British lager to sip during the Euros

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From London to Sussex and Devon, breweries are cropping up all over the country as our national thirst for quality lager blossoms, driven by our obsession with provenance and support of independents.

Good news, then, that summer is here and with it a season of kicking back in the garden with an ice-cold beer among friends. 

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A lesson in lager 

Far from loutish, lager – meaning ‘store’ in German – is actually one of the most refined styles of beer. Breweries upping quality to counteract the once-negative reputation (from being blamed as the fuel for drunken fights to being served so cold you can’t taste the flavour).

Brewed and conditioned at low temperatures from bottom-fermenting yeast, lagers can be pale, amber or dark with the former

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