Craft Lager

Lager beer is the crisp, cold brew most loved by Australians with some of our hottest selling Australian beer made from the best hops and bottom fermenting yeasts. Our entire range of lager beer is delivered to your door by Bottle Stop and offered at the lowest prices that you'll find anywhere. Every day is special at Bottle Stop which is why everyday prices across our entire range of alcohol are always at the specials' price that you'll find everywhere else. We don't just set the prices across our lager beer and the rest of our range; we hunt out the best prices being offered by everybody else and then we just match them and keep that at that price forever. That means that you won't have to go hunting out the cheapest price on your favourite lager beer, you can hop on to Bottle Stop and know that you're already getting it for the cheapest price. We absolutely guarantee that.

Along with our lager beer range, we also offer the complete wine and spirits of both homegrown Australian goodness as well as the best that the rest of the world has to offer. Shop online for your alcohol delivery direct to your door and buy the best beer, liqueurs, vodka, brandy, whiskey, Scotch whisky, rum, dark rum, Belgian beer,stout, gin, Australian gin, cider, apple cider, sour beer, pilsner beer, wheat beer and bourbon whiskey all from the one place and all at the same low price.

Our alcohol delivery Sydney and alcohol delivery Melbourne is received in just a few short business days and that goes for the rest of the country as well. We want to bring you the best shopping experience that'll you'll ever have so you have the time for enjoy the lager beer you buy from Bottle Stop . With this in mind, we can also tailor your shopping experience for you. Just let us know that type of alcohol you like to drink, the types that you're thinking about exploring and anything else that you might be interested in, and we will deliver to you a list of the finest examples that we know that you'll love. Especially when it comes to larger beer. We know and we love our beers so the more that we can share, the happier we are.

Difference between beer and lager?

There are all kinds of beer types available while every lager is a beer, not every beer is a lager. To learn the difference between lager and every other beer type out there, you need to know a bit about the beer brewing process.

Lager beer process

Beer has been around for a very long time. Thousands of years, in fact. To make beer, you need to malt a grain it's usually barely but not all the time and then you need to ferment your malted grain. The fermentation process is where you introduce your yeast into the sugary fermented liquid, and they eat all the sugars and leave behind some ethyl alcohol and some carbon dioxide in the form of some bubbles when they leave.

Believe it or not but the alcohol part of the ale and lager, and most drinks, was about preserving your drink and not necessarily about wild Friday nights, although we're sure that the wild Friday night part is responsible for all the different recipes and experimentation. Alcohol preserves against the growth of bacteria and other harmful and foul tasting hitch-hikers who can climb inside your brew. When the world was a little less enlightened, the general state of drinking water absolutely everywhere wasn't so crash hot. It was often better for you to drink preserved drinks like beer, cider and wine rather than risk it with the local water hole or the river which also serviced your mines, tanners and all the other industry plonked on the riverbank and gently polluting all of the fresh water.

Traditional beers made were all ales because they were faster and easy to make and most people were brewing them at home. An ale is the malted grain boiled up (the wort) with some hops, another excellent natural preserving plant with a crisp and bitter taste, and then left in casks or barrels to ferment with some yeast. The yeast strain used for ales was, and still is, a top fermenting yeast called saccharomyces cerevisiae which means that rather than sink to the bottom this ale yeast feeds on the sugars at the top of the fermentation vessel and does it's work very quickly. When you're making an ale with the yeast at the top of the fermentation, you need to keep your brews in a room temperature environment. Once they've done their work, the finished beer is ready to drink and will keep like that for a few weeks at most. Of course, the innovations in beer making over the course of history means that even ales brewed today keep much longer than the traditional sort.

Pale ale is a relatively new type of ale which has the same colour and texture of a lager but is still made using a top fermenting yeast. Craft beer in particular has enjoyed a resurgence in the availability of ales and pale ales like the IPAs and EPA, as well as the American Pale Ale types and the full suite of Australia pale ale. The India Pale Ale was developed in England to combat the harsh travel conditions of sending home brew abroad. It's renowned for its high alcohol content which means it preserves better and for its very hoppy taste, again originally for preservation but now experimented with for taste. Growing hops or transporting it from England was notoriously difficult so a clever brewer in London decided to dry-hop his ale as well as crust his barrels in sugar to keep it fresh and help it travel. The process of dry-hopping is to add the hops a second time into the wort as it goes into the barrel.

When it comes time to brew lager, you need a different bottom fermenting yeast strain. Particularly saccharomyces pastorianus. This is type of lager yeast drops to the bottom of your fermenting barrel or vessel and works much more slowly than the ale yeast and in cold storage. The result is a longer lasting beer than a traditional ale and a different kind of taste.

Australian and New Zealand beer brewed for pale lager lovers are some of the most popular brews we both produce and include brands that offer the drinker less calories than traditional beer types. German beers are also famous lagers as well as Irish low calorie beers. Lagers are typically the style of beer enjoyed ice cold on warm days offering sharp, hoppy bitterness with a crisp and clean finish. Our range of lager beer includes all of your favourite Australian brands as well as the best that the rest of the world has to offer.

Bottle Stop

Whatever you love to drink, you'll find it available to order online at Bottle Stop and conveniently delivered to your door anywhere in Australia. If it's the best beer from your favourite producers or boutique operations carefully crafting their own signature tastes, you'll find it at Bottle Stop . If you're a wine drinker, browse our extensive selection of wineries, varietals and blends. Our selection of spirits and liqueurs include the big name producers that everybody knows as loves as well as tasty varieties sourced from the finest producing regions around the world.

Our entire range of alcohol is available to order online for the lowest prices. We guarantee it. We don't set our prices; we just match the lowest ones on offer found anywhere in Australia. If you find our stock listed for a lower price anywhere else, then we'll match it. We also offer online-only prices that no one else can match across all of your favourites.

We are home to Australia's largest collections of craft and boutique producers which means that our range of beer, wine, spirits and liqueurs include selections plucked from the finest producers tinkering away quietly, developing the best craft beers, the smoothest whisky, in both local and far-off places that the big name alcohol distributors have never heard of. If you let us know what you like to drink, then we can personalise your shopping experience on Bottle Stop . We'll suggest recommendations that we know you'll love based on what we're drinking and loving too.

We are always open so you can enjoy ordering online 24/7. Delivery covers all of Australia with expected arrivals in the capital cities like Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane within 3 to 5 business days. We are always looking to improve our delivery options and are constantly improving arrival times in more capital cities so you can get the best tasting beverages that you love delivered even faster.