Pale lager is a pale-to-golden lager beer with a well-attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness.
Würzburger Hofbräu, a typical pale lager
The first Pilsner beer, Pilsner Urquell, as it is brewed today
A typical Bavarian helles
A mug of Paulaner Oktoberfest beer
Pilsner is a type of pale lager. It takes its name from the Bohemian city of Plzeň, where the world's first pale lager was produced in 1842 by Pilsner Urquell Brewery.
Pale lager
…golden lager, Pilsner Urquell, was brewed there by Josef Groll. This beer proved so successful that other breweries followed the trend, using the name Pilsner. Breweries now use the terms "lager" and "Pilsner" interchangeably, though pale lagers from the Czech Republic and Germany categorized as pilsner tend…
Historical examples of German pilsner beer labels from East Germany
Can of Belgian Pils represented on a mural of the railway station of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
A mug of Bitburger, a German-style Pilsner