Answers.Body: <p>In my (somewhat minimal) experience, Piwo Jasne and Piwo Mocne are both most commonly pilsners or perhaps more generally pale lagers.  Piwo Mocne is higher in alcohol content and might be called a "strong pale lager", or perhaps tagged with the modifier "Imperial" to indicate the increased alcohol.</p>
  
  <p>That said, I don't think there is anything inherent in the term that precludes, for example, a strong ale being sold as Piwo Mocne.  The two terms in the question aren't prescriptive of specific style.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Given how much modern Polish beer has in common with mass-market German and Czech beer- combined with a small handful that I've tried here in Germany- <em>they're what one would call "European pale lagers" or "International pilsners," depending on what book or site's style names you're going off of.</em></p>
  
  <p>In response to a previous answer, color has nothing to do with ale v. lager, nor alcohol concentration (Guinness is an ale and 4.2% where Aventinus Eisbock is a lager and 12%), it only tells you how it was fermented. There are tons of dark lagers around: Schwarzbier, Munich dunkel, Rauchbier, Doppelbock, the aforementioned Baltic porter, and the Czech 14* and 18* dark lagers.  </p>
  
  <p>I or someone will need to look more into this, but those terms might be bureaucratic in nature- up until the 90s, Germany had multiple beer categories based on the beer's original gravity that determined how it would be taxed and sold, sort of like how Texas used to label everything above a certain ABV% "ale".  <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/2012/08/09/tabc-changes-what-it-means-to-be-a-beer/" rel="nofollow">TABC Changes What it Means to Be a Beer.</a></p>
  
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Body: <p>In Poland, outside of imports, microbreweries, and various less popular varieties, about all mainstream brands come in two classes:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Piwo Jasne ('light beer')</li>
  <li>Piwo Mocne ('strong beer')</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>The two comprise the massive bulk of the market and are about never labeled differently, save for brand-specific marketing variations.</p>
  
  <p>I'd like to learn how they fit into the wider image. Are they lagers, stouts, ales, or maybe something yet different? A class of their own?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: I was too lazy to look through this infographic for you.
  
  http://popchartlab.com/collections/prints/products/the-magnificent-multitude-of-beer
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Title: How do popular Polish beers fit into the "periodic table of beers"?
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ThreadText: # How do popular Polish beers fit into the "periodic table of beers"?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-01-22)
  
  In Poland, outside of imports, microbreweries, and various less popular varieties, about all mainstream brands come in two classes:
  
  * Piwo Jasne ('light beer')
  * Piwo Mocne ('strong beer')
  
  The two comprise the massive bulk of the market and are about never labeled differently, save for brand-specific marketing variations.
  
  I'd like to learn how they fit into the wider image. Are they lagers, stouts, ales, or maybe something yet different? A class of their own?
  
  **Tags:** classification, poland
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: I was too lazy to look through this infographic for you.  http://popchartlab.com/collections/prints/products/the-magnificent-multitude-of-beer  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2014-01-22. Score: 4
  
  In my (somewhat minimal) experience, Piwo Jasne and Piwo Mocne are both most commonly pilsners or perhaps more generally pale lagers. Piwo Mocne is higher in alcohol content and might be called a "strong pale lager", or perhaps tagged with the modifier "Imperial" to indicate the increased alcohol.
  
  That said, I don't think there is anything inherent in the term that precludes, for example, a strong ale being sold as Piwo Mocne. The two terms in the question aren't prescriptive of specific style.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2015-04-12. Score: 2
  
  Given how much modern Polish beer has in common with mass-market German and Czech beer- combined with a small handful that I've tried here in Germany- *they're what one would call "European pale lagers" or "International pilsners," depending on what book or site's style names you're going off of.*
  
  In response to a previous answer, color has nothing to do with ale v. lager, nor alcohol concentration (Guinness is an ale and 4.2% where Aventinus Eisbock is a lager and 12%), it only tells you how it was fermented. There are tons of dark lagers around: Schwarzbier, Munich dunkel, Rauchbier, Doppelbock, the aforementioned Baltic porter, and the Czech 14\* and 18\* dark lagers.
  
  I or someone will need to look more into this, but those terms might be bureaucratic in nature- up until the 90s, Germany had multiple beer categories based on the beer's original gravity that determined how it would be taxed and sold, sort of like how Texas used to label everything above a certain ABV% "ale". [TABC Changes What it Means to Be a Beer.](http://www.texastribune.org/2012/08/09/tabc-changes-what-it-means-to-be-a-beer/)
  
  
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