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 | | For example, Kolsch beers and Cream ales are ales that emulate lagers, American Wheat beers and Altbiers are brewed both as ales and lagers, and California Common beers (Steam) are sort of a hybrid ale/lager. |
 | | I hear stories that the beer style was named after the porters on trains, who served this type of beer to passengers, but I am pretty confident that the term "porter" was applied to beers before trains were in use, so I think the reference to laborers like dockworkers, then called porters, is more accurate. |
 | | Also, both beers are from Colorado, Fat Tire was around for some years prior to Tire Bite, and certainly there are other examples of good natured ribbing going on in the craft beer industry. |
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