Dortmunder Export

After World War II, Export was the most popular type of beer in Germany until 1970, when it was supplanted by Pils.^[1] Its fortunes have revived a little since its low point of the late 1990s. In 2008, just under 10% of the beer sold in German shops was Export.^[2]

Fred Eckhardt in A Treatise on Lager Beers, published in 1969, set out the view that Dortmunder is a distinctive enough pale lager to be classed as a separate beer style.^[3]

Michael Jackson and Roger Protz continued the trend, although with a certain faint heart, uneasy at pinning down exactly the distinctive nature of the beer.^[4][5][6]

Brewers outside of Germany who brew beers they term Dortmunder will tend to brew a pale lager with a soft, rounded character.^{[citation needed]}

• Dortmunder Actien Brauerei
• German beer
• Pale lager