If you want to drink the most traditional beer in the world, ales are definitely the way to go. Ales were an important source of nutrients in the medieval world, and are still a vital source of pleasure for a beer lover's life today. There are now a variety of ales available on shelves with vastly different flavors and characteristics, from barley wine to pale ales. Since many different types of ales tend not to taste similar at all, we are here to help you identify which beers are ales by listing the different types of ales. But first, we should figure out what exactly an ale is. What is Ale? There are two basic types of beer: ales and lagers. Ales came first, and are considered one of the oldest beverage humans have produced. The everyday drinker can differentiate ales from lagers by noting their fruitier, sweeter, more full-bodied and complex characteristics. But with some ales, these identifiers are hard to spot. So what really separates ales from other beer? The way it...