Pilsner

Mikkeller RauchPils (A Smokey Pilsner)

Doesn’t take much to figure out what’s going on here.  Mikkeller’s Rauchpils is a smokey pilsner of a beer. Brewed at De Proef, in Lochristi-Hufte, Belgium

Style: Pilsner (w/ smoke malt)
Availability: 11.2 oz bottles
Arrival: TBA

4.6% ABV

Heavy Seas & Devils Backbone Create Land Ho!

Heavy Seas is on the cusp of releasing a new collaboration brewed with Devils Backbone (Roseland, Virginia).  The beer is quite befitting a pirate – a “black pilsner.”  Jason Oliver, brewmaster of Devils Backbone grew up and brewed in the Baltimore/DC Continue Reading →

SweetWater’s Road Trip 2012 Arrives

SweetWater Brewing Company announced today the return of  Road Trip, the brewery’s spring/summer pilsner.  Road Trip is a part of the Catch & Release seasonal lineup.

A pilsner fits spring time, especially in the south.  (Dude, it’s freaking hot.) Continue Reading →

Laurelwood’s Portlandia Pils

Coming soon from Laurelwood Brewing – Porlandia Pils.  The beer echos the name of the statue of is a sculpture by Raymond Kaskey located above the entrance of Michael Graves’ Portland Building in Portland.  Maybe a little bit of the tv show on IFC too??

Style: Pilsner
Availability: 22oz Continue Reading →

Posted in Chattanooga Brewing, New Beers

Chattanooga Brewing Imperial Pilsner

Chattanooga Brewing Imperial Pilsner

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Mikkeller

Mikkeller RauchPils (A Smokey Pilsner)

Mikkeller RauchpilsDoesn’t take much to figure out what’s going on here.  Mikkeller’s Rauchpils is a smokey pilsner of a beer. Brewed at De Proef, in Lochristi-Hufte, Belgium

Style: Pilsner (w/ smoke malt)
Availability: 11.2 oz bottles
Arrival: TBA

4.6% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Smuttynose Brewing

Smuttynose Vunderbar Pils (Lederhosen Not Included)

Smuttynose VunderbarSmuttynose Vunderbar Pilsner.  Awesome in so many ways.  (Are you seeing this picture?)  Vunderbar was/is part of Smuttynose’s Short Batch Series, released only on draft (previously.)

Vunderbar Pils marks a departure from the last few short batches we have brewed.  It’s not high in alcohol.  It doesn’t use any kind of wild yeast, nor is it barrel-aged.  It’s a beer in the classic, if not archetypal, sense of the word.  Best of all, it’s blindingly delicious and drinkable.  The low bitterness and moderate body make the beer conducive to some serious elbow bending; we went through five gallons here in less than twenty-four hours.

Style: Pilsner
Hops: Saaz, dryhopping at ½ pound per barrel.
Malts: Weyermann Pilsner, Weyermann Acidulated

Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft
Arrival: TBA

5.11% ABV, 15 IBU
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Note: The above information about Smutty’s pils is correct assuming they haven’t adjusted the recipe since it’s inception on draft in 2010.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Churchkey Can Co, Cool Stuff, Videos

Churchkey Can Co Brings Old School Flat Tops Back [Video]

For the first time in over 50 years you will be able to drink from a flat-top beer can – just like the original looked like.  Why? Here’s a little backstory.   Back in 2010, two guys (Adrian Grenier and Justin Hawkins) wanted to drink a beer  out a can like folks did a generation before.  As you can imagine, can design has changed a bit since their inception. (Like cars, trains, planes, etc.)  The steel, flat top can was no longer in production.  I mean, you had to open cans of beer with a churchkey!  No pop tops back then.  (Don’t know what that is? watch the video or ask your parents.)

The Cans.  
In conjunction with Ball Corporation (they make aluminum cans. Lots and lots of them)  Adrian and Justin perfected the second coming of the flat top can.  Now you need a beer to put in it.

What beer? 
Enter homebrewer’s Sean Burke and Lucas Jones.  Two home brewers in Portland that were tapped to create Church Key Pilsner.

Church Key Can Co.
The face & name for the new flat top can brewing company.  The beer will be brewed by Joel VandenBrink at Two Beers Brewing in Seattle, Washington.  The first brewery in the area to churn out cans.

There ya go.  What’s old is new again.  Thanks to Adrian, Justin, Joel, Sean, Lucas & Ball Corporation.  [PressRelease]

Style: Pilsner
Hops: Saaz
Availability: 12 oz “Flat top” cans

4.9% ABV, 29 IBUs

Original Flat Top Beer Can from Churchkey Can co. on Vimeo.

Opening a flat top.  Pic via @HawkinsJustin

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Devils Backbone, Heavy Seas, New Releases

Heavy Seas & Devils Backbone Create Land Ho!

Heavy Seas is on the cusp of releasing a new collaboration brewed with Devils Backbone (Roseland, Virginia).  The beer is quite befitting a pirate – a “black pilsner.”  Jason Oliver, brewmaster of Devils Backbone grew up and brewed in the Baltimore/DC Area and known Heavy Sea’s Hugh Sisson for long time.   Hugh approached Jason to work on a new collab and of course he took the opportunity.

A few months back, the Heavy Seas crew went down to Devils Backbone in Virginia to start work on Land Ho!.  The first round was brewed on Backbone’s pilot system.

We designed it to have subtle dark malt notes without being too heavy and balanced by the pronounced noble hop character of a pilsner.  With both our breweries doing multiple black versions of previously paler beer styles this approach seemed to satisfy our collective tastes and fill a niche neither of us have done before. 

Next stop was to scale it up to Heavy Sea’s 50 barrel brewhouse to keg and bottle.

About Land Ho!
This black pilsner adheres to tradition: Noble hops contribute a delicate aroma and slight bitterness to the malt-forward beer, which has a hint of roasted character. The dark color belies the beer’s clean finish and light body. Land Ho! was designed to have some heft, but still maintain drinkability. The style was chosen by Heavy Seas’ brewmaster Ernie Igot, a black pilsner aficionado, and the initial recipe was formulated by Jason Oliver, brewmaster of Devils Backbone; the brewers of both Heavy Seas and Devils Backbone refined the beer to have just the right nose, color, and taste.

Style: Pilsner
Hops: Warrior, Tettnang
Malts:  2-Row, Carapils, BlackPrinz, Caramel

Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft
Arrival: Already avail at Devil’s.  HS release May, 2012.

5.25% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Seasonal Return, SweetWater Brewing

SweetWater’s Road Trip 2012 Arrives

SweetWater Brewing Company announced today the return of  Road Trip, the brewery’s spring/summer pilsner.  Road Trip is a part of the Catch & Release seasonal lineup.

A pilsner fits spring time, especially in the south.  (Dude, it’s freaking hot.)  Road Trip is made with a blend of European and American hops, and malts.  The twist? Road Trip is fermented at warmer temperatures, enhancing the flavor.

Style: Pilsner
Hops: Cascade, Sterling, US Golding
Malts: Pilsner, Vienna Malt

Availability: 12 oz bottles, Draft. March – May

5.2% ABV 

Some other Catch & Release beers include: Motorboat, Happy Ending, Festive.  [Press Release]

In the spirit of road trip… 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Laurelwood Brewing Co

Laurelwood’s Portlandia Pils

Coming soon from Laurelwood Brewing – Porlandia Pils.  The beer echos the name of the statue of is a sculpture by Raymond Kaskey located above the entrance of Michael Graves’ Portland Building in Portland.  Maybe a little bit of the tv show on IFC too??

Style: Pilsner
Availability: 22oz bombers
Arrival: TBA

5.5% ABV 

The statue.

Portlandia (The show) –  Portland – A city where young people go to retire…

by Reid Ramsay