lager

2023-10-04

Brewday: Pilsner 🍺🍺

At last, it's time to tackle the first brew with the new system. I pondered a great deal about what kind of lager to brew, a smoky Bamberg-style proto-lager, a replica of some large macro-beer, like Heineken or Carlsberg? A Budweiser? A more modern take with American-style hops? A Bock? A dubbel Bock? Marzen or Octoberfest beer? Mexican? Vietnamese? Chinese? Japanese? The possibilities within lager are endless. However, in the end, I was drawn to the original Pilsner beer. Therefore, I decided to brew a Czech-style pilsner with a (hopefully) sweet caramel notes, golden colour, a nice foam top and…

2023-09-07

Lager Lager Lager!

The first beer I decided to brew was some sort of a lager beer, the style that most of us think of when we think "beer". In short, it is the world's most popular beer. Lager beers are fascinating as they have echoed or played a part in forming early 20th-century industrialisation and post-second World War globalisation. Although there is no beer called lager, instead, it is a whole style of beer, more similar to Ales than to a distinct beer, like the now ubiquitous IPA. Lager beer styles By most accounts, the first lager Beer originated from Bavaria in…