![]() ![]() ![]() We wanted to give people an experience here that you would have to otherwise jump on an airplane and travel to Germany to have-fresh-tasting lager on draft.”Īt Bierstadt, you can have the ultimate pilsner drinking experience: the slow-pour pils. “I love how much technique is involved in making lagers sure, recipe is important to a certain extent but really the technique is what separates the good from the great. “I got my first brewing job (where) I wanted to make lager more than I wanted to make anything else, so when it came time for my partner, Bill Eye and I to open our own brewery, we knew exactly what we wanted to do-make the beers we wanted to drink,” says Ashleigh Carter, head brewer and co-owner of Bierstadt Lagerhaus in Denver. The result is a beer that has the drinkability of your everyday lager with a bit more heft: a spicier, hoppier, or maltier quality are all possible when drinking a pilsner. His solution was to add Saaz hops, which help prevent the beer from spoiling while also altering its flavor. Enter the pilsner, a style that originated in the 19th century when Josef Groll came to the aid of the people of the Czech city, Plzeň who were plagued by a batch of “spoiled” lager. Sometimes you just want a beer-nothing fancy, nothing loaded with so many hops that you can’t taste anything except bitter pinecones for the next three hours-just a beer. ![]()
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