West Coast pilsner is the topic of this month’s roundtable, and we’ve assembled a gifted solid of brewers to additional the dialogue. From the Firestone Walker Propagator brewhouse in Venice, California, Sam Tierney returns to the podcast. Highland Park Brewery founder Bob Kunz joins from their location in Los Angeles. And from Santa Cruz, California’s Humble Sea Brewery, cofounder Nick Pavlina rounds out the panel.
The subject is West Coast pilsner, and every make wonderful examples the fashion, from Highland Park’s award-winning Timbo Pils to Firestone Walker’s Welcome to LA and Humble Sea’s Santa Cruz Pils. Right here, the brewers focus on:
- the problem in constructing physique and construction to stability hop masses within the lean beer
- simplifying malt payments and utilizing home pilsner malt for increased attenuation
- discovering higher hop expression by means of restraint within the dry hop
- avoiding extreme malt complexity to permit the hops to shine
- layering in lower-alpha hops to construct texture and help the fruitier trendy hop notes
- deciding on aroma hops for cohesion
- managing hop creep
- distinguishing West Coast pilsner from chilly IPA and Italian-style pilsner
And extra.
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