Gorgeous. That Pilsner reminds me that a world exists that is not below feezing and covered with snow in which I would love a cold, crisp lager. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks guys. And Pete, I can drink a Pilsner during any weather. I love them and I’m surprised it took me this long to make one.
I tried a slower version of the “fast lager method” on these. The Pils may need a touch of lagering, but I’m tempted to just set the other two up on tap already and “lager” them in the serving keg.
Ha, i can drink a Pilsner in any weather too but if you were here you would be fantasizing about that one on the left with beads of condensation on the glass as your sitting on a dock in July with your feet hanging in the water…
I always chuckle at the “Big Circle” we homebrewers make. We start out with the BMC swill, discover craft beer - usually pale ales, Irish Reds, or Wheats, then we discover hops & IPA, then somewhere in there are the Scottish ales, porters and stouts. Then, we discover the Belgians! Next is sours. Somewhere in here we’re drinking anything and everything with a gravity over 1.070. Doppelbock catches our attention. Then, we start getting burnt out on the intensity of all the sour stuff and all the big beers. So, it starts turning to the lagers - Schwarzbier, Marzen, and Vienna. Eventually, we work our way back to Helles, Dortmunder, and Pils, which is kinda where we started, though nobody ever goes all the way back to the swill.
1 - I’d like to do a schwartzbier here soon, but I really need to brew a Munich Dunkel ASAP. The club members and friends are getting pretty rowdy about it not being on tap! Hopefully I can get them all on tap at the same time for another family picture.
2 - I’m really into sessionable beers too. Pils, Helles, Dunkel… oh wait. It’s just German lagers. I love 'em!
I think they’re all my efforts? Idk, it gets a little muddled with how we operate. It’s just a team effort so I forget who’s doing what. Sometimes I need to eat lunch or something so he takes over for a bit or vise versa. Lately I’ve been doing the brewing and he’s been doing the cleaning and other house-type projects. Next brew day will be “his”, a Hefeweizen, so I’ll probably do the cleaning while he does the brewing.
And yeah! I need that schwarz recipe! I think “my” next two brew days will be Dunkel then Schwarz… but we also have to brew some other wedding-repeat-beers for a local beer festival. Should be a tasty spring season. 8)
You know, when I was pitching the idea of getting a dedicated lagering freezer a while back I just said, “But what about the German lagers? They can’t lager themselves… (Insert sad puppy face)” I got one the next week.
I’d really love to have a lagering freezer, but I can’t justify putting yet another fridge/freezer in my kitchen. I have a minifridge (DBF), fermenting fridge, chest freezer kegerator, and my main fridge. At one time had another freezer in there for frozen stuff…it just seems ridiculous! I could honestly do without the DBF and replace it with a lagering freezer/fridge.