Sainnhus

A rauchbier-style smoked lager

Mashed with local pilsner malt along with a curated blend of beechwood-smoked barley and cherrywood-smoked oats from our friends at @sugarcreekmaltco of Boone County, Indiana. Fermented cool with our preferred house lager yeast strain and conditioned cold for 5 additional weeks.

Employing some incredibly technical brewing skills, we sent this beer through a complex decoction mash. An old world practice, the process involves removing a portion of the main mash and bringing it up to a boil. Going through a series of steps, this process is said to provide a depth to the finished beer, not possible otherwise. In addition, a technique known as spunding, we closed off Sainnhus during fermentation in order to capture all of the CO2 being expelled and trapping it into solution. The result yields an unparalleled crisp lager beer with a frothy rocky head.

Inspired by the traditional rauchbiers of Germany, we love the intensity and complexity of smoke malt. Show Less