Unfiltered Pilsner

For our Unfiltered Pilsner, we embraced some familiar values -- patience and simplicity. As we've written over the years, many of our favorite results come from adding time to simplicity. We brewed a wort with Hill Country well water (which we softened), White Horn Pilsner Malt from our friends at Blacklands Malt, and Hallertau Mittelfruh hops. We did a single decoction mash, which involves removing part of the main mash and cooking it separately for a period of time, in an effort to yield malt complexity and melanoidin production. We fermented the wort with German lager yeast from Community Cultures Yeast Lab in San Antonio, then lagered the beer for six weeks in a horizontal dairy tank. We left the beer unfiltered and unpasteurized. Making pale lager was familiar to making farmhouse ale in the sense that there's no substitute for time. Show Less