Tucked right into a nook of the sprawling grounds at Pilsner Urquell in Plzeň, Czechia—the birthplace of pilsner—a brand new chapter in that story is creating. Now in its third yr, Pivovar Proud is Pilsner Urquell’s experimental playground—a fantastically geared up 30-hectoliter equipment producing a variety of each ales and lagers and different creations much less simply categorized. Its head brewmaster Lenka Straková has entry to Pilsner Urquell’s sources—together with malt from its personal maltings—however she additionally has artistic license to dabble in New World hops, varied yeasts, barrel-aging, and extra.
On this episode, Straková tells us extra about what she and her staff are as much as at Proud, together with:
- how Pilsner Urquell’s proprietor, Asahi, agreed to associate with a considerable experimental brewery targeted on craft beer
- how Proud’s personal flagship pale lager, Ventill, relies on Pilsner Urquell and but markedly its personal beer
- her strategy to diacetyl discount in Czech lager
- brewing with 34/70 yeast—the identical used at Gambrinus—and her trials with varied new Czech hop varieties mixed with conventional lager-brewing strategies
- brewing ales and craft kinds for a Czech viewers, with their very own spin
- adjusting Plzeň’s famously smooth water
- blissful accidents and barrel-aged imperial brut IPAs
And extra.
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