Here are the best available pilsner beers to drink right now.

And while a trip to Denver (or the Czech Republic, where the style was born) might be out of the realm of possibilities at the moment, there are plenty of quality pilsner options awaiting at your local beer supplier.

An experimental brewery with a fresh take on traditional styles from the north of Belgium. This blond ale is a clean refresher, with Organic Spelt and pilsner malt. 100 malt pilsner, with intense taste and clean bitterness. Excellent for pilsners, dubbels, tripels, whites and specialty ales. We love Belgian beer, with so many different styles for a country the size of. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more refreshing beer-drinking experience. An excellent base malt for many styles, including full flavored Lagers, Belgian Ales and Belgian Wheat beers. The slow pour process results in a crystal clear beer topped with a creamy foam that bubbles over the top of the glass. Its German-style lager takes 30 hours to brew, even longer to lager, and even longer still for it to make its way from the tap to your lips (at least it feels that way). We wanted to give people an experience here that you would have to otherwise jump on an airplane and travel to Germany to have-fresh-tasting lager on draft.”Īt Bierstadt, you can have the ultimate pilsner drinking experience: the slow-pour pils.

“I love how much technique is involved in making lagers sure, recipe is important to a certain extent but really the technique is what separates the good from the great. “I got my first brewing job (where) I wanted to make lager more than I wanted to make anything else, so when it came time for my partner, Bill Eye and I to open our own brewery, we knew exactly what we wanted to do-make the beers we wanted to drink,” says Ashleigh Carter, head brewer and co-owner of Bierstadt Lagerhaus in Denver. The result is a beer that has the drinkability of your everyday lager with a bit more heft: a spicier, hoppier, or maltier quality are all possible when drinking a pilsner. His solution was to add Saaz hops, which help prevent the beer from spoiling while also altering its flavor. Enter the pilsner, a style that originated in the 19th century when Josef Groll came to the aid of the people of the Czech city, Plzeň who were plagued by a batch of “spoiled” lager. Sometimes you just want a beer-nothing fancy, nothing loaded with so many hops that you can’t taste anything except bitter pinecones for the next three hours-just a beer.

Belgian pilsner beer