Beer Style: German and Czech Pilsners
Includes both Czech and German-style Pilsner recipes
Victory Brewing Co.’s PrimaPils clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyVictory Brewing Co.’s award-winning, amped up German Pilsner with fresh noble hop aroma, bracing hop dryness, gentle malt character, and ultra clean fermentation.
Strike Brewing Co.’s Beat the Heat clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyBeat the Heat is an ode to the fastball — or at least an ode to a faster lager fermentation. Primary fermentation is started near ale temperatures and with yeast pitch rates that allow for a faster start, less yeast biomass requirements, and slight fruity esters that are produced in the first 24 hours.
Bierstadt Lagerhaus’ Slow Pour Pils clone
FREESlow Pour Pils is aptly named due to the 5-min duration that a proper, multi-step pour of it demands. What you’ll be rewarded with is a strikingly clear, straw-colored beer served in Bierstadt’s trademarked tall, narrow glass. Search as hard as you’d like, you won’t find a fault. Instead, the high-quality German Pils malt and hops, specifically Hallertau Mittelfrüh, shine brightly. Dry biscuit, crackery malt, and hints of honey more than support the white pepper and floral hops. It’s decidedly bitter with a dry, crisp finish that encourages the drinker to immediately take another sip.
German Pils
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis beer is hearty but very drinkable. It is hop-spicy upfront, with a solid mouthfeel and a crisp finish. Many German breweries nowadays make a Pils with much less hop character and a lower gravity than specified here, but this recipe is closer to the original guidelines for making this beer as it might have been brewed in the 19th century.
German Pilsner By Brian Bergquist
Digital and Plus Members OnlyBOS-winning homebrew recipe, brewed by Brian Bergquist. Winner of the 10th Annual Virginia Beer Blitz (Hampton, Virginia: 383 entries)
New Zealand Pilsner
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis pale lager combines some of the better attributes of Pilsner and Kölsch with intriguing modern New Zealand hops.
Pilsner Geben Frei
Digital and Plus Members OnlyA gluten-free Pilsner-styled beer that is brewed wtih Saaz hops to provide the crucial spicy aroma and character to this beer.
Bohemian Pilsner (Michael Agnew)
Digital and Plus Members OnlyMichael won Gold in 2010 in the National Homebrew Competition (NHC) with this recipe.
Bohemian Pilsner (James Golovich)
Digital and Plus Members OnlyJames won Best of Show at the 2008 Grant County Fair with this recipe.
Bohemian Pilsner (Ted Hausotter)
Digital and Plus Members OnlyTed has won several awards for this recipe, the best of which was second place Best of Show at the Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing (MCAB) in 2000.
Bohemian Pilsner (Randy Scorby)
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis recipe was the runner up Best of Show at the 2014 Central Oregon Homebrewer’s Organization Spring Fling in Bend, Oregon with this recipe.
German-Style Pilsener
Digital and Plus Members Only3 different hop varieties add character to this crisp and bitter German-style Pilsener.