![]() ![]() Historically, genuine pilsner is a thing of beauty-delicate, sharp, flavorful, aromatic, and appetizing. Out of this imitation, the German Pilsner was born. Soon after Josef Grolle’s Pilsner sent shock waves across the brewing world the German brewers scrambled to imitate the style. Before then the majority German beers made had been dark in color due to the different malting process. This created a truly golden beer that was revolutionary to the brewing world. Josef Grolle used the smuggled Bavarian yeast with a pale colored malt that he had developed from the maltsters of Great Britain. ![]() He gave it to the Bavarian-born brewer, Josef Grolle, at the Plzensky Prazdroj brewery. In 1842, a Bavarian monk smuggled a bottom-fermenting lager yeast from Munich to the Bohemian town of Pilsen. While most people think of pilsner as a German style, it actually has its origins in Bohemia, which is now part of the Czech Republic. ![]()
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