Černé Pivo!
There are certain beers you’ll never get a chance to brew. Either the market does not exist, or the means to brew them are out of your reach. Sometimes both. For the longest time I worked in an ale only brewery, and lagers were never on my radar. So a Czech style Černe Pivo was [...]
Czech? Yes. German? No.
The Notch Session Pils is having great success in draft and bottle with very positive feedback, which is encouraging. Encouraging because Czech style lagers are very different from other European pilsners (Germany, Copenhagen), and I had a bit of trepidation about releasing a style rarely seen in the US. It’s not everyday a US craft [...]
Session Beer – Workers’ Beer
I’ve been working on finalizing recipes this week for the new Notch beers to be released in February of next year. With this release, Notch steps outside of the British Isles and begins to explore Session Beers of other great beer brewing nations. While the Brits coined the phrase “Session”, they are not the only [...]