Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| The golden lagers of the Czech Republic are at once the easiest and most elusive beers in the world. They are easy because, unlike goses and gueuzes, they are imprinted on our brains as the most basic form of “beer.” Frothy, sparkling, pale–no instruction manual required. We even have two of the most important and tasty examples at hand in Budvar and Pilsner Urquell, which means we don’t have to put our brains through a remote intellectual exercise to appreciate them. A quick visit to a decent grocery store or any bottle shop, and we can be drinking some of the world’s best Czech lagers in a half hour.
But the ways in which they elude us are much more important and, after four days of intense remedial study in the Czech Republic, where I found the true story lies. From a great distance, all Czech pilsners–světlé pivo, “pale lagers” in Czech–look alike. If pressed, you might admit that hoppy Pilsner Urquell, with its very round body and dollop of diacetyl, isn’t actually all tha … |
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