Pollock’s Pilsner

Brew Date: May 15, 2020
Style: Modified German Pilsner
Key Ingredients: English crystal malts, cascade and centennial hops
Release Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Drinking window: July 1, 2020 – August 15, 2020

Brewing is a science. But it’s also an art.  Well, this beer is art- abstract art.  In 1947 a young troubled artist named Jackson Pollock dripped some paint on a canvas.  Whether this was deliberate, or a kicked paint can (we believe the latter), Pollock inspired a movement emblematic of the chaos in the world and in his mind.

Like a Pollock, this beer is inspired by the randomness of chance. Its hops and grains are in the traditional pilsner style, but adding the yeast to boiling water is not.  Yet the rescue fermentation provided by a spare Belgian yeast and some handy sourdough starter gives this pilsner its complex favor. This is further enhanced by highly caramelized malt sugars caused by an over-efficient burner. Yet three weeks of slow and cold fermentation have allowed the subtle mixing of these flavors into an amber colored symphony.

Every Pollock painting is unique, just as every batch of Pollock’s Pilsner is unique.  If you ask us to make it again, it will taste subtly different.  But oftentimes accidental chance is the greatest artist.