{"id":14052,"date":"2016-08-05T15:14:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T21:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=14052"},"modified":"2016-08-05T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T21:14:48","slug":"the-session-114-a-st-louis-pilsner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-session-114-a-st-louis-pilsner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Session #114: A St. Louis pilsner"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hopcandy\">@hopcandy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StanHieronymus\">@StanHieronymus<\/a> Pilsner! The new IPA. Awesome. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/allbeerisone?src=hash\">#allbeerisone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lew Bryson (@lewbryson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewbryson\/status\/761527078869200896\">August 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/00-thesession150.jpg\" alt=\"The Session\" class=\"alignright\"\/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/allaboutbeer.com\/article\/we-changed-the-world-for-this\/\">We Changed The World \u2026 For This?<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>[Via All About Beer]<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/beervana.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/an-american-story.html\">An American Story.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/beervana.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/ipas-as-national-tradition.html\">IPAs as National Tradition.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>[Both via Beervana]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whoa! What\u2019s all of this have to do with The Session #114, given that Alistair Reece has asked us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuggled.net\/2016\/07\/the-session-114-announcement.html\">write about pilsners<\/a>? But what Jeff Alworth has to say about the use of American hops and about how American brewers, and now brewers around the world who are mimicking them, is relevant. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/images\/20160805-forestpark.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"444\" alt=\"Urban Chestnut Brewing Forest Park Pilsner\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>There is such a thing as an Americanized pilsner out there that has nothing to do with Miller Lite. Who You Callin&#8217; Wussie from Arrogant Brewing* is an example. It is a well made flavorful beer, brimming with lots of aromas and flavors, some of which you won\u2019t find in an old world pilsner. Basically, it\u2019s kind of loud and it bangs into the furniture. That\u2019s OK, as long as it is adding diversity, not eliminating choice. These are the sorts of things you should be thinking about when you read Lew Bryson\u2019s column in <em>All About Beer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>*Yes, this is the same brewery as Stone, although I find the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/beer-and-industry-loathing-with-stone-brewings-greg-koch-2016-06-16\">explanation exhausting.<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure any beer can get inside your bones like certain music &#8212; let\u2019s say just about any song from Son Volt\u2019s <em>Trace<\/em> &#8212; but one like Stammtisch from Urban Chestnut Brewing just up the road from us, or Live Oak Pilz, or Marble Pils, has a better chance than any IPA I can think of. Or a pilsner like Wussie, which ranked seventh in a blind tasting of pilsners conducted by <em>Paste<\/em> magazine. Stammtisch was first, and Pilz and Pils apparently were not tasted.<\/p>\n<p><em>Paste<\/em> praises Urban Chestnut for brewing \u201csuperlative German beer styles.\u201d I understand this, but maybe because I\u2019ve been in St. Louis almost as long as Urban Chestnut (and Daria has been here longer) I figure I\u2019m drinking St. Louis beer, not German beer. Part of the attraction of  Stammtisch is that it has become a familiar flavor, just as <em>Trace<\/em> is familiar. Oh, and that drinking a liter isn\u2019t a challenge. It\u2019s more like humming along when Jay Farrar sings, \u201cSte. Genevieve can hold back the water, but saints don\u2019t bother with a tear stained eye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>The beer in the photo is Urban Chestnut\u2019s Forest Park Pilsner, which is brewed with six-row barley malt, corn, and Cluster hops. I wrote about in the August\/September issue of  <em>Craft Beer &#038; Brewing.<\/em>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@hopcandy @StanHieronymus Pilsner! The new IPA. Awesome. #allbeerisone &mdash; Lew Bryson (@lewbryson) August 5, 2016 We Changed The World \u2026 For This? [Via All About Beer] An American Story. IPAs as National Tradition. [Both via Beervana] Whoa! What\u2019s all of this have to do with The Session #114, given that Alistair Reece has asked us &#8230; <a title=\"The Session #114: A St. Louis pilsner\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-session-114-a-st-louis-pilsner\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Session #114: A St. Louis pilsner\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction","category-the-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3EE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14056,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14052\/revisions\/14056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}