Author: Andrew February 5, 2020

This started with a thread on Reddit. I decided to join in when I decided I wanted to make a lager and selected the German Pilsner “Myburger” from Brewing Classic Styles.

The premise of “Brew The Book” is pretty loose. There’s no set number of brews, it’s not expected to do something like restrict your all your brewing to one book for a year. I decided I’m going to brew four from the book, roughly quarterly.

The first for me is the German Pilsner. Maybe it’s all the #crispyboi and clear lager posts I see on Reddit’s r/TheBrewery, maybe it’s because I have more appreciation for some of the classic styles, but that’s what I want.

The second is going to be the Northern English Brown Ale. I was really torn between these two and a few other British styles and after reading the descriptions I decided on the Northern English Brown because it’s not quite as malty and sweet.

For the remaining two, I’m thinking the Marzen, and a hefeweisen or dunkelweisen. I expect that I’ll be brewing the Marzen in early summer to be ready for the traditional Oktoberfest timing of Late August to Early September. If I do the hefeweisen, it might be in March; dunkelweisen might be later in the year to be ready in November.

I’ll update this post as I go.