Craft Beer & Brewing Course
Brewing Traditional Lagers with Dovetail
From design to decoction to coolship to cellar, Dovetail owners and master brewers Hagen Dost and Bill Wesselink dig into the details of how they produce their acclaimed lager, Kölsch, and weissbier.
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In this 50-minute video course, cofounders and master brewers Hagen Dost and Bill Wesselink focus especially on their approach to traditional lager brewing, from their inspirations and recipe design to careful fermentation and an intentional approach to packaging and service. Along the way, they share details on their approach to decoction mashing, using the coolship for all their beers, yeast-pitching temperatures, open fermentation, lagering times, packaging, service, the importance of foam, and much more.
Course contents
4 chapters, 17 lessons, 50m of video
Chapter 1
Welcome
- Welcome, and About Dovetail6:32
- Our Breakout Brewer Profile on Dovetail
Chapter 2
Materials + Technique
- Water + Mashing4:55
- Why Decoction Matters
- Raw Materials7:19
- Traditional Hefeweizen: Worth the Trouble?
- Processes and Techniques:15:08
- Gearing Up to Brew Lager
Chapter 3
Fermentation + Lagering
- Crashing, Fermentation, and Maturations11:06
- Get Sideways: Lager Brewers Turn to Horizontal Tanks
- Temperature Control Tips for Lagering at Home
- Packaging + Serving3:16
Chapter 4
Conclusion, Recipes & Further Reading/Listening
- Final Thoughts1:51
- Recipe: Dovetail Helles
- Recipe: Dovetail Czech Dark Lager
- Bonus Reading: When Brewers "Know a Guy," Kriek Can Happen (2018)
- Coolships & Decoctions: Exploring Franconia, the Most Brewery-Rich Region in the World
What students say
Lots of great information and history in one course.
This course helped me to think outside the box on how to achieve a decoction mash on the 10bbl ABE system I work on, which is definitely not designed with decoction in mind. Cool!
As someone wanting to learn to brew lagers this was amazing. Worth the entire subscription if I get nothing else! Thanks so much Dovetail and B & B!