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Old-Fashioned Lagers and Smoked Beers with Live Oak

Craft Beer & Brewing Course

Old-Fashioned Lagers and Smoked Beers with Live Oak

Are you ready for this one, lager nerds? In this discursive but detailed video course, Live Oak founder Chip McElroy and head brewer Dusan Kwiatkowski talk smoked beers, pre-Prohibition lager, cereal mashes, decoctions, and much more.

4 chapters · 14 lessons · 1h 9m

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Are you ready for this one, lager nerds? In this discursive but detailed video course, Live Oak founder Chip McElroy and head brewer Dusan Kwiatkowski talk smoked beers, pre-Prohibition lager, cereal mashes, decoctions, and much more.

Your instructor

Chip McElroy & Dusan Kwiatkowski

Founder and head brewer, Live Oak Brewing

Course contents

4 chapters, 14 lessons, 1h 9m of video

Chapter 1

Welcome

  • Welcome, and About Live Oak8:18

Chapter 2

Brewing Pre-War Pils + Other Lagers

  • Brewing Pre-War Pils, from Grist to Glass19:50
  • Brewing Pre-War Pils, from Grist to Glass (Part 2)17:30
  • America’s Founding Lagers: The Pre-Prohibition Landscape
  • Cereal Mashup: Brewing with Unmalted Grains
  • Why Decoction Matters

Chapter 3

Brewing + Enjoying Smoked Beers

  • Brewing Great Smoked Beers21:20
  • Grodziskie: Smoky, Hoppy, Mysterious, and so Much Fun to Drink
  • Homebrewing your Best Grätzer (Grodziskie)

Chapter 4

Conclusion, Recipes & Further Reading/Listening

  • Final Thoughts1:37
  • Recipe: Live Oak Grodziskie
  • Recipe: Live Oak Schwarzer Rauch
  • Recipe: Draught Beer 1912 Pre-War Lager
  • CB&B Podcast Episode 174: Live Oak Turns Back the Clock with Historical Lagers and Smoked Beers

What students say

5.0 from 1 review
  • A must see
    Jose Mendoza Berrios