Craft Beer & Brewing Course
The Secrets to Brewing Great Lagers with Bierstadt Lagerhaus
Bierstadt Lagerhaus Founders Bill Eye and Ashleigh Carter take you step-by-step through their process for brewing some of the best lagers (Pilsner, Helles, Märzen, Bock) in the country.
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In this video course Bierstadt Lagerhaus Founders Bill Eye and Ashleigh Carter, which includes more than 45 minutes of applicable knowledge, you'll learn:
- How to design a great lager recipe
- Mashing your lager (from single infusion to decoction)
- The importance of knocking out
- Managing lager fermentation
- The lagering process
- Krausening
- How to pour your pils
Bierstadt is a brewery that is producing only to-style lagers, each poured to order and served in a specifically branded glass. Or, rather, it sounds like a dream many brewers would like to embrace, but a dream that soon gets dashed by outside forces. For Carter and Eye, the brewmasters, their vision has long been clear and was never open to compromise. And while some of their other brewing colleagues might have plans for multi-state dominance, they know how much they want to make and where they want it to go.
They did about 1,200 barrels to close out 2017. They did it on their existing system, a 30-barrel all-copper brewhouse built in 1932 and transported to the Rocky Mountains from a German brewery near Nuremburg, and tanks that can get up to about 2,000 barrels and maybe one day 5,000, but it’s “too early to look at that goal,” according to Carter.
Course contents
11 chapters, 20 lessons, 37m of video
Chapter 1
Welcome
- Hello from Bierstadt Lagerhaus7:17
Chapter 2
Lager Recipe Design
- Overview2:41
Chapter 3
Mashing Lagers
- Overview9:15
Chapter 4
knocking Out & Fermentation
- Overview7:46
Chapter 5
The Lagering Process
- Overview5:51
Chapter 6
Krausening
- Overview0:47
Chapter 7
Lager Clarity
- Overview2:21
Chapter 8
Dispensing Beer
- Overview0:41
Chapter 9
Make Your Best Lagers
- Make Your Best Standard American Lager
- Make Your Best Vienna Lager
- Make Your Best Mexican Lager
- Make Your Best Pre-Prohibition Lager
- Make Your Best International Dark Lager
- Make Your Best India Pale Lager
- Make Your Best Traditional Bock
Chapter 10
Recipes to Get You Started
- Breakside Liquid Sunshine Pilsner Recipe
- Austin Beer Garden Simple Pils
- Jack’s Abby Brewing’s Framinghammer Recipe
- Fort Collins Brewery Maibock Recipe
Chapter 11
Thank You!
- Thank You!
What students say
Top Notch Video Presentation
Top Notch Video Presentation, Brewers at Largerhaus present great amount of material in a short time. Can't wait for a trip to Denver. The text also adds a lot of information about lagering and a great selection of recipes although some points do not track with the methods at Largerhaus. Great amount of information.
Just so much knowledge delivered in this course that prevents you making mistakes and sets you on the right track for lager brewing. I'm an "Ale thinker" at heart and you need to unlearn some things to make great lager. Ashleigh and Bill have pressed the reset button in my head and uploaded "Lager thinker 101". Thoroughly recommended viewing.
Awesome Course!
I loved every bit of this course! great info from some great brewers! 5 Stars
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What Lagering Really Means
A great introduction to old-world production methods and equipment for German lagers. I thought lagering was just a conditioning of finished beer but it's much more than that.
Great. Those might just actually be secrets.
I learned quite a bit about their process and they were able to back up their decisions with logical findings.
Bierstadt rocks
There's a reason why Bierstadt beers are top notch. A great course on the traditional methods to make solid lagers. Inspiring.
Good Course
Enjoyed the Bierstadt Lagerhaus element of the course. I thought the Josh Weikert text element detracted from the theme of the course.
very well explained
Good Info for Commercial Brewers
Well presented with practical suggestions.
Lagers
Informative, and also validating the best way to make great lagers.
Informative
While I have brewed my share of lagers that have come out pretty well, I have picked up some tid bits on process that I think will help bring them to the next level. Good job guys. Thanks for the recipes too!
Very thorough
great!
Next level stuff
Interesting to hear from the pros. I’m just a beginner and this video showed me how much I really need to learn. Thanks for sharing your years of experience.
Appropriate title for their equipment.
Great course overall with some great recipe advice at the end. But I am not so sure about one part: You should be able to read through all lagers? They should all be 'bright and brilliant'? Dunkel, Bock, Marzen, etc? I'm confused now.
Lager Wonderful
Fantastic overview of information! Thank you..
Great video
Lager excellence!
Well thought out with alot of great insight to brewing great lagers.
Lager Learned A Lot
Great course learnd so much about what I was doing wrong w/ lager beers. Cheers!
Found this course interesting
From here I mostly take that fermentation is 80% of making good Lager (is that true?)
Appropriate title
Great Course. Have already adopted some tricks for my latest Helles.
Lagering sense
A lot of solid advice built on simplicity working with the equipment you have at your disposal.
Excellent !
I consolidated my knowledge about Lagers with this course
Ale Brain gets recalibrated
Just so much knowledge delivered in this course that prevents you making mistakes and sets you on the right track for lager brewing. I'm an "Ale thinker" at heart and you need to unlearn some things to make great lager. Ashleigh and Bill have pressed the reset button in my head and uploaded "Lager thinker 101". Thoroughly recommended viewing.
Brilliant
Just what I needed. Well done from Australia!!!!!
Great job!
Great job and information on Lagering!
The Secrets to Brewing Great Lagers with Bierstadt Lagerhaus
The technical reiterations were not particularly well spoken in some cases but the values were still found to be enlightening. I found the recipes to be mostly contradicted by the overall messages given in the video portion of the class.
Great lagers, great course
Secrets to brewing great Lagers
Fantastic course great presenters!
OK
brilliant