Yesterday, I half-jokingly tweeted that two UK breweries best known for brewing German-style beers brewing a collaboration Vienna Lager is proof that 2021 is the year of Vienna Lager. This actually made me reflect a bit on what happened since I published my book about the beer style. The book itself was very well received. … Continue reading 2021, The Year of Vienna Lager?
Today, I am publishing my new book titled “Vienna Lager”. It’s the result of 1.5 year of intense research about the history of the Vienna Lager beer style and its current state. And of course, how to brew it. I consider this to be my greatest work so far, and I’m absolutely proud about the … Continue reading “Vienna Lager”, My New Book
Description Vienna Lager is an outstanding example of a revolution in beer brewing that started in the 1830s. When Austrian brewer Anton Dreher travelled to England and Scotland, he learned about British brewing technology that was mostly unknown in Continental Europe at the time. With this knowledge and a lager yeast sample from his friend … Continue reading Vienna Lager
Back in 2015, when I started looking more closely into the historic specifications of Vienna Lager, one question where I started speculating and couldn’t really get a good answer was the question of colour. I based this off historic records that I had found in one of Ron Pattinson’s books, “Decoction!“. The provided value of … Continue reading Decoding the Colour of Historic Vienna Lager
The last time I blogged about Vienna lager, I wrote down everything we know about the historic specifications of the beer style and how it was brewed in the last few decades of the 19th century. The only point that was speculation on my side was the water profile. I can now say that this … Continue reading The Water Profile for Vienna Lager
In several previous postings, I wrote about various details in my effort to reconstruct historic Vienna lager as it was brewed in the 19th century by Viennese breweries, in particular Anton Dreher’s Kleinschwechater Brauerei, and exported all over Europe. In a posting about a month ago, I discerned various mashing methods as they were described … Continue reading Vienna Lager: Another Piece of the Puzzle
During my preparations for #BeeryLongReads2018, I found more information regarding my historic Vienna lager. In particular, I found more information about one topic that has been quite difficult to find anything out about: hopping rates. I blogged about the hops used in Vienna lager previously. In the book “Die Theorie und Praxis der Malzbereitung und … Continue reading Historic Vienna Lager: More Findings
Two years ago, I did some research to put together a recipe that was meant to closely match what a Vienna lager in the 19th century would have looked and tasted like. About a year ago, I also discussed the state of Austrian hops and how the hop growing industry had changed over time. In that … Continue reading Hops used in Vienna Lager
As blogged previously, I had looked a bit into the historic roots of Vienna lager, a beer style that was quite successful in the 19th century in Europe, but has since then been forgotten in its country of origin, and had only been revived through the US craft beer movement. In April, I finally managed … Continue reading Vienna Lager: the Aftermath
About a month ago, I posted about some things I found out about Vienna lagers, and how the historic original probably was like compared to modern versions of that style. So yesterday, we finally got around to brewing it on my own. I compromised a bit in the whole process, though, just to make a … Continue reading Brewing a Vienna Lager