Style: Bohemian Pilsner
All StylesStyle Profile based on 245 recipes
BU:GU
0.76
Hops
5.5 g/L
Description
Very pale gold to deep burnished gold, brilliant to very clear, with a dense, long-lasting, creamy white head. Aroma: Rich with complex malt and a spicy, floral Saaz hop bouquet. Some pleasant, restrained diacetyl is acceptable, but need not be present. Otherwise clean, with no fruity esters. Flavour: Rich, complex maltiness combined with a pronounced yet soft and roundSoft water with low mineral content, Saaz hops, Moravian malted barley, Czech lager yeast.
Examples: Pilsner Urquell, Krušovice Imperial 12°, Budweiser Budvar (Czechvar in the US), Czech Rebel, Staropramen, Gambrinus Pilsner, Dock Street Bohemian Pilsner
- 95% Pilsner (91%)
- 67% Crystal (6%)
- 38% Toast (9%)
- 29% Pale (5%)
% of Bohemian Pilsner recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
- 80% Saaz (CZ)
- 9% Perle (GR)
- 9% Magnum (GR)
- 7% Southern Brewer
- 5% Hallertau Taurus
- 4% Tettnanger
- 4% Cascade
- 2% Hallertau Mittelfrüh
- 2% Galena
- 2% Motueka
% of Bohemian Pilsner recipes using each hop
- 39% Pilsner (2 Row) Ger
- 33% Cara-Pils/Dextrine
- 13% Munich Malt
- 13% Pilsner (2 Row) Bel
- 9% Pilsner (Weyermann)
- 7% Vienna Malt
- 5% Acid Malt
- 5% Melanoiden Malt
- 5% Carahell
- 4% Munich Malt - 10L
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
- 20% Saflager Lager (W-34/70) Fermentis
- 15% Pilsner Lager Yeast (WLP800) White Labs
- 9% Czech Pilsner Lager (2278) Wyeast Labs
- 7% Urquell Lager (2001) Wyeast Labs
- 7% Czech Budejovice Lager Yeast (WLP802) White Labs
- 7% Bohemian Lager (2124) Wyeast Labs
- 5% SafLager West European Lager (S-23) Fermentis
- 3% German Lager Yeast (WLP830) White Labs
- 2% Bohemian Lager Yeast (M84) Mangrove Jack's
- 2% Pilsen Lager (2007) Wyeast Labs
% of Bohemian Pilsner recipes using each strain