Style: German Pilsner
All StylesStyle Profile based on 283 recipes
BU:GU
0.71
Hops
4.2 g/L
Description
Straw to light gold, brilliant to very clear, with a creamy, long-lasting white head. Aroma: Typically features a light grainy Pils malt character (sometimes Graham cracker-like) and distinctive flowery or spicy noble hops. Clean, no fruity esters, no diacetyl. May have an initial sulfury aroma (from water and/or yeast) and a low background note of DMS (from pils malt).Pilsner malt, German hop varieties (especially noble varieties such as Hallertauer, Tettnanger and Spalt for taste and aroma), medium sulfate water, German lager yeast.
Examples: Bitburger, Warsteiner, Trumer Pils, König Pilsener, Jever Pils, Holsten Pils, Spaten Pils, Victory Prima Pils, Brooklyn Pilsner
- 91% Pilsner (92%)
- 45% Crystal (6%)
- 39% Toast (9%)
- 28% Pale (10%)
% of German Pilsner recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
- 39% Saaz (CZ)
- 18% Magnum (GR)
- 15% Tettnanger
- 14% Hallertau Taurus
- 14% Hallertau Mittelfrüh
- 13% Perle (GR)
- 11% Hallertauer Hersbrucker
- 8% Southern Brewer
- 5% Cascade
- 5% Citra
% of German Pilsner recipes using each hop
- 48% Pilsner (2 Row) Ger
- 23% Cara-Pils/Dextrine
- 14% Munich Malt
- 13% Vienna Malt
- 12% Pilsner (Weyermann)
- 8% Acid Malt
- 6% Pilsner (2 Row) UK
- 4% Pilsner (2 Row) Bel
- 4% Melanoiden Malt
- 4% Corn, Flaked
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
- 17% Saflager Lager (W-34/70) Fermentis
- 11% Pilsner Lager Yeast (WLP800) White Labs
- 10% German Lager Yeast (WLP830) White Labs
- 8% SafLager West European Lager (S-23) Fermentis
- 6% German Bock Lager Yeast (WLP833) White Labs
- 5% Bohemian Lager (2124) Wyeast Labs
- 4% Danish Lager (2042) Wyeast Labs
- 3% Southern German Lager Yeast (WLP838) White Labs
- 3% Pilsen Lager (2007) Wyeast Labs
- 3% Urquell Lager (2001) Wyeast Labs
% of German Pilsner recipes using each strain