{"id":104489,"date":"2019-09-13T08:05:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T14:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.craftbeer.com\/?p=104489"},"modified":"2019-09-27T04:35:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T10:35:52","slug":"brut-lagers-brut-lagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craftbeer.com\/craft-beer-muses\/brut-lagers-brut-lagers","title":{"rendered":"Brut Lagers?! Brut Lagers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American craft brewers have never been shy about borrowing techniques from one style and applying it to another. If barrel-aging can add oak and bourbon flavors to stouts, why not try it on Belgian-inspired quads? If serving a porter on nitro adds a pleasing creaminess, could we not also try it on pale ales or IPAs?<\/p>\n<p>Almost as soon as a technique, ingredient, or process hits brewers\u2019 tool kits, they can\u2019t wait to see how far it can stretch. The latest example of stylistic exchange: brut lagers.<\/p>\n<h2>Birth of the Brut IPA<\/h2>\n<p>Brut lagers wouldn\u2019t be possible without their parent style, brut IPAs. And brut IPAs wouldn\u2019t have been possible without an enzyme called amyloglucosidase or amylase. Thankfully, you don\u2019t need to know how to spell it or even pronounce it to understand its effects on beer.<\/p>\n<p>This enzyme piqued brewers\u2019 interest at the tail end of 2017, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftbeer.com\/featured-brewery\/social-kitchen-birth-brut-ipa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kim Sturdavant<\/a> of San Francisco\u2019s Social Kitchen and Brewery used the ingredient, which craft brewers typically reserved for big beefy stouts, to brew an IPA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftbeer.com\/craft-beer-muses\/experimental-hops-create-compelling-flavors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hot Experimental Hops Create Compelling Flavors<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amyloglucosidase breaks down malts\u2019 sugars into smaller bites, making them easier for yeast to eat. That changes the character of the beer by drying it out, decreasing its perceived weight on the palate, and making it highly effervescent like the brut champagne that brut IPAs are named for.<\/p>\n<p>The style spread, and now you might find brut IPAs in six-packs on grocery store shelves. But it got a couple craft breweries wondering: What if they applied the enzyme to lagers?<\/p>\n<h2>Brut Lagers Filling a Void?<\/h2>\n<p>While no one had used the term \u201cbrut lager\u201d until 2019, brewing lagers with this type of enzyme goes back to the 1960s. It was a key component of some large breweries\u2019 light beers, as it helped remove the malt sugars that would add a fullness to beers, and it made the final beers lower in calories.<\/p>\n<p>So when Dave Berg, brewmaster at August Schell Brewing Co. in New Ulm, Minnesota, heard about its use in brut IPAs, he thought it was a natural fit for the lagers his brewery is known for. His goal in brewing August Schell\u2019s Brut Lager was to replicate what drinkers liked in brut IPAs\u2014aromatic hops, a light body\u2014and translate it to a lager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used a lot of late-addition hops trying to imitate the brut IPA style, and we used some newer hop varieties,\u201d Berg says. \u201cI think people are apparently more calorie conscious but they still want flavor, and so it seems like that\u2019s a pretty large untapped area right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>(More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftbeer.com\/editors-picks\/brewers-association-releases-brewery-employee-diversity-data-for-the-first-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brewers Association Releases Brewery Employee Diversity Data for the First Time<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Drinkers seeking lots of hop character but in an easier-drinking package than an 8% IPA could find their answer in the Brut Lager, which was part of the brewery\u2019s summer variety pack that debuted in June. The word brut, so associated with IPAs in the beer world, helped convey effervescence and aromatic hops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was something different to try. Brut had become a name that people actually recognize in beer,\u201d Berg says.<\/p>\n<p>While he\u2019s not sure the word brut will still grace beer cans five years from now, Berg thinks the refreshing, flavorful components of a brut lager have staying power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody\u2019s been doing the big imperial stouts and really boozy beers for a long time and they\u2019re great, but especially as you get older, you can\u2019t drink that much. I think there\u2019s probably a market for reduced carb beers that have more flavor,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<h2>It\u2019s Not Wine, It\u2019s Brut Lager<\/h2>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_104676\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft \"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.craftbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190829131159\/kinslahger-brut-lager.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-104676 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.craftbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190829131159\/kinslahger-brut-lager.jpg\" alt=\"Kinslahger Brewing brut lager\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.craftbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190829131159\/kinslahger-brut-lager.jpg 900w, https:\/\/cdn.craftbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190829131159\/kinslahger-brut-lager-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.craftbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190829131159\/kinslahger-brut-lager-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/cdn.craftbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190829131159\/kinslahger-brut-lager-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illinois\u2019 Kinslahger Brewing Co. co-owner Keith Huizinga says the brewery wanted to create a different type of experience, like a sparkling wine but 100 percent beer, with its brut lager. (Kinslahger Brewing Co.)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>But the lower-malt aspect of brut lagers wasn\u2019t initially what drew Kinslahger Brewing Company to the emerging style. For co-owner Keith Huizinga, it was all about its proximity to wine.<\/p>\n<p>The brewery in Oak Park, Illinois, has brewed primarily lagers for just over three years, and its brewer Steve Loranz is constantly on the search to expand drinkers\u2019 perceptions of what the category can be. When people hear lager, Huizinga says, they think of a certain flavor. But lager is just a type of fermentation, a part of a beer\u2019s overall design that doesn\u2019t pigeonhole it any more than the word \u201cale\u201d would.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to create a different type of experience, something almost like a sparkling wine, but 100 percent beer,\u201d says Huizinga. \u201cThe idea was combining the dry brut techniques with a hop selection that would emphasize that almost grapelike character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their hop choice was a blend of Nelson Sauvin and Hallertau Blanc hops which teamed up to give the lager, named Sauvin Blanc, its vinous aroma and flavor. That the beer\u2019s name sounds like the wine varietal sauvignon blanc only helped get Kinslahger\u2019s point across.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOriginally we released it as a taproom-only beer back in March. We loved it; the customers loved it, so we turned around and got an extra batch in the tanks,\u201d Huizinga says. \u201cThe initial feedback was strong, once we can get over people thinking it\u2019s wine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>(More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftbeer.com\/editors-picks\/new-list-ranks-10-best-cities-for-beer-lovers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New List Ranks 10 Best Cities for Beer Lovers<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Brewers Experiment<\/h2>\n<p>Kinslahger adds the crucial amylase enzyme to the brewing process at the end of fermentation to break down those long-chain sugars. But August Schell\u2019s brewers actually add the enzyme in the mash phase. Brewers seem split on the question of when to add the enzyme in the brewing process; both August Schell and Kinslahger say their methods achieved their end goals for the beer.<\/p>\n<p>Because brut lagers are an even newer spinoff of the relatively new brut IPA style, there\u2019s much for craft brewers to still explore when it comes to processes and ingredients. But its defining characteristics\u2014a barely-there malt bill and aromatic, usually wine-reminiscent hops\u2014seem firmly established. As with any new beer style, though, where it goes next is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American craft brewers have never been shy about borrowing techniques from one style and applying it to another, and brut lagers are the latest example of stylistic exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7228,"featured_media":104679,"sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sticky_collection":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4295],"class_list":["post-104489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-craft-beer-muses","tag-beer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.7 (Yoast SEO v26.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brut Lagers?! 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