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257: West Coast Pilsner Roundtable With Firestone Walker, Highland Park, and Humble Sea
Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine Podcast
Timbo Pils: A West Coast Pilsner
Timbo Pils is a West Coast Pilsner-style beer. It was created by blending two styles in a cask, and then that became an actual beer. "We wanted to approach it on the hot side like a Pilsner," McDonald's says.
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I wouldn't say we make a beer called Timbo Pils, probably our most well-known beer we call it a West Coast Pilsner. We first made that beer, I think, in 2015. And it was just kind of a happy accident. We were making a cask of beer, which we probably haven't done in four years. And we blended a Pilsner and a West Coast IPA, half and half in this cask and then cask conditioned it. And the beer was awesome. And we were super pumped. It was me and our brewer at the time, Tim McDonald's, all the Timbo Pils. And we immediately were like, we got to make this as an actual beer. And so, yeah, it was the simple idea of blending those two styles in a cask. And then that became an actual beer. And then it kind of just, we were, okay, how do we figure out how to do that, but do that with a grain bill and hopping and all of that. And we kind of decided that for this style, we wanted to approach it on the hot side like a Pilsner. So, you know, we were using all sort of like noble leaning hops. We were shooting for maybe lower starting gravity, something more drinkable. We were using low alpha hops in the kettle. We were using, you know, German Pilsner malts. And essentially approaching it as a Pilsner on the hot side. And then as kind of a final step, moving towards it, like the IPA or West Coast part of it, being on the cold side, dry hopping, you know, like an IPA. And that's kind of the basic initial conception. It was a blending of two styles.
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