Bellingham's Aslan Brewing shares details on Tateyama Japanese lager and Žatec Czech-style Pilsner
In its ongoing commitment, Aslan Brewing Company has a slate of favorites both old and new on the horizon. Available (soon) at both their Bellingham and Seattle taprooms, the brewery hopes you’ll consider them for your next outdoor indulgence.
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Tateyama: A Japanese inspired Rice Lager.
Named for Bellingham’s sister city in Japan, Tateyama returns from last year’s premiere.
Reviewing the brewers notes one can recover characteristics like jasmine tea, dry sake, and fresh kola nut. For the brewers, the process begins with organic, whole, long-grain, white rice and imported pilsner malt. Adhering to a cereal mash process, they merge the beer with Strisselspalt hops from the Alsace region, before fermenting cold for extended lagering. The result is a beer that is naturally carbonated and refreshing.
If you’d like to learn more about Tateyama, you can read about it here
Žatec Czech-style Pale Lager
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Brewed to be an 11-degree, Czech-style pale lager, adhering to the Cseke Pivo regulations, Žatec brings attention to a lost style.
The American brewing scene does a phenomenal job of bringing an audience to obscure, or once extinct styles of beer. Yet, it often also misses the mark or under-represents the currents that genuinely makes the style what it is. In the case of Czech brewing, America does little justice to their art form.
Brewed in accordance to the German Reinheitsgebot, coupled with Czech brewing techniques, Žatec uses the following disciplines:
Use a single decoction, as opposed to a double or triple decoction technique, the brewers save time and recover some malt flavor.
They execute primary fermentation in a tank separate from the lagering tank.
The presence of diacetyl rest is missing.
The beer has lagered from between 30 and 90 days.
For the brewers as Aslan, Žatec adheres to the strict Czech brewing guidelines from the ppm of diacetyl (between 100 and 200), to the lagering techniques. The result is a beer that is a love letter to the country that birthed the Pilsner.
Look for Tateyama this Friday, May 15th and Žatec, available later this month.
Aslan Brewing Company is located at 1330 N Forest St, Bellingham, WA 98225. For more information, visit https://aslanbrewing.com/ which includes hours, current releases and their second location Aslan Depot.
