German-style pilsner with balanced notes of bready malt and herbal, spicy hops will return in cans.

The beer has provided the Von Ebert Brewing team with the opportunity to focus on refining a very specific type of pilsner.

“There’s a perception that pilsner is a monolithic concept, but there is much variation in the traditional examples of the style,” explained Jason Hansen, Lead Brewer & Blender, Von Ebert Glendoveer. “In a very general way, the spectrum of pilsners goes from more malt-forward to more hop-forward in the general direction of Czech or Bohemian pilsner, followed by Southern German pilsner, followed by Northern German pilsner. With Alemanian Pils, we wanted to do something like the Southern German counterpart to our decidedly Northern German standard Von Ebert Pils.”

Rather than blending base malts as Von Ebert does when brewing Pils, the brewing team used one single German base malt. They chose Tettnang and Hallertau Select hops to push the herbal notes forward a bit more and provide a spicy undertone. A malt-accentuating lager strain from Bavaria was used in the beer as well.

“The result is a balanced and drinkable beer with great malt and hop character, without one overshadowing the other,” continued Hansen. “As for the name of the beer, Alemania is the name for Germany in Spanish.”