New Bohemia Pilsner Soquel

New Bohemia Pilsner Soquel

Brewed by New Bohemia Brewing Co.

Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Style:  Bohemian / Czech Pilsener

5.4% Alcohol by Volume

45 International Bittering Units

This beer is available all year

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PILSNER SOQUEL Our Beer Story begins with our Pilsner Soquel. NuBo’s co-founders (Dan and Mike) lived in Europe in their 20s, and Dan began his professional brewing working for a family-owned brewery with a 150-year history in the Black Forest of Germany, following traditions and techniques that earned Bavaria its reputation for outstanding lagers. Mike lived in the former Czechoslovakia, and fell in love with the fresh Pilsners that originated in the Bohemia region of today’s Czech Republic. Back in the US, craft brewers didn’t seem interested in anything that wasn’t IPA, and Pilsners were mostly bland derivatives of what we found overseas. New Bohemia therefore began with a simple idea, that Old World knowledge still had plenty to offer, and Santa Cruz would be the ideal place to establish a brewery that could be original in today’s beer scene, while being inspired by traditional methods, to produce exceptional beer. Like most classics, a beer done right is about finding balance–between sweetness and bitterness, malt and hops. Managing to be crisp and refreshing without being bland, and with a healthy head of dense foam atop its clear golden color, brewers worldwide recognize Pilsners as the most challenging beer to produce, as the slightest imperfection can destroy its delicate balance. Our Pilsner Soquel uses special ingredients, with yeast that is sourced from the Budvar brewery in the town of Ceske Budejovice (Bohemia). It’s brewed with step fermentation and aged in horizontal lagering tanks, to assure the clarity and complexity that make it a classic.