Viennese Review

Viennese Lager
by Bohemian Brewing Company

YAY! I just got my first hater! Here’s a video on haters that I think is very helpful to watch. I need more haters!

Here’s the post – it’s really long. The author only writes a post a month, so I guess that the length is warranted. I’d like to write one post a month… You know that writing is tough, yeah? Of course, you have sentences like these last three that are more stream-of-consciousness thoughts than writing. They’re easy to write and I’m finding a lot of my posts are filled with this.

Let’s take the alternative stance on my website right now. The stance that my website bad for brewers. It’s bad for the beer industry to participate in the site. It’s bad for beer with little exposure to buy content for a fraction of the price it would cost them to make it and ad space on a network of beer blogs that reaches 1,500 people a day. It’s bad for someone to watch, be entertained, and learn about a style or brand they may not have tried before. It’s bad to collaborate with other content producers and beer experts in making a show. It’s bad to just give the facts about the beer without telling people how you feel about it. It’s bad to market under appreciated craft beer. It’s bad to advertise for anything.

I know the author of that post is an intelligent guy, but click more than one page on my site before you start the name calling. From Wikipedia:

A shill or plant is a person who helps another person or organization to sell goods or services without disclosing that he or she has a close relationship with the seller. The shill pretends to have no association with the seller/group and gives onlookers the impression that he or she is an enthusiastic independent customer.

How many different places to I have to say that I get paid for each spot? I only need 365 people to understand the business model to be successful. Right now, the people that are most enthusiastic about the site are distributors. Why? Because they actually sell beer to consumers. They have ad budgets. They have creative teams. They know what it takes to expand a brand. The brewers that are excited tend to be the younger, more social-media savvy, expansion-minded brewers. The brewers that think $0.10 a click is a pretty bleeping awesome price for an ad. The brewers that take note of the stacks of three-month old beer newspapers in the corners of darkened bars. Those brewers are pretty excited about the business model.

Those are the brewers I want to work with going forward. Thanks to my paid sponsor Bohemian Brewery for getting it.

Just The Facts

Appearance: Clear, deep orangey-gold, thick head
Smell: Floral, bright, slightly tart
Taste: Sour, sweet malty
Mouthfeel: Light body, light carbonation
Drinkability: Quaffable, clean finish

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A spot in Beverageworld

Here's a little spot in Beverageworld magazine with our Viennese Lager in the bunch. We won Gold in the Lager category for our Viennese Lager at the mentioned Canfest in Reno, NV.

http://www.beverageworld.com/

Bohemian Brewery Wins Gold at CanFest!

We won gold in the lager category at CanFest. The Viennese Lager is officially THE best lager in a can!!!! Woot!!!

Viennese on CraftCans.com

http://www.craftcans.com/viennese-lager-bohemian-brewery

Viennese Lager
(Bohemian Brewery)

One of two lagers that Bohemian is currently canning (the other being their Czech Pilsner). This "Viennese Lager" is actually a Märzen/Oktoberfest style brew as it is darker in color and sweeter in taste compared to actual Viennese Lagers. Very few craft breweries focus solely on lagers and I am pretty sure that Bohemian is the only one of those that is canning their beers.

From the Bohemian Brewery site:

"Our full bodied amber colored lager is a result of combining our fine Pils malt with more darkly roasted malt to brew what has become our most popular beer. Slightly more hoppy than our other beers with a very clean and crisp finish. This beer is hard to put down."

Here we go...

Pour - nice dark amber or golden in color with about a half inch of bubbly white head. Reminds me of the color of autumn.

Aroma - grainy malt, like sticking your head right in the fermentation tank. Some flavors of bread dough, yeast and caramel also come to mind.

Taste - sharp on the tongue, like a malt whip setting the stage. This dark amber lager has lots of malt flavor up front followed by some apple and caramel sweetness. I'm loving the way the carbonation makes each sip very crisp and refreshing. The grainy flavor I smelled is very apparent once this hits the lips. If you like an all-grain lager brewed with heart and soul than this is for you. Solid, straightforward and superb.

Overall - smooth, crisp and malty. Pretty light on the tongue and very well-balanced. Excellent lager with plenty of flavor from start to finish.

Would I buy more of it? - absolutely. This is another winner from the good folks in Midvale, Utah!

Note - thanks goes out to Bohemian Brewery for hooking me up with samples of both of their canned offerings. I really appreciate your generosity and enjoyed both beers immensely.

Can Scale: (See All Rated)

Name: Viennese Lager Style: Vienna Lager Brewery: Bohemian Brewery City: Midvale , Utah Country: United States Container: 12 oz. can Malts: Canadian 2-row pilsner malt Hops: Noble ABV: 5.0% IBUs: ??? Date: August 26th, 2010

Posted by Russ

Bohemian Brewery Can's it's Viennese Lager

http://www.slcgolocal.com/2010/01/05/bohemian-brewery-news/

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Bohemian Brewery News

Posted by Utah Stories in Local Spotlight

Beer Stories: Bohemian Brewery introduces Viennese in cans

by Rebecca Edwards

Beer festival season is almost upon us, and Bohemian Brewery is ready to win another slew of medals this year. For years Bohemian Brewery has been tantalizing our taste buds and helping us mere mortals realize Benjamin Franklin’s oft-quoted quip: “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy” with their unique -and always smooth — brews.

Bohemian is probably most well known for their cans. In addition to the Czech Pilsner, you will now be able to find their famed (and my favorite!) Viennese Lager in cans at your local grocery store. As one of the first craft brewers to use cans instead of bottles, they’ve taken a fair amount of heat for the strangely controversial choice. Until recently, cans were cost-prohibitive — especially for a small brewery setting out to gain their foothold in the craft beer marketplace. But Bohemian was not deterred. They forged ahead like pioneers and passionately defend their right to can.

“I was stoked that they had a can line here,” brewer Bobby Jackson shared. “Three years ago, it was pretty isolated. I remember trying to get questions answered about cans in brew school, but there were no real answers. Craft brew wasn’t really being put into cans.”

Extolling the virtues of can vs. bottle, Jackson continued, “You get 100% UV blockage, it chills faster, cans are allowed more places than bottles. The green revolution is also fueling the move to cans, which is nice in a place like Salt Lake City, which has a large outdoor community.”

And what about that old argument that cans make beer taste like metal? Jackson points out that they do recommend using a glass. “I think that if people are tasting metal it’s from their mouth touching metal — if you pour the beer into a glass you don’t taste anything. Our cans are lined so that the liquid never actually touches the metal.”

The most recent, handcrafted release by Bohemian is the 1842 Pilsner, which is only available at the brewery — a cozy escape that made me feel like I was in a European ski chalet. What makes the 1842 special is the handcrafted floor malt and triple decocting process, which requires patience, time and intense attention to detail. The process was developed originally as a way to help maintain consistency in a time when even basics like a thermometer were not available to help brewers produce reliable quality.

“This is the second time we’ve done this beer,” Jackson explained. “It’s done with a handcrafted floor malt from Weyermann. All the malting is done by hand and turned on the floor; it’s the way it was done hundreds of years ago, which is kind of experiencing a comeback. Other places are starting to return to the roots of crafting beer. The recipe is based on Josef Groll — his original recipe for Pilsner Urquell, which was originally brewed in 1842. It’s a much drier beer than our original pilsner; dry-hopped completely with Saaz hops. There’s a light malt complexity, nice hop notes on the nose with spicy aromas. This beer is lighter in color and a pretty good example of an original German pilsner.”

Their first attempt at the 1842 yielded a gold medal just weeks after its release — and there’s no reason to think they won’t do it again in upcoming festivals. Jackson , who’s been at Bohemian nearly three years, likes the chance to mix it up. “We didn’t do anything but the four (Czech Pilsner, Cherny Bock, Bavarian Weiss and Viennese Lager) for the longest time, but now that we’re getting settled in we’ve started to do more stuff. We had a black wheat for the holidays and a rye beer will be out for springtime…that will be interesting.”

Whether it’s crafting beer old-world style or doing their part to save the environment by using easily-recyclable aluminum, Bohemian Brewery is a leader in the craft beer revolution, and Salt Lake City is extremely lucky that Bohemian calls Utah home.

Learn More:

Bohemian Brewery Homepage

Bohemain Viennese is now offered in cans at local super markets such as Harmon’s and Smith’s, but it runs about fifty cents cheaper per can if purchased at Bohemian located at 94 East 7200 South.

Bohemian Takes Bronze for Viennese

The North American Brewers Association announced the medal winners of the 2004 North American Beer Awards during the Mountain Brewers Beer Fest in Idaho Falls, Idaho on June 5, 2004.

Hundreds of entries representing breweries from Florida to Alaska, Canada and Mexico, were judged. When the results were decoded and tabulated, Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals were awarded, and for some categories, Honorable Mention.

Category: German Lager Beers-- Vienna