With unfiltered beers, freshness doesn’t mean they always taste best on Day 1. At one and a half or two months, they’re gorgeous,” Mr. Suarez said, noting that he favors his own pilsners with one or two weeks of age. Mr. Suarez prefers to describe his lagers as “unfiltered” instead of using the German jargon. Last year, Green Flash, of San Diego, released its Sea to Sea Lager — the label calls it a “zwickel lager” nationwide. For American brewers accustomed to lobbing grenades at orthodoxy, producing zwickel and keller beers is especially appealing.

Source: New York Times February 22, 2018 17:37 UTC