Kanpai – Rice Lager

Kanpai is ‘cheers’ in Japanese. Inspired by Ian’s Japanese classmates at Siebel Institute brewing school. When it’s 2am and the group has been enjoying beers all over Munich, everyone needs a good “Kanpai!” and it’s on to the next bar. We used our brewhouse mash mixer to cereal mash short grain sushi rice, making the starches available, and then blend it into our pilsner malt mash to enzymatically break it down into a rice syrup. Over 40% of this beer comes from rice. It’s then hopped with floral Lorien hops and lagered several weeks. This is a deliciously light and delicate beer.