Pilsner

Pilsner. (pilz’-[e]-ner)
A general name for pale, golden-hued, highly hopped bottom fermented beers. The original Pilsner was first brewed at the Bürgerlisches Brauhaus in the Bohemian town of Plzen (meaning green meadow) in Czechoslovakia in 1842. It was then the palest beer available, and the style was soon copied worldwide. The archetypal Pilsener is presently known as Plzensky Prazdroj or Pilsner Urquell (Urquell meaning original source), and the name was patented in 1898. It is brewed from an original wort gravity of 12 °B for an alcohol content of 4 percent by weight (5 percent by volume), with the very soft, almost mineral-free water. It is highly hopped with local Saaz hops at a rate of 400-500 grams per hectoliter (as opposed to 200-220 grams per hectoliter for a Dormunder and 300-400 grams for a German Pilsener). Syn: Pils; Pilsner; Pilsen.