Piercing Pils: Dogfish Head developing a perry-pilsner hybrid
Piercing Pils is, I believe, the first perry-pilsner hybrid brewed commercially. A perry is fermented pear juice. Ours has a lot of Saaz hops and Czech pilsner yeast, but it also has a double digit percentage of the fermentable sugars coming from pear juice and a custom-blended white pear tea that we add at the end of the boil for aroma.
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