OEC Brewing (Ordinem Ecentrici Coctores) Coolship Lager Black

Czech style black lager. Our Coolship Lager Black gains its signature color from the use of European roasted malts. It is brewed using a traditional double decoction mash and hopped with fine European fine noble hops. After the boil it rests in our copper coolship for 1 hour. It is then transferred over our baudelot cooler into our open tanks for fermentation. After a cool fermentation using a classic Czech lager yeast, it is cellared for several months prior to release.

OEC Cooship Black Lager undergoes a double decoction mash with Czech spring barley, European roasted malts (Munich, Carafa III Special) and continental noble hops (Saaz & Styrian Golding). It rests in the coolship for an hour before being transferred to the Baudelot chiller and then into open fermenters. This beer is clean! It’s a fantastic Czech dark lager.

Ordinem Ecentrici Coctores = Order of the Eccentric Boilers

In old brewing literature fermentation was often called boiling as the vigorous bubbling drew comparisons to the boiling of liquids. As advanced as brewing science has become, sometimes we are still just as clueless when it comes to the science behind the actual creation of complex flavors and aromas.

Opened in June 2014, Ben wanted to create an unusual brewery stemming from neither here nor there. We take influence from the great lost brewing traditions of the areas going from Northern Germany across to Belgium combining them with modern brewing techniques.